Biography
1982
Born in Auckland
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2004
BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main
Solo Exhibitions
2021
“Proof Of Stake: Technological Claims”, curated by Simon Denny, Kunstverein in Hamburg
2020
“Mine”, K21, Düsseldorf
“Security Through Obscurity,” Altman Siegel, San Francisco
2019
“Mine”, MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania
“Regulation,” T293, Rome
“The Founder’s Paradox”, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christc
2018
“Games of Decentralized Life”, Galerie Buchholz, Köln
“The Founder’s Paradox”, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland
2017
“The Founder’s Paradox”, Michael Lett, Auckland
“Real Mass Entrepreneurship”, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney
“FAAS - Feedback as a service: reflecting on messaging, debate and criticality inside a parliamentary discussion on internet governance”, BOZAR, Brussels
“Real Mass Entrepreneurship”, OCAT, Shenzhen
“Hammer Projects: Simon Denny”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2016
“Blockchain Future States”, Petzel Gallery, New York
“Business Insider”, WIELS, Brussels
2015
“Products for Organizing”, Serpentine Gallery, London
“Secret Power”, New Zealand Pavillon, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice
“The Innovator’s Dilemma”, MoMA PS1, New York
2014
“New Management”, Portikus, Frankfurt
“Disruptive Berlin”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“TEDxVaduz Redux”, T293, Rome
“The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom”, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington
“The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom”, Firstsite, Colchester
2013
“The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom”, Mumok, Vienna
“All You Need is Data - The DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun”, Petzel Gallery, New York
“All You Need Is Data - The DLD 2012 Conference REDUX”, Kunstverein München, München
2012
“Channel Document”, Michael Lett, Art Statements, Art 43 Basel
“Full Participation”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
“Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation” (with Joanna Fadyl), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
2011
“Corporate Video Decisions”, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
“Corporate Video Decisions”, Michael Lett, Auckland
“Chronic Expectation: CFS/ME Documentary Restoration”, T239, Rome
“Cruise Line”, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2010
“Negative Headroom: The Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident”, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
“Negative Headroom: The Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
“Remote Tutorial: Hate Poems For Travelers”, Landings Project Space, Vestfossen, Norway
“Introductory logic video tutorial”, Artspace Sydney, Sydney
2009
“Celebrities’ Houses at Night”, Standard, Oslo
“Starting from behind”, Michael Lett, Auckland
“Deep Sea Vaudeo”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Watching Videos Dry”, T 293, Naples
“7 Drunken Videos”, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
2008
“Aquarium Paintings”, with Nick Austin, Center, Berlin
“Recent Haircuts”, Gambia Castle, Auckland
“Simon Denny”, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
2007
“Monthly Cowards”, Gambia Castle, Auckland
“Compression Club”, Michael Lett, Auckland
Group Exhibitions
2022
“INFORMATION (Today)”, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
“World of Networks”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Digital Capital NFTs”, curated by Simon Denny with Viola Lukacs, Kunsthalle Berlin Flughafen Tempelhof
“something new, something old, something desired”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
“World out of Joint”, Kunst Museum Winterthur
“Feeling the Stones”, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, JAX district, Diriyah
“Beneath the skin, Between the machines”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghais
2021
“Eclipse”, 7th Athens Biennale
“Aquaria - Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea”, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon
“INFORMATION (Today)”, Kunsthalle Basel
“Beyond States. Über die Grenzen von Staatlichkeit”, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
“Burning Speech”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
“Don’t Be Evil”, UQ Art Brisbane
“Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age”, MUDAM Luxembourg
“State and Nature”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2020
“Survival of the Fittest”, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
“Art in the Age of Anxiety”, Sharjah Art Foundation
“Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI”, de Young museum, San Francisco
“Algotaylorism”, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
“We Never Sleep”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M.
