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| DIANN BAUER |
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Diann Bauer’s field of work lies somewhere between painting and installation. She does large-
scale sight specific paintings working either directly with the given architecture of the gallery or
altering the architecture itself to both manipulate the viewing of the painting as well and using
space and architecture itself to impact the viewer. The paintings are replete with detail using
violent images form a number of cultures and integrates diverse visual styles and techniques.
An excess of visual information in Bauer’s work generates a sense of confusion and dissolution
between space, object and subject, and leaves us trying to decipher a narrative that seems
graspable, but is just out of reach. Sourcing material and influence from nineteenth century
Japanese woodcuts, European Baroque painting, experimental contemporary architecture and
spectacular elements of cinema Bauer situates the viewer within a swirling visually complex
representation of space, time and movement.
diannbauer.email@gmail.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 (Let Us Pray for Those now Residing in) The Designated Area, colaborative exhibition with
Roman Vauueur and Amanda Beech, DNA Glaerie, Berlin.
2007 Necrotroph-Optopolis (solo exhibition) Paradise Row, London.
On a scale of 1:1, Vamialis gallery, athens
2006 Bludgeonerator, The Showroom, London.
2004 Meijius, Vamialis, Athens
2003 Uchi Jini No Uchi, One in the Other, London
Special Projects
2009 -Site specific commission through Contemporary Art Society for Pictet Collection, London.
2008 -Harlow Temple of Utopias, the creation of a public pavillion and temporary space for
contemporary art in colaboration with Roman Vassuer, Harlow
-Centre-fold pop-up for The Institute of psychoplasmics (In conjunction with the exhibiton
at the pumphouse gallery), London.
-Monthy artist comic for Art Reviw, March issue.
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions and Colaborations
2010 Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, England.
The Mortar of Distribution, LOBE, Berlin.
2009 Inferno, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Il Faut Être Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row “pop up space” Istanbul
Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room, Lonon.
2008 O Fascinio de Ulisses, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon.
Hypersurface Plus, OVADA, Oxford.
Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pumphouse Gallery, London.
Latitude, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York
2007 Foreign Policy, Louis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon.
Delicatessen, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Foreign body(ies), White Box, New York
Latitude- LON/MSP/NYC, Fieldgate Gallery, London.
2006 Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens
A Tale of Two Cities : Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan, Busan Biennale, Korea
Metropolis Rise: New Art from London,798 Space, Beijing.
8x8x8 LON/MSP/NYC Minneapolis, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005 The Body. The Ruin, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Aus.
The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon
Turn to the Left, Artist Fashion Show, 291 Gallery, London.
Go Beween, Kunstverein, Bregenz.
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
2004 Kingdom, The Market Gallery, Glasgow
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Gewalt, Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv
Education
1998-99 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1990-94 BA Fine Art, Cooper Union, New York
scale sight specific paintings working either directly with the given architecture of the gallery or
altering the architecture itself to both manipulate the viewing of the painting as well and using
space and architecture itself to impact the viewer. The paintings are replete with detail using
violent images form a number of cultures and integrates diverse visual styles and techniques.
An excess of visual information in Bauer’s work generates a sense of confusion and dissolution
between space, object and subject, and leaves us trying to decipher a narrative that seems
graspable, but is just out of reach. Sourcing material and influence from nineteenth century
Japanese woodcuts, European Baroque painting, experimental contemporary architecture and
spectacular elements of cinema Bauer situates the viewer within a swirling visually complex
representation of space, time and movement.
diannbauer.email@gmail.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 (Let Us Pray for Those now Residing in) The Designated Area, colaborative exhibition with
Roman Vauueur and Amanda Beech, DNA Glaerie, Berlin.
2007 Necrotroph-Optopolis (solo exhibition) Paradise Row, London.
On a scale of 1:1, Vamialis gallery, athens
2006 Bludgeonerator, The Showroom, London.
2004 Meijius, Vamialis, Athens
2003 Uchi Jini No Uchi, One in the Other, London
Special Projects
2009 -Site specific commission through Contemporary Art Society for Pictet Collection, London.
2008 -Harlow Temple of Utopias, the creation of a public pavillion and temporary space for
contemporary art in colaboration with Roman Vassuer, Harlow
-Centre-fold pop-up for The Institute of psychoplasmics (In conjunction with the exhibiton
at the pumphouse gallery), London.
-Monthy artist comic for Art Reviw, March issue.
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions and Colaborations
2010 Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, England.
The Mortar of Distribution, LOBE, Berlin.
2009 Inferno, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Il Faut Être Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row “pop up space” Istanbul
Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room, Lonon.
2008 O Fascinio de Ulisses, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon.
Hypersurface Plus, OVADA, Oxford.
Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pumphouse Gallery, London.
Latitude, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York
2007 Foreign Policy, Louis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon.
Delicatessen, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Foreign body(ies), White Box, New York
Latitude- LON/MSP/NYC, Fieldgate Gallery, London.
2006 Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens
A Tale of Two Cities : Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan, Busan Biennale, Korea
Metropolis Rise: New Art from London,798 Space, Beijing.
8x8x8 LON/MSP/NYC Minneapolis, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005 The Body. The Ruin, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Aus.
The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon
Turn to the Left, Artist Fashion Show, 291 Gallery, London.
Go Beween, Kunstverein, Bregenz.
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
2004 Kingdom, The Market Gallery, Glasgow
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Gewalt, Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv
Education
1998-99 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1990-94 BA Fine Art, Cooper Union, New York
