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Boswall House - The House of the Nobleman: The Return
Boswall House, 2 Cornwall Terrace, the Regent's Park, London, October - December, 2011
"The Return" asks how art can be viewed as an experience beyond pure aesthetic appreciation. The juxtaposition of works spanning different historical periods and mediums explores religious narratives of revival, rebirth and return as well as related topics of landscape, travel and time. Each of the exhibition rooms is dedicated to a varying topic where visitors can have an intimate viewing experience with a range of works across the mediums of painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and design. ARTISTS EXHIBITED: Jia Aili, Iain Andrews, Richard Artschwager, Pyotr Belenok, Laurent Bolognini, Christian Boltanski, Cecily Brown, Alexander Calder, Helen Chadwick, Zeng Chuanxing, Kwang-Young Chun, Oliver Clegg, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Stefano Curto, Salvador Dali, Shezad Dawood, Edgar Degas, Bouke de Vries, Atul Dodiya, Peter Doig, Carlo Dolci, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Eugenia Emets and Mohammad Taha, Max Ernst, Factory Fifteen, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Lucio Fontana, Nancy Fouts, Lucian Freud, Adam Fuss, Tom Gallant, Giovanni Gardini, Zaha Hadid, Damien Hirst, Nick Hornby, Pascal Haudressy, Ji Yong Ho, Yujin Huh, G.R. Iranna, Matthew Day Jackson, Ling Jian, Ma Jun, Anish Kapoor, Sam Keil, Minjung Kim, Yves Klein, Olrik Kohlhoff, Vivienne Koorland, Henry Krokatsis, Oleg Kulik, Yayoi Kusama, David LaChapelle, Sea Hyun Lee, Lihong Li, Zhang Lin Hai, Robert Longo, Kelly McCallum, Robert McNally, Whitney McVeigh, Claude Monet, Takashi Murakami, Zak Ove, Dave Pearson, Maria Pergay, Sigmar Polke, Jesper Rasmussen, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens, Rolf Sachs, Lee Jae Sam, Petroc Sesti, Raqib Shaw, Gunwoo Shin, Soheila Sokhanvari, Chaim Soutine, Ian Stallard and Patrik Fredrikson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dominico Tibaldi, Margo Trushina, Joana Vasconcelos, Joost van Bleiswijk, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Gary Webb, Richard Wilson, Miao Xiaochun, Shi Xinning, Thomas Zipp, Hermes Zygott.
Condensation: S is for Say it
EastCentral, London, March 10-April 23, 2011
Vivienne Koorland on Condensation:" ...For my show at EastCentral, I set myself the simple task of painting an Alphabet. An A-Z. As is usual for me, there were many reasons which I found compelling and personally resonant. Both my attachment to alphabets, conceptually and visually, as well as being irresistibly drawn to the potentialities of the extreme visceral and abstract qualities that alphabets generate and encompass and finally, its inseparability from language in all senses of the term, made painting an alphabet natural for me. This simple container as a working idea also promised me a sequential method and meaning, a kind of tidier systematizing order and homogenizing form in my otherwise relatively chaotic and untidy work practice. In spite of this and almost immediately as work commenced, possibilities with different letters became mind-blowingly overwhelming and paintings became unmoored, behaving like kites in the wind. I felt myself constantly reining them in. This modest project where I also struggled to downsize the paintings, did however allow me the comfort and consolation of repetition, referencing precedents, interiorly and in the world at large. The Freudian dream term Condensation for my alphabet feels exactly right: in my inventory of symbols and icons of longing the images I represent in pictures and words stand for many thoughts, feelings, wishes and ideas".
ex libris
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, January 26 - February 26, 2011
The exhibition focuses on art about books and features 28 artists: Ed Ruscha, Chris Ware, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, Seth, Roz Chast, Robin Tewes, Ruth Marten, Richard Prince, David Hockney, Jean Lowe, Cyrilla Mozenter, Charles Burns, Richard Baker, Andras Borocz,Vivienne Koorland, Saul Steinberg, Jennie Ottinger, Nan Swid, Bette Blank, Josephine Halvorson, Molly Springfield, Rebecca Bird, Ryan Brown, Tom Burckhardt, Alice Attie, Renee French and Adam Dant.
Freud Museum London, 25th Anniversary Auction
Freud Museum London, 2011
Contemporary art has been an important aspect in interpretation of the Museum for many years. Artists welcome the opportunity to respond to Sigmund and Anna Freud's home, collections and ideas and the Museum benefits from the creative energy that these exhibitions bring. Artworks have been donated by artists who have exhibited at or given their support to the Museum. Those who have kindly donated works are: Judith Alder, Alice Anderson, Santiago Borja, Christie Brown, Jack Catling, Brian Chalkley, William Cobbing, Paul Coldwell, Anne Deguelle, Michele Fletcher, Patricio Forrester, Kathleen Fox, Solveigh Goett, Judy Goldhill, Antony Gormley, John Goto, Sarah Grainger-Jones, Maggi Hambling, Ollie Harrop, Susan Hiller, Andy Hope 1930, Sharon Kivland, Vivienne Koorland, Linda Lencovic, Caroline May, Jane McAdam Freud, Frances Murray, Maurice Owen, Katja Rosenberg, Martin Rowson, Nike Savvas, Josie Smith, Emma Jane Spain, lili Spain, Emilia Telese, John Timberlake, Alison Watt, Rachel Wilberforce and Helen Wilks.
American Iconography
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, 30 June - 4 Aug 2010
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism
The Jewish Museum, New York, 12 Sept 2010 - 30 Jan 2011
An exhibition exploring the impact of feminism on contemporary painting.
The Hidden Trace: Jewish Paths Through Modernity
Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabrueck, Germany, Dec 2008 - April 2009
Historical survey of modern and contemporary art.
About Beauty
Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, 13 December - 5 January, 2008
Nine contemporary artists: Goodman, Gregory (UK), Hodgins, Kentridge, Koorland, Siopis, Smith, Veleko, Williamson.
Home Lands - Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa
Haunch of Venison, London, 31 May - July 2008
An exploration of the contemporary South African landscape and the politics of race and place that have left their marks upon it. David Goldblatt, Nicholoas Hlobo, William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Santu Mofokeng, Berni Searle, Guy Tillim.
Road Works
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, 12 June - 15 August 2008
Group show of contemporary art.
Drawn to the Edge
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, 12 June - 15 August, 23 March - 28 April 2007
Group show of contemporary art.
Hyper Graphica
The Philocetes Center For the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, New York, 15 Oct - 29 Nov 2007
Paintings by five contemporary artists exploring the overwhelming urge to record thoughts and impulses with the written word.
Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes)
Freud Museum, London, 22 March - 30 April 2007
Paintings by Vivienne Koorland exploring themes of displacement, desire and the mishaps of travel within the context of Sigmund Freud's last quarters.
Text Messages
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, 14 June - 15 August 2007
Group show of contemporary art.
Vivienne Koorland: Contents, Songbooks and other Paintings
Gallery of the College of Staten Island/CUNY, New York, 3 March - 31 March 2004
Paintings by Koorland exploring mediation of the written word between the physical world and the artist's imaginary one.
Art on Paper
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, 2001
Group show of contemporary drawings.
HeadNorth
Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden, 2001
Group show of contemporary paintings in partnership with the South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 2000
The Unquiet Image: Paintings by Vivienne Koorland, New York 1990-1998
Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, 10 Nov - 16 Dec 1998
Themes of exile, loss and memory.
Vivienne Koorland Izieu Paintings 1987 - 1989
The Schmidt Center Gallery, Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 25 Nov - 21 Dec 1997
Paintings based on a drawing by a child during WWII