Gavin Turk


f. 1967, engelsk kunstner. Var med i det store, britiske fremstød for billedkunsten i 90'erne, der blev anført af Damien Hirst og lanceret af reklamemanden Charles Saatchi. Turk tager i sin kunst udgangspunkt i verden omkring sig , ofte via teknikken trompe l’oiel, et optisk bedrag, hvor værkerne til forveksling ligner autentiske genstande, f.eks. en kaffekop, en toiletrulle, en sort affaldssæk, en vandmelon. Han udfordrer beskueren og kunsten med sine ironiske, sarkastiske statements.
 
 

Uddannelse
1991     Afgang fra Royal College of Art

Separatudstillinger
2007     Signature, GEM, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

2006     "Waste not Want not" Galleri Veggerby.

2006     The Front Project, Fine Art Society, London.

2006     Wanted, The Suburban, Chicago.

2005     The Paradise Project. Schloss Egenburg, Austria.
2005     Melange, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
2005     Ha Ha Ha! galerie Almine Rech, Paris
2004     "The Golden Thread" Gallery White Cube" London.
2004     The Golden Thread, White Cube, London.
2003     “Gavin Turk: et in arcadia eggo”, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury, Storbritannien
“Gavin Turk In The House”, Sherborne House, Dorset, Storbritannien
"Woodn Melon" Galleri Veggerby.
2002     “Gavin Turk Oeuvre”, Tate Britain Sculpture Court Display, London, Storbritannien
“Copper Jubilee”, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Storbritannien
2001     “The Che Gavara Story”, Residence i Londons East End, Storbritannien
2000     “More Stuff”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve, Schweitz Gavin Turk, fig-1, London, Storbritannien
1999     “The Importance of Being Ernesto”, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Østrig
1998     “The Stuff Show”, South London Gallery, London, Storbritannien
1997     Gavin Turk, Charing Cross Road, London, Storbritannien
1996     “Unoriginal Signiture”, Habitat, Kings Road, London, Storbritannien
Gavin Turk, (Part of British Art in Rome) Galleria D’Art De Crescenzo & Viesti, Rom, Italien
1995     “Turkish”, Aurel Schiebler, Køln, Tyskland
1993     “Collected Works 1989-1993”, Jay Jopling, Denmark Street, London, Storbritannien
“A Marvellous Force of Nature”, Jay Jopling/White Cube , London, Storbritannien
“A Night out with Gavin Turk”, Victoria Public House, Bapisha Gosh, London and Schiefer Haus, Køln, Tyskland
1992     “Signature”, Bipasha Ghosh/Jay Jopling, London, Storbritannien

Gruppeudstillinger
2007     Art Copenhagen . København.
2006     In Between, Galleria Presenca, Portugal
Beauty and the Beast, National Trust Stourhead
Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Dark Matter, White Cube Gallery, London
Youth of Today, Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Mima Draw, Middlesborough, Middlesborough
2005     Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
London Calling, Gallerie Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
25th Annual Series - ICI New York Studio Events, New York
The Stuff of Life, Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Et Maintenant?, Crac Space, Alsace
Superstars, Kunshalle, Vienna
M City, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

2004     "Chaim Soutine", Happy Sailor, London ,The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Art 4 All, Tea Building, London
The (de) Construction of Living, Odapark Foundation, Netherlands
Paper Democracy, Edificio Cultura Inglesa, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Printers Inc: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester


