Allan Sekula

Allan Sekula ( born 1951 in Erie, PA; † August 10, 2013 in Los Angeles ) was an American artist and critic. He worked mainly with photographic means.

Life

Sekula achieved greater prominence with the work of Fish Story, which was shown at Documenta 11. Also at the documenta 12, he took part.

His works are in the collections of, among others, MACBA (Barcelona ), Museum Folkwang (Essen), Getty Research Institute, LACMA, MOCA (all three in Los Angeles ), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid ), Whitney (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), SFMOMA (San Francisco), and Generali Foundation (Vienna),

Sekula lived in Los Angeles. He has taught since 1985 at CalArts in the field photography and media art.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2005: TITANIC 's wake. Camera Austria / Kunsthaus Graz.
  • 2003: Performance under Working Conditions. Generali Foundation, Vienna.
  • 2002: Waiting for Tear Gas. Camera Austria, Graz.
  • 2000: Titanic 's Wake. Centre de Creation Contemporaine, Tours, France.
  • 1999/1998: Fish Story. et al demonstrated in DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Nederlands Instituut photo, Rotterdam; Kunstverein München.
  • 1995: Fish Story. Witte de With, Rotterdam.
  • 1993: University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA.
  • 1991: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
  • 1989: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. inter alia, shown in P. S. 1, Long Iceland City, New York.
  • 1984: Folkwang Museum, Essen.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2007: 10th Istanbul Biennial
  • 2005: How do we want to be governed? Miami Art Central, Miami.
  • 2003: Colálecci. MACBA, Museu dâArt Contemporani de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona.
  • 2003: Witness. The Barbican Centre, London.
  • 2002: Documenta 11, Kassel.
  • 2001: Yokohama Triennale, Japan.
  • 2000: Flight Patterns. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • 2000: Made in California. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
  • 2000: Desert and transit. Kunsthalle Kiel.
  • 2000: The Government / The Government. Old Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.
  • 1999: Trace. Liverpool Biennial.
  • 1998: Port and Corridor: Work sites in Los Angeles. Robbert Flick and Allan Sekula, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
  • 1996: Face a l' Histoire. Centre Pompidou, Paris.
  • 1993: Whitney Biennial 2003, New York.
  • 1991: A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • 1989: If You Lived Here: Home Front. Dia Art Foundation, New York.
  • 1984: Art and Ideology. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  • 1981: Advanced Photography - Fifth International Biennale Vienna, Secession Building.
  • 1981: rejection of the frame. Folkwang Museum, Essen.
  • 1976: New American Filmmakers Series - Connell, Sekula and Torres. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Works

  • Performance under Working Conditions. DAP, New York, 2003. ISBN 3-901107-40-1.
  • Titanic 's wake. Camera Austria, Graz 2003. ISBN 3-900508-45-3.
  • Fish Story. Richter, Dusseldorf 1995. ISBN 3-928762-28-1. (2002 re-laid as yarn to participate in Documenta 12, ISBN 3-933807-66-2. )
  • Photography against the Grain - Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1984. ISBN 0,919,616,283th

Movies

  • Performance under Working Conditions (1973 ), 20 min., Black and white, video
  • The Reagan Tapes ( 1984), 10 min.
  • Tsukiji (2001), video, DVD, 43 min. 30 sec, a portrait of the Japanese fish market
  • Disney Hall Gala ( 2005), video, DVD, 24 min. 38 sec
  • The Lottery of the Sea (2006) part 1 & 2, 99 min. 6 sec, 80 min. 15 sec
  • A Short Film for Laos (2006-2007), 45 min., Digital video
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