Sean Crossley
Born in Melbourne, 1987
Lives and works in Brussels
Education
— 2008–2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st Class Honours) Drawing, rmit,
Melbourne, Australia
— 2009
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (hku), Utrecht, Netherlands
— 2006–2007
Diploma of Visual Arts, rmit, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
(Upcoming)
Couvent des Recolléts, Paris
Group show - Reconfiguration - Canal 05, Brussels - Curated by Raffaele Gavarro
—2014
Abstract Carbonara, HEKLA, Brussels
— 2012
Spare outline, Red Gallery, Melbourne
— 2011
Fracture/Access, bus Projects, Melbourne
— 2010
Reflex, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Where we could lie, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
— 2014
OpenKunst/Carte de visite Brussels, Dexia Art Centre, Brussels
— 2012
notfair - Primal Mutations, 24hrart Northern Territory
Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Gallery, Brisbane
notfair - Primal Mutations, 1000 Pound Bend, Melbourne
(Curated by Ashley Crawford, Melissa Amore & Sam Leach)
— 2011
Punch in the Head, dps Projects, Melbourne
Open Up, Kings ari, Melbourne
Art Melbourne, Representing alumni from rmit University,
Melbourne
rmit Honours Endowment Scholarship, rmit School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
— 2010
Proposition, rmit School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
Drawing twenty ten, rmit Drawing Graduation Exhibition, rmit, Melbourne
Siemens Fine Art Scholarship Award Show, rmit Storey Hall Gallery, Melbourne
s.w.a.p, Area art space, Melbourne (Curator)
Linearis Light, Drawing Out Conference, rmit, Melbourne
Screen it!, Federation Square, Drawing Out Conference, Melbourne
— 2009
A fine line, rmit Drawing graduation show, rmit, Melbourne
Alstublieft , Das Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sugar, Open Space Gallery, Melbournev
Awards / Grants / Residencies
— 2012
Digitalarti Centre d’art Numerique residence, Paris, France
Churchie Emerging artist Prize (Finalist)
— 2011
rmit Honours Endowment Scholarship (Finalist)
— 2010
Australia Council artstart Grant
rmit Siemens Fine Art Scholarship Award Winner
— 2009
rmit Drawing Jeneane Pageant Award
idp Student Mobility Scholarship
— 2008
Alice Bale Art Award (Finalist)
Collections
City of Yarra Contemporary Art Collection
Private collections in Australia, France, Belgium, China,
United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Publications
— 2014
Catalogue for Abstract Carbonara including Interview with
art historian Jana Haeckel and essays by Beau Deuwaarder
December 2014.
— 2012
Ashley Crawford, Undiscovered – Sean Crossley,
Australian Art Collector/ issue 60, April–June 2012
— 2011
Penny Webb, The Ticket - The best of art – Sean Crossley,
exh. write up, The Age, 27 May 2011
— 2010
Peter Westwood, The Proposition, exh. cat.,
rmit School of Art Gallery, 5 November 2010
Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für
Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein
Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Project Space Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery,
London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Remap3+4
Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 21er Haus Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum
Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Arizona
State University Art Museum, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. His work is part of some of the most prestigious
private collections in Europe and the US. (i.e.: Melva Bucksbaum New York, Margulies Collection, Miami, Collection
of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, New York, CAP Collection, Southhampton, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Herbert
F. Johnson Museum, NY)
His work has recently been shown in a show featuring actual painting positions in Germany
Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart (Where is here? #1: Painting and Present) at Kunstverein Reutlingen in
Germany; his ceramic sculptures at Back To Earth - The Re-discovery of Ceramics in the Arts at Herbert-GerischFoundation, Neumuenster, Germany aswell as at 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2002 Trip to Bang Bang City, CAI - Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Sapporo
2005 New Talents, ArtCologne, Cologne
Troja Boja-Morgentodde, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
2006 Hirnwaschanlage, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Himmelfahrtskommando, Arndt & Partner, Zurich
Tohuwabohu II, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
2008 Salonu Istanbul / Observation Desk, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg (Cat.)
Camp Hope, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
Narkose #02, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Heerlen (Cat.)
