John Bock

 

Selected Works
Biography
Exhibitions

 

www.johnbock.de

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1965 in Gribbohm
Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
lives and works in Berlin

 

Exhibitions (Selection)

 

2010
Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Behind the Curtain, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
CAC, Málaga, Spain
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
25 Reasons We Still Need Superman, Video Art Touring Festival, Sarai CSDS, New Delhi; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London

 

2009
The Big Sleep, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Precarious Form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Group Show, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
FPM Collection: John Bock, Erik van Lieshout, Manfred Pernice, Raymond Pettibon, Keith Tyson, Do-Sa, Schillingstraße 31, Berlin, Germany
Transitory Objects, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Time Out Beijing Video art festival, Beijing, touring to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangalore, Mumbai, Dubai and Tokyo
Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation / M.I.E.T., Athens
Sur Le Dandysme Aujourd'hui, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Pamplona, Spain
Helga Maria Kolsterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Künstlergesprach mit Julia Stoschek, Münster (films: Urhütte, Hysterie im Nonchalance, Inside Beyond)
KunstFilmBiennale on Tour, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (film:Palms)
Repeat all, MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Opening Eleni Koroneou, Athens, Greece
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (work installation from 2000) (Anton Kern Gallery)
Klütterkammer ICA book launch, Walther König Buchhandlung
Performative Impulses, Pinacoteca di Bari, Italy
Tank TV, internet exhibition
KunstFilmBiennale on Tour, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Stressed Spaces, multistory car park, KW14,'s- Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Filmshooting for Kie Ellens, Walhouse Film, Groningen, Netherlands
Fashionshow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

 

2008
Film Retrospective, Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens, Greece
PARA - SCHIZO ensnarled, IAS (Insa Art Space), Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
Palms, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Inside Beyond, GióMARCONI, Milan, Italy
Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery University College Cork, Ireland

 

2007
Artists as Collectors, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
The High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles, USA
The Harder You Look, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
John Bock, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
John Bock, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Fit to Print: printed media in recent collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

 

2006
John Bock – Mit Schisslaveng, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Zero Hero, The Moore Loft, Miami, USA
Anstoss Berlin, Kunst Macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Dada's Boys, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
John Bock's Medusa im Tam Tam Club, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany
John Bock: Lütte mit Rucola, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
The Hugo Boss Prize 2006, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA
Nöle, Schauspielhaus, Zurich, CH
Surrogat, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2005
A-Buba, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
John Bock, Frac Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Marseille, France
Skipholt, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
PestKOP im black rebel motorcycle club, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Hamburg, Germany
Girls on Film, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York
The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Abnormal, Nyehaus, New York, USA
Dionysiac, Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
LI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
8th Biennale d'Art Contemporaian de Lyon, Lyon, Paris, France
Rough Diamond, Program, London, UK
Reykjavík Arts Festival 2005, Reykjavík Art Mueum, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2004
John Bock, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Klutterkammer, ICA, London, UK
MultiplexKomplex Petit-four transmits the BeWorldMigraineSolution through the metallic NoseAirPeriscope + Gast, Klosterfelde, Berlin, D
Klynken i knaek, Arken, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Denmark
The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
Manifesta 5, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain

 

2003
John Bock, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
Schwarzsauer Knilch, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MultiplexKomplex Petit-four transmits the Be WorldMigraineSolution through the metallic NoseAirHairPeriscope, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
Zero Hero, theater play, performed at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
OUTLOOK!, Athens, Greece
Grotesk, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Utopia Station, Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Spectacular, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

2002
Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

 

2001
Im Dilemma der ExistoEntropie, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Eleni Koroneu, Athens, Greece
Im AtomeiterzinsKonflikt mit einer EierstockCapitalSaint, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konstholl, Sweden
A Little Bit of History Repeated, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany
Yokohama Triennale, Japan

 

2000
Four Lectures, MoMA, New York, USA

 

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