2003     “Independence”, South London Gallery, London, Storbritannien
“Coollustre”, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, Frankrig
“Let’s See the Nature in You”, Pepperton Gallery, London, Storbritannien
2002     “It’s Unfair”, Museum de Pavilijeons, Holland
“Face Off”, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Storbritannien
“Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler”, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Østrig
“Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop”. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Storbritannien
2001     “Heart of Glass”, Mirror, London, Storbritannien
“Art-Tube 01”, Café De Paris, London, Storbritannien
“East Wing Collection, No. 5”. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Storbritannien
Printers inc., The Gallery, Stratford- upon-Avon, Storbritannien
“The Colony Room Club 2001. A Space Oddity”, A22 Projects, London, Storbritannien
“Teeth and Trousers”, Ideal House, London, Storbritannien
“Tattoo Show”, Modern Art, London, Storbritannien
“Summer Exhibition 2001”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Storbritannien
“Mind the Gap”, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sverige
“The Saatchi Gallery eyestorm Collection”, The Saatchi Gallery, London, Storbritannien
“Please Disturb Me”, Great Eastern Hotel, London, Storbritannien
“Dead”, The Roundhouse, London, Storbritannien
“Century City”, Tate Modern, London, Storbritannien
“Insider Trading: profit without honour”, Mandeville Hotel, London, Storbritannien
2000     “In Memoriam”, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Storbritannien
“Conversation”, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Storbritannien
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been…, A22 Projects”, London, Storbritannien
“Warning shots. Contemporary art exploring themes of conflict and violence”, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds, Storbritannien
“Out There”, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London, Storbritannien
“Ant Noises”, Saatchi Gallery, London, Storbritannien
“White Ass European Cowboys”, Rob Malasch / Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam, Holland
“Art at the Dome”, Greenwich, London, Storbritannien
“Psycho”, Anne Faggionato, London, Storbritannien
1999     “The Self Absorbed”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Tyrkiet
Officina Europa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologne, Italien
“Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
“Self Evident”, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, USA
“Skin Deep”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Grønningen, Charlottenbrog, København
”Mode of Art”, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Tyskland
1998     “Dinstinctive Elements: Contemporary British Art Exhibition”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
“New Displays”, The Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Storbritannien
“Bathroom”, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, USA
“Heatwave, The Waiting Room, School of Art and Design”, University of Wolverhampton; Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton Square, London, Storbritannien
”Camouflage 2000”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, Frankrig
1997     “Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Storbritannien; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Tyskland
“Material Culture”, Hayward Gallery, London, Storbritannien
“Renovate”, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, Storbritannien
“Dissolution”, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, Storbritannien
“Mutants”, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, Frankrig
“All of a Sudden II”, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Køln, Tyskland
1996     “Plastic”, Richard Salmon, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Storbritannien
“Other Men’s Flowers”, Aurel Scheibler, Køln, Tyskland; The British School at Rome, Rom, Italien
“Private View”, The Bowes Museum/Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Storbritannien
“Two Seconds. Nine Months”, Bankside, London,Storbritannien
“Fuck Off”, Bank, London, Storbritannien
“Museum Vitale”, Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Tyskland
“All of a Sudden”, Aurel Scheibler, Køln, Tyskland
“Sex & Crime”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Tyskland
“Works on Paper”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland
1995     “Young British Artists III”, Saatchi Collection, London, Storbritannien
“Mito”, Museo Dell’arredo, Ravenna, Italien
“Hardcore (Part II)”, Factual Nonsense, London, Storbritannien
“Other Men’s Flowers”, Icebox, Athen, Grækenland
“Beauty is Fluid”, Dering Street, London, Storbritannien
“Contemporary British Art in Print”, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Storbritannien; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
1994     “Karaoke & Football”, Portikus, Frankfurt, Tyskland
“The Shuttle”, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Tyskland
“The Fate Worse than Death”, Hoxton Square, London, Storbritannien
“Minatures”, The Agency, London, Storbritannien
“Other Men’s Flowers”, Factual Nonsense, London, Storbritannien
1992     “Seventeen”, Greenwich Street, New York, USA
“Molteplici/Cultura”, Speaker Project, Rom, Italien
“Tattoo”, Jennifer Flay, Paris, Frankrig; Andrea Rosen, New York, USA
“London Portfolio”, Karsten Schubert, London, Storbritannien
“Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi”, GioMarconi, Milano, Italien
1991     Group Exhibition, Clove gallery, London, Storbritannien

Priser
2001     Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize

Offentlige samlinger
Arts Council, London, Storbritannien
British Council, London, Storbritannien
The British Museum, London, Storbritannien
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, Holland
Deutsche Bank, London, Storbritannien
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Refco Group, Chicago, USA
Saatchi Gallery, London, Storbritannien
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Storbritannien
South London Gallery, London, Storbritannien
American Federation of the Arts, New York, USA
Contemporary Arts Society, London, Storbritannien
World Health Organisation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA