Die KuenstlerInnengruppe Henry VIIIs Wives wurde 1997 von sechs Kuenstlerinnen und Kuenstlern (Rachel Dagnall, Robert Grieve, Sirko Knuepfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander, Lucy Skaer) gegründet und hat an zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungsprojekten teilgenommen, zuletzt in Eindhoven und Belgrad. Im Aktualisierungsraum zeigt das Kollektiv die dreiteilige Videoprojektion Mr. Hysteria (2005) sowie Dokumentationsmaterial zu Tatlins Tower and the World.

Rachel Dagnall

1972 in Liverpool geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Oslo

Robert Grieve

1975 in Glasgow geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Glasgow

Sirko Knüpfer

1972 in Chemnitz geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Berlin

Simon Polli

1967 in Glasgow geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Kopenhagen

Per Sander

1967 in Malmö geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Berlin

Lucy Skaer

1975 in Cambridge geboren

1997 Bachelor der Schönen Künste am Environmental Art Department der Glasgow School of Art

lebt in Glasgow

Einzelausstellungen

2005
"Beauty of the Land, We Live in a Beautiful Land", Galerie Iris Kadel, D
2003
"Do You Remember This House At All?", Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, D
2002
"Light without Shadow", Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2001
"The Fear of Death", Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2000
"The Desert Beautiful", Gallerie 54, Göteborg, S
1999
"Green Stick Fracture", Centre for Contemporary Arts, CAA, Glasgow, UK
"Nine Reasons to be an Optimist", Unge Kunstners Samfund /UKS, Oslo, N
1998
"Henry VIIIs Wifes", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Gruppenausstellungen

2006
Kunsthalle Bern, CH
"Phantom", Charlottenborg-Art, Copenhagen, DK
"Die andere Seite", Fridericianum Kassel, D
2005
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LI
National Museum of Art, Oslo, N
"Populism", Frankfurter Kunstverein, D Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2004
"P.S.1", New York, USA
2003
"Roadshow (The Halfway III )", Blaineau Festiniog, Wales, GB
"Roadshow (The Halfway II )", Hills, Birmingham, GB
"Roadshow (The Halfway I )", Grizedale Arts, GB
2000
"Evolution isnt over yet", Fabrica Polvera, Clube Portugués de Artes é Idelas, Lugar Comum, Lissabon, P
1999
"Museum Magogo", Independent Studios, Glasgow und Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
"This Was Now", Travelling Gallery, Edinburg, UK, and more
"Evolution isnt over yet" (Snake Skin Fig Leaf), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1998
"Host", Tramway, Glasgow, UK
1997
"Time Capsule", 18 King Street Gallery,Glasgow, UK

Publikationen

„Breaking Step“, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and British Council, 2007, page 80-89.
"Sechs mal dazwischen", Michael Hübl, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, 2005
"Exclusive extracts from Henry VIIIs Wives new film", The Cannon, October 2004
"Erinnerungen an das Eigene und das Fremde", Franz Littmann, Klappe Auf, January 2003
"We march under the Banner of Visual Art", Catalogue, Tramway, Glasgow, April 2002
"Light without Shadow", Artforum, September 2002
"Light Without Shadow", Frieze, September 2002, No. 69
"Village People dig up the past", The Herald, 19. April 2002
"All in the Execution", The Scotsman, April 2002, No. 2
"Tangled Wives We Weave", Scotland on Sunday, 4. März 2001
"Henrys fruar - Konstnärskollektiv som ockuperar gallerier", Göteborgsposten, 11.1.2000
"If you go first and I remain", Afterimage, 1999
"Numpties, rotten molars, and shiny incisors", Everything Magazine, 1999

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