Tacita Dean
‘My relationship to film begins at the moment of shooting, and ends in the moment of projection. Along the way there are several stages of magical transformation that imbue the work with varying layers of intensity.’
Marked by her restless curiosity, the work of Tacita Dean (b. 1965, Canterbury) invites viewers to explore the depths and limits of her subject matter and the medium she uses to present it. Her eloquent 16 and 35mm analogue films are carried by a sense of history, time and place, and a fascination with the unique qualities of film itself. When Dean was commissioned to produce a work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011, the result was the monumental FILM. A meditation on the history and limits of the medium, she used techniques of masking and rewinding that enabled her to expose the same piece of film several times in order produce images within the camera.
In 2018 Dean’s work was the subject of concurrent exhibitions across three London museums: Landscape at the Royal Academy, which featured the artist’s monumental blackboard drawings as well as the 35mm film Antigone; Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, showing her 16mm depictions of David Hockney and Cy Twombly amongst others; and Still Life at the National Gallery where she curated an in-depth exhibition, assembling work by herself and others, contemporary and historical, and guided by her perspective of the genre. In 2020, Dean was commissioned to create the set design and costumes for a new ballet, The Dante Project. A collaboration with the Royal Ballet’s choreographer Wayne McGregor and conductor-composer Thomas Adès, the ballet was presented in autumn 2021 at the Royal Opera House, London.
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Tacita Dean
Film Screening | Palazzo Grassi, Venice 31 Oct 20247pm Thursday 31 October at Palazzo Grassi, Venice Accompanying the inclusion of Tacita Dean's work in the exhibition 'Ensemble. Julie Mehretu', altriformati has curated an...Read more -
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Artist Talk with Amanda Gluibizzi 18 Oct 2024The Brooklyn Rail | Online Friday 18 October 1pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific On the occassion of the major solo exhibition, Tacita Dean...Read more -
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Blind Folly | The Menil Collection, Houston 11 Oct 202411 October 2024–20 April 2025 Tacita Dean: Blind Folly is the artist's first major museum survey in the United States. The exhibition, organised in close...Read more -
Drawing Room Biennial 2024
Drawing Room, London 3 May 20243 May–3 July 2024 Online auction opens noon, 19 June Auction bidding ends 8pm, 3 July Anna Barriball, Tacita Dean, Callum Innes, Cornelia Parker and...Read more
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Ensemble | Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy 17 Mar 2024Until 6 January 2025 Tacita Dean's One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting (2021) is included as part of Julie Mehretu: Ensemble at Palazzo Grassi,...Read more -
Tacita Dean & Simon Martin
Artist Talk: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 11 Jan 2024In Conversation: Tacita Dean and Simon Martin Thursday 11 January 2024 | 6–7.30pm Join Pallant House Gallery Director Simon Martin in conversation with Tacita Dean....Read more -
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Solo Exhibition: MCA Sydney 8 Dec 20238 December 2023–3 March 2024 Tacita Dean's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, opening on 8 December, will be the largest in-depth...Read more -
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The Dante Project: Royal Opera House, London 18 Nov 2023The Royal Opera House, London 18 November – 2 December 2023 The award-winning ballet The Dante Project, with set and costume design by Tacita Dean,...Read more
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The Dante Project: The Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen 4 Nov 20234 November–18 November 2023 The Dante Project will open at The Royal Danish Theatre on 4 November 2023, performed by The Royal Danish Ballet. Premiering...Read more -
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The Dante Project Screenings at Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, Basel 17 Sep 2023Tacita Dean, The Dante Project | Screenings Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, Basel In conjuction with the exhibition OUT OF THE BOX, a recording of the ballet...Read more -
Tacita Dean & Dayanita Singh
Out of the Box at Schaulager Laurenz Foundation 10 Jun 202310 June–19 November 2023 Including work by Tacita Dean and Dayanita Singh Schaulager will present a major group exhibition to celebrate 20 years of the...Read more -
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Geography Biography at Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris 24 May 202324 May–25 September 2023 This Spring, Tacita Dean’s work will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at The Bourse de Commerce in Paris....Read more