2009 Misanthropenkarussell, ALP Peter Bergman, Stockholm
2010 DIAMONDS & BONES + THE-NEW-WORLD.TV, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (Cat.)
DIAMONDS & BONES + THE-NEW-WORLD.TV, Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang (Cat.)
2011 PRINCESS UTOPIA, ph - projects / Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Berlin FUTURE ISLANDS, Institut fuer aktuelle
Kunst, Nürnberg DICTATORSHIP OF DILETTANTS, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
2012 SNOW IN THE JUNGLE, Martin Asbaek Gallery Copenhagen
2013 SCHEINHEILIGEN/SPECIOUSNESSES, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
PSYCHO COWBOYS / TJORG DOUGLAS BEER curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Remap4, Athens
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2003 Feine Ware I - III, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (Cat.) Asian Print Adventure, Hokkaido Museum of
Modern Art, Sapporo (Cat.)
2004 Turmsturm, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen (Cat.)
2005 Schnitte/Cuts, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
2006 Das Stipendium, kuratiert von Jens Hoffmann, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (Cat.)
2007 The Four Horsemen / Die RAND Corporation, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin Fish & Ships, Kunsthaus
Hamburg, Hamburg FixMixMax, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo (Cat.)
2008 The End was Yesterday, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck Words Become Pictures, Molloy College Art Gallery,
Rockville Centre The Other Mainstream II, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe (Cat.)
Tabularasa/The Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin Home Alone, Galerie Mikael Andersen,
Copenhagen The Krautcho Club "in and out of place", Projectspace 176, London
2009 The Forgotten Bar Project, ALP Peter Bergmann, Stockholm C, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
Gala 5, Sammler zeigen ihre Favoriten, Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig (Cat.) VELONTRIQUIST, Timothy Taylor
Gallery, London CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, ArtCologne, Open Space, Cologne
Transzendenz Inc., Hospitalhof, Stuttgart CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 2, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
NARCOTICA, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Basel No Soul For Sale, X-INITIATIVE, New York Zeigen - An Audio Tour
through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin DEFENDING OUR VALUES - LIGHTBOX(THE MODULE), Centro Cultural
Andratx Mallorca
2010 Chess Drawings, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck DEFENDING OUR VALUES -LIGHTBOX(THE MODULE),
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck THE DESTROYED ROOM, WHATSPACE TILBURG Chess Drawings, Projektraum
Kunsthalle Wien The Berlin Box, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca J, Q, K, A, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
DEFENDING OUR VALUES - LIGHTBOX(THE MODULE), Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang
No Soul For Sale II, X-INITIATIVE, Tate Modern, London Ayran & Yoga - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale
2010, Berlin Locate me, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin Night Of The Pawn, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig The
Beautiful Danse Of The Terrible Masks And Minds, Galerie I'm Regierungsviertel Berlin
2011 The Beautiful Danse Of The Terrible Masks And Minds, wienerartfoundation, Wien From Berlin, Martin Asbaek
Gallery, Copenhagen
THE FORGOTTEN YEARS 2007-2011, basedinberlin, Neue Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
THE FORGOTTEN YEARS 2007-2011, Art, Entertainment & Desire, Basel TABULARASA, Ausser Haus, Heidelberger
Kunstverein 863 km, SCHEUBLEIN Fine Art AG, Zuerich UNDERWORLD, SCHEUBLEIN Fine Art AG, Zuerich
RESPONSOLIDARITY, Galerie Utopia, Remap3 Athens Stranger is a strange Land, Galerie Utopia, Remap3 Athens
Dormition, Contra Galerija, Slowenien Ars Apocalipsis – Kunst und Kollaps, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh A Piece of
