Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen (UK/BE) are London based artists working across objects, installation and film.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Daughter of Dog, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (2024)
Heavens, Serpentine Galleries, London (2021)
Palms Palms Palms, Z33, Hasselt (2020)
Savannah Moon, Sea the Stars, Belenius Gallery, Stockholm (2020)
Luna Eclipse, Oasis Dream, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston (2019)
Trapped in the Dream of the Other, Mu.Zee, Ostend (2018)
White Horse / Twin Horse, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2017)
Avant Tout, Discipline, mu artspace, Eindhoven (2017)
Heart Line, Galleri Belenius, Stockholm (2017)
Leopard, Impala, The Empire Remains Shop, London (2016)
Assemble Standard Minimal, Ernst Schering Foundation, Berlin (2015)
Frames (performance), Sadler’s Wells, London (2015)
The Quiet, FACT, Liverpool (2015)
Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2013)
Butterflies Flying in Formation, Loughborough Radar (2012)
The Immortal, AND Festival, Liverpool (2010)
Further Instructions, The Arts Catalyst, London (2010)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Marks of the Beasts, Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong
2023
Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery, London
Image Ecology, C/O Berlin
Life Cycles, MoMA, New York
2022
Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time, Bangkok
Back to Earth , Serpentine North Gallery, London
Territories of Waste, Museum Tinguely, Basel
Céline Condorelli / After Work, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Persones Persons, Biennale Gherdëina ∞
Being Mothers, E-WERK Luckenwalde
2021
Our silver City, 2049, Nottingham Contemporary
Ti con Zero, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
The World is in You, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Re-creatures, Mattatoio, Rome
Bodies of Water, The 13th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art
AQUARIA — Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea, MAAT Lisbon
X is not a Small Country, MAAT Lisbon
2020
The Unknown Artist, CCAC Portland
Disruptive Matter, K11 Art Foundation
2019
The Drowned World, Toronto Biennial
Designs for a Different Future, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Energy, MoMA, New York
Logics of Sense: Implications, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto
2018
Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Structure and Sadness
Congo stars, Kunsthaus Graz
Unthought Environments, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Infrastructure, SITUATION #114, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2017
Items, MoMA, New York
Clouds⇄Forests, Main project Moscow Biennale, New Tretyakov Gallery
KI, Curated by Paul Feigelfeld, Galerie Crone Vienna
The World as Forest, CeNak Hamburg
2016
Creative Operational Solutions, Para Site, Hong Kong
I Stood Before The Source, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto
Deep Inside, Moscow Biennale of Young Art
The New, Kunstverein Duesseldorf
Our Work, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
2015
Beastly/Tierisch, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Time & Motion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Earth Machines, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Staying With The Trouble, The White Building, London
20/20 Vision, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
2014
Hypothèse de l’impact géant, Carreau, Cergy
JMO, Jerwood Space, London
An Opera of Labour & Revolution, Kasa Galeri Istanbul
Open Space, ICC, Tokyo
The Progress Trap, New Institute, Rotterdam
Labour of the Day, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Urban Choreography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013
Time & Motion, FACT, Liverpool
Dear Diary: Update All, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center, SF
Bunny Smash, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Transitio 05, CENART, Mexico City
Future Perfect, Electricity Museum, Lisbon
SA2013, The Central House of Artists, Moscow
Radical Fiction, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
Artefact, STUK, Leuven
2012
Born out of Necessity, MoMA, New York
Speculative Realities, Roodkapje, Rotterdam
Soft Control, Kibla, Maribor
Superhuman, Wellcome Collection, London
2011
What If? National Museum of China, Beijing
Talk To Me, MoMA, New York
Alter Nature: The Unnatural Animal, Z33, Hasselt
2010
Why Design Now? Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY
Impact!, Royal College of Art, London
Further Instructions, The Arts Catalyst, London
The Imaginarium, Uferhallen, Berlin
Meta.Morf, Trondheim
Designed Disorder, CUBE gallery, Manchester
Feel Home, CC Strombeek, Brussels
2009
Protofarm 2050, Suntec, Singapore
ISEA, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
SELECTED TALKS
2023
May the Fox Take You, Somerset House, London
Key Works with Daisy Hildyard, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University London
Not What I Meant but Anyway book Launch, Serpentine at the Goethe Institute, London
2022
Artist talk, Ghost 2565 Bangkok
Three Hearts E-WERK Luckenwalde
2020
Dogs, MoMA R&D Salon
2019
Spit on the Carpet, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York
Artists’ Talks Series, The Architectural Association, London
The Opening, University of Toronto
Artist talk, Zurich University of the Arts
There is no outside, Dutch Art Institute
