Artist's arttributes:
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Sculpture |
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Young British Artists |
Most exhibitions in:
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| United Kingdom | 84 |
| Germany | 26 |
| USA | 14 |
| France | 13 |
| Belgium | 9 |
Biography: 
1967 Born in Guildford, Surrey, England (UK)
Lives and works in London, England (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 212  from 29.6.
until 9.6.
Solo shows 32
2013
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| Gavin Turk L'Amour Fou - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Transit Disaster - Paul Stolper Gallery, London (England) |
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| Gavin Turk - Galerist Istanbul, Istanbul |
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| Gavin Turk - - PATRICIA LOW CONTEMPORARY, Geneva (closed, 2012) |
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| Beyond Decadence - Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, Amsterdam |
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| Gavin & Turk - Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (England) |
2011
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| En Face - VIGO, London (England) |
2010
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| Gavin Turk - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Les Bikes de bois rond - artconnexion, Lille |
2009
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| The Mirror Stage - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| Gavin Turk - Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin |
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| Gavin Turk - Paul Stolper Gallery, London (England) |
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| Gavin Turk, Jazzz - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Gavin Turk - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
2007
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| Gavin Turk - The Negotiation of Purpose - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| Gavin Turk - The Negotiation of Purpose - GeM - Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague |
2006
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| Waste Not,Want Not - Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen |
2005
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| Gavin Turk - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Gavin Turk - White Elephant - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Gavin Turk - The Golden Thread - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
2003
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| Gavin Turk - ny kunstner i Galleri Veggerby - Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen |
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| Gavin Turk - et in arcadia eggo - New Art Centre, Salisbury (England) |
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| Gavin Turk - Spare Change - Contemporary Fine Arts - CFA, Berlin |
1998
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| Gavin Turk - The Stuff Show - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
1995
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| Gavin Turk - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
1993
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| Gavin Turk - A Marvellous Force of Nature - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
Group shows 178
2013
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| That´s all Folks! - Stadshallen, Bruges |
2012
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| Art, science & fiction - MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu |
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| The End of Everything/A New Beginning - Larm Galleri, Copenhagen |
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| London Twelve - City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague |
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| Sara & André and several pieces from Gavin Turks' shop - The Mews Project Space, London (England) |
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| The Artists’ Postcard Show - Spike Island, Bristol (England) |
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| Advance/...Notice - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
2011
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| Radical Drawing - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (England) |
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| Post Pop - Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland |
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| Frisch ausgepackt – Wie Kunst altert - Kraftwerk Depot - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| #40 Ideal Home - Chelsea space - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (England) |
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| What? - Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan |
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| Small Medium Large - Donjon de Vez, Vez |
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| Farbe im Fluss - 20 Jahre Weserburg - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Hackney Hoard - Galerie8, London (England) |
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| Made in Britain: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980–2010 - Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Wax - Sensation in contemporary sculpture - KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (former Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum), Aalborg |
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| Abstraction(s) - mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva |
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| Fountain Show - Dispari & Dispary Project, Reggio Emilia |
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| Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| Poisson d'Avril - VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam |
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| Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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| Peeping Tom - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| WAX - Sensation in Contemporary Sculpture - Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen |
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| Freibeuter der Utopie - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A - National Gallery of Modern Art - Bangalore, Bangalore |
2010
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| Identity Theft - Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan |
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| The Winter Show 2010 - i8 Gallery, Reykjavik |
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| Then I Remembered - Carter&Gallagher, London (England) |
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| Then I remembered - Carter Presents, London (England) |
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| Diamonds are Forever - Scream London, London (England) |
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| Be-Head - Andipa Gallery, London (England) |
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| Something That I'll Never Really See, Contemporary Photography from the V&A - Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai |
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| The 5th Anniversary Exhibition - - PATRICIA LOW CONTEMPORARY, Geneva (closed, 2012) |
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| Transcending - Larm Galleri, Copenhagen |
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| Playing the City II - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Unsichtbare Schatten - Bilder der Verunsicherung - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| The House of Fairy Tales - exquisite trove - Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn (England) |
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| Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| Pop Life: Art in a Material World - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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| Winter Show - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| ... umso mehr - Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen |
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| Passion fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection - me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin |
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| Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| The Art of chess - DOX - Centre for contemporary art, Prague |
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| The House of Fairy Tales - Millennium, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Seconde main - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
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| Ybas Retrospective - Jealous Gallery, London (England) |
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| Peeping Tom - Vegas Gallery, London (England) |
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| Pop Life - Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, … - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Party! - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| East Wing Nine presents EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display - Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England) |
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| Sur le Dandysme Aujourd´Hui - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Banners of Persuasion - Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2009
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| That’s all Folks! - Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges |
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| Horn of Plenty - Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Auction and exhibition in aid of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture - Sumarria Lunn, London (England) |
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| Recent British Drawings - Trinity Contemporary, New York City, NY |
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| Pop Life: Art in a Material World - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Pop My Cherry - - PATRICIA LOW CONTEMPORARY, Geneva (closed, 2012) |
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| No Show - Nicholas Robinson Gallery (former Briggs Robinson Gallery), New York City, NY |
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| The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Another Air - Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome |
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| In Between the Lines - Trinity Contemporary, London (England) |
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| A Shot In The Dark - Carter&Gallagher, London (England) |
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| A Shot In The Dark - Carter Presents, London (England) |
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| On The Line - Crimes Town, London (England) |
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| Nation State - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| Warholesque - Richard Young Gallery, London (England) |
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| Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| Nation State - Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town |
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| Heads - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
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| The Art of Chess - Listasafn Reykjavikur - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik |
2008
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| Presque rien 2 - - Laure Genillard, London (England) (closed, 2010) |
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| Fresh Out of the Box - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| Shaping a Space II - Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga |
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| Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Dystopia For All at The Wharf Road Project - Carter&Gallagher, London (England) |
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| Deadly Serious - EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse |
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| SIGNAL 8: Summer Salon Show - The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Ready Made - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| Cancelled, Erased & Removed, A Group Show - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| CARTER presents TEN at The Printspace - Carter&Gallagher, London (England) |
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| Starstruck - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| The Famous, the Infamous & the Really Quite Good - Decima Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| Pop! - Collectors Contemporary, Singapore |
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| Unfinished Symphony - FAS Contemporary, London (England) |
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| Out of the Box And In The Garman Ryan Collection - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| Max. Durchfahrtshöhe - Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin |
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| When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) |
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| The Collective - Paul Stolper Gallery, London (England) |
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| says the junk in the yard - Flowers Galleries - Kingsland Road, London (England) |
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| Monochromed II: White Out - FAS Contemporary, London (England) |
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| Art Car Boot Fair 2007 - Art Car Boot Fair, London (England) |
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| Role Exchange - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Other Men's Flowers - Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Freak Show - Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon |
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| Citadel - David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen |
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| Drawing 2007 - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| Timer 01 - Triennale Bovisa, Milan |
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| PURE - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Draw - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England) |
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| Darkness Visible – Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Gail Wigley Window Box - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
2006
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| VAC - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Peace Camp - The Brick Lane Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Hiscox Collection #2 - Hiscox Art Projects, London (England) |
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| In the darkest hour there may be light - Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, Essex (England) |
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| In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
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| Multiplication - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| The Signings - Keith Talent Gallery, London (England) |
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| Six Feet Under; Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| The Wonderful Fund - Collecting Art for the New Millenium - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England) |
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| In Between - - Galeria Presença - Lisboa, Lisbon (closed) |
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| Passionate Collectors - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| Dark Matter - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| Rosa Almeida, Gavin Turk - In Between - Galeria Presença - Porto, Porto |
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| Stages of Life - Rethorics of Emotion - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich |
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| KAPITEL VII: Bühne des Lebens – Rhetorik des Gefühls - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich |
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| Die Jugend von heute - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Crivellli´s Nail - Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| East Wing Collection No 7 Culture Bound - Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England) |
2005
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| Et maintenant - What now - Crac Alsace, Altkirch |
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| Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Wonderful Fund Collection - Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech |
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| M City European Cityscape - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Contemporary Self-Portraiture/Re-assessing Identity - Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore |
2004
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| gegenwärtig: Selbst, inszeniert - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Emotions Eins - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Sculptures - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Jeremy Deller & Gavin Turk - Paul Stolper Gallery, London (England) |
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| Angles - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| Domestic (f)utility - New Art Centre, Salisbury (England) |
2003
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| Bag Lady - Cell Project Space, London (England) |
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| December udstilling - Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen |
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| ARTLAB Especial 2003 - - Mobile Home, London (England) (closed) |
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| GROUP SHOW - - Mobile Home, London (England) (closed) |
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| Square Show - Bloomberg Space, London (England) |
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| Coollustre - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| Group exhibition - Multiplication - Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
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| Independence - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
2002
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| It's Unfair! - Museum De Paviljoens, Almere |
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| Face/Off - a portrait of the artist - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Whisper - Sammelausstellung zum elfjährigen Jubiläum - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
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| Wächserne Identitäten - Figürliche Wachsplastik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts - Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
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| Remix: Contermporary art & pop - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Second Skin: historical life casting and contemporary culture - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England) |
2001
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| Funny - - Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (England) (closed) |
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| teeth & trousers - Cell Project Space, London (England) |
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| 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Century City - Tate Modern, London (England) |
2000
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| Multiple Choice - Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore |
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| Portrait - Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Out There - An Exhibition of Contemporary British Art - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| Half Dust - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
1999
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| 6th International İstanbul Biennial 1999 - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Beautiful Productions - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| mode of art - Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
1998
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| Camouflage - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
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| Group Exhibition - Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Sale or Return: An Exhibition of art works that may be seen or heard in a bookshop - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
1997
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
1996
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| Faustrecht der Freiheit - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
1994
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| Karaoke - Portikus, Frankfurt/Main |
1993
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| Group Exhibition - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
1992
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| London Portfolio - Gallery Karsten Schubert, London (England) |
Dealer Directory 13 |
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
| | Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen
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France
| | Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
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Germany
| | Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
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Portugal
| | Galeria Presença - Porto, Porto
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Switzerland
| | mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva
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United Kingdom
| | Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (England)
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| | Counter Editions, London (England)
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| | Paul Stolper Gallery, London (England)
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| | Trinity Contemporary, London (England)
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| | New Art Centre, Salisbury (England)
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Collections 5

Austria
| | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
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United Kingdom
| | Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, West Sussex (England)
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| | Hiscox Art Projects, London (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England)
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Catalogs
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