“I went out of that gallery and into another…the brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it I presently recognised as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough…..the thing that struck me with the keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.” H. G Wells, The Time Machine
Richard Crow Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
22/10/2015 -17/01/2016 Clang Artspace, (at Neues Kunstforum), Richard Crow – Institution of Rot, Köln. Curator: Rosy Beyelschmidt
31/08/ – 15/09/2002 Galleria Spazio Arte and off site location, Lost Narratives, Rovereto, Italy. Curator: Lucia Farinati
13 – 20/5/2001 Siegfried Str 189, Arwo Bau, off site project, Berlin-Lichtenberg (former GDR council housing estate)
29/06/ – 5/8/1999 Blue Oyster Gallery and off site locations, Executor, Dunedin, New Zealand
1997 Goethe Institut, Speaking the shade, Sydney (for composer Richard Barrett and the Elision Ensemble)
1997 Midland Railway Yards and Foundry, Opening of the Mouth, as part of The Festival of Perth, Perth, Australia (for composer Richard Barrett and the Elision Ensemble)
1-13/1/1997 John Paynter Gallery and Police Museum, Bad Habitus Project, Newcastle, Australia
1/10/ – 26/10/1996 Artspace, Grenzgänger, Sydney (exh. Cat)
1994 Knaack Str 34, Fleischerei, Berlin (former butcher’s shop)
1993 53 Cross St, Black Iris – Nigredo, London (basement of eighteenth century house)
8/6 – 19/6/1993 The Institution of Rot, The Institution of Rot – A House with Objects, London (as part of London’s Secret spaces). Curator: Nick Couldry in collaboration with Natalia Berkowitz
1/12/1992 – 1/1/1993 Shipley, Putrefactio, London (bookshop in Charring Cross Road)
31/10 – 15/11/1992 The Institution of Rot, Surgery, London (private work)
Richard Crow Group Exhibitions (Selected)
8/4/2022 -8/6/2022 The Mavericks of Naive Fetichism, (inc Anne Pigalle, Richard Crow, Ray Gange, Tom Vague, Stewart Home et all) We Are Cuts, Soho, London. Curator: Anne Pigalle
08/8/21 – 14/10/2021 Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov – Distant Planets, Yeltsin Centre, Yekaterinburg, Russia
29/8 – 1/11/2020 The Way of Songs – Birds/Birds, (inc. Gianfranco Baruchello, Davide Bertocchi, Arturas Bumšteinas, Ergo Phizmiz, Francesco Cavaliere, Richard Crow, David Cunningham / Paola Pivi, Alvin Curran, José D’Apice, Jimmie Durham and Maria Thereza Alves, David Fenech, Jonathan Frigeri, Riccardo Giagni, Goodiepal, H. H. Lim, Fabrice Hyber, Koo jeong A, Thomas Köner, Donatella Landi, Filippo Leonardi, ManfreDu Schu, Leonid Tishkov, Cesare Viel, Stephen Vitiello.) Il Bosco di Paliano, Paliano, Italy. (Cat) Curator: Zerynthia
18/6/2020 8 Altered States – Liminality [Start Dreaming], English Heretic + Richard Crow, Gallery 46, London. Curators: Sean McLusky, Bjørn Hatleskog, Johny Brown, Kevin Quigley & Martin J Tickner
5/11/16 – 26/2/2017 Hearing Voices – Suffering, Inspiration and the Everyday, Palace Green Library, Durham
23/7 – 12/9/2015 Soundscapes Mexico – UK 2015, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Mexico.(inc. Richard Crow, Scanner/Katarina Matiaek, Milo Taylor, Nicola Woodham) Curator: Laura Plana Gracia (exh. Cat)
2014 The Sound Object, Organised by Radio Arte Mobile, as part of Open Museum Open City, Maxxi, Rome Curator: Radio Arte Mobile
25/2/ – 2/3/2014 Ici. maintenant. où? Here. Now. Where ?, A participatory project of sonic ambulation in Marrakesh’s taxis, 5th Marrakech Biennial. Curators: Saout Radio (Younes Baba-Ali and Anna Raimondo)
9/6/2014 The Stranger that is next to me, Errant Bodies, Berlin. Organized by Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with Osso, Lisbon
5/10 – 6/10/2013 (Q. i. Q. i) Les Oiseaux, Nuit Blanche Paris 2013, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris. Curators: Radio Arte Mobile
2013 Douglasism, various venues, KimKim Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
22 – 28/10/2012 128kbps objects, Or-bits, basic fm. Curator: Maria-Laura Ghidini
2012 Animal Spirits, Serial Space, Sydney. Curators: Amanda Newall, Leon Tan, Simon Lawrence
2012 We Sell boxes, We Buy Gold Audio Archive, as part of Sound Proof 5, Carter Presents, London. Curator: Monica Biagioli
2011 Resonance Open, Raven Row, London (inc. Leslie Deere, William English, Rosie Farrell, Ella Finer, Becca Foster, Joe Farley & Marcos Gomez, Max Eastley, Jodie Marks, Siobhan Martin, Mark Maxwell, Erin Newell, Charlotte Norwood, Andrew Rowe, Dan Scott et all)as part of Gone with the Wind (Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Walter Marchetti and NaoKo TakaHashi) Curator: Ed Baxter
2011 Closer Encounters of the Third Kind, Five Years, London (incl. Joan Morey, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Maria Berrios, Cecilia Palmeiro, Ivan Ordonez, Michael Curran et all) Curator: Esther Planas
7/1- 6/2/2011 Animal Spirits, Sugarcube, Stockholm (incl. Amanda Newell, Maria Walls et all) (Cat), Curators: Simon Lawrence, Amanda Newall, Leon Tan
7/5 – 11/7/2010 (11th June 2010 Sixth weekend) HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look!, FormContent, London. As Institution of Rot, (incl. Fiona Banner, Rossella Biscotti, Roberto Cuoghi, Guillaume Désanges, David Sherry, Jon Thrupp and Hilary Koob-Sassen, Pedro Neves Marques, Nick Thurston et all) Curators: FormContent
31/7 – 20/9/2009 Come Hither Noise, Freemantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia (incl. John Conomos, Ross Manning, Thomas Meadowcroft, Elvis Richardson et all) Curator: Jasmin Stephens (Come Hither Noise was presented as part of the 9th Totally Huge New Festival in association with Tura New Music, 10-20 September 2009.)
