Darren Almond
Fascinated by the notion of time and its representation, Almond’s diverse body of work incorporates film, drawing, installation, sculpture and photography. His subjects are as diverse as clocks, train plates, bus shelters. They reveal feelings about the passage of time, themes of personal and historical memory, movement and space. For his Fullmoon series, Almond travels around the world to find new angles and the photographs he brings back contain deep references to the painting, without ever referring to it directly. He takes his photographs at night: the only source of light is the full moon. The landscape becomes visible by using extended exposure of time and turns a dark night into a light day, often appearing ghostly.
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Darren Almond
NOW | Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton, Lucy Raven
29 October 2019 – 31 May 2020 29.10.2019 – 31.05.2020
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Artists
- Darren Almond
- Jean Bedez
- Alain Biltereyst
- Aline Bouvy
- Marie José Burki
- Saint Clair Cemin
- Stéphane Dafflon
- Robert Devriendt
- Leandro Erlich
- Lionel Estève
- Michel Frère
- Mekhitar Garabedian
- Gilbert & George
- Olaf Holzapfel
- Vera Lutter
- Joseph Marioni
- Xavier Mary
- Dean Monogenis
- Vik Muniz
- Tony Oursler
- Eric Poitevin
- Matthew Porter
- Pablo Reinoso
- Charles Sandison
- Alain Séchas
- Bruno Serralongue
- James Siena
- David Brian Smith
- Helmut Stallaerts
- Takis
- Achraf Touloub
- Janaina Tschäpe
- Mitja Tusek
- Leen Voet
- Dan Walsh
- Wang Du
- Stanley Whitney
- Thomas Zipp
- Gilberto Zorio
- Yves Zurstrassen
Biography
Born in 1971, Wigan, UK.
Lives and works in London, UK.
EDUCATION
1993
- Winchester School of Art (BAFA), UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
- The Swerve / The Light of Time, Galerie Xippas, Geneva (CH)
- The light Between Us, Museo Pignatelli, Naples (IT)
2017
- Darren Almond, MUDAM (LU)
2016
- …beyond reach but within reason, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (FR)
- Schatten und Licht Altana Kulturstiftung, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (DE)
- Darren Almond: New Work, New Art Center, Salisbury (UK)
- Time and Being, White Cube, Hong Kong (CHN)
- Within The Shadow of The Sun, the Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo (JP)
2015
- Darren Almond, Galerie Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey.Present From, Christie’s Mayfair, London (UK)
- Fullmoons, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
- Spazio 22, Milan (IT)
- Amalfi Sketchbook, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AU)
- Works on paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
2014
- Darren Almond: In the Shadow of Words, Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK)
- Work, work, work, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (DK)
- To Leave a Light Impression, White Cube, London (UK)
- As Details, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli (IT)
- Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, North Orange Grove, Los Angeles, California (USA)
2013-14
- Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.Second Thoughts, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan.
2013
- Darren Almond. Atmos, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid (ES)
- Darren Almond : Hemispheres and Continents, Matthew Marks gallery, New York (USA)
2012
- All Things Pass, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
- To Leave a Light Impression, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (CH)
- Sometimes Still, The Site Festival, Stroud, UK.
2011
- Galerie Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo (UY)
- Nocturne, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar (DE)
- …between here and the surface of the moon, times 2, Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen (FR)
- ….between here and the surface of the moon, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand (FR)
2010
- As It Is, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
- The Principle of Moments, White Cube, Londres, UK.Fullmoon@Eifel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen (DE)
- Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, United States.Darren Almond, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul (KR)
2009
- The Principle of Moments, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, UK. Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen / Eifel (DE)
- Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks gallery, New York, United States.Sometimestill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
- Xippas Gallery, Athènes (GR)
- Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israël. Darren Almond, Xippas Galerie, Paris (FR)
2008
- Nail to Nail, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles, United States. SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo (JP)
- Substitute, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
- Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London (UK)
- Fire Under Snow: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (UK)
2007
- Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
- Night + Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
- In The Between, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal (CA)
- Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Varsovie (PL)
- Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
- SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (USA)
2006
- Take Me Home, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca (ES)
- Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
- Darren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
2005
- Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
- Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
- Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
- Isolation, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)
2004
- If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
- Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AU)
2003
- 11 Miles…..from Safety, White Cube, Londres (UK)
- Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
- Nightvision, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv (IL)
- If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milan, Italy.A, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
2002
- At Speed, Darren Almond and Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
2001
- Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, Londres (UK)
- Coming up for air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
- Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (CH)
- De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (NL)
- Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin (DE)
2000
- Transport Medium, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
- Geisterbahn, The Approach, Londres (UK)
- Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, Londres (UK)
1999
- Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
- Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, United States.
