Tris Vonna-Michell
Selected Works
Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures
2022Exhibition view Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam
No More Racing in Circles – Just Pacing Within Lines of a Rectangle
2021Installation view at Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures
2019Installation view at Berardo Collection Museum, Portugal
Material Longevities
2018Installation at Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
Smoke & Mirrors
2018film installation (16mm film transferred to 2K video), consisting of a display construction (wood, metal, plexiglas and baffle board, bench, archival print on dibond and sound on speakers
7' 41''
Link: https://vimeo.com/210486233password: 310514montreal
Chopin
2018film and slide installation (16mm film transferred to 4K video and 35mm slides synchronized to spoken word), consisting of a display construction (wood, metal, plexiglas and baffle board), chairs and sound on headphones
Registers
2017photo montage, in-built LCD flatscreen, sound work on speakers and headphones
Punctuations & Perforations
2017Installation at La Verrière - Hermès Foundation, Brussels, April 22 - July 1, 2017
Punctuations & Perforations
2016HD video projection, mono soundtrack on speaker and medium format slide projection
Installation at T293 Rome, 25 October – 3 December, 2016
Perforations II (Wasteful Illuminations)
2016
Capitol Complex
2015
Capitol Complex
2015glass table with metal legs, photographs, headphones, audio track
Wasteful Illuminations: audio poems
2016installation consisting of soundtrack on headphone, three aquariums on a shelf, and archival inkjet print
aquarium, each: 31.5 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm (12 ⅜ × 10 × 10 inches) shelf: 35 × 110 cm (13 ¾ × 43 ¼ inches) print: 59 × 108.3 cm (23 ¼ × 42 ⅝ inches)
Punctuation (3:54)
2015archival pigment ink on acid-free rag paper
143.20 × 218.58 cm (56 ⅜ × 86 inches), edition of 1 plus I AP
Addendum II (Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex)
2015Lightbox consisting of backlit photographic prints
Installation at 8th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, September 12 - November 22, 2015
Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex
2014Installation at VOX, Montreal, February 7 - April 12, 2014
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
CV
2005 – 2007
Städel Schule, Frankfurt am Main
2002 – 2005
Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow
2001 – 2002
Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth
2024
Vonna-Michell’s House, Badischer Kunstverein, Germany
2023
The Surveyor, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
2022
‘Back segments’, Jan Mot, Brussels
2021
‘No More Racing in Circles – Just Pacing Within Lines of a Rectangle’, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
2019
‘Balustrade: Endless Tapes’, KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
2018
‘Walking Sonic Texts – Sound Poetry and Movement in Space’, with a contribution by Marc Matter, Jan Mot, Brussels
‘Material Longevities’, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Local Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago
2017
‘From The Serralves Collection: Tris Vonna-Michell’, Museu Serralves, Porto
‘PUNCTUATIONS & PERFORATIONS’, La Verrière, Brussels
2016
‘Register’, T293, Rome
2015
‘Wasteful Illuminations: Distracted Listening’, Jan Mot, Brussels
‘Capitol Complex’, Appleton Square, Lisbon
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
2014
‘Turner Prize 2014’, Tate Britain, London
‘Postscript III (Berlin)’, Metro Pictures, New York
‘Capitol Complex’, TPW, Toronto
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
2013
‘Postscript II (Berlin)’, Jan Mot, Brussels
‘Pebble Dash’, T293, Rome
‘Capitol Complex’, Jan Mot, Mexico City
2012
‘Ulterior Vistas’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (in collaboration with Inheritance Projects)
2011
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Metro Pictures, New York
2010
‘Wasteful Illuminations’, T293, Naples
‘Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending’, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
‘No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2009
‘Capstans’, Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg
‘Finding Chopin: Endnotes’, Jeu de Paume, Paris
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
‘Auto-Tracking: Ongoing Configurations’, Jan Mot, Brussels
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, X Initiative, New York
‘Auto-Tracking-Auto-Tracking’, Kunsthalle Zurich
‘Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures’, GAMeC, Bergamo
2008
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Cabinet Gallery, London
‘Auto-Tracking’, Kunsthalle Zurich
‘The Trades of Others’, T293, Naples
2007
‘Tall Tales and Short Stories’, Cubitt, London
‘Puzzlers’, Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Braunschweig, Germany
‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2006
‘Faire un effort’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
2022
‘Austerlitz was his name’, TLÖN PROJECTS, Rotterdam, NL
2020
‘No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle’, Jan Mot, Brussels, BE2019
‘Constellations: a choreography of minimal gestures’, The Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon
‘Refracted Realities’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, German
‘IFFR’, l’International Film Festival, Rotterdam
2019
‘Videonale.17 – Refracted Realities’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
‘Constellations: a coreography of minimal gestures’, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa,
‘PT. Chopin’, International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL.