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The Dante Project at Palais Garnier, Paris 29 Apr 202329 April–31 May 2023 Ballet in three acts After Dante Alighieri, La Divine Comédie After premiering at London’s Royal Opera House in October 2021, The...Read more -
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Avant l'Orage at Pinault Collection, Paris 8 Feb 20238 February–11 September 2023 Viewed against the backdrop of climate change, this group exhibition brings together the works of some fifteen international artists from the...Read more -
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Solo Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg 9 Jul 2022Mudam Galleries Level 1 | 9 July 2022–29 January 2023 Tacita Dean In Conversation | 8 July 2022, 6 pm CEST This solo exhibition, devoted...Read more -
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Solo Exhibition at Getty Center, LA 7 Jun 20227 June–28 August 2022 Two new works by British European artist Tacita Dean engage with the sites and collections of the Getty Center and Getty...Read more
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Words and Images
Online Viewing Room 25 Jan 202225 January–27 February 2022 To mark Shilpa Gupta’s links to language and poetry, exemplified by her large-scale sound installation For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot...Read more -
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The Dante Project on BBC Four Broadcast 23 Jan 2022BBC Four Sunday 23 January 9pm GMT 1 hour 47 minutes Following its acclaimed world premiere at London’s Royal Opera House last year, The Royal...Read more -
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The Dante Project on Royal Opera House Stream 20 Dec 2021Monday 20 December, 7.30pm GMT Following its acclaimed world premiere at London’s Royal Opera House earlier this year, The Dante Project will be available to...Read more -
Tacita Dean & Anne Rana
Artist Talk at Getty Research Institute, Online 8 Dec 2021Monet Hates Me: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Anne Rana. Online, free artist talk at the Getty Research Institute Los Angeles. Wednesday, December 8, 2021, from 4pm–5pm PST / 12pm midnight BSTRead more
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Film Screening at Centro de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona, Xcèntric Cinema 6 Nov 20216 November 2021, 7pm CEST CCCB Xcèntric Cinema, The Auditorium Obsolete technology or cinema of vision? This session, which includes the talk Cinema of Vision...Read more -
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Sigh Sigh Sigh at La Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome 30 Oct 202130 October 2021–26 February 2022 Thursday–Saturday, 11am–6pm (last entry, 5.30pm) Entry free of charge La Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio presents from Saturday 30 October 2021...Read more -
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Limited Edition Print at Hepworth Wakefield 28 Oct 2021Tacita Dean has produced a new limited edition print exclusively for the Hepworth Wakefield on the occasion of the museum’s 10th anniversary and the artist’s...Read more -
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Limited Edition Print at Royal Opera House 14 Oct 2021The Royal Opera House, London has released a set of limited edition signed prints on the occassion of the world premiere of The Dante Project...Read more
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The Dante Project at Royal Opera House, London 14 Oct 202114–30 October 2021 The Dante Project opens at London's Royal Opera House to brilliant reviews. Congratulations to Tacita Dean for her set and costume designs,...Read more -
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The Dante Project at Royal Opera House, London 14 Oct 202114–30 October 2021 Tacita Dean has designed the set and costumes for choreographer Wayne McGregor’s much anticipated The Dante Project. Premiering in October 2021, The...Read more -
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Artist Talk on Frieze Masters, Online 11 Oct 2021Monday 11 October 2021, 3pm BST Online Talk Frieze Masters Talks returns in-person at the fair and online from 11-17 October curated by Dr Nicholas...Read more -
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Inferno at Paul Hamlyn Hall, Royal Opera House, London 4 Sep 20214 September 2021–7 April 2022 Open daily from 12pm Ahead of the launch of its upcoming 2021/22 Season, the Royal Opera House will throw open...Read more
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Antigone at Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart 28 Aug 202128 August 2021–9 January 2022 Tacita Dean's solo exhibition Antigone is now open at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart. The exhibition marks the Swiss premiere of...Read more -
