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In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to optimize household workflows. The first prototypes of today’s built-in kitchen were integrated into more than 10,000 public housing units in Frankfurt, Germany. The (animatronic) cat sits on top of the kitchen and fights against the echo in the building and tells us a circular story of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and desire.

In this video, Liam Gillick talks about how his German Pavilion should be experienced, and Ralf Schlüter of the German art magazine Art – Das Kunstmagazin reviews Liam Gillick’s work (in German language).

Liam Gillick at the German Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009, June 4, 2009.

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This video shows an excerpt of the lecture Liam Gillick held last month (February 12, 2009) at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (the full length version is available on our HD page). The lecture was organized within the framework of his upcoming exhibition in Venice as the German contribution to the 53rd Venice Biennial. Liam Gillick was chosen to conceptualize the German Pavilion by Nicolaus Schafhausen, curator of the German contribution to the 2009 Biennale di Venezia and director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. The lecture developed the themes first elaborated by Liam Gillick in the Hermes Lecture, Den Bosch (Netherlands) in November 2008.

Liam Gillick (born 1964) is a British artist living and working in New York and London.The exhibition at the German Pavilion is commissioned by the Federal Foreign Office and will be realised together with the Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa).

Liam Gillick Lecture at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, Germany. February 12, 2009. Video by Martin Griessmüller.

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With “theanyspacewhatever“, the Guggenheim Museum New York presents a group exhibition of individual installations for the Rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark building. The show was organized by the Guggenheim Museum’s Chief Curator, Nancy Spector, in close collaboration with the artists. The exhibition brings together ten artists, whose work reaches beyond the visual arts. Theanyspacewhatever features Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Among the works are Carsten Höller’s “Revolving Hotel Room” (see also VTV’s video “Carsten Höller: Carrousel / Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria“), Angela Bulloch’s LED-installation “Firmamental Night Sky: Oculus 12″, and Liam Gillick’s Theanyspacewhatever Signage System. Philippe Parreno has installed a site-specific, illuminated marquee on the facade of the Guggenheim, Douglas Gordon is exhibiting a compilation of text pieces, and Liam Gillick intervenes in the Guggenheim’s operational systems with hanging aluminum signs.
Exhibition walk-through at the occasion of the press preview on October 23, 2008.

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Liam Gillick’s exhibition “Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario* Work 1988 – 2008 Mirrored Image: A ‘Volvo’ bar” at Kunstverein München is the third act of the large mid-career retrospective, that the four institutions Witte de With, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein München and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago conceived.
Instead of simply exhibiting previous works Kunstverein München is transformed into an active place of production. Working with a group of young Munich actors within a structure designed by the artist, Liam Gillick produces and directs a play titled “Mirrored Image: A ‘Volvo’ bar”. A series of performances will take place during and within the exhibition.
In this video by Gürsoy Dogtas, Liam Gillick talks about his retrospective and the exhibition at Kunstverein München.
Liam Gillick: Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario* Work 1988 – 2008 Mirrored Image: A ‘Volvo’ bar at Kunstverein München runs until November 16, 2008.
Opening, September 26, 2008.
PS: Liam Gillick will be the artist presented at the German Pavilion during the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

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• Liam Gillick: Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario / Kunsthalle Zürich

Kunsthalle Zurich begins its program in 2008 with a retrospective of work by the British artist Liam Gillick (born 1964). Liam Gillick’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich entitled “Three prespectives and a short scenario” is part of an exhibition project that attempts to provide an insight into the Gillick’s oeuvre and in which four geographically separate institutions are involved: Kunsthalle Zürich (25 January to 30 March, 2008), Witte de With in Rotterdam (19 January to 24 March, 2008), Kunstverein Munich (June to August 2008) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (Spring 2009). See the Kunsthalle’s website for more and up-to-date information on special events related to the exhibition. Kunsthalle Zürich / Switzerland, opening reception, January 25, 2008.

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In this episode curator Max Hollein talks about the Art at the LAC project, artist Beat Streuli talks about his work at the LAC and his future projects, and we follow project manager Michael Neff on the guided tour to the work of Elmgreen & Dragset, who installed doors with a touch of humor. The artists chosen for the project are Liam Gillick, Carsten Nicolai, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Michael Beutler, Cerith Wyn Evans, Thomas Demand and Beat Streuli. Impressions from the reception at the LAC, April 20, 2007. Part 2/2.
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• Art at the Lufthansa Aviation Center / part 1/2

Last week VernissageTV attended the reception for “Art at the Lufthansa Aviation Center” at the LAC at the Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa wanted to invite artists to create artworks that relate specifically to the building, the Lufthansa identity and the construction process. The artists chosen are Liam Gillick, Carsten Nicolai, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Michael Beutler, Cerith Wyn Evans, Thomas Demand and Beat Streuli. Impressions from the reception and excerpts from the speech of Stefan Lauer, Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Lufthansa AG (in German). LAC, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, April 20, 2007. Part 1/2.
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