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Ex-Baldessarre remains closed
DOOR DE BOMEN HET BOS
Kröller-Müller Museum, NL.
23rd March until 15th September 2024
Showing ‘Pyramid Piece’ and ‘Natural Selection’
the work ‘The Auguries’ is permanently installed in the museum’s sculpture garden
TATE ST IVES - 10 Feb - 6th May 2024
Free - with Gallery Admission
A Natural History of Nest Building 2017 is a three-screen video installation which draws on the traditions of natural history television programmes. The thirty-minute film is narrated by Andy Holden and his father, ornithologist Peter Holden. It is divided into three chapters, Nest Type, Nest Site and Material, concluding with a post-script on the bowerbird, the only known bird to make a structure for display only.
Throughout the film, Holden and his father adopt different positions on the significance of birds’ nests. His father considers them from a scientific perspective, reflecting on inherited traits and learned behaviours. Holden examines them as sculptural objects, suggesting comparisons between nest building and making art. The scripted exchange combines ironic humour with profound conversations on the nature of creativity and the parental bond.
The work began as a series of performative lectures given by Holden and his father at museums, festivals and universities across the UK. Posters designed for these events are shown alongside the video work in this one room display, alongside childhood photographs of Holden taken by his father and original or re-made specimens from his collection of nests.
‘CUTE’ Somerset House
25 Jan - 14 Apr 2024
£18.50/Concessions from £11
Pre-booking recommended to avoid disappointment
A major new exhibition exploring the irresistible force of cuteness in contemporary culture.
Includes an installation by Andy Holden, as well as works by: Mark Leckey, Sean-Kierre Lyons, AYA TAKANO, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Nayland Blake, Cosima von Bonin, Hannah Diamond, Ed Fornieles, Juliana Huxtable, Rachel Maclean, Julien Ceccaldi, Paige K. B., Isaac Lythgoe, Alake Shilling, Wong Ping, Liv Preston, CFGNY, Ram Han, Maggie Lee, Bunny Rogers, and Flannery Silva.
What I was for What I am Becoming
CHARLES MOFFETT
431 Washington Street New York, NY 10013
437 Washington Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10013
Jan 12-Feb 24th 2024
SONG OF SONGS
Solo exhibition by Andy Holden
SEVENTEEN
14th Sept - 23rd October 2023
Wednesday - Saturday 11-6pm
270-276 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DG
t. +44(0) 207 249 7789 info@seventeengallery.com
The Auguries (Last Calls)
Permanent Sculpture for Wakefield
Commissioned by Wakefield Council
Located outside of Wakefield One
Full of Days: Hermione Burton and Andy Holden
The Gallery of Everything, 19th March - 30th April 2023
With original score by Saint Etienne
4 Chiltern Street, London W1 Tuesday - Sunday 11-6pm
Opening 2-6pm Sunday 19th
Events:
Jennifer Higgie exhibition talk w/Andy Holden: 13th April 6pm BOOK A FREE TICKET
Andy Holden, Opposite of Time: Selected Short Films: Saturday 22nd April, 7pm (running time 1hr20)
‘FULL of DAYS’ EXHIBITION TOURS TO:
Helston, Cornwall
18th July - 30th August 2023
FORTHCOMING SCREENINGS: NN NORTHAMPTON DATE TBC
British Art Show 9 - Plymouth
Exhibiting Cat-tharsis (2016/2021), 300 ceramic cats and 18min video, at the Box, Plymouth
Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021
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Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021 contains selected extracts from interviews with the artist undertaken between 2010 - 2021. Previously existing online, central fragments of these have been rearranged thematically and intercut with a new conversation between the artist and the book’s editor, Tyler Woolcott. Speaking in 2021 on his ongoing self-reflective practice, Holden states that: “It’s urgent and perhaps more acceptable to be sincere as a regular mode of being.” This is especially evident within “the climate of intense sincerity dominated by identity politics, moral certainty and climate uncertainty.” Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021 is published to coincide with British Art Show 9, an exhibition that includes Holden’s work and travels from Aberdeen to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth during 2021 and 2022.
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Published by Slimvolume
Edited by Tyler Woolcott
Essay by Andrew Hunt
Designed by Calamity James
Hardback, 128 pages, 77 colour illustrations, 7 b+w illustrations, 244mm x 172mm ISBN: 978-1-910516-17-1
Andy Holden: Collected Domestic Conceptualism, 3D scan of installation, 2021
Collected Domestic Conceptualism, 2021
Beano: Art of Breaking the Rules
Curated by Andy Holden
21 Oct 2021 - 06 Mar 2022
£16 / £12.50 concessions
Under 6s free
★★★★★ “From Viz to the fourth plinth to David Bowie, the perennially upstart comic’s influence rampages on… it is a riot in there”
The Guardian
"Stupid rules! If I had my way there’d only be one – that there are no rules!"
Minnie the Minx
Do you remember your mum and dad dragging you round boring old museums? Bleugh! Well, prepare for your favourite Beano characters to shake things up as we celebrate their spirit of rebellion with our major new exhibition this autumn.
Step into the pages of the comic and take a trip into Beanotown to explore how this beloved icon of British comics has fired up successive generations to break the rules, while discovering artists who push boundaries in their own original and wonderful ways.
Come face-to-face with the Beano gang - including Dennis and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, Bananaman and the Bash Street Kids – through original comic artwork and amazing artefacts, plundered from the Beano’s archive.
The exhibition is curated by artist and lifelong Beano fan Andy Holden, who gathers today’s greatest creative rule-breakers, including writers, musicians, painters, sculptors and photographers. Each creative revels in their own spirit of rebellion and contributors include Sarah Lucas, Hardeep Pandhal, Phyllida Barlow, pop star Chris Sievey (otherwise known by his alter-ego Frank Sidebottom), Martin Creed, Alex Chinneck, Heather Phillipson, Ryan Gander, Jann Haworth, Emma Hart, editorial cartoonist Martin Rowson, Rene Matić, Bedwyr Williams and many more. New works include a recording featuring young fiction writer Alex Wheatle, a comic strip from artist Nicola Lane and a neon sculpture from Simeon Barclay.
So whether you want to be inspired by fearless artistic mavericks, revisit a much-loved childhood comic masterpiece or explore the Beano’s larger-than-life characters with your own little rebels, this exhibition will prove that there really is no age limit on the art of breaking the rules.