JESSE DARLING
Born in 1981
Lives & works in Berlin
Jesse Darling is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, text, sound and performance. His work is broadly concerned with what it means to be a body in the world, though what that means is both politically charged and culturally determined.
His practice draws on his own experience as well as the narratives of history and counterhistory. To be a body is to be inherently vulnerable, which extends to the “mortal” quality of empires and ideas as a form of precarious optimism - nothing and no-one is too big to fail, and this for JD is the starting point for a practice in which fallibility and fungibility are acknowledged as fundamental qualities in living beings, societies and technologies.
Imagining the ‘high church of the modern’ as a moveable or precarious tabernacle, JD’s works and writing feature an array of free-floating consumer goods, liturgical devices, construction materials, fictional characters and mythical symbols detached from the architectures, hierarchies and taxonomies in which they have their place.
Jesse Darling has received commissions from MoMA Warsaw, The Serpentine Gallery, London, and Volksbühne, Berlin among others.
© Photo: Fabrizio Vatieri | Mudam Luxembourg
After Laughter Comes Tears:
A performative exhibition in four acts
13/10/2023 – 07 /01/2024
MUDAM, Luxembourg
INTERDEPENDENCIES: PERSPECTIVES ON CARE AND RESILIENCE
07/10 — 21/01/2024
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Curated by Dr. Michael Birchall
© Studio Stucky - Stefan Altenburge
Turner Prize 2023
Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne.
September 28, 2023 – April 14, 2024.
© Tom Carter
"EXPOSÉ.ES", Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
February 2 - May 14, 2023.
Fils barbelés, acier
Barbed wired, steel
Dimensions variable
Béton, acier, polystyrène, bois, verre, grès
Concrete, steel, polysterene, wood, glass, stoneware
200 cm ø 30 cm
Plâtre, pigment, poudre de marbre
Plaster, pigment, marble powder
Dimensions variable
"Paris + par Art Base", Paris.
October 18-24, 2022.
© Gregory Copitet
"Miserere", St James’s church Piccadilly,London.
October 12-16, 2022.
"Enclosures", Comdem Art Center, London.
May 13 - June 12, 2022.
"No Medals, No Ribbons", Modern Art Oxford, Oxford.
March 05 - May 01, 2022.
© Ben Westoby
« Crip Time », MMK, Frankurt.
September 18, 2020 - January 30, 2021.
« Ora et Lege », Monastery of Broumov, Broumov.
June 19 - September 30, 2021.
© Educational and Cultural Center Broumov and Tomáš Souček
"Life constantly escape", Kunstraum, Uccle.
February 26 - March 31, 2021.
© Aurélien Mole
"Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality", X Museum, Beijing.
December 6, 2020 - February 28, 2021.
© Semi Semet
"A Fine Line", Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen.
August 29 - November 1, 2020.
"Gravity Road", Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau.
September 19 - November 1, 2020.
© Marc Doradzillo
"When The Sick Rule The World", ALTE FABRIK, Rapperswil.
February 22 – March 22, 2020
© Niklas Goldbach
«The same room : Julie Becker in dialogue», Galerie Neu, Berlin.
February 08 - March 14, 2020.
"Selva Oscura", Galerie Sultana, Paris.
October 12 - November 23, 2019 .
© Aurélien mole
"Transcorporealities", Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
September 21, 2019 – January 19, 2020.
© Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln / Nina Siefke
"Crevé", Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille.
March 16 – June 2, 2019.
© Aurélien Mole
"The Ballad of Saint Jerome ", Art Now, TATE Britain, London.
September 22, 2018 – February 24, 2019.
© Matt Greenwood
"May You Live In Interesting Times", 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia.
May 16 - 25, 2018.
"À Cris Ouverts", 6e édition des Ateliers de Rennes - biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes.
September 29 - Décembre 2, 2018.
© Aurélien Mole.
"Cellular World", Glasgow International Festival, GoMA, Glasgow.
April - October, 2018.
"Support Level", Chapter Gallery, New York City.
January 26 - March 11, 2018.
Exhibition "Armes Blanches", Galerie Sultana, Paris.
April 28 - July 1, 2017.
Exhibition «The Great Near», Arcadia Missa, London.
March 18 - May 7, 2016.
Exhibition «ATROPHILIA» - with Phoebe Collings-James, Company, New York.
November - December 2016.
Exhibition «No Ordinary Love», Galerie Sultana, Paris.
July - September 2016.
Exhibition « Material Girls and Their Muses », Marcelle Joseph Projects, London.
Octobrer 31 - November 14, 2014.
| GALLERY SHOWS: |
Nous buvons le soleil Soft Touch Cottagecore YESN'T II |
| FAIRS: |
Frieze New York. New York, USA Art Basel Miami. Miami, USA |
| BIO: |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS JESSE DARLING’S WORKS ARE IN MAJOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS INCLUDING TATE, LONDON (UK); ARTS COUNCIL, LONDON (UK); LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS, PARIS (FR); FRAC DES PAYS DE LA LOIRE (FR); UK GOVERNMENT ART COLLECTION, LONDON (UK); GLASGOW MUSEUMS, GLASGOW (UK); CNAP (FR); X MUSEUM, BEIJING (CN); AÏSHTI FOUNDATION, BEIRUT (LB), |
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