Frith Street Gallery: artists

"The artwork moved from the object to action within the space of relation, the work concerning being in relation." May 1994. Barcelona.

In Horsfield's work photographs form a small but significant part. Most of his recent photographs were made as part of collaborative social projects. As with much of his work, they are concerned with how we stand in relation to one to another, how relation, constantly in flux, determines community and how individuality is inextricably bound to relation, rather than alienation or separation. In his work, Horsfield integrates elements that are usually given over to politics, philosophy and ethics, so that art forms only one element among others in a complete thought process.

'Relation' a major touring exhibition of Craigie Horsfield's was recently at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this year. This exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive monographic publication.

In recent years, Horsfield has had solo exhibitions at several important international institutions, including the Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He was included in Documenta X and XI, Kassel and Whitney Biennial 2003.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born Cambridge, 1949

Lives and works in London and New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE:

2008
Frith Street Gallery, London

2007
Relation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2006 - 2007
Madrid Conversation (Collaboration, first part) Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid

2006
Relation, Centro de Arte Moderna - Fondacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Relation, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Potsdam Soundwork (collaboration) as part of the Ideal Cities project, Potsdam

2005
Monica de Cardenas, Milan

2003
Irresponsible Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London
Press release
Monica de Cardenas, Milan

2002
Middelburg Soundwork. Soundwork 4.0. (Collaboration), The Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland
El Hierro Conversation. (Collaboration), Soundwork 4.1. (Collaboration), Documenta 11. Kassel

2001 - 2005
El Hiero project.(Collaboration), El Hiero, Canary Islands

2000
Brussels Summer (Collaboration), National Philharmonic; Society of Exhibitions; Royal Film Museum of Belgium; Paleiz Dance Theatre Company; Theatre de Rideaux; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels

2000 - 2001
What Film May Be. A New Proposal for Film,(Collaboration), The Royal Film Museum of Belgium, Brussels

2000
Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Soundwork 3.2. (Collaboration), Frith Street Gallery, London
(Collaboration)The Royal Film Museum of Belgium and Brussels 2000, Brussels

1999
The Stuttgart Soundwork(Collaboration), The Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.

1998 - 1999
The St.Lucas Group(Collaboration), St.Lucas Academy of Art, Brussels

1998
Frith Street Gallery, London (Including collaboration with Alexander Sokorov)
Monica de Cardenas, Milan

1997 - 1998
The Rotterdam Conversation: City and Community (Collaboration), Witte de With Centre for Contemporay Art, A.I.R. Architectural Project, Hollandia Theatre Group and others, Rotterdam.

1997
Society of Exhibitions, Palais des Beux-Arts, Brussels
Amnesia. Collaboration and Responsibility (Collaboration), Documenta X. Kassel

1996 - 1997
The Deurle Conversation (Collaboration), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, Belgium

1993 - 1996
The Barcelona Project: La cuitat de la gent (The City of the People) (Collaboration), Tapies Foundation, Barcelona

1996
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1995
Frith Street Gallery, London

1994
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

1993
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galerie Comicos, Lisbon
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne

1992
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Musee d'Art Moderne, St. Etienne (catalogue - French)
Kunsthalle, Zurich (catalogue - German)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Frith Street Gallery, London

1991
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
* Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1990
Frith Street Gallery, London
Johnen und Schottle, Cologne
Galerie Giovanna Minelli, Paris
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto

1989
The Showroom, London

1988
* Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge

From 1993 to the present the collaborative projects have been the core of Craigie Horsfield's work concerning relation. These have included film, theatre, installation, performance, dance, video, sound, music, live mixing, urban and architectural proposals, and the initiation of a festival.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Darkness Visible - Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme, Southampton City Art Gallery
* Sobre la Historia (On History), Ciutad Grupo Santander, Madrid

2006
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London
* In the Face of History, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Ideal City/Invisible Cities, Poland - touring
Print Run: An exhibition of Prints, Frith Street Gallery, London

2004
* Whitney Biennial, New York

2002
* Documenta XI, Kassel

1999
0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS, Frith Street Gallery, London

1997
* Documenta X, Kassel
Ghent Museum of Contemporary Art collection exhibitied at Kunstverein Schewerte, Belgium - Curated by Jan Hoet

1996-97
'Face a l'Histoire', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Viewing Matters: Upstairs, Hans Haacke - Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1995
* Call It Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam
1995 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

1994
Beeld/Beeld, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
* The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photography in Art, Hayward Gallery, London

1992
* The Lectures, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

1991
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulieres, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
* A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles curated by Jean-Francois Chevrier and Ann Goldstein

1990
Craigie Horsfield, Robert Gober, Laurence Wiener, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
* de Afstand, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes

1989
Photo-Kunst, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
* Une Autre Objectivite, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris;
Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Blasphemies, Ecstasies, Cries, The Serpentine Gallery,London
The Big Picture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
L'invention d'un art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Blasphemies, Ecstasies, Cries, The Serpentine Gallery, London

1988
* Matter of Facts, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes; Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
* Another Objectivity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

* dentotes catalogue

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

Since 1996 Horsfield has worked only on a series of interlinked collaborative social projects concerning relation which form the core of his work.

2003 - 2004
Museum conversations, MACBA, Barcelona
Beginning of a new dialogue with Manuel Borja-Villel on the museum, a critical analysis of existing models and an extended proposal.