2018
‘Involucri pittorici rigidi. A descriptive evening of a publication’, Istituto Italiano di Cultura ‘C. M. Lerici’, Stockholm
‘Back to the Future! Im Karussell der Diakonservierung’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2017
‘Performance lecture’, Lothringer13, Munich
‘Artist’s Books’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
‘Rosebuds’, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
‘twoninethree in-residence at Luciana Brito Galeria’, São Paulo
‘Morphogenesis’, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
2016
‘Par Tibi, Roma, nihil’, Palatino archeological area, Rome
‘VI x VI Positionen zur Zukunft der Fotografie’, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz
‘… und eine Welt noch’, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
‘Poésie Balistique’, La Verrière – Hermès Foundation, Brussels
‘This Is Your Replacement’, Sies + Höhe, Dusseldorf
‘New-Self-Portrait-Paradox’, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York
2015
‘A story within a story’, 8th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA)
‘The day will come when photography revises’, Triennial of Photography, Kunstverein in Hamburg
‘Digital Voices’, Oxford Library and the Language Center, Oxford
2014
‘Society Acts – The Moderna Exhibition 2014’, Moderna Museet, Malmö
‘Against the grain’, Centre de la photographie, Genève
‘T293-in-residence’, Sadie Coles HQ, London
‘Un Nouveau Festival’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘Return Journey’, MOSTYN, Wales
2013
‘The Story Behind’, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
‘Lecture-Performance: New Artistic Formats, Places, Practices and Behaviours’, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
‘Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject’, Secession, Wien
‘I knOw yoU’, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘The Butterfly Image’, Mudam, Luxembourg
‘Only here’, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
2012
‘Reactivation’, 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai
‘CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito’, MAMbo, Bologna
‘Storytelling as Craft’, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville
‘Ephemeropterae’, TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance)
‘Swans, Amputees’, Fondation Cartier, Paris (performance)
‘Searching for the fountain’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
‘Soundworks’, ICA, London
‘Setting the Scene’, Tate Modern, London
‘OEI/Letterism’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (performance)
‘Descriptive Acts’, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco
‘enfolds: books I & II’, Mount Analogue, Stockholm
‘Never odd or even’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance)
2011
‘Balustrade: endless tapes’, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg
‘Folk Variations’, Radar, Loughborough (performance)
‘The Other Tradition’, Wiels, Brussels
‘La Casa Encendida’, Madrid (performance)
‘Subtext Part II’, Un Projects, Melbourne
‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’, touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre
2010
‘New Frankfurt Internationals’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Troyes
‘Fun Palace’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘Manifesta 8’, Murcia, Spain
‘Exhibition, Exhibition’, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
‘Performance’, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (performance)
‘Balustrade’, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance)
‘Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance’, Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance)
‘Finding Chopin’, performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance)
‘NineteenEightyFour’, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
‘ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables’, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
‘Leipzig Calendar Works’, Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance)
‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome (performance)
2009
‘Lecture Performance’, Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne (performance)
‘Accecare l’ascolto / Aveugler l’ecoute / Blinding the ears’, Artissima, Turin (performance)
‘5×5 Castello 09’, Espai d’art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia
‘This World & Nearer Ones’, Creative Time, New York (performance)
‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Atelier Augarten Contemporary, Wien
‘Spatial Works’, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
‘Critical applause 3: Tris Vonna-Michell’, CCA, Glasgow (performance)
‘Finding Chopin’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
‘Art Cologne / Open Space’ (with Cabinet), London
‘The Generational: Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York
‘Just in the dark/Solo al buio’, Mercati di Traiano, Rome
‘The Front Room’, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
‘The Space of Words’, Mudam Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Due Jean, Luxembourg
‘I Repeat Myself When Under Stress’, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
‘Iaspis Open House’, Iaspis, Stockholm
‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial’, Tate Britain, London
‘A spoken word exhibition’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Gateshead
2008
‘Speak and Spell’, performance at Vienna Art Week, Vienna (performance)
‘Storyteller – Organizing Time and Space’, 0047, Oslo
‘Lieber Kunstler, erzahle mir!’, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim
‘Stone-Paper-Scissors’, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin (performance)
‘Kunst Im Heim’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
‘Bending the Word / MATRIX 226’, BAM/PFA – UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
‘Time Crevasse’, Yokohama Triennial 2008, Yokohama
‘ICA:60 Past, Present and Future’, performance at ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
‘Fia Backstrom: That social space between speaking and meaning’, White Columns, New York (performance)
‘The Store’, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
‘Experiment Marathon Reykjavik’, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
‘Oral Culture’, performance at Jan Mot, Brussels (performance)
‘Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 1’, Tate Britain, London (performance)
‘Self-Storage’, CCA – California College of the Arts, Metro Self Storage, San Francisco
‘Of this Tale, I cannot Guarantee A Single Word’, Royal College of Art, London
‘5th Berlin Biennial’, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2007
‘Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures’, performance at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (performance)
‘Performa 07’, The second Visual Art Performance Biennial, New York (performance)
‘Playground’, Stuk Performance Festival, Leuven
‘The Year of the Human Sciences’, performance at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin (performance)
‘Experiment Marathon’, Serpentine Gallery, London (performance)
‘Floating Territories’, Evens Foundation, Transbiennial Project, Istanbul and Athens (performance)
‘The Present Order’, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem
‘The Moment You Realise You Are Lost’, Johann Konig, Berlin
‘Köln Show2’, European Kunsthalle, Cologne