Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk (born June 7, 1967 in Guildford , Surrey , England , Great Britain ) is an English sculptor and installation artist who is counted among the Young British Artists .

Life

Turk studied at Chelsea College of Arts and Design from 1986 to 1989 and then attended the London Royal College of Art until 1991. His thesis at the Royal College of Art was rejected by the tutors and he did not receive a formal degree for his installation Cave . The reason for this was that Turk presented a white-painted interior, which was provided with a blue plaque , on which the artist announced that Gavin Turk worked here, 1989-1991 . This scandal made the young artist well known, so that he was discovered by Charles Saatchi and other gallery owners, among others . Saatchi showed Turks work in 1997 in the exhibition Sensation (exhibition) , which was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Art, in Berlin in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart and in New York City in the Brooklyn Museum .

Turk has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums around the world for more than twenty years. In 2011 his first large-scale sculpture, a 12 meter high nail , was erected near St Paul's Cathedral in London. Since 2012 he has been Professor of Art and Design at Bath Spa University in Bath , England. In August 2014, the artist was one of 200 people in public life who opposed the referendum on Scottish independence in an open letter to the London daily newspaper The Guardian .

Prizes and awards

• 2001: Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Arts , London for his bronze sculpture Bag .
• 2007: Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy of Arts for his wooden sculpture Dumb Candle .
• 2011: Dr. hc from the University of East London .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2013: Museum at Night , Bristol Museum and Art Gallery , Bristol, England.
• 2013: The Monaco Project for the Arts Presents Gavin Turk , École supérieure d'arts plastiques de la ville de Monaco .
• 2009: The Mirror Stage , Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2008: Burnt Out , Kunsthaus Baselland , Basel.
• 2006: Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise show) , Schloss Eggenberg .
• 2004: The Golden Thread , White Cube , London.
• 2002: Gavin Turk: Oevre , Tate Britain , London.
• 2002: Copper Jubilee , The New Art Gallery Walsall , Walsall , England
• 1993: A Marvelous Force of Nature , White Cube, London.

Group exhibitions

• 2017: cracks in reality. Gavin Turk / Jens Wolf , Marta Herford
• 2013: Au Dhabi Art Fair with Nazar boncuğu .
• 2012: Déjà vu? The Art of Reproduction from Dürer to You Tube , Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe .
• 2012: Made in Britain. Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection , Benaki Museum , Athens.
• 2009: Pop Life: Art in a Material World , Tate Modern, London.
• 2009: The Art of Chess , Reykjavík Art Museum , Reykjavík, Iceland.
• 2006: In the Darkest Hour there May Be Light: Works from Damien Hirst 's Murderne Collection , Serpentine Gallery , London.
• 2004: Emotion Eins , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main.

literature

• Sensation: young British artists from the Saatchi collection . Cantz, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-89322-958-2 .

Web links

• Biography (en.)