Douglas Gordon

Born:
1966
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • Douglas Gordon’s destruction of Robert Burns at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an act of love, admiration and possibly envy, finds Susan Mansfield.

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  • The Edinburgh Art Festival remains a slender operation compared to many art events, with just seven new commissions this year, relying heavily on partner shows.

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  • Self-portraits from LACMA’s important collection of photography include works by Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and oth

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  • For many artists, building castles in the sky would be a fair way to describe retirement planning

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  • Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich presents “Collection on Display: Rules” through August 13, 2017.

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  • The German quinquennial shuns the market, but Art Basel dealers are still capitalising on the visibility it brings

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  • The national pavilions aren’t the only thing worth seeing in Venice. We looked beyond the Biennale to select 10 key collateral exhibitions across the city

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  • From a dramatic portrait by Douglas Gordon to works by Turner Prize nominee Rosalind Nashashibi, we take a closer look at works offered in Acts of Appearance — the first show in our Private Exhibition Space in London.

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  • André Viana Gallery is currently participating at the SP Arte 2017 in São Paulo through April 9, 2017.

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  • André Viana, New York, presents a selection of works from the 1990’s by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (b. 1966) in an exhibition that started on March 30 and will run through May 13, 2017.

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  • Artists of any age will be able to participate in Britain’s most prestigious contemporary art prize following rule change

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  • Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month, further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).

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  • Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, Cally Spooner are brought together by the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, in a comprehensive exhibition that coincides with the gallery’s survey of the late British conceptual artist John Latham.

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  • More than 200 artists, musicians, writers, and arts professionals from forty countries have pledged to take part in Hands Off Our Revolution, a global art project that will organize a series of exhibitions and other programming that will confront the rise of right-wing populism around the world.

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  • The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon was awarded the title of Commander of Order of Arts and Letters on Wednesday. The title is the highest cultural honor bestowed by the French government, and Gordon is only the second Scot to receive it, after the actor Sean Connery. But he is in many ways a consummate EU citizen. He went to school in Glasgow, came up in the London’s YBA scene at the Slade School, has worked extensively in France, and lives and teaches in Germany.

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  • Details are announced of art fairs in Dallas, Sao Paulo and New York, and Anish Kapoor shows his support for refugees by donating $1 million worth of prize money.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • With Anselm Kiefer's ambitious new exhibition, Paul Nash At Tate Britain, Picasso at the NPG, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern...

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  • With “I Had Nowhere To Go” Scottish filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon presents his latest film and video installation at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

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  • Gstaad! What a town, that glistening ski hamlet of billionaires in the Swiss Alps, home to $145 million chalets, $30,000 lunches, and $100,000-a-year boarding schools.

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  • Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland, is closing its doors after thirty years, Phil Miller of Herald Scotland reports.

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  • London is awash with a range of exhibitions to coincide with the Frieze art fairs. Here is a selection of some of the best on offer.

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  • The length and height of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is alive with ripples and rivers of pulsing light.

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  • It is the photographic craze that has swept the world in recent years.

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  • Come to the Gagosian's NY Art Book Fair stand and get inked with works by the gallery's artists.

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  • Jupiter Artland and Inverleith House make wonderful backdrops for exciting work, while the late Jo Spence’s art is as vital as ever.

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  • We underestimated how hard this task would be.

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  • The La Gaia Collection, created in the 1970s through Bruna and Matteo Viglietta’s passion for art, presents the exhibition “Moving Tales. Video works from the La Gaia Collection”.

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  • When Tel Aviv is written about from the outside, it is usually taken as a whole, ignoring the specificities that make up this complex and compelling city. To take a closer look at the local art and programs in this burgeoning district, and to trace the way they fit into the richer tapestries of Tel Aviv, Israel, and beyond, we’ve selected South Tel Aviv’s top galleries and asked them about their spaces and concerns.

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  • The Paris Photo international photography fair will return for its 20th edition at the Grand Palais from November 10-13, 2016 with a lineup of 173 galleries and publishers, including 40 new exhibitors.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland, Douglas Gordon lives and works in Berlin. Gordon uses a variety of media, including film, text, photography, installation and sound. His practice can be likened to a process of sampling and remixing. His work often involves re-contextualizing found footage and imagery through editing techniques such as slow motion and doubling, as a means of exploring our perception of time and memory. By blurring the distinction between appropriated and original material, Gordon’s pieces re-articulate the relationship between copy and original, text and image. Often epic in scale, his works engage with ethical and existential conflicts such as the struggle between life and death, good and evil, innocence and guilt.

Gordon has had numerous solo exhibitions including ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2000); Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2000); Museu de Serralves, Portugal (2000); Fondacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (2001); MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (2001, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., through 2004); Towner Art Gallery and Museum, England (2002); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002); Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands (2003); Museo Tamayo and Instituto Nacionale de Bellas Artes, Mexico (2003); Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2003); Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Sweden (2003); Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin (2005); Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Italy (2006); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006, traveled to Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires–Colección Constantini, Buenos Aires); MALBA Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007); British School at Rome, Italy (2007, traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2007); La Collection Lambert en Avignon, France (2008); Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2008); Van Abbe Museum, The Netherlands (2009); The Tate Britain, London (2010); Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Germany (2011); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2013); Museum Folkwang, Germany (2013); Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2014); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia (2014); and Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa, Spain (2015). Gordon’s film works have been invited to the Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF); Venice Film Festival; and Edinburgh International Film Festival among many others.
 
Gordon has received several awards including the Turner Prize, London (1996); Premio 2000, Venice Biennale, Italy (1997); Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (1998); Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (2008); and Käthe–Kollwitz–Preis, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2012).
 
Gordon currently lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow, and New York.

Douglas Gordon is represented by Gagosian Gallery, London, New York, Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, Rome and Athens, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv.


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