Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958 in Llanelli, Wales ) is a British conceptual artist, sculptor and filmmaker.

Life

Evans studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art, London. After graduating, he was first assistant to the British film director Derek Jarman. His early experimental films from the 1980s were marked by the collaboration with dancers, so with Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery.

In the 1990s, Evans began to deal with sculpture, installations and conceptual art. He had contact with the Young British Artists. Since then, he has represented at individual and collective exhibitions.

In 2003 he represented his native Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale in the first national pavilion of Wales. For the Vienna State Opera he designed 2011 a huge big screen (176 m² ), which was shown in the season 2011/2012 as part of the museum designed in progress exhibition series " Iron Curtain ".

Cerith Wyn Evans lives and works in London.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2004: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006: Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris: In which something happens all over again for the very first time
  • 2006/2007: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich: Cerith Wyn Evans
  • 2007: Kunsthaus Graz Joanneum Universal Museum, Graz, Styria, Austria: Cerith Wyn Evans: bubble peddler
  • 2008: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castile y León ( MUSAC ), León: Cerith Wyn Evans
  • 2009: Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 2009: Tramway, Glasgow
  • 2009/2010: Cerith Wyn Evans, ... - delay, International Art Centre deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2013: " ... later on They Are in a garden ...", Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln

Exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2002: Documenta 11
  • 2005: 9th International Istanbul Biennial
  • 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2010: Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
  • 2011: secret societies. Knowledge, cars, willing, silence, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main

Awards (selection)

  • 2006: International Art Prize Cultural Foundation, City Savings Bank Munich

Literature (selection )

  • Hans -Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Cerith Wyn Evans. The Conversation Series 24 King, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-633-4.
  • Octavio Zaya (ed. ): ... visibleinvisible; together with the MUSAC, Leon; Text: Spanish / English by Octavio Zaya and Daniel Birnbaum, published by Hatje Cantz, West Fildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2131-8.
  • Moritz Küng (ed.): Cerith Wyn Evans, ... - delay. Bookstore King, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-722-5.
  • Peter Pakesch (ed.): Cerith Wyn Evans: bubble peddler. Bookstore King, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-208-4.
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