LIANE LANG
Liane Lang employs a variety of inanimate objects and fabricated
figures to construct images and videos that exist between narrative
fiction and still-life composition. Set in spaces that appear contrived,
and could be described as in themselves sculptural, the photographs
represent a highly controlled, single view point on an installation.
They extract from the elaborately inanimate, a moment of animacy, a
subtle shift between the observation of a figure as form and as active
agent. The figures in the work inhabit their environment like spectral
presences, simulating touch and sensation, engaged deeply in mock
reflection, standing in for the absent and the absent minded. They
provide a vacancy for unselfconscious voyerism, for watching nobody
through the key hole.

Education

2003-2006 Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate
1995-1998 Goldsmiths’ College, London, BA Hons. Fine Art
1993/94 National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Core Studies

Selected Group Shows

2006   Cannibal Ferox, Paradise Row, London
2006   Black Box, E:vent Gallery, London
2006   Sweetex, Standpoint Gallery, London
2006   Kamikaze Blossom, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2006   Originality…, Hollow Gallery, London
2006   Roemerapotheke, video window, Zuerich
2005   Go-Between, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
2005   Young Masters, Art Fortnight London
2005   About Time, Nordjylland Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2005   Digital Love, Mars Gallery, Moskow
2005   Elsewhere, Standpoint Gallery, London
2005   Sesiones Animadas, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
 Sesiones Animadas, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria
2005   Premiums, Royal Academy Sackler Galleries
2004   Mementoes and Other Curiosities, London
2004   RA Summer Exhibition
2003   Kunstwerke, Berlin, Animations
2003   Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paolo, PoT-
2003   Fantastic!, St.Pancras Crypt, London
2003   Derelict Sensation, Midland Grande Hotel, London
2003   Pump House Gallery, London
2002   Liverpool Biennial, PoT
2002   FW:FDW, Deluxe Gallery, London
2002   Break 2.2, Kapelica Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2002   Artspace, SoHo, New York
2001   Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
2001   New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London
2001   DeptfordX, Fair Charm & Foul Play, London
2001   ICA, Halloween, Berlin-London 01
2000   Preface, Biennale of Emerging Artists, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2000   Close In Time, Cable Street Gallery, London
2000   8Weeks, Paper Bag Factory, London
1999   Biennale of the Moving Image, Carte Blanche, Geneva, catalogue
1999   Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Notes from Underground,
1999   Bankside Browser, Tate Modern
1999   Beaconsfield, Syzygy, Orphan Drift, Multi Media Art Project, London

Solo Shows

2001   Offspace, Vienna, new video work, Austria
2001   Southfirst Art, new video work, New York

Work in Collections

2004   White Cube Gallery
2004   Ernst & Young Collection
2000   Arts Council Of England Collection
1998   Saatchi Collection

Publications

1999   ‘The Saatchi Decade’, New Anthology of Saatchi Acquisitions, Booth Clibborn Editions
2000   Utrecht International Festival, essay by Paul Bush
2001   ‘New Labour’, published by The Saatchi Gallery, essay by Patricia Ellis
2005    Go-Between, published by Kunstverein Bregenz/ Magazin 4

Film Festivals

2004   Hiroshima Festival of Animation
2002   Krok Festival, Russia
2001   Lux Cinema, Goldsmiths On Film
2000   Utrecht Filmfestival, Holland.
1999   UK Showcase, ICA Cinema, London
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