2009 Unstable Institutional Memory – 10 Years at the Blue Oyster. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (incl. Hannah Beehre, Steve Carr, Richard Crow, Michael Morley, Julian Dashper, anonymous & Margaret Roberts et all) (Cat) Curator: Ali Bramwell
31/7/2009 IOR: A Demised Premise, Institution of Rot, London (incl. Douglas Park, Fabiano Marques, Milagros de la Torre et all) Curators: Richard Crow & Lucia Farinati
2008 By Accident, Le Commissariat, Paris. (incl. Douglas Park (with Matthew Burbidge, David Evrard, Jean-Philippe Convert, David Garchey), Artists Anonymous, Coum Transmissions et all) (Cat) Curators: Komplot
29/2 – 2/3/2008 The Unfair Fair, Loto Arte, Rome (incl. Caroline Achaintre, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Italo Zuffi, Eléna Nemkova, Sandrine Nicoletta, Allsopp + Weir, Nico Dockx, A Constructed World, Cesare Pietroiusti, Ursula Mayer, Wolfgang Berkovski et all.) (Cat) Curators: Cecilia Canziani & Vincent Honoré
2007 Specter versus Rector, The Residence, London. (incl. Adrian Dannatt, Deej Fabyc, Marc Hulson, Calum F. Kerr, Cathy Lomax, Mark McGowan, Kurt Ryslavy, Bob and Roberta Smith, et all.) Curator: Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly
2007 Psychic Realities, (a project by Lundbeck Austria GMBH), gabarage upcycling design, Vienna (incl. Carlos Aires, Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid, Jens Haaning, Ursula Mayer, et all.) (Cat) Curator: Walter Seidl
2007 The Weasel – Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery. (incl. Åbäke, Johanna Billing, The Errorists, Ludovica Gioscia & Karen Tang, Esther Planas, Wilhelm Sasnal, et all.) Curator: Kit Hammonds
2007 Dionysian Duty, Mezkalito Gallery, London. (incl. Rut Blees Luxemburg, IIona Sagar, Kurt Ryslavy, et all.) Curator: Douglas Park & Raul Pina Perez
2007 Slow, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (incl. 16 Beaver, Anna Best, Centre of Attention, Barbara Holub, et all.) Curator: Paula Orrell
24/11- 3/12/2006 Ear Pieces, as part of Deptford X, Albany Empire, Deptford, London. Curator: Nye Parry
2006 Love and Anarchy, K3 Project Space, Zurich. (incl. Susann Walder, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Paula Roush, Andrea Crociani, et all.) Curators: Lucia Farinati, Miriam Steinhauser
20/9 – 21/10/2006 Radio Revolten – Festival zur zukunft des Radios, Various venues, Halle/Saale. (incl Brandon Labelle, Anna Fritz, Lou Malozzi et all.) (Cat) Curators: Sabine Breitsmeter, Ralf Wendt, Johannes Wilms
2006 Selected Works from the project EUROPART/25PEACES – Contemporary Art from Europe. Momentum, Vienna (incl. Carlos Aires, Jiri Cernicky, Maria Friberg, Miklos Gaal, et all.)
