Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey (* 1964 in Birkenhead ) is a British video artist . In his work he combines videos, installations and sound sculptures with elements from subculture and youth culture in England. They address the "cheap, but somehow romantic, elegance of certain aspects of British culture". From 2005 to 2010 he was a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.
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In 1990 he exhibited alongside Damien Hirst as part of the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, but subsequently disappeared from the public eye again. It wasn't until his work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), a video essay about dancers from the British subculture, that he made a comeback.
In 2004 he took part in Manifesta 5 , the European biennial of contemporary art, in San Sebastián . His DVD installation Drunken Bakers from 2005, which adapts the characters Drunken Bakers from the British comic magazine Viz , shows the drinking culture in northern England. Leckey and a friend stock up on alcoholic drinks in it before going on a rampage. In 2006, Leckey was seen at the Tate Triennial .
His works are in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Center Pompidou , but can also be seen in the High Wycombe bus station, among other places .
In 2008 he was awarded the Central Art Prize of the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Turner Prize .
Web links
- Mark Leckey at the Buchholz Gallery
- Mark Leckey on MySpace
- Works by Mark Leckey in the Tate Collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Turner Prize o8” on tate.org.uk
- ↑ Dale McFarland, Frieze , issue 81, March 2004. ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Spiegel Online : "Video artist Mark Leckey wins Turner Prize" , December 1, 2008
- ↑ The Irish Times : “Mixed-media artist says he is 'chuffed' to win Turner Prize,” December 2, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leckey, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenhead , Merseyside |