Paper, madder139, London
2012 Neue Wände, Sabine Knust, Munich Utopia, Strzlecki-Books at Cologne Contemporaries Cologne The
Newspaper Show, The Breeder, Athens
PARNASSOS, Parnassos Literary Society, Athens
PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION, The Hole, New York City Summer in The City, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
THE GARDEN OF EDEN, Palais de Tokyo, Paris schöntrauer, E105, Berlin Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Fred Jahn and
Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse at Residenz Muenchen
2013 ABENDLAND, Produzentengalerie Hamburg
Back To Earth - Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst, Herbert-Gerisch-Foundation Cinque Garzoni,
Piccolo Germania, Lido di Venezia, Venice
Remap4, Athens Summer In the City, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter,
Berlin Never Mind the Bollocks, JRGallery, Berlin UTOPIA, Galerie Utopia, Berlin HEAVY METAL, Galerie Clemens
Gunzer, Kitzbuehel
2014 Franz Graf / Siehe was dich sieht, Belvedere, 21er Haus Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Drive the Change, 100plus, Zurich STALACTICA, Galerie Utopia / Quincaillerie Vander Eicken, Brussels
Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen
Caterina Silva
Rome, 1983
Education
2001-2002 Foundation Course, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2003-2006 Scenography, Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome
Residencies
2014-2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2012-2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Grants
2014 DE.MO./Movin’Up
2014 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2012-2013 Incontri Internazionali d’Arte
2001-2002 European Union
Selected Exhibitions
2014_Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam
2014_Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso
2014_Fear Eats the Soul, the Soul Eats Fear, Crespi Gallery, Milan (solo show)
2014_Drawings on the table, De Buiksloterkerk, Amsterdam
2014_Simplicity to complexity, Asanisimasa Gallery, online
2013_She views herself, Air France, Paris
2013_Room 8111, Cité des Arts, Paris
2012_Giorni Felici, Casa Testori, Novate-Milan
2012_Vetrinale, Festival of Relational and Performative Arts, Various Venues, Rome
2012_Premio Roma Centro Storico, Palazzo Santacroce Aldobrandini, Rome
2012_Infiorata, CIAC Museum, Genazzano, Rome
2012_Reality Show, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery, Salerno
2012_Portonaccio, Ex Magazzini di Via Arimondi, Rome
2012_Tutto, 26cc space for contemporary art, Rome
2012_Come una bestia feroce/No beast so fierce, Bonelli Lab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova
2011_Non è facile/It is not easy, Palazzo Incontro, Rome
2011_Brooklyn Boudoir, 400S2nd, NYC
2011_Open Studios, CSVC Center, NYC
2011_Via Arimondi, Gallery of Art-Temple University, Rome
2010_Impresa Pittura, C. I. A.C. Museum, Genazzano, Rome
2010_Subverting Dualities, VM21 Gallery, Rome (solo show)
2008_Poetiche della precarietà, Future Net Group, Sala delle Colonne, Milan
2008_Scanning/ Body project, Studio Soligo, Rome
2007_Viaggio in tempo reale, Roma Poesia ‘07, Teatro Colosseo/Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
2007_CoLab 07, Teatro Colosseo (Rome), Massma (Ronneby), Espacio 01 (Bogotà)
2007_Human Solo Show, ESC Atelier Occupato, Rome
Selected Collaboration
2011-2013_Untitled (the punk sister of Agnes Martin) Book, Rome
2012_ It: 10 Copies of Au Bal by Berthe Morisot by 10 artists, Private Flat, Paris
2012_It: Diary of a Neuter, Private Basement, Paris
2011_I am not there and don’t live here anymore, Ex Magazzini di Via Arimondi, Rome
2008_The wedding über hosted for Black & Yellow, with H.Hedinge, wallpaper, Almhult, Sweden
2007_Meninas Project, in collaboration with actors from FTII, Pune, India
2007_Informe Dissenso (Multimedia Project/Schizophrenic Attitude), Paris-Todi-Sicily
Commissions
Nero su bianco, project for Eni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome_2012
Jota Castro is a peruvian artist, living in Brussels.
He uses photography, sculpture, video and installations to talk about social issues.