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Limited Edition Print 21 Jun 2021Oxford Street, 21 June–4 July 2021 Accompanying the launch of Counter Edition’s new series of limited-edition prints celebrating Tate Modern’s 21st anniversary, Tacita Dean’s work...Read more -
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Prix Benois de la Danse 8 Jun 2021Artist Tacita Dean has been awarded a Prix Benois de la Danse 2021 for her set and costumes created for The Dante Project, a new...Read more -
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New Commission for Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield 21 May 202121 May 2021–27 February 2022 To mark the The Hepworth Wakefield’s 10th anniversary, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life is the most expansive exhibition of the...Read more
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Chalkboards at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland 12 Nov 202012 November 2020 Three monumental chalkboard works by Tacita Dean will be displayed together for the first time at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, opening 12...Read more -
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Prints & Photographs on London Collective, Vortic Collect App 26 Jun 202026 June–26 August 2020 Only through London Collective on the Vortic Collec t App Frith Street Gallery are delighted to announce our participation in London...Read more -
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Solo Exhibition at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland 26 Feb 202026 February–3 May 2020 Tacita Dean is well known for her 16mm and 35mm films, as well as championing the preservation and continued use of...Read more
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Alliances: Gallery Summer Show 5 Jul - 9 Aug 2024 Golden SquareFrith Street Gallery is delighted to present Alliances, a summer exhibition. This eclectic and playful show presents pairs of works by different gallery artists. The connection between the two can...Read more
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Gallery Summer Show
Portrait 7 Jul - 11 Aug 2023 Golden SquareFrith Street Gallery presents Portrait, an exhibition of works by gallery artists considering the contemporary portrait through a range of perspectives and mediums. From sensitive images of loved ones to...Read more -
Found Forms: A Summer Show 1 Jul - 13 Aug 2022 Golden Square
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17 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 Soho Square, Golden SquareGolden Square The Dante Project / One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting Soho Square Monet Hates Me / Pan Amicus Taking place across the gallery’s two spaces in Golden...Read more -
Surface and Space: A Summer Show 9 Jul - 7 Aug 2021 Golden SquareThe photographs, works on paper and paintings in the exhibition often strike a balance between a legible image and an abstraction, conjuring a set of conversations between order and organic...Read more
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Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Prints 29 Jun - 3 Aug 2018 Golden SquareSummer Breeze is a group exhibition that highlights the range and techniques of contemporary printmaking. Polly Apfelbaum adopted a systematic approach to create the series Hudson River Vallery Nirvana (2016)...Read more
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Summer Breeze 6 Jul - 11 Aug 2017 Soho Square, Golden SquareThe works at Golden Square reveal how the notion of body is imbued with multiple meanings, including recurring bodies of artwork, or bodies of human subjects themselves. An analyst, an...Read more
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LA Exuberance 16 Sep - 4 Nov 2016 Golden SquareLA Exuberance presents a collection of new works related to Tacita Dean’s time spent in Los Angeles, which is being shown alongside her recent, highly-acclaimed 2015 film Event for a...Read more -
Silver
17 Oct - 17 Dec 2014 Soho SquareSince opening, Frith Street Gallery has emerged as one of the art world’s most interesting forces, instrumental in developing the careers of internationally renowned figures as well as supporting those...Read more -
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13 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 Golden SquareIt is inspired by her correspondence with British author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) regarding connections between his short story “The Voices of Time” (1960) and Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork and film...Read more -
After the Volcano: A Summer Show of Gallery Artists 3 Jul - 14 Aug 2010 Golden SquareAfter the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists features work by 14 gallery artists: Massimo Bartolini, John Riddy, Anna Barriball, Dayanita Singh, Dorothy Cross, Bridget Smith, Tacita Dean, Juan...Read more
