BEN RIVERS
Selected Works
Video
Press
- Hauser and Wirth, 2015(pdf)
- Mousse - 2014(pdf)
- Art Agenda - 2014(pdf)
- Artforum - 2013(pdf)
- Sight & Sound Press - 2012(pdf)
- Frieze - 2011(pdf)
- Mousse Magazine - 2011(pdf)
- Film Comment - 2011(pdf)
- Art Monthly - 2010(pdf)
| Born 1972 in Somerset, lives and works in London | |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Urthworks, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, UK |
| 2016 | Urth, Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA |
| Islands, Kunstverein in Hamburg | |
| The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, The Whitworth, Manchester | |
| 2015 | Solo Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Artangel Open Commission 2013, Television Centre, White City, London | |
| 2014 | Things, Kate MacGarry, London |
| Fable, Temporary Gallery, Cologne | |
| 2013 | Ah Liberty!, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| 2012 | Phantoms of a Libertine, Kate MacGarry |
| Ben Rivers, Hepworth Wakefield | |
| 2011 | Sack Barrow, Changing Room Gallery, Stirling |
| Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery project Space | |
| Sack Barrow, Kate MacGarry at Art Basel, Art Statements | |
| Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, London | |
| 2010 | Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol |
| On Overgrown Paths, Impressions Gallery, Bradford | |
| Origin of the Species, Kate MacGarry, London | |
| 2009 | A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool |
| Origin of the Species & Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol | |
| 2008 | On Overgrown Paths, Permanent Gallery/Regency Town House, Brighton |
| 2006 | House, St Simon & St Jude Gallery, Norwich |
| SELECTED COMMISSIONS | |
| 2013 | Artangel Open Commission |
| 2010-11 | Sack Barrow, Changing Room, Stirling |
| 2009-10 | Slow Action, Picture This |
| 2009 | I Know Where I’m Going, Vauxhall Collective Commission |
| 2007 | Ah, Liberty! and Origin of the Species, London Artists’ Film and Video Award |
| 2006 | Sørdal, Arts Council England, South East |
| 2006 | The Coming Race, Surface Gallery Commission |
| 2005 | House, Arts Council England, South East |
| SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS | |
| Slow Action, screening and talk at Contemporary Art Society, London | |
| A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, The Imprint of Sound Film Festival, Taiwan | |
| A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, Lithuanian Cultural Centre, New York | |
| Phantoms of a Libertine,International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
| The Creation as we saw it, Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou | |
| Two Years at Sea, 55th London Film Festival | |
| Two Years at Sea, 68th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti section | |
| Ben Rivers, IndieLisboa | |
| The Coming Race in Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld | |
| The House and The Woods, Punto de Vista, Pamplona | |
| Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World – London Film Festival | |
| Artist-in-focus, Courtisane, Vooruit, Ghent | |
| Tribute, VIS, Vienna | |
| A World Rattled of Habit, LA Film Forum | |
| This Is My Land, Yerba Buena Centre of for the Arts, San Francisco | |
| The Poetic Horror of Ben Rivers, Other Cinema, San Francisco | |
| On the Nature of Affinities, Union Theatre, Milwaukee | |
| A World Rattled of Habit, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Centre, Chicago | |
| Omaggio a Ben Rivers, Pesaro International Film festival, Italy | |
| Ben Rivers Films, Inverness Film Festival | |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PROJECTS | |
| 2019 | Utopia/Dystopia Revisited curated by Yuko Shiraishi, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK |
| 2018 | Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2017 | Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA | |
| 2016 | What Means Something, Film Society of Lincoln Center |
| 2015 | Quaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK |
| 2014-16 | Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Centre Fellow / David and Roberta Logie Fellow |
| 2013 | Insomnia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
| Someone Else, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand | |
| NEW WORLDS: BEN RIVERS/ BEN RUSSELL, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve | |
| 2012 | LOST SPACES.Sites of photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| 2011 | Spectrum of Light, Temporary Gallery Cologne |
| 2009 | Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester |
| Serpentine Screening Series (with Javier Tellez), Gate Cinema, London | |
| Out Of This World, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland | |
| An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| Artprojx/FLAMIN Matinee, Prince Charles Cinema, London | |
| For Robert Frank, National gallery of Art, Washington | |
| Figuring Landscape, ArtSway, New Forest; Tate Modern, London, 2009 – then touring to: Dundee Contemporary Arts; FACT, Liverpool; Vivid, Birmingham; Showroom, Sheffield; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Site Festival, Stroud Valley Artspace; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Media-Space, Stuttgart. | |
| 2008 | SYNDICATE, Rokeby, London |
| Wild Shapes, Cell Projects, London | |
| Claremorris Open, Claremorris, Ireland | |
| If – People and Places in recent film and video, Bloomberg Space, London | |
| Art With Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh | |
| We Can Not Exist In This World Alone (with Ben Russell), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; SOFA gallery, Christchurch; Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; OtherFilm, Brisbane | |
| Tank TV presents, Artprojx, London | |
| Soundtracks, Nought To Sixty, ICA, London | |
| 2007 | Kyoto Media Art Week, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan |
| Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva | |
| Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, and Cornerhouse, Manchester | |
| Tank TV – Fresh Moves: New Moving Images from the UK (DVD) | |
| European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck | |
| Prizewinners Show (with Tomas Chaffe), Surface Gallery, Nottingham | |
| 2006 | A Ses Parents, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| A Certain Tendency in Representation, Cineclub, Thomas Dane Gallery, London | |
| Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham | |
| New Work UK, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | |
| 2005 | Without Boundaries – European Artists Film and Video, Watershed, Bristol |
| Ways of Worldmaking (with Jeremy Butler), Permanent Gallery, Brighton | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1990-93 | BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art |
| 1996-06 | Director/Programmer, Brighton Cinematheque |
| SELECTED AWARDS | |
| 2016 | EYE Art and Film Prize |
| 2015 | Best Short Documentary:DOKUFEST 14th International Documentary & Short Film Festival |
| 2012 | Ann Arbor Film Festival Jury Prize |
| 2011 | Fipresci Award, Best Film, Orizzonti and International Critics’ Week, 68th Venice Film Festival |
| Baloise Art Prize, Art/42/Basel | |
| 2010 | Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists |
| Shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award | |
| 2008 | Tiger Award Best Short Film – International Film Festival Rotterdam |
| Best Experimental Film – Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival | |
| Best ExiS Award, ExiS, Seoul | |
| The Badass Spirit of Blackhawk Award, ICE, Iowa | |
| Jury Main Prize – $100 Film Festival, Calgary | |
| 2007 | London Artist Film and Video Award (LAFVA) |
| Jury Prize – Hamburg Short Film Festival | |
| 2006 | Main Prize – Surface Gallery Open |
| SELECTED PRESS | |
| 2015 | Ben Rivers: The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Timeout, p.92, July 7 |
| 2014 | Ben Rivers’s “Things”, Melissa Gronlund, Art Agenda, Oct 3 |
| Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, 1000 words, introduction by Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith, ArtForum | |
| 2013 | Ben Rivers, Coleen Fitzgibbon, BOMB, issue 125, pp. 54-63 |
| 2012 | A Man Apart, Ben Rivers talks to Andrea Picard, Sight and Sound, Ma |
| 2011 | More than a Feeling, Dan Kidner in conversation with Ed Atkins, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner and Ben Rivers, frieze, issue 142, Octobe, pp.210-5 |
| Somerset or, A Glance at the Deep Future of the Avant-Garde, Mark von Schlegell, frieze, issue 141, September, pp. 140-5 | |
| Part of The Process – Into the Wild, Ed Halter, Mousse Magazine issue 28, April – May, pp. | |
| Ben Rivers – Slow Action, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 28 February | |
| 2010 | Listen to Britain: On the Outskirts with Ben Rivers, Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, Issue 43 |
| Enduring portrait of the wilderness years, Laura McLean-Ferris, The Independent (Viewspaper), 23 April, p.16 | |
| Ben Rivers, Steven Cairns, Artforum.com, 8 April | |
| Slow Action, Ben Rivers, Map Magazine, Spring | |
| Ben Rivers Interview, Daniel Bennet, littlewhitelies.co.uk, April | |
| In The Studio – Ben Rivers, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 25-31 March, p.40 | |
| Ben Rivers, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 20-26 March, p.39 | |
| Ben Rivers, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, January-February, pp.125-6 | |
| Ben Rivers, David Trigg, Art Monthly, February, pp. 20-1 | |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2013 | Ah, Liberty!, Published by The Douglas Hyde Gallery, catalogue coordination by Michael Hill |
| In the Holocene, edited by Joao Ribas | |
Exhibitions
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