“crypto_manifold”, Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai
“Studio Berlin”, curated by Karen Boros, Berghain, Berlin
2019
“Future and the Arts”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality”, Kunstmuseum Basel
“Face with Tears of Joy”, Blitz Malta
“City Flip-Flop”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taiwan
“The Invisible Hand”, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
“14th Small Sculpture Triennial”, Alte Kelter Fellbach, Fellbach
“Tomorrow is the Question”, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
“The Alt-Right-Komplex”, Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund
“Uncanny Values”, Vienna Biennale for Change, MAK, Wien
“Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne”, Cité du D¬¬esign, Saint-Étienne
“Quid est veritas?”, Anna Kultys Gallery, London
2018
“Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919-1939 and 2008-2018”, Kunsthalle Mannheim
6th Guangzhou Triennial “As We May Think: Feedforward”, Guangdong Museum of Art
“The 12th Gwangju Biennale - Imagined Borders”, Gwangju, Südkorea
“I Was Raised on the Internet”, MCA Chicago
“Proof of Work” curated by Simon Denny in dialogue with Distributed Gallery, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart, Kei Kreutler, Aude Launay and Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
“Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today”, ICA Boston
“Hello World - For the Post-Human Age”, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
“Hybrids”, Lustwarande, Tilburg
“Your North is My South”, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
“This Is New Zealand”, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington
“Deutschland ist keine Insel”, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2017
“Still Human”, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“Unfinished Conversations”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds”, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe
“Dark Clouds Silver Linings”: Hessel Museum, CCS Bard, New York
“Please come back”, MAXXI, Rome
“Hack Space”, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai
2016
“Fluidity”, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
“Homo Mundus Minor”, T293, Rome
“What People do for Money”, Manifesta - The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich
“Blockchain Visionaries”, 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
“Emotional Supply Chains”, Zabludowicz Collection, London
“Hack Space”, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
“War Games”, curated by Benjamin Godsill, JTG Deroit Project, Woods Cathedral, Detroit
“TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen”, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
2015
“Politischer Populismus/Political Populism”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
“TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen”, Kunstmuseum Bonn
“After Babel”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“La vie moderne”, 13e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
“Toys edux - On Play and Critique”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
“Le Souffleur. Schürmann trifft Ludwig”, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
“The Future of Memory - An Exhibition on the Infinity of the Present Time”, Kunsthalle Wien
“Open Source: Art At The Eclipse of Capitalism”, Galerie Max Hetzer, Paris and Berlin
2014
“The Darknet - From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration”, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen
“Europe, Europe”, Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo
“La Biennale de Montréal”, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
“Blue Times” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Smart New World”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
“National Art Prize of New Zealand (Walters Prize)”, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2013
“Speculations on Anonymous Materials”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
“Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Il Palazzo Enciclopedico”, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice
“Image into Sculpture”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Reinventing the Wheel. The Readymade Century”, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield
“Version Control”, Arnolfini, Bristol
“Time Machine”, M-ARCO, Marseille
“ars viva 2012/13 SYSTEME”, Kunstmuseum Vaduz and Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2012
“ars viva 2012/13 SYSTEME”, Neues Museum, Nürnberg
“Made in Germany Zwei”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
“Remote Control”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
“The Walters Prize (Nominated)”, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
“How to Eclipse the Light”, Wilkinson Gallery, New York 2012
2011
“So machen wir es”, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
“Various Transmitters”, Renwick Gallery, New York
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Based in Berlin”, Berlin
2010
“Verbotene Liebe: Kunst im Sog von Fernsehen”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
“Der Westen leuchtet”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
“Permanent Mimesis”, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Torino
“Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line”, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
“Let us compare Mythologies”, Witte de With, Rotterdam
“Re-Dressing”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2009
“Display with Sound”, International Project Space, Birmingham
“The Perpetual Dialogue”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Buchholz, Köln
“For Keeps: Sampling Recent Acquisitions 2006-2009”, Auckland Art Gallery
2008
“Revolutions: Forms that Turn”, Sydney Biennale 2008, Sydney
“Show Me Don’t Tell Me”, Brussels Biennale, Brussels
“The Gentle Art of Collapsing in the Expanded Field”, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris
“Leftovers, Mica Moca Project”, Berlin
“I Am a Man, Parade with Arto Lindsay”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
“Menschheit”, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
2007
“Post Mass Audience Age”, Hamburg Hfbk Gallery, Hamburg
“Domestic Irony”, Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano
“The Köln Show 2”, European Kunsthalle / Galerie Sprueth Magers, Cologne
“Moment Making”, Artspace, Auckland
“Prospect”, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2006
“Break Construct”, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
“A movie that isn’t really good, but is ok”, 54321 Performance Projects, Auckland Art
Gallery, Auckland (with Tahi Moore)
“Mostly Harmless: A Performance Series”, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (with Tahi Moore)
“SCAPE”, Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
“Archiving Fever”, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Awards
2015
New Generation Award, Arts Foundation of New Zealand
2013
Young Alumnus of the Year, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Baloise (Art Statements) Art-Prize at Art 43 Basel
Ars Viva-Preis for Art, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V.