2005 – 06 EUROPART/25 PEACES – Contemporary Art from Europe, off site billboard project, Vienna & Salzburg. (incl. Carlos Aires, Richard Billingham, Marc Bijl, Michelle Deignan, Ene-Liis Semper, Valie Export, et all.) (Cat) Curators: Walter Seidl, Ursula Maria Probst
2005 Sound Art Museum, Radio Arte Mobile, Rome. (incl. Kaffe Matthews, Disinformation, et all.) Curators: Lorenzo Benedetti, Riccardo Giagni, Cesare Pietroiusti
2004 Gender Trouble, (with Natalia Mali) 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka, Moscow. Curator: Ludmila Bredikhina
2004 Breaking the Visual, as part of Steirischer Herbst, Pavelhaus, Laafeld/Potrna, Austria/Slovenia. (incl. dy’namo, Nikolaus Gansterer, Ursula Mayer, N.I.C.J.O.B., et all.) (Cat) Curator: Walter Seidl
2003 Multiples X: A Retrospective, in Thermo 04. The Lowry Museum, Manchester. Curator: Paul O’Neill
2003 Definitively Provisional, APPENDIKS, Copenhagen. Curators: Cecilia Canziani, Kristine Wilkenshildt
2003 Poupées, Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris. (incl. Hans Bellmer, Michel Nedjar, Louis Pons, Cindy Sherman, et all.) Curators: Allen S. Weiss, Martine Lusardy
2003 Definitively Provisional, Whitechapel Project Space, London. (incl. B+B, Tim Brennan, Donatella di Cicco, Peter Coffin, Mark Glassner, Joseph Kosuth, Cedar Lewisohn, Ruth MacLennan, Paula Roush, Annalisa Sonzogni, Lawrence Weiner, Carey Young, et all. Curators: Cecilia Canziani, Kristine Wilkenshildt
2003 Southwalk, off site walking project, London. (incl, Tom McCarthy, Paula Roush, Roman Vasseur, Mark Aerial Waller et all.) Curators: Louise Garrett, Em Druiff
2003 Multiples X: A Retrospective to date. London Print Studio Gallery, London. Curator: Paul O’Neill
2002 Shock & Show – Reality and Alternatives, (Various venues) Trieste, Italy. (incl. Jake & Dinos Chapman, Orlan, Pierre e Gilles, Oleg Kulik, Zhang Huan, Erwin Olaf, Elke Krystufek et all.) (Cat) Curator: Maria Campitelli
2001 The Difference Between You & Us, Five Years, 40 Underwood St, London. (incl. Project Dark, Denise Hawrysio, Micheal Petry, Dan Hays, Sarah Woodfine, Esther Planas, Bonnie Camplin et all.)
2000 Ground Zero – Transitory Audio Archive, Nomads and Residents, 129 Lafayette Street, New York. Curators: Nomads and Residents
2-3/12/2000 The Plot, Five Years, 40 Underwood Street, London as part of Not I at Mellow Birds, 34 Underwood St, London. (incl. Carl von Weiler, Hans Op de Beeck, Mary McIntyre, et all) Curator: Pieter Hensen
18/5 – 17/6/2000 Not I, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. (incl. Liliana Moro, Hans Op de Beeck, Dermot O’ Brien, et all.) Curator: Pieter Hensen
1999 Multiples x 3, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. (incl, Richard Artschwager, Adam Chodzko, Angus Fairhurst, Jenny Holzer, Susan Phillipz, Elizabeth Price, et all.) (Cat) Curator: Annie Fletcher, Co-curator: Paul O’ Neill
5/11 – 5/12/1999 Very Private, Galerija Likovnih Umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. (incl. Absalon, Eija Liisa Ahtila, Elke Krystufek, Martha Rossler, Pipilotti Rist, Gillian Wearing, et all.) (Cat) Curator: Vanesa Cvahte
28/04 – 29/05/1999 Among Others 3, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. (incl. Richard Crow, Heimo Lattner, Kaffe Matthews, Clive Graham, Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, N.I.C.J.O.B., Werner Dafeldecker, Erin McGonigle, Axel Stockburger, et all.) Curator: Daniela Swarowsky
22/1 – 20/2/1999 Not I, Stichting Vedute, Amsterdam (exhibition of 3D manuscripts by Not I artists)
24/1 – 21/2/1999 Not I, Consortium, Amsterdam. (incl. Liliana Moro, Dermot O’Brien, Pieter Hensen, Clea Daiber, Maurice van Tellingen et all.) Curator: Pieter Hensen
1998 Grapeshot Bullseye Harvest, Attaché Gallery, London. (incl. Jo Mitchell, Bank, Rut Blees Luxemburg & Mark Aerial Waller, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Rod Dickinson & Alison Gill et all.) Curator: Douglas Park
23/1-21/4/1997 Life/Live, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon. (incl. Richard Billingham, Mona Hatoum, Steve McQueen, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gustav Metzger, Bank, London Psychographical Association, et all.) Curators: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Lawrence Bossé
5/10/1996 – 5/1/1997 Life/Live, Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris. (incl. Richard Billingham, Mona Hatoum, Steve McQueen, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gustav Metzger, Bank, London Psychographical Association, et all. ) Curators: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Lawrence Bossé
16/2-26/5/1996 The Noisiness of Bodies, The Institution of Rot, London. (incl. Maria Loura Estevao, Adam Bohman, Heimo Lattner, Anna Teresa Scheer et all) Curators: Richard Crow (as CROW) and Nick Couldry
1-17/12/1992 Hospital: Site, Slide and Context, 3 Gainsborough Grove, Fenham, Newcastle (incl. Kirstene Ogg, Andrew McDermott et all.) (Slide projections onto a hospital wall.)
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