1997
- Darren Almond, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres (UK)
- Darren Almond, White Cube, Londres, UK. 1995 KN120, Great Western Studios, Londres (UK)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017-18
- Vision of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (AU)
2017
- Botanica, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
- Tidalectics, TBA21 Augarden, Vienna, Austria
- Time as Landscape : Inquiries of Art and Science, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Witer Park, USAThe Garden – The End of Times, The Beginning of Times, ARoS Triennial, Aarhus, Danemark
- The End of the World, Centro per l’Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Italia
- Landscape: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
- Dialéctica, Galerie Xippas, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2016
- Random X, Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Punta del Este, Uruguay
- Fire under Snow, Louisiane, Copenhague, Danemark
- Dall’oggi ad domani. 24 ore nell’Arte Contemporanea, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, ItalySublime, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
- Dream States : Contemporary Photographs and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- Le rêve, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
- Le fine del Mondo, Centro Pecci, Italy
- The poetics of Place : Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, USA
- Horizons, Vistamare Benedetta Spalletti, Pescara,Italy
- The Natural Order Of Things, La Coleccion Jumex, Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico
2015
- Boolean Expressions, Lewis Gluckmans Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
- No Man Nature, Palazzo Da Mosto, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Eppur si muove : Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere, Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-ville, Luxembourg
- Landscape in Motion, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
- Photographings Monet’s Gardens : Five Contemporary Views, Impressionisms Museum, Giverny, FranceRights of Nature, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom
- Harmony and Transition: Reflecting Chinese Landscapes, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
2014
- Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennial, museum of Busan, Korea
- 1+1=1 : When Collections Collide : The MAC at the MMFA, Montréal museum of Fine Arts, CanadaHalftone : Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
- Man in the mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
- Playtime, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
- Cool Place, Sammiung Sharpff, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
- Nature Study, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
- Lone Tree, Marlborough Contemporary New York, Chelsea, New-York, USA
- Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2013
- Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
- Remember Everything, Max Hetzler gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Artist File 2013 : The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
- On Nature, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, USA
- Diacussion, envoy enterprises, New York, USA
- Landscapes, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
- Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
- The future’s not what it used to be, The Exchange, Penzance ; then Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UKLandmark : The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK
- A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, Tribeca, New-York, USA
2012-13
- Good Night, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Crown Point Press at 50, Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
2012
- The Island/A Game of Life, Manarat Al Saadiyat Galerie, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emires
- Static Movement. Film Installations of Darren Almond, David Claerbout and Anri Sala, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
- Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Hangar à bananes, Ile de Nantes, France
- Darren Almond, Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland 2011 Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, USA
- Look, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- Snap, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, UK
- The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
- 8 1/2 thirteen artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence, Italy
- Things are Queer, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany 2010 Nature, Galerie Gerhardsen Gemer, Berlin, Germany.
- Let’s Dance, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sûr- Seine, Paris, France.
- Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK.
- Climax Redux, BAC Geneva, Switzerland.
- Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New-York, USA
- Captured while Vanishing: Video Art in Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
2009
- Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France. Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, UK.
- Edition Copenhagen – Retrospective 1959 – 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Los tiempos de un, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain.
2008
- Infinite Ice Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Albertina, Vienna Summer in
- The City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
- Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, China.
- Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London, UK.
- Collection as Aleph, Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
- Night: A Time Between, Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb Wills, Methuen and Milner Galleries,
- Royal West of England Academy, UK.
- Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
- Climax, LOOP’08, International Festival and Fair for Video Art, Barcelona, Spain.
- The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States.
- The Cinema Effect: War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan.
- God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy.
- Implant, The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York, United States.
- You Prison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom, and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
2007
- Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
- Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, United States.
- Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece.
- Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.
- Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphie, United States.
- Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States.
- 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscou, Russia.
2006
- Daren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
- Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK.
- Full House – Geschichte einer Sammlung (Faces of a Collection), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
- Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, United States.
- Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
- Geisterbahn (1999), Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany.
- Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, United States.
- Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, United States.Caspar David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
- The Black Show, David Patton, Los Angeles, United States.
- 37th Art Basel: Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland. 2005 Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London, UK.
- Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourists Eye, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
- 20: Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
- Video Zone – The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israël, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israël.
- The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hambourg, Allemagne.
- The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, UK.
- Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
- At Speed, with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
2001
- Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, United States.
- Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece.Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK.Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Gand, Belgium.Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria.
- Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany.
- Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, United States.
- Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, South Korea.Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, United States.
2000
- Out There, White Cube 2, London, UK.
- British Short Film Festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London, UK.
- Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of the
- Arts, London, UK.Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
- Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida, United States.
- Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
1999
- Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, United States.Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
- Chronos and Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Cassel, Germany.
- So Far Away, So Close, Encore…Bruxelles, Espace Méridien, Bruxelles, Belgium.Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, United States.
- Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin, Italy. 1998 View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, United States.
- Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo, Japan.
- Art Crash, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark.
1997
- A Print Portfolio from Londres, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
- Delta, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
- Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
- Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.
1996
- Art & Innovation Prize [winner], Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK.
- Something Else, Exmouth Market, London, UK.
- A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
- Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy T-B A21 Collection, Vienna, Austria
- Government Art Collection, London, UK
- Imperial War Museum, London, UK
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States The UBS Art Collection, Miami, United States
- Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, United States
- La Coleccion Jumex, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
- Tate Gallery, London, UK
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria FRAC Auvergne, France
- Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
- FRAC Haute Normandie, France
- Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
- Israël Museum, Israël
- MoMA, New York, United States
- Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
- Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
- CNAP, France
- Paine Webber Art Collection, New York, United States Queensland Art Collection, Australia
- Foundation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Switzerland