2002
The El Hierro Conversation and Soundwork 4.1.
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany. Multi screen video projection and soundwork as a part of a development of the social space. See the Documenta book and El Hierro texts for further development.

2002
Middelburg Soundwork. Soundwork 4.0.
Installation made at the Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland together with Camille Dings, Reinier Rietveld, Mark Ritsema & Rutger Wolfson. A soundwork of 4 hours and an architectural modification

2001 - 2005
El Hiero project, El Hiero, Canary Islands
Beginning of a long term project to work together with the 5000 inhabitants of El Hiero, to account the present of the island in the relation of its citizens. The source and basis for the Kassel instalation.

2001-02
Publication of What Film May Be, Royal Film Museum of Belgium and others. edited and with new interviews. Combining the first overview of the existing state of film conservation, historical presentation and different interpretations of film with the proposals for what film may be.

2001
Antagonisms, MACBA, Barcelona. Co-curation and text for an exhibition and interlinked actions concerning art, politics and social intervention. Catal.

2001
Museum conversations (book and symposia), MACBA, Barcelona and others. Dialogue with Manuel Borja-Villel on the museum, a critical analysis of existing models and an extended proposal. With supporting texts.

2000
Book of the central work from the Brussels Summer
The first and historic collaboration of the key group of national cultural organisations emaining in Belgium, involved the institutions of the Palais des Beaux Arts in the creation and realisation of a festival focusing on ideas of the audience and of changing relation.

2000
The Frith Street Installation,Frith Street Gallery, London Site specific sound installation made in collaboration with Camille Dings, Reinier Rietveld, Mark Ritsems and Rutger Wolfson The Ravenstein Conversation. Here. Now Collaborative project with the Film Museum and Brussels

2000
involving a site- specific sound installation made in collaboration with Camille Dings, Reinier Rietveld, Mark Ritsems and Rutger Wolfson, large scale video projection, performance and community in public space Monts des Arts Summer Project (Artistic Director) An initiative with the Philharmonic, Film Museum, Society of Exhibitions, The Dance Theatre, Theatre de Rideaux and Brussels 2000. The project involves diverse interpretations of a changed relationship of audience and art.

1999
Project with Manuel Borja-Villel & Jean-Fran?ois Chevrier on the history, identity and community of the city of Barcelona * Stuttgart soundwork, Werttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Site specific sound installation made in collaboration with Camille Dings, Reinier Rietveld, Mark Ritsems and Rutger Wolfson.

1998
Frith Street Gallery, London A specific configuration of works made in the 80s and 90s, accompanied by the first presentation of Alexandr Sokurov's film Spiritual Voices in Britain

1997/8
The Rotterdam Project, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam A collaborative project including a theatre project, an urban project and an exhibition.

1997
Documenta X, Kassel

1996/7
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent Collaborative project on rethinking the museum with Paul Robrecht, Erik Eelbode & Christophe Ruys. Amnesia, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels Project with Dirk Lauwaert and others concerning war-time collaboration and its legacy

1996
La cuitat de la gent (The City of the People)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Craigie Horsfield RELATION. Book. Texts by Craigie Horsfield, Carol Armstrong, David Ebony, Bracha Ettinger, Serge Guilbaut, Slavoj Zizek. Published by Jeu de Paume, Fundacio Gulbenkian, MCA Sydney. 2006

The Dilation of Attention. Carol Armstrong. ArtForum January 2004

Slow Time and the Limits Of Modernity: Craigie Horsfield and Fredric Jameson. David Ebony. Lacanian Ink . Autumn 2003

A Conversation. Between Cecilia Vicuna and Craigie Horsfield. Published: Chain 9. 2002

Working Through. A conversation between Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger and Craigie Horsfield in Euridice Series. The Drawing papers No 24. The Drawing Centre. New York 2001

Craigie Horsfield Im Gesprach / Conversation. Book. Anthology of texts and conversations between Craigie Horsfield and others. Wurtemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. (German, English) 1999

City and Community. A conversation between Anke Bangma and Craigie Horsfield. Archis. May 1998

Amnesia. Collaboration and Responsibility. Book. Various authors. Including conversation between Craigie Horsfield, Dirk Lauwaert, Erik Eelbode and Christoph Ruys. Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. (Dutch and French. English text available) 1997

La Ciutat de la Gent. Book. Including conversation between Craigie Horsfield, Manuel Borja-Villel and Jean-Francois Chevrier.Tapies Foundation, Barcelona.(English, Catalan and Spanish) 1996

April 4, 1994 the project for ArtForum including essay, photographs and the cover. May 1994

The Lectures 1993. Book. Two lectures by Craigie Horsfield. Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.(English). 1993

The Lectures 1992. Book. Including lecture by Craigie Horsfield. Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. (English). 1992

Symposium der Photographie und zeitgenoessischer Kunst. Book. Various authors, essay by Craigie Horsfield. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Stuttgart. (English and German). 1990

Craigie Horsfield. Book. Cambridge Darkroom. 1988

COLLECTIONS

Musee de Beaux Arts, Nantes
Musee d'Art Moderne de St. Etienne
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto
Fondation Nationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris
La Ville de Paris, Departement des Arts Plastiques
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Tate Gallery, London
Stedilijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Fundacion Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
Contemporary Art Society, London
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
La Caixa, Barcelona
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
DG Bank, Frankfurt

Numerous private collections in Europe and the USA.

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