Jane and Louise Wilson

Born:
1967
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • Opening on 18 May, Photo London is one of the world’s leading photography fairs. Co-Founder Michael Benson came to MutualArt’s new Private Exhibition Space to share his tips on collecting

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  • The Artist Pension Trust, a mutual assurance fund that provides long-term financial security for artists, withdrew eighteen lots from an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s London after several artists decided that the sale “was not in their best interests,” Colin Gleadell of The Telegraph reports.

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  • Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

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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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  • Undead Sun: We Put the World Before You is the solo show of Turner prize nominated artists Jane and Louise Wilson at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) in the UK. The show comprises the second stage in a three-part project commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella (FVU) for the centenary of the First World War. The duo presents two films, Undead Sun (2014) which premiered at the Imperial War Museum in London two years ago and We Put the World Before You (2016), made especially for this exhibition. Sculptures that are conceptually in line with the narrative of the two videos are positioned in the surrounding gallery space.

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  • Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough presents the exhibition “Undead Sun: We Put the World Before You” by Turner Prize nominate

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  • It’s reported that 80% of the visitors to Frieze—that usually caps 68,000—are there to observe, not to buy. In fact, it may be that Frieze Week is less about selling art than ever. Since 2006, Frieze magazine have not released any sales figures, so even if you want to know what’s selling, you won’t be able to find out. What Frieze is still good at is fashion: from the well-heeled guests to good-looking gallery booths, you can expect to find the bleeding-edge of the art world in London. Whether you’re attending to participate, spectate, or purchase, we’ve made a pick of the best fairs, talks, exhibitors, and auctions for each day.

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  • Does the newly completed Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center signal a new chapter for Greece? In a climate of serious financial strain and

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  • The Delfina Foundation, London’s largest international host and provider of international residencies, is staging a selling exhibition this October to raise funds to support the next generation of artists.

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  • 10 Exhibitions to Watch

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  • This exhibition exploring the cultural history of the United Kingdom left Alastair Sooke totally bewildered. With fewer than 90 days to go until th

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  • From fag-packet football shirts in Manchester to the twisted world of Jake and Dinos Chapman in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

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  • After 26 years in business, Lisa Spellman and her 303 Gallery are having their (latest) breakout moment.

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  • Ruin Lust is undoubtedly one of Tate Britain's most intriguing titles for an exhibition yet. An Anglicisation of the German word Ruinenlust,

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  • "The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium" by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott, is the new quintessential volume that illustrates the importance of female artists in visual culture. The book focuses on the work of 24 hand-picked female artists, born after 1960, that have pushed beyond the stereotype of 1970s “feminist art” and have asserted themselves as influencers in the modern art world. With approachably written chapters on each of the women, the authors define these artists’ important roles in the shaping of contemporary culture and art.

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  • Delfina Entrecanales now supports the largest residency programme in London—and isn’t afraid to show artists some tough love.

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  • From fag-packet football shirts in Manchester to the twisted world of Jake and Dinos Chapman in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

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  • After 26 years in business, Lisa Spellman and her 303 Gallery are having their (latest) breakout moment.

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  • Jane & Louise Wilson's fifth exhibition at 303 Gallery marks the first time that they bring several bodies of work together: the photographs

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  • Although born in the same year as this year's Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce, the Wilson sisters were in their early 30s when nominated for the award

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  • It’s no secret Berlin has become the embodiment of all that is edgy, progressive and highly contemporary in the art world. Since before the economic crisis, Berlin also came to be known as an artist enclave for those who wanted to seek out a more affordable alternative to the expense of New York, London, et al. The real draw, though, was the irresistible notion that Berlin would provide an ever-present breeding ground for their experimental projects.

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  • Intrepid duo Jane and Louise Wilson entered the exclusion zone of Chernobyl’s lost city and risked arrest to unlock the door to an assassination

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  • IMAGES of the ghost town of Pripyat in Ukraine, evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, form the backbone of a show that also explores

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BIOGRAPHY

London-based artists Jane and Louise Wilson (born in Newcastle, England, in 1967) have been producing work collaboratively since 1989. Their projects often focus on abandoned institutional buildings, investigating the ways in which power becomes materialized through architectural design, while examining the collective fears and phobias that it can carry. Using film, photography and sculpture, they set up theatrical and atmospheric installations that dissect the loaded feeling of surveillance and paranoia embedded within these derelict edifices. A silent narrative unravels, devoid of human content that nonetheless alludes to the ghostly presence of their original occupants.

Jane and Louise Wilson have recently presented two-person exhibitions atJane and Louise Wilson, Undead Sun: We Put the World Before You, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (2017), Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London (2016), Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining The Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2016), Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2010), Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Old College, Edinburgh (2009), BFI - British Film Institute, Southbank Gallery, London (2009), 303 Gallery, New York (2008) and The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (2007). Their work has also been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including “Star City - The Future Under Communism” at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2010), the 9th Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah (2009), “You dig the tunnel, i'll hide the soil” at White Cube, London (2008), “Supernova” at Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius (2005). They were short listed for the Turner Prize in 1999.

Jane and Louise Wilson are represented by 303 Gallery, New York.


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