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Craneway Event 13 May - 26 Jun 2010 Golden SquareIn November 2008, Tacita Dean filmed the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) and his dance company rehearsing for an event in a former Ford assembly plant in Richmond, California....Read more -
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Wandermüde 20 Sep - 25 Oct 2007 Golden SquareHere Dean has chosen to show a selection of works related to both British and German subject matter under the title of Wandermüde. Unlike the better known, Wanderlust, which is...Read more -
Resonance
The Final Exhibition at 59–60 Frith Street 3 Nov - 21 Dec 2006 Soho SquareFrith Street Gallery was established in 1989 with the intention of exhibiting drawings and works on paper. This exhibition recalls the gallery’s origins, bringing together works by gallery artists and...Read more -
Print Run
An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints 13 Jan - 26 Feb 2006 Soho SquarePolly Apfelbaum is known for her floor installations comprised of hundreds of hand-cut and hand-dyed pieces of fabric that explore issues of domesticity, femininity, and decoration. Her series of prints...Read more -
Tacita Dean
16 Sep - 6 Nov 2004 Soho SquareTacita Dean’s emergence in the 1990’s as a young artist of great and growing stature has been recognised in widening circles in Europe and America. She is now one of...Read more -
Summer Show
6 Jul - 9 Sep 2004 Soho SquareTacita Dean, Dayanita Singh, Callum Innes, Giuseppe PenoneRead more -
Aligned
13 May - 25 Jun 2004 Soho SquareAligned brings together a group of artists working in a broad variety of disciplines and themes, yet for all of them the act of drawing remains at the core of...Read more -
Frequencies
22 May - 4 Jul 2003 Soho SquareChantal Akerman’s Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton is a portrait of the cellist and composer, Sonia Wieder-Atherton. In the film Akerman portrays the musician as an actor engaged in dialogue with her...Read more -
Summer Show
27 Jun - 8 Aug 2002 Soho SquareFiona Banner, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Bernard Frize, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Cornelia Parker, John Riddy, Dayanita Singh, Bridget Smith and Annelies StrbaRead more -
A Pause for Breath
15 Nov 2001 - 11 Jan 2002 Soho SquareGiuseppe Penone’s series of 19 black and white photographs, Soffi, articulate one of the major themes that he has explored throughout his career – the idea of ‘soffio’ or breath....Read more -
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Floh 2 - 29 Mar 2001 Soho SquareTo celebrate the publication of FLOH by Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of limited edition photographs from the book. 'I do not want to...Read more -
0 To 60 In 10 Years
A Decade in Soho - Part I 27 May - 1 Jul 1999 Soho SquareJane Hamlyn opened the gallery in 1989 and over the last 10 years, Frith Street Gallery has developed an international programme of painting, photography, sculpture, film and video, doubled its...Read more -
Appliance of Science
23 Jan - 18 Mar 1999 Soho SquareWe are surrounded by books, television programmes, lectures cajoling us towards a better understanding of science as we reach the end of the 20th century. While science continues to reveal...Read more -
Video Projection Film
14 May - 25 Jun 1998 Soho SquareMost of them do not usually work in video or projection but use these media to accentuate prevalent ideas in their work. Dorothy Cross’ work can be characterised by a...Read more -
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11 Sep - 1 Nov 1997 Soho SquareDelft Hydraulics, by far the most formal and contained of the three films, was shot in a marine laboratory in Holland. A short loop of a wave machine shows the...Read more -
Tacita Dean
10 May - 30 Jun 1995 Soho SquareTacita Dean’s work was seen most recently in Mise en Scene at the ICA, London in October. She presented two projects: The Martyrdom of St. Agatha and Girl Stowaway. Both...Read more
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Geography Biography 2023Paperback, 184 pagesRead more
Publisher: Dilecta, Paris
ISBN: 9782373721836
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The Dante Project 2022Softback, 120 pagesRead more
Publisher: Co-Published by Mudam, Luxembourg and Walther König, Cologne, 2022
ISBN: 9783753302546
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Monet Hates Me 2021Paperback, 368 pagesRead more
Publisher: Co-published by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Walter König, Cologne, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-60606-777-2
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Selected Writing and Complete Works & Filmography 2018Paperback, 2 volumes, 304 pages (vol.1) + 288 pages (vol.2) pagesRead more
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018
ISBN: 978-3-7757-1850-9
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm