Rebecca Warren
Rebecca Warren (b. 1965) makes sculptures in a variety of materials including clay, bronze, steel and neon. The artist also creates collages and wall mounted vitrines using assemblages of objects she has collected. Warren says about her work that ‘it comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It’s all stuff in the world going through you as a filter …’
‘To say that Rebecca Warren’s sculptures are always extremely tactile seems like an understatement. They offer themselves as hybrids between unwrought form, symbolic informe, and transmitter, an object triggering an entire chain of associations with lofty and lowly forerunners or reproductions, whether drawn from antiquity or from the artistic and non-artistic canons. Seething before our eyes is cultural primal matter, in which the hand of the artist at times seems to play simply the role of catalyst, while the elements fuse themselves together.’
Bice Curiger, ‘In all things a song lies sleeping’, in Rebecca Warren – Every Aspect of Bitch Magic, London: Fuel Publishing, 2012, p. 13
Image: Rainer, 2017, hand-painted bronze, 299 x 51 x 46 cm; 117 3/4 x 20 1/8 x 18 1/8 in, edition 1 of 2, plus 1 AP
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Surface Works
Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Joan Mitchell, Albert Oehlen, Rebecca Warren
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1965
Born in United Kingdom
1989–1992
Goldsmiths College, University of London, London (B.F.A.)
1992–1993
Chelsea College of Art, London (M.F.A.)
1993–1994
Ruskin School, University of Oxford, Oxford (Artist in Residence)
2013
Elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014
Professor of Arts, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2020
Awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire)
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Arts Council Collection, London
British Council Collection, London
Dallas Museum of Art
The Hepworth Wakefield
Kunsthaus Zürich
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum
The Roberts Institute of Art, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Tate, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Now Voyager
Belvedere 21, Vienna (catalogue)
2021
Radio Caroline, 2015–2016
Window Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2020
Frieze Sculpture, London
2019
Souls
Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove
2018
Carte Blanche
Fiac Hors les Murs, Musée National Eugène Delacroix, Paris
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Tout Ce Que Le Ciel Permet
Le Consortium, Dijon (catalogue)
2017
All That Heaven Allows
Tate St Ives, St Ives (catalogue)
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
2016
The Main Feeling
Museum of Art, Dallas
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2013
Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren: Collected Works
Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver (catalogue)
The Living
Kunstverein München (catalogue)
2012
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent
2011
Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us II
Maureen Paley, London
2010
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago;
Bluhm Family Terrace, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2009
Feelings
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
2007
Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century
Chiswick Business Park, London (permanent installation)
2005
Pas De Deux
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2004
Dark Passage
Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)
Family Badge
Antiquariat Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2003
The Boiler Room
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
SHE
Maureen Paley Art, London
2002
Fleischvater
Modern Art, London
2000
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Maureen Paley, London
1997
The Showroom, London (with Fergal Stapleton)
1996
Cleveland, London (with Fergal Stapleton)
1995
Manliness without ostentation...
The Agency, London
1994
Retrospective: Your Mother
152c Brick Lane (with Fergal Stapleton)
1993
I Have Every Vice in the World
Dolphin Gallery, Oxford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
ASensitiv. GIACOMETTI / WARREN
Fondation Giacometti, Paris
Surface Works
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2022
My Reflection of You
The Perimeter, London
2021
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, Nottingham (will travel to The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall) (catalogue)
The Flames: The Age of Ceramics
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), Paris (catalogue)
Lives of an Object
ARCH, Athens
Albert Oehlen – "Big Paintings By Me With Small Paintings By Others"
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI), Lugano
Mirrors and Windows
Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf
2020
00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s
MO.CO., Montpellier
Skarstedt, New York
2019
Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg
Deichtorhallen - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture 1950s to Present
Palais Populaire, Berlin
2018
Generations Part 3
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art
South London Gallery, London
A TIME CAPSULE REVISTED: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 –
2017
Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich
Rebecca Warren - Anna Fasshauer - Michail Pirgelis
Kunstverein Reutlingen
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings
Tate St Ives, St Ives;
Pallant House, Chichester;
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Exchanges
Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester
Approaching The Figure
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Profound Identities: Beauty and Subjugation from The Goss-Michael Collection
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
DEATH IS IRRELEVANT: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975 – 2018
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill
Trance
Aishti Foundation, Beirut
2017
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Für Barbara, curated by Leo Koenig
Hall Art Foundation I Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg
THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER
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The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
Night in the Museum: Arts Council Collection Curated by Ryan Gander
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
Aging Pride
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Rachel Whiteread
Tate Britain, London
CORPUS: The Body Unbound
The Courtauld Gallery, London
2016
The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
la mia ceramica
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (catalogue)
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
The Met Breuer, New York (catalogue)
Notes on Gesture - I, II, III
Siobhan Davies Studios, London
Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Ellsworth Kelly, Ken Price, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Night in the Museum: Arts Council Collection
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London
Open Windows – Reflections on Beuys
Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
Conversation autour d'une collection: Collection Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat Villa Bernasconi, Lancy
2015
Figure
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Sculpture: Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Flirting with Strangers - Encounters with Works from the Collection
21er Haus, Vienna
Plasters: Casts and Copies
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
10 Sculptures
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
ArtZuid: International Sculpture Biennial
Amsterdam (catalogue)
A Man Walks Into A Bar
me Collectors Room, Berlin
Summer Exhibition 2015
Royal Academy of Arts, London
La Peregrina
Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014
SHE: Picturing women at the turn of the 21st century
Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Providence
Cast for Life
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Cool Place: Sammlung Scharpff
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (catalogue)
Summer group exhibition
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Story - The Collection Anne & Wolfgang Titze
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
In der Wohnung
Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil
Somewhat Abstract
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Albert Oehlen: Talking about Painting
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Then and Now
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Summer Exhibition 2014
Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013
REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Matthias Schaufler, John Sparagana, Rebecca Warren
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Riotous Baroque
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (catalogue)
V22 Collection Show
V22 Workspace, London
From Figuration
Skarstedt Gallery, London
2012
To Hope, To Tremble, To Live. The David Roberts Collection
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
A House of Leaves: First Movement
The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
The Space Between
Tate Britain, London
Looking Back for the Future
Kunsthalle Zürich
2011
Camulodunum
Firstsite, Colchester
ILLUMInations
54th Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice (catalogue)
Lustwarande ’11 - Raw
Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg
Modern British Sculpture
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)
The Shape Of Things To Come: New Sculpture
Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
The Collectors Show
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2010
Public Art Fund: Statuesque
City Hall Park, New York;
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (catalogue)
The Contemporary Figure
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection
Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Grand National: Art from Britain
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
SV10: Members’ Show
Studio Voltaire, London
The Saatchi Gallery at Ipswich Art School
Ipswich Art School, Ipswich
2009
Accrochage
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Classified
Tate Britain, London
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
British Council Collection: The Third Dimension
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2008
The Vincent Award 2008
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Origins
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Blasted Allegories
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (catalogue)
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2007
Makers and Modelers
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Five Works in Bronze
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Gallery Artists
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
No Room for the Groom
Herald St, London
2006
Turner Prize 2006
Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
Toutes Composition Florales
Counter Gallery, London
Flutter
The Approach, London
Strange I’ve seen that face before
Museum Abteiberg – Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach (catalogue)
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it
The Showroom, London
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden
Bonner Kunstverein
Tate Triennial 2006
Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Anne Chu, Gary Hill, Martin Puryear, Rebecca Warren, James Welling
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2005
Body: New Art from the UK
Ottawa Art Gallery;
Oakville Galleries;
Edmonton Art Gallery;
Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
The British Art Show 6
Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition:
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester;
Cornerhouse, Manchester;
The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham;
Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol;
Arnolfini - Contemporary Art Center, Bristol;
BALTIC - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (catalogue)
Translations
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Trumpets of Justice
Counter Gallery, London
Drunk & Stoned 2
Gavin Brown Gallery, New York
Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art — for the young and young at heart
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City
2004
Sculpture: Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
Strange I’ve seen that face before
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Collage
Bloomberg Space, London
2003
Frass
153-155 Grays Inn Road, London
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Still Life
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago;
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas;
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota;
Museo de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo;
MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima
4 Old Works
56a Clerkenwell Road, London
2002
The Galleries Show
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)
Summer Exhibition 2002
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)
2001
Neon Gallery, London
Tattoo Show
Modern Art, London
New Labour
The Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
1999
Limitless
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Day of the Donkey Day
Transmission, Glasgow
It’s a Curse it’s a Burden
The Approach, London
1998
Root
Chisenhale Gallery, London (catalogue)
The Kindness of Strangers
W139 Gallery, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Craft
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Richard Salmon, London (catalogue)
BANK
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1997
Martin
Commercial Gallery, London;
146 Brick Lane, London
Class Vegas
The Embassy, London
Material Culture: Sculpture from the 80s and 90s
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
1996
Light
Richard Salmon, London;
Spacex Gallery, Exeter (catalogue)
Happy Shopper
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London
Dog U Mental VIII
BANK, London
Artforum Berlin 1996
Messegelände, Berlin
NIS Project at world PC Expo, Tokyo
On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life
Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo (catalogue)
Out of Space
Cole and Cole, Oxford
Fuck Off
BANK, London (catalogue)
Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue)
I Beg to Differ
Milch, London
1995
Happy Squirrels Club
BANK, Eindhoven
Model Home
P.S.1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City;
The Clocktower Gallery, New York
The Meaning of Life..., parts 1 & 2
Center of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
The Meaning of Life...
