James Beckett

Past

James Beckett – The Sceptical Structures of Max
09 June - 31 July, 2020
T293 Rome

James Beckett – ‘The Guinness Curse’
21 March - 21 April 2017
T293 Rome

James Beckett – “Khevsurvite Derivative (potential dwellers in ravines)”
January 27 – March 5 2011
T293 Rome

James Beckett – “Bagnoli (and Italsider as extract-arrangement)”
April 10 - May 16 2009

James Beckett – “Living Registration”
February 3 - March 24 2007

Collecteurs’s Podcast & Videocast (Adam Carr and James Beckett)

Residence ICSP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York City, Jan-Dec, 2020

Born 1977, Harare, Zimbabwe

Solo exhibitions
2020 ‘The sceptical structures of Max’, T293, Rome
2019 ‘The sceptical structures of Max’, Cityscapes Foundation, Amsterdam
2019 ‘Strange Glow’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2017 ‘The Guinness Curse’, T293, Rome
2017 ‘The Cray Extension’, with Narcisse Tordoir, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2016 ‘Palace Ruin’, Public Art Project, Amsterdam
2014 ‘Dowsing Schools: Preliminary Findings and Corresponding Survey Kit’, The Physics Room, Christchurch
2014 ‘Dowsing Schools: Preliminary Findings and Corresponding Survey Kit’, Artspace, Auckland
2014 ‘KaVo Zahnarztstuhl Regie 1520 A’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2013 ‘That’s That, That Way ‘Round, Basically – As You Probably Know’, Artists’ Club Coffrefort, Brussels
2013 ‘Passionate Advocate for a Poisoned Earth’, TWAAS, New York
2012 ‘Of Animal and Inventory’, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2012 ‘Door and Milk Permutations’, Luettgenmeijer, Berlin
2011 ‘My Friend André’s Grandmother’s Sawmill’, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna
2011 ‘Khevsurvite Derivative (potential dwellers in ravines)’, T293, Rome
2010 ‘Untitled’, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum
2009 ‘Bagnoli (and Italsider as extract – arrangement)’, T293, Naples
2008 ‘Limburgerhof (The Agricultural Extract-Arrangements)’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2008 ‘Dalmine (and other industry extract – arrangements)’, LuettgenMeijer, Berlin
2008 ‘Spade Scrapes 1 – 6, Van Zijll Langhout Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 ‘Living Registration’, T293, Naples
2006 ‘Living Registration’, BüroFriedrich, Berlin
2006 ‘Untitled Installation’, Natal Society of Arts, Durban
2003 ‘Climb on Shoulders to Peep Over and Dismount with Lips in Hedge’, NICC, Koninklijk Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten, Antwerp
2002 ‘Extract arrangements (tribute to Mucha)’, PLUS Gallery, Dusseldorf
1999 ‘Home’, Natal Society of Arts, Durban
1999 ‘Breathing Space’, The Yard, B/W Photography, London
1999 ‘Breathing Space’, Natal Society of Arts/ Palmer street studios, Durban

Group exhibitions

2020 ‘Spatial bias’, Lesage, Auderghem, Belgium

2019 ‘Parallax’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2019 ‘Now is the Time’, Wuzhen, China

2018 ‘Revolutionize!’, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine

2018 ‘The Assassination of Leon Trotsky’, David Lewis Gallery, New York

2018 Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – RIBOCA, Riga
2017 ‘w serves imperialism’, W139, Amsterdam
2017 ‘Flatlands’, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, MCAD, Manila
2017 ‘Witness’, 1st Karachi Biennial, Karachi
2017 ‘Dead Darlings’, Unseen, Amsterdam
2017 ‘La lama di Procopio’, organized by Dolomiti Contemporanee in collaboration with Collezione Agi Verona, Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Casso, Italy
2017 ‘Utopia/Dystopia, Part I and II’, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
2017 ‘James Beckett with Narcisse Tordoir’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2017 ‘Survival Guide’, Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta
2016 ‘What Next – picture tomorrow’, 38CC, Delft
2016 ‘Apprentice/Master #20’, Kunst Podium T, Tilburg
2016 ‘Hospice’ (in collaboration with Artun Alaska Arasli), Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2016 ‘Art of control’, Hacking Habitat, Utrecht
2015 ‘Next Day’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2015 ‘Hospice’ (in collaboration with Artun Alaska Arasli), Markus Lüttgen, Cologne

