John Knight (artist)

The Right to be Lazy , Hamburger Bahnhof

John Knight (* 1945 in Hollywood ) is an American conceptual artist .

life and work

John Knight was born in Hollywood in 1945 and lives and works in Los Angeles .

Since the early 1970s, John Knight has been exhibiting installations made up of words, letters and logos in contexts of art. He sheds light on the relationships between art, design and the power of institutions. In his site-specific works, the question of context comes to the fore before the image itself as a carrier of meaning.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2013 New Portikus , Frankfurt
• 1990 John Knight-Some Works Witte de With , Rotterdam

Group exhibitions

• 2014 Gladstone Gallery, New York City
• until 2013 The right to be lazy Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin
• 1982 documenta 7 , Kassel

Awards

1986 Turner Prize (nomination)

literature

• John Knight, editor André Rottmann, Mit Press 2014 (English) ISBN 978-0-26252-5-688

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); P. 284, Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
2. ↑ Whitney Museum of American Art John Knight ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 6, 2015 
3. ↑ Art Mag by Deutsche Bank Classics of Institutional Criticism-John Knight in Frankfurt Portikus , accessed on May 6, 2015.
4. ↑ Exhibition No. 182 John Knight ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 6, 2015  
5. ↑ Witte de With John Knight - Some Works accessed on May 6, 2015 (English)
6. ^ Contemporary Art Daily John Knight Group Show at Gladstone Gallery accessed on May 6, 2015
7. ^ Texts on art The right to recognition. Helmut Draxler on the dismantling of a work by John Knight in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin , accessed on May 6, 2015.