Art Node Foundation, Stockholm
Cocaine Orgasm
BANK, London (catalogue)
Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde
Konstmuseum Uppsala, Uppsala (catalogue)
Insignificance
The Agency, London (catalogue)
Laure Genillard, London
Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
1994
Miniatures
The Agency, London
Destroy All Monsters
The Tannery, London
MIND THE GAP...
Acud Galerie, Berlin
1993
Whitworth Young Contemporaries
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
FUEL Publishing / Tate (Eds.): Rebecca Warren: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, London / St Ives, 2017
Rennie Collection (Ed.): Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren, Vancouver, 2015
Kunstverein München (Ed.): Rebecca Warren. The Living, London, 2014
FUEL Publishing (Ed.): Rebecca Warren. Every Aspect of Bitch Magic, London, 2012
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications (Eds.): Rebecca Warren, Berlin, 2012
Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, Rebecca Warren, Cologne, 2009
Beatrix Ruf (Ed.): Rebecca Warren, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, 2005
Others
Whitechapel Gallery (Ed.): Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, London, 2017
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Ed.): Embracing The Contemporary, Philadelphia, 2016
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Then and Now, Berlin, 2014
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Sammlung im Wandel. Die Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now Vol. 4., Köln, 2013
Bice Curiger (Ed.): ILLUMInations. 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia, Milan, 2011
Penelope Curtis / Keith Wilson (Eds.): Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2011
Saatchi Gallery (Ed.): Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, London, 2011
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Ed.): Grand National: Art from Britain, Vestfossen, 2010
Phaidon Press Limited (Ed.): Vitamin 3-D: new perspectives in sculpture and installation, London, 2009
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Ed.): The Vincent Award 2008. Francis Alÿs, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rebecca Warren, Amsterdam, 2008
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now Volume 3, New York, 2008
Parkett: Olaf Nicolai, Ernesto Neto, Rebecca Warren, Vol. 78, 2006
Beatrix Ruf, Clarrie Wallis (Ed.): Tate Triennial 2006. New British Art, Tate, London, 2006
Tate (Ed.): Turner Prize 2006. Tomma Abts, Phil Collins, Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren, London, 2006
Susanne Titz, Toby Webster (Ed.): Strange I’ve seen that face before, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, 2006
Hayward Gallery (Ed.): British Art Show 6, London, 2005
Vancouver Art Gallery (Ed.): Body: New art from the UK, Vancouver, 2005
Kunsthalle Wien (Ed.): Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Vienna, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts (Ed.): The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002
Wilding, Alison (Ed.): Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002
Saatchi Gallery (Ed.): New Labour, London, 2001
Chisenhale Gallery (Ed.): Root, London, 1998
W139 Gallery (Ed.): The Kindness of Strangers, Amsterdam, 1998
Richard Salmon (Ed.): Craft, London, 1998
Hayward Gallery (Ed.): Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 90s, London, 1997
Kettle’s Yard, Richard Salmon Gallery (Ed.): Craft, London, 1997
The Showroom Gallery (Ed.): Fergal Stapleton and Rebecca Warren, London, 1997
Richard Salmon (Ed.): Light, London, 1996
Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre (Ed.): On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life, Tokyo, 1996
BANK (Ed.): Fuck Off, London, 1996
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Ed.): Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Berlin, 1996
BANK (Ed.): Cocaine Orgasm, London, 1995
Uppsala Konstmuseum (Ed.): Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, 1995
The Agency (Ed.): Insignificance, London, 1995
Publications
Rebecca Warren: The Now Voyager
Published by Verlag Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Cologne, 2022
With texts by Stella Rollig, Axel Köhne, and Rebecca Warren
€ 29.80
la mia ceramica
Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren, Edmund de Waal
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2016
With an introduction by Edmund de Waal
€ 35.00
THEN AND NOW
Anthony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Jurriaan Benschop
€ 15.00
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 45.00
Rebecca Warren
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2012
With a text by Jörg Heiser
€ 35.00
Rebecca Warren: Every Aspect of Bitch Magic
FUEL, London 2012
Edited by Rebecca Warren and FUEL
With a text by Bice Curiger
€ 45.00
Selected Press
Blau International Magazine October 2022
Tate Etc. Autumn 2017
Mousse Magazine 2016
PORTER Magazine Summer 2015
Frieze January 2011
Artforum September 2010
Parkett 2006