2015 ‘Colmare il bocciolo/Combattere il verme/Regolare il calore/Eludere il vento/Sfuggire all’ape’, Icastica, Arezzo
2015 ‘Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will’, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
2015 ‘Personne et les autres’, Belgian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale
2014 ‘Homing’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2014 ‘A Thousand Varied Uses’, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid
2014 ‘Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century’, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2013 ‘Liquid Assets’, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
2013 ‘Scenographies’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2013 ‘Dread – Fear in the age of technological acceleration’, De Hallen, Haarlem
2013 ‘Artificial Amsterdam’, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
2013 ‘Goodbye Lukas’, Amstel 41, Amsterdam
2013 ‘to scrap a proportion’, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2012 ‘Beyond Imagination’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2012 ‘If A Tree…’, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg
2012 ‘When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes’, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2012 ‘Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art’, Dakar
2011 ‘Verzameld Werk (section folklorique)’, Zeeuwsmuseum, Middelburg
2011 ‘Rapid Art 1’, Villa Dessauer, Stadtgalerie Bamberg
2011 ‘Expérience Pommery # 9 “La Fabrique Sonore”’, Pommery, Reims
2011 ‘Blinds’, Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht
2011 ‘XV Unidentified Species’, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon
2011 ‘Historical Structures – New Existentialism Part 2′, Kurator, Zurich
2010 ‘Playground – Zaklady na Zycie (Plant-Life)’, Stuk, Leuven
2010 ‘Gold for wood’, Veemvloer, Amsterdam
2010 ‘Doodgewoon’, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum
2010 ‘Capturing Metamorphosis’, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
2010 ‘Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree’, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
2010 ‘Tutta la memoria del mondo’, Gam – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
2009 ‘Blinds’, Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht
2009 ‘Open Source’, Biennial of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam
2008 ‘For the First and the Second Time’, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2008 ‘3rd Young Artists Biennale- Re – Construction’, Bucharest
2007 ‘Between Thought and Sound…’, The Kitchen, New York
2007 ‘Chaos City 2’, Universal Studios, Beijing
2007 ‘A for Alibi’, Uqbar Foundation, De Appel, Amsterdam
2007 ‘Museum of Noise’, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2007 ‘Sirens’, Auditory Alerts, (Curator of), at 66-East, Amsterdam
2006 ‘Here as the Centre of the World’, Curator and Workshop, Taipei
2006 ‘Vacuum 2’, VHDG, Leeuwarden
2006 ‘Practicum 06a’, N – Collective in Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2005 ‘Adam’, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
2005 ‘Radio Days’, De Appel, four radio programmes, Amsterdam
2005 ‘Dutch Open’, De Balie, Amsterdam
2005 ‘Low Tech’, Arte Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2004 ‘Hit and Run’, Platform and Smart Projects, Istanbul
2004 ‘Values’, 11th Serbian Biennale Visual Arts, Pancevo
2004 ‘DAI/ NAI’, Nanjing Art InstituteI, Nanjing
2003 ‘Vacuum’, Opkomst Yaarbeurs, Utrecht
2003 ‘A Partial Museum of Noise’, Gem – Museum of Contemporary Art, Prix de Rome, Den Haag
2003 ‘Emmaus-Ölberg-Gemeinde’, Death, Berlin
2002 ‘Rendevous’, Centre for Contemporary European Art, Xiamen
2002 ‘Dokumenta’, collaboration Narcisse Tordoir / Meschac Gaba, Kassel
2002 ‘Bessengue City’, radio station workshop, Doula, Cameroon
2002 ‘Filiale Africa’, Spar Kassa, Dusseldorf
2002 ‘Noise of Coincidence’, Cucosa Contemporary Art Space, Rotterdam
2002 ‘A Haunted house of Art’, Outline Project Space, Amsterdam
2001 ‘Home Made, Stichting V/H de Gemeente’, Leeuwarden
2001 ‘Karl Hofer Society’, with Khwezi Gule/ Robin Rhode, Berlin
2001 ‘CLICK’, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, Bamako, Mali
2001 ‘Adrift’, Las Palmas, Rotterdam
2000 ‘Pulse’, NSA, Rijksakademie R.A.I.N., Durban
1999 ‘Civic Centre’, Graduates of Natal Tech, Johannesburg
1998 ‘Black and Blue’, Palmer Street Studios, Durban
1997 ‘Thirty Seven Songs’, Curated 37 artists, Durban
1997 ‘Stel Hotten Totten Ten Ten Toon’, Collaboration with Sandberg Institute, Bat Centre, Durban