Artist talk, Vargas Museum, Manila
2018
Exploitation, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2017
Running in Circles, General Theory Forum, ICA, London
Artist talk, The City College of New York
Illuminations II, The Enemies Project, Austrian Cultural Forum London
2016
Fake Blood on Real Fur, The Empire Remains Shop, London
Are We Human? Architectural Association, London
2015
Congo International Film Festival, Goma
Everything Counts in Large Amounts, MIT Media Lab, MA
Basic Motion Elements, ICA, London
Made to Measure, Transmediale, Berlin
2014
The Alchemical Paradigm, TBA21 Seminar, Lopud
Open Salon, ICC, Tokyo
Artist talk, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013
Gravity, Sheffield Hallam University
Current Values, TENT, Rotterdam
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Working Title Platform, Brussels
Bartlett Nexus, London
Universität der Künste, Berlin
Real Fiction, Die Angewandte, Vienna
TDC day, Joshibi University, Tokyo
Resonate, Belgrade
2012
BE OPEN Forum, Design Miami/Basel
Soft Control, Portal, Maribor
metaPhorest, Waseda University, Tokyo
CAI2, Sapporo
Red Tape, RCA, London
2011
Talk To Me Symposium, MoMA, NY
BIDT , Tsinghua University, Beijing
Next Nature Visual Power Show, Amsterdam
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Young London, The Gopher Hole
A-Z Lecture, Z33, Hasselt
2010
Borderlands, OK Talk, London
Design Indaba, Cape Town
Research Methods Design Symposium, RCA
2009
Iscid World Design Congress, Singapore
Eye Of The Storm, Tate Britain, London
1+1=3, Central Saint Martins College, London
Speculative Storytelling Night, RCA, London
2008
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster
University
Battle of Ideas, London
Human Futures Symposium, FACT, Liverpool
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011, 2014, 2016, 2017)
M+, Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong (2015, 2018)
De Collectie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (2021)
Mu.Zee, Ostend (2018)
Region of Skåne, Malmo (2017)
Royal College of Art, London (2016)
KU Leuven (2012)
Science Museum, London (2010)
RESIDENCIES
Fine Art Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston
Container Artist Residency, NY
The White Building, London
Headlands Center for the Arts, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hindahl, Philipp, ‘Kunst als Komplizin’, Monopol, September 2022, Berlin
Husain, Amber, 2021. ‘Replace Me’, London: Peninsula Press. pp.87-89
van der Werf, Huib Haye. ‘Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen Review’, Artforum, March 2021
Chan, Hera. ‘Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen Ask How Value is Created’, Frieze review, January 2021
Burckhardt, Anna, ‘Choreographing Labour’ MoMA Magazine, New York, November 2019
Poels, Anne-Marie, ‘Trigger’, H_art Magazine 188, Antwerp January 2019
‘Particles (an Epilogue) / Epilogue (a Particle)’, artist text, Unthought Environments Catalogue, Karsten Lund (ed.) The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2019
Wilson, Eva, ‘Trapped in the Dream of the Other’, The Work of Wind: Land, Blackwood Gallery Toronto & K.Verlag, Berlin, 2018
‘Let the Games’, artist text, Due journal, Architectural Association, London 2018
‘Synthetic Blood on Leopard Skin’, artist text, The Empire Remains Shop by Cooking Sections, Columbia University Press, New York, 2018
Volkert, Yvonne, ‘From Trash to Waste’, Texte Zur Kunst, Issue no.108/December 2017, Berlin
Vriens, Jorne, ‘Avant Tout, Discipline’ Review, Metropolis M, No 5, 2017, Utrecht
‘Take a Good Lamp’, artist text, Cultural Politics Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Duke University Press, NC, November 2016
Scrimgeour, Alexander ‘Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen’ Review, Artforum, Summer 2015, NY
Moss, Ceci, ‘Earth Machines’ Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, August 2015
Forbes, Duncan, ‘If A Lion Could Photograph’, Beastly/Tierisch Catalogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Spektor Books, Leipzig, May 2015
Scheller, Jörg ‘Think Tank’, Frieze d/e, Issue 19, Berlin, May 2015
Jeppesen, Travis, Critics Pick Berlin, Artforum, May 2015
Feigelfeld, Paul, ‘Media Archeology out of Nature’, e-flux Journal 62, NY, February 2015
Goldberg, Keren, ‘The Invisible Aesthetics of Perception’, FACT, Liverpool February 2015
‘Mine’, artist text, Rare Earth catalogue, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2015
Parikka, Jussi, ‘21st Century Theory – A New Yesterday’, Spike Art Quarterly No.41, October 2015, Berlin / Vienna
Vis, Dirk, ‘Ik wil een nieuw ding’, De Gids, Amsterdam, April 2014
Schwendener, Martha, ‘From Private Repository to Public Forum’, A Review of ‘Dear Diary: Update All’ New York Times, February 2014
Dunne, Anthony, ‘Speculative Everything’, MIT Press, January 2014
Harbison, Isobel, ‘Techne & Poesis’, Transformism Catalogue, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, January 2013
Aue, Stefan (ed.), ‘ArteFakte. Wissen ist Kunst – Kunst ist Wissen’, BBAW, Berlin, October 2013
Hasegawa, Yuko, ‘Bunny Smash’ Catalogue Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Film Art, 2013
SELECTED AWARDS
Artist Development Grant, Agency for Arts Flanders
International Development Fund, British Council & Arts Council England
JMO, Jerwood Visual Arts
RGB Prize, TDC Tokyo
First Prize, VIDA 14.0 Art and Artificial Life International Award
Wellcome Trust Arts Awards 2009, 2011, 2013
Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica
Science Museum Emerging Artist Commission