Tony Oursler

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A pioneer of new-media art since the mid-1970s, Tony Oursler is best known for his video projections and installation works that explore technology’s effects on the human mind. Honing in on much of humanity’s compulsive relationship with computers and virtual networks, Oursler orchestrates microcosmic scenes, tableaus, and interventions that convey the obsession, escapism, isolation, and sexual fetish that cause or grow out of technological dependence. His works include talking streetlights, an eight-foot-long five-dollar bill with an eerily animated Abe Lincoln, an enormous cell phone spewing disjointed snippets of conversations, and ghoulish heads muttering phrases like “You treat me like garbage. I told you I love you but I don’t. Thanks for nothing.” Oursler invites viewers into disorienting psychological mini-dramas, at once engaging in their humor and disturbing for their uncanny juxtapositions and keen, biting commentaries.

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    Foo Fighters - The Teacher

    30 May 2023 – 30 May 2023 30.05.2023 – 30.05.2023

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    Black Box

    23 January 2021 – 16 May 2021 23.01.2021 – 16.05.2021
    Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan

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    THE UN-PRIVATE COLLECTION: TONY OURSLER + BRANDEN JOSEPH

    16 March 2020 – 16 March 2020 16.03.2020 – 16.03.2020
    The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles (US)

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    Retrospective

    1 March 2020 – 30 April 2020 01.03.2020 – 30.04.2020
    Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (TW)

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    Eclipse (outdoor installation associated with the Foundation exhibition "Trees")

    15 October 2019 – 20 October 2019 15.10.2019 – 20.10.2019
    Cartier Foundation Garden, Paris (FR)

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    The Dark Side - curated by Danilo Eccher

    9 October 2019 – 1 March 2020 09.10.2019 – 01.03.2020
    Musja, Rome (IT)

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    6th

    14 June 2019 – 23 July 2019 14.06.2019 – 23.07.2019
    Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart (TAS)
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    Water Memory

    8 June 2019 – 21 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 21.07.2019
    Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York (US)

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    dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

    8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019
    dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

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    Le Choix d'Albert

    17 May 2019 – 29 June 2019 17.05.2019 – 29.06.2019
    Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)

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    Paranormal : Tony Oursler vs Gustavo Rol

    3 November 2017 – 25 February 2018 03.11.2017 – 25.02.2018
    Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin

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