Concert / lecture / performance / workshops
2010 ‘Zakłady na Życie (Plant-Life)’, Festival ad Werf, Utrecht
2009 ‘Three Concerts’ (feat. Plus Minus Ensemble), ICA, London
2009 ‘The Frèderyck Nùyegen Seaside Memorial Band‘, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
2007 ‘Pipes and Foam’, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2006 ‘Animals in Instruments’, STEIM, lecture and concert, Amsterdam
2006 ‘Lucier in Taiwan’, concept and teacher of the sound workshop, Taipei
2006 ‘Loss of meaning in Language’, Delft Architecture Dept, Delft
2005 ‘Nadine Project Space’, performance/concert, Brussels
2004 ‘lecture / sound w / s’, Nanjing University, Nanjing
2003 ‘Schoenberg / Gamelan imposition, Baby’, concert, Amsterdam
2003 ‘Lost and Found’, Concert, Fridge, Amsterdam
2003 Nederlands Architecture Institute, Concert, Rotterdam
2002 ‘International Art practice’, Alliance Française, Seminar, Yaoudé, Cameroon
2002 ‘Stubnitz.nl / NDSM-WERF’, a concert with Marijn Korff de Gidts Amsterdam
2002 ‘Mantra for Motors’, Rijksakademie, concert, Amsterdam
2002 ‘Muntplein Transferal’, concert, Muntplein, Amsterdam
1999 ‘National Art Gallery’, Salt performance, Durban
1999 ‘Mickey’, performance, Piccadilly Circus, London

Curated projects
2012 The Taut and Tame, Berlin (with works by André Avelãs, Lado Darakhvelidze, Kati Kärki, Jim Skuldt, Roman Wolgin, Tania Theodorou)

Residencies / Fellowships / Awards
2020 ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program Residency, New York
2014 Aldeburgh Beach LOOKOUT Residency, Suffolk
2013 Residency: ‘Convention T’, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2006 Project support South Africa, Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam
2005 Basis Stipendium, Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam
2003 Winner Prix de Rome, Art and Public Space Amsterdam
2002 Stipend: Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture / Science
2002 Grant: National Arts Council, Johannesburg
2001 Grant: Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Johannesburg
2001 Stipend: Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture/ Science
1999 Emma-Smith scholarship, Durban

Permanent installations
2009 ‘Transcriptions 1-6’, Cancer Research Institute of the Netherlands (NKI – AVL), Amsterdam

t293 words
Review by Adam Carr →

‘Personne et les autres: Vincent Meessen & Guests’
Publication accompanying the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale
Mousse Publishing, Milan
2015

James Beckett
‘works of James Beckett with constant interjections by Frank Key’
Westreich Wagner Publications, NY
2013
Available at the gallery

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James Beckett