Tacita Dean
‘My relationship to film begins at the moment of shooting, and ends in the moment of projection. Along the way there are several stages of magical transformation that imbue the work with varying layers of intensity.’
Marked by her restless curiosity, the work of Tacita Dean (b. 1965, Canterbury) invites viewers to explore the depths and limits of her subject matter and the medium she uses to present it. Her eloquent 16 and 35mm analogue films are carried by a sense of history, time and place, and a fascination with the unique qualities of film itself. When Dean was commissioned to produce a work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011, the result was the monumental FILM. A meditation on the history and limits of the medium, she used techniques of masking and rewinding that enabled her to expose the same piece of film several times in order produce images within the camera.
In 2018 Dean’s work was the subject of concurrent exhibitions across three London museums: Landscape at the Royal Academy, which featured the artist’s monumental blackboard drawings as well as the 35mm film Antigone; Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, showing her 16mm depictions of David Hockney and Cy Twombly amongst others; and Still Life at the National Gallery where she curated an in-depth exhibition, assembling work by herself and others, contemporary and historical, and guided by her perspective of the genre. In 2020, Dean was commissioned to create the set design and costumes for a new ballet, The Dante Project. A collaboration with the Royal Ballet’s choreographer Wayne McGregor and conductor-composer Thomas Adès, the ballet was presented in autumn 2021 at the Royal Opera House, London.
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Tacita Dean: Film Screening
Centro de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona, Xcèntric Cinema 6 Nov 20216 November 2021, 7pm CEST CCCB Xcèntric Cinema, The Auditorium Obsolete technology or cinema of vision? This session, which includes the talk Cinema of Vision...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Sigh Sigh Sigh
La Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome 30 Oct 202130 October 2021–26 February 2022 Thursday–Saturday, 11am–6pm (last entry, 5.30pm) Entry free of charge La Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio presents from Saturday 30 October 2021...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Limited Edition Print
Hepworth Wakefield 28 Oct 2021Tacita Dean has produced a new limited edition print exclusively for the Hepworth Wakefield on the occasion of the museum’s 10th anniversary and the artist’s...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Limited Edition Print
Royal Opera House 14 Oct 2021The Royal Opera House, London has released a set of limited edition signed prints on the occassion of the world premiere of The Dante Project...Read more
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Now open: The Dante Project
Royal Opera House, London 14 Oct 202114–30 October 2021 The Dante Project opens at London's Royal Opera House to brilliant reviews. Congratulations to Tacita Dean for her set and costume designs,...Read more -
Tacita Dean: The Dante Project
Royal Opera House, London 14 Oct 202114–30 October 2021 Tacita Dean has designed the set and costumes for choreographer Wayne McGregor’s much anticipated The Dante Project. Premiering in October 2021, The...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Artist Talk
Frieze Masters, Online 11 Oct 2021Monday 11 October, 3pm BST Oline Talk Frieze Masters Talks returns in-person at the fair and online from 11-17 October curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan....Read more -
Tacita Dean: Inferno
Paul Hamlyn Hall, Royal Opera House, London 4 Sep 20214 September 2021–7 April 2022 Open daily from 12pm Ahead of the launch of its upcoming 2021/22 Season, the Royal Opera House will throw open...Read more
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Tacita Dean: Antigone
Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart 28 Aug 202128 August 2021–9 January 2022 Tacita Dean's solo exhibition Antigone is now open at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart. The exhibition marks the Swiss premiere of...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Limited Edition Print
21 Jun 2021Oxford Street, 21 June–4 July 2021 Accompanying the launch of Counter Edition’s new series of limited-edition prints celebrating Tate Modern’s 21st anniversary, Tacita Dean’s work...Read more -
Tacita Dean awarded Prix Benois de la Danse
8 Jun 2021Artist Tacita Dean has been awarded a Prix Benois de la Danse 2021 for her set and costumes created for The Dante Project, a new...Read more -
Tacita Dean: New Commission
Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield 21 May 202121 May 2021–27 February 2022 Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield To mark the The Hepworth Wakefield’s 10th anniversary, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life is the most expansive...Read more
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Tacita Dean: Chalkboards
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland 12 Nov 202012 November 2020 Three monumental chalkboard works by Tacita Dean will be displayed together for the first time at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, opening 12...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Prints & Photographs
London Collective, Vortic Collect App 26 Jun 202026 June–26 August 2020 Only through London Collective on the Vortic Collec t App Frith Street Gallery are delighted to announce our participation in London...Read more -
Tacita Dean: Solo Exhibition
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland 26 Feb 202026 February–3 May 2020 Tacita Dean is well known for her 16mm and 35mm films, as well as championing the preservation and continued use of...Read more
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Aligned
13 May - 25 Jun 2004 Soho SquareAligned brings together a group of artists working in a broad variety of disciplines and themes, yet for all of them the act of drawing remains at the core of...Read more -
Frequencies
22 May - 4 Jul 2003 Soho SquareChantal Akerman’s Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton is a portrait of the cellist and composer, Sonia Wieder-Atherton. In the film Akerman portrays the musician as an actor engaged in dialogue with her...Read more -
Summer Show
27 Jun - 8 Aug 2002 Soho SquareFiona Banner, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Bernard Frize, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Cornelia Parker, John Riddy, Dayanita Singh, Bridget Smith and Annelies StrbaRead more -
A Pause for Breath
15 Nov 2001 - 11 Jan 2002 Soho SquareGiuseppe Penone’s series of 19 black and white photographs, Soffi, articulate one of the major themes that he has explored throughout his career – the idea of ‘soffio’ or breath....Read more -
Tacita Dean
Floh 2 - 29 Mar 2001 Soho SquareTo celebrate the publication of FLOH by Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of limited edition photographs from the book. 'I do not want to...Read more -
0 To 60 In 10 Years
A Decade in Soho - Part I 27 May - 1 Jul 1999 Soho SquareJane Hamlyn opened the gallery in 1989 and over the last 10 years, Frith Street Gallery has developed an international programme of painting, photography, sculpture, film and video, doubled its...Read more -
Appliance of Science
23 Jan - 18 Mar 1999 Soho SquareWe are surrounded by books, television programmes, lectures cajoling us towards a better understanding of science as we reach the end of the 20th century. While science continues to reveal...Read more -
Video Projection Film
14 May - 25 Jun 1998 Soho SquareMost of them do not usually work in video or projection but use these media to accentuate prevalent ideas in their work. Dorothy Cross’ work can be characterised by a...Read more -
Tacita Dean
11 Sep - 1 Nov 1997 Soho SquareDelft Hydraulics, by far the most formal and contained of the three films, was shot in a marine laboratory in Holland. A short loop of a wave machine shows the...Read more -
Tacita Dean
10 May - 30 Jun 1995 Soho SquareTacita Dean’s work was seen most recently in Mise en Scene at the ICA, London in October. She presented two projects: The Martyrdom of St. Agatha and Girl Stowaway. Both...Read more