Start Point European Academies Award 2008
Galerie Klatovy / Klenová - Czech Republic
August 2nd - September 21st 2008
Winner of the Prize of the Galerie Klatovy / Klenova
My Goldsmiths MFA show was selected by an international jury for Start Point 2008 - the European Academies award. The jury selects one artist from each graduation exhibition of 28 European Academies. The selected works are then exhibited at the Galerie Klatovy / Klenova during August and September 2008. In the final selection I was awarded the Prize of the Galerie Klatovy / Klenova which was selected by the gallery curators and includes a residency at the gallery in 2009.
Otro Espacio, Valencia, Spain
September 27th 2008
Group Show with David Ferrando, Magali Reus, Charlie Tweed
Calvert 22, Shoreditch, London
September/October 2008
Group Show and inaugral exhibition of the new Calvert 22 gallery
The Krautcho Club/In and out of place
FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin and PROJECT SPACE 176, London
(Invited by 176/Zabludowicz Collection London)
August - December 2008
Studio Voltaire: Annual Members’ Exhibition 2008
Selected by Michael Bracewell and Linder
9 August – 7 September 2008
Richard Battersby
BoyleANDshaw
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth
Adam Christensen
Alex Frost
Jeremy Glogan
Candice Jacobs
Nigel Kingsbury
Elisabeth Lecourt
Duncan Marquiss
Alex Pearl
Natasha Rees
Charlie Tweed
George Young
This year’s exhibition includes the work of sixteen artists based throughout the United Kingdom. The panel has selected the most engaging work from this year’s submissions to produce an acumination of diverse artist approaches and contexts. Works include Jeremy Glogan’s Bad Posture, a series of acrylic paintings on identical plastic carrier bags acquired unintentionally from a German airport; Alex Frost’s over sized mosaic works of familiar products and logos, and Charlie Tweed’s videos depicting a post-apocalyptic world of fear and survival.
"Charlie Tweed's sci-fi videos of dystopias that are even worse than the cultural wastelands Bracewell decries in his pop-criticism." (style.com)
'dragged down into lowercase',
Sommerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
August 6th - 17th
Aaron Flint Jamison (USA)
Michael Höpfner (A)
Irina Korina (RUS)
Alexej Koschkarow (BY)
Heather and Ivan Morrison (GB)
Avigail Moss (USA)
Lucy Pawlak (GB)
Pamela Rosenkranz (CH)
Robert Stark (D)
Charlie Tweed (GB)
Philippe Van Wolputte (B)
The exhibition has been conceived in relation to the Zentrum Paul Klee 2008 theme of “The Garden”. For this reason, the exhibition has been placed outdoors, as a feature of the landscape and parklands of the Zentrum Paul Klee.
The exhibition inverts the idea of conventional display by presenting the works and interventions of the participating artists below the ground. Placed in a chamber or pen dug 1 meter deep into the earth, this “lowering” of the artwork throws up a number of fascinating analogies to situations in which cultural artefacts are found below the earth, from the abstract revelations of archaeological strata, to the fantasies of hidden treasure, the crypt and burial grounds of cemeteries, and the interventions of earlier Land Art. Treating the parklands of the Zentrum Paul Klee as an inverted exhibition space, dragged down into lowercase recasts the classical conception of a contemplative subject posited by garden design and landscape painting. In the exhibition, there are no views and nothing is framed in sequence against the horizon. Here the architectural folly is the underground.
Goldsmiths MFA Show
Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London
July 10th - 14th
The show opens Thursday July 10th and I am showing 3 parts of my new video series 'Notes'.
"Charlie Tweed diagnoses (or forecