This is so subtly conveyed in Canadian artist Stan Douglas’s Luanda-Kinshasa…', "Douglas has long been fascinated by periods of sociopolitical resistance as visualized in their special sites, artistic results, and people.". Based on archival photographs of a hotel used to house war veterans (The Second Hotel Vancouver, 2014), a decades-established squatting community (Lazy Bay, 2015), or a lawless neighbourhood populated by the disenfranchised and rife with gambling, bootlegging, and prostitution, where black musicians and corrupt politicians partied in the small hours (Hogan’s Alley, 2014), these works explore the loaded meeting points of the structural and subjective, directly experienced and mediated, specificities of place. Since the early 1990s, multi-channel video installations have been an integral part of Douglas’s practice, allowing for the simultaneous presentation of multiple, overlapping narratives or vantage points, and with Doppelgänger he extends his ongoing exploration of both nonlinear narratives and alternate histories: the omnipresent sense of doubling that is built into the structure of the work implicitly suggests the possibility of simultaneous, diverging experiences and realities. ', 'Beneath the film’s retro-futuristic veneer and vibrant passages of colour – a stylistic nod to avant-garde cinema – lies a pressing message for our times.'. The action on the two screens proceeds alternately in tandem and in parallel, seamlessly moving between two oppositional scenarios of Alice’s reception back on Earth. Conclusions are withheld from the viewer, however, even as multiple viewpoints tantalisingly suggest the possibility of privileged access to the truths of a complex situation. Stan Douglas: SPLICING BLOCK was on view at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, in 2019-2020. Jointly acquired by PAMM and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this film depicts a fictitious band of professional musicians at the famed CBS 30th Street Studio in 1970s New York City. Douglas' two-channel video installation Hors-champs, 1992, is included in a group exhibition (14 September 2016 - 19 March 2017) that links the vibrant legacy of avant-garde jazz and experimental music of the late 1960s (particularly within the African American arts scene on the South Side of Chicago) and its continuing influence on contemporary art and culture today. Berlin Biennale. Film in Art, 22 January - 17 April 2017) and a special programme (Art mon amour) to the reciprocal fascination between art and film. In 2017, the artist turned his focus to the pervasive global unrest of 2011 – a year that saw the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, and riots in cities including London and Douglas’s native Vancouver, amongst other mass protests. Douglas’ films and photographs have been included in exhibitions internationally since the early 1980s, including at documenta IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and in four Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019). An old-fashioned player piano is combined with projected images of disused tools, weaving machines and their punch-cards (so much like player-piano rolls). You will find links at the bottom of all emails we send from our mailing list which allow you to Update your preferences to change the way we contact you, or Unsubscribe if you want to opt out. PHOTOS: NYTIMES An image (above) from Penn Station’s Half Century, a photo-panel series by Canadian Stan Douglas. Since the 1980s Stan Douglas has reappropriated key moments from history, precisely examining political, social... Victoria Miro is delighted to present new works by Chantal Joffe. Head of Directors' Office, Client and Business Development, Sales Executive & Assistant to Matt Carey-Williams, Sales Team Coordinator & Sales Administrator, Director of Exhibitions - Head of Department, Photography, Rights and Reproduction Manager, Library Coordinator and Archive Assistant, 'Douglas's film plays with questions of ethics... but more profoundly with questions of communication.’, 'Both the structure and the subject matter of the exhibition offer an overarching sense of displacement or the uncanny. For Scenes from the Blackout, he imagined the physical effects of a total loss of power in present-day New York City and how people would behave in such an emergency. Curated by Paola Malavassi, Head of JSC Berlin. Stan Douglas’s research and use of historic film, photography and music as characteristic technology and theme have remained consistent throughout his career. Education. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt. STAN DOUGLAS: I was in Berlin just having premiered in Munich my play Helen Lawrence, and I saw this person in Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in East Berlin. Doppelgänger is set in an alternative present. Field Guide, the inaugural exhibition at the new Remai Modern art museum, rethinks the idea of 'modern' from multiple cultural, geographic, historic and contemporary perspectives. Recent venues for solo exhibitions include Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (until 1 March 2020); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2018–2019); the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (2016); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida (2016); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2016); WIELS, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2015); Museu Coleçäo Berardo, Lisbon (2015); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2014-2015); Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes (2013, solo, travelling to Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2014; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2015 and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2015); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota (2013) and the Moscow Photobiennale 2013. Stan Douglas is the recipient of the 2016 Hasselblad Award and the 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts. office@berlinbiennale.de. It marks Doppelgänger's debut in Asia. Part of the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary celebrations, this exhibition (6 October 2017 – 14 January 2018) features Douglas' Hors-Champs, 1992. ... Berlin, Paris, New York, Lisbon, and Angola, among others. The Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin presents an exhibition of works by the renowned Canadian artist Stan Douglas (*1960, Vancouver). These panoramic mise-en-scènes first appeared in Helen Lawrence, a groundbreaking cinematic theatre production that plunged into the seedy underbelly of the immediate postwar period in North America, before what the artist describes as ‘the sudden call to order and morality’ of peacetime had fully taken hold. Venice: Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–1pm & 2–6pm. Stan Douglas . Filmed on location in Lisbon with a cast of local actors, the feature-length The Secret Agent, 2015, restages the plot of Joseph Conrad’s novella – a story of espionage, double-crossing and murky political entanglement – within the aftermath of Portugal’s ‘carnation revolution,’ which overthrew Europe’s oldest dictatorship, in April 1974. 'With Douglas's work, you often feel like you have stepped into a much bigger narrative that concerns, among other things, the lingering effects of post-colonialism and modernism.'. Opening of the exhibition Stan Douglas, SPLICING BLOCK ... Vancouver) in Berlin. Stan Douglas’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery presented the world premiere of the artist’s latest work Journey into Fear (2001).. Douglas's multidisciplinary works, including films, photographs and, more recently, theatre productions, reflect on the dynamic potential embedded in pivotal historical moments. In one version, Alice is received compassionately and welcomed home, whereas in the other, she is treated as an outlaw or a potential threat. Presented in … All general enquiries should be sent to  info@victoria-miro.com. We respect the choices you make about how you would like to hear from us. We are also closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays. The exhibitions will mark the US and UK premieres of the piece. Doppelgänger is concurrently on view at David Zwirner, New York, until 22 February 2020. Categories. The exhibition Splicing Block examines the relationship between music and society in addition to a reflection on film and... Read more » Instagram. 'I can’t predict the future, so in a way, my science fiction – like everything else, like historical things – is an allegory of the present.'. Stan Douglas, the Canadian video artist and photographer, likes to think about when things go awry. Victoria Miro is pleased to present Doppelgänger, a video installation by Stan Douglas. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and since 2009 has been a member of the Core Faculty in the Graduate Art Department of ArtCenter College of Design. Facebook. The Berlin architectural office Kuehn Malvezzi was responsible for the conversion into an exhibition house. This is the premise of his video installation, Doppelgänger, currently on view at David Zwirner in New York and Victoria Miro in London. Work by the artist is held in major museum collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. But it’s a good start. Career. Victoria Miro is delighted to present new works by Chantal Joffe. The exhibition (9 February – 13 May 2018) features around 40 international artists and explores the complex relationship between image and reality. Sieverding graduated in 2007 with an MFA from the Berlin University of the Arts where she studied under Stan Douglas, Ellen Cantor, Dieter Appelt, Sabeth Buchmann, and Katja Diefenbach.In 2002, she attended the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in 2005 the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow.. Work. Stan Douglas is the recipient of the 2016 Hasselblad Award and the 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts. Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden, '....Indeed, if there is a theme to this wonderfully various show, it is the resurgence of history in the present. A panoramic view of an almost entirely blacked-out cityscape is juxtaposed with scenes of individual experience: resourcefulness and various degrees of misbehaviour. The exhibition, held as part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (7–23 February 2020) considers notions of time as explored in art and imaging. Conceived of as two distinct installations, each a reflection on aspects of the past year, The... Victoria Miro is delighted to be a member of Reprieve Collective and participate in Reprieve x Vortic with an exhibition of works by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg, Grayson... Before contacting or subscribing please read our. The exhibition (27 June–26 August 2018) brings together works by seminal figures from the photographic and photojournalistic world, alongside rare archive images. Since the late 1980s, Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. The foundation presents an exhibition (18 October 2016 - 29 January 2017) of Douglas' work, as the 2016 Hasselblad Award winner. Conceived of as two distinct installations, each a reflection on aspects of the past year, The... Victoria Miro is delighted to be a member of Reprieve Collective and participate in Reprieve x Vortic with an exhibition of works by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg, Grayson... Before contacting or subscribing please read our. View Rodney Graham’s 249 artworks on artnet. Stan Douglas Giant photographic panels by Douglas, a Canadian whose work reenacts historical moments of tension that connect local histories to broader social movements, serve as the backdrop along a more than 80-foot wall of a waiting area for ticketed passengers. View Malecón (2004) By Stan Douglas; C-print mounted on honeycomb aluminium; 47 7/8 x 92 7/8 in; Signed; Edition. After several years of standstill, the factory building found a completely new purpose in 2007 as a cultural venue and private exhibition house for contemporary art. Stan Douglas: Splicing Block opens at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin The exhibition (1 November 2019–1 March 2020) examines the relationship between music and society, and is at the same time a reflection on the media of film and photography. Accompanied by an artist’s book with a new text by Olivia Laing, Story features a number of paintings of... Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Idris Khan. This annual prize worth $100,000 is awarded to a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the arts. Stan Douglas was born in Vancouver in 1960. Douglas' Klatsassin features in Intersections (29 October 2016 - 6 February 2017), an exhibition framed as a series of visual and experiential intersections – a place and/or space where two or more lines of inquiry converge or cross. The exhibition (1 November 2019–1 March 2020) examines the relationship between music and society, and is at the same time a reflection on the media of film and photography. Stan Douglas’s photographic panels along an 80-foot wall re-enact Pennsylvania Station’s history and connect it to social reform movements. Alice, a solitary astronaut, is teleported to a distant planet, and so is her double. On view until 25 September 2016. Art Previews; EXHIBITIONS; Tags. Douglas often explores what he calls ‘speculative histories’, picturing pivotal moments when events in the world might have taken a very different turn. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist. It marks Doppelgänger's debut in Asia. Film and art have been inseparably linked since the 1980s, developing a career in installation and work. 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