He is consulting editor for Janus Magazine in Belgium and nolens volens in Spain. He is teacher at the European
University of Madrid. His work has been extensively shown around the world, he has participated in the Venice,
Tirana, Prague and Kwangju Biennales, he won the gwandju Biennale prize in 2004 in Korea.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 "Memento mori", Umberto di Marino, Napoli, Italy
2010 "Low Cost Tour - Second Stop", Y3K, Melbourne, Australia "Low Cost Tour", Gonzalez y Gonzalez Gallery",
Santiago, Chile
2009 Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Low Cost, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
2008 La Palabra de los Mudos, Playa Redondo, Miraflores City, Lima, Peru Volta Show, New York, USA Sleep tight,
Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Enjoy your travel, Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Naples, Italy
2006 No More No less, Gallery Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Rear Window, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Jota Castro, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Born to be alive, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Exposition Universelle 2, B.P.S 22, Charleroi, Belgium Exposition universelle 1, Palais de Tokyo. Paris, France
Taking part, Sterdelijk Museum's Hertegenosch, Netherlands Introduction to Jota Castro, Uplands Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2004 Bouc-émissaire, Gallery Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2003 Motherfuckers never die, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy Love Hotel, Maisonneuve Gallery, Paris
2002 Et si c'était à refaire, Palais de Tokyo, Tokyorama, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions:
2011 "West End?", Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 "Trasparenze", MARCO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma. "Optimismo Radical", Bienvenu Gallery, New York,
USA
2009 Pabellón de la Urgencia, Murcia. "The Fear Society", curated by Jota Castro, Biennale Venezia 53rd International
Art Exhibition El Dorado
"Menschenrechte zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit", Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany "Second Biennial of the Canary
Islands", Architecture, Art and Landscape All ?s fair in Art and War, 21c Museum, Kentucky, USA
2008 U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Nicolaj CCAC, Copenhagen, Denmark Latinolatino, Castle of
Barletta, Bari, Italy Madrid Abierto 2008 - Artists Interventions in Madrid 5th Edition, Madrid, Spain Gravity, Museo
Artium, Vitoria, Spain
Black-Paris, Black-Bruxelles, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium Art in the life World, Dublin, Ireland
Arte e Omosessualità, Firenze, Italy Fate Presto, Salerno, Italy
2007 First Anniversary Group Show, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium Emergency Biennale in Chechnya world
tour - stop 9: 10th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey ArteDove - cultural platform, Fosdinovo, Massa Carrara, Italy
Arte e Omosessualità, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy Young Talent, Art Brussels 2007, Brussels, Belgium We are
your future, 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Atlante latinoamericano, Monterrey, Mexico
2007 Informacion Contra Informacion, CGAC, Spain
Construyendo el mundo, Marco Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico Confine, MAN - Museo di
arte di Nuoro, Sardeigna, Italy
2006 Being in Brussels, Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels, Belgium Uscita Pistoia, Spazio A
Contemporanearte, Pistoia, Italy
Black Paris, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
People, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
Team show, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Travel, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
3rd Tirana Biennale, Albania Prague Biennale2, Prague, Czech Republic Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte,
Wien, Austria Interessi Zero, performance, Trento, Italy
Risk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK
Disobedience, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany
On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posture... Say Again, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2004 Point Break, bnd TomasoRenoldiBracco
ContemporaryArtVision, Milan, Italy Pour Amiel, La Criée, Rennes, France
Z.O.U.- Zone of Urgency, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Storage, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium
Public Art Project, De Pijp-Skor, Amsterdam, Holland 4th Kwangju Biennale, Korea, Biennale Price
Troubled Times, Gruppo 78, Trieste, Italy, Produciendo realidad, Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italy
Seven Sins, Museiom, Bolzano, Italy
2004 Shake II, Villa Arson, Nice, France Shake, OK Centrum, Linz, Germany Perspective 04 - attualità dell'arte
contemporanea, Protagonisti dell'arte 2004, Molfetta, Italy Quick Sand, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 U-Topos, 2nd Tirana Biennial, Albania
Z.O.U., Survival Guide for Demonstrators, 50th Venice Biennial, Italy Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2002 Lines and Mobility, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany
2000 Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Prize:
Winner of the European Festival of Visual Arts in Hospitals 2009
Gwandju Biennale Prize ( Korea) 2004
Young Peruvian Poet Prize, 1983
Teaching:
2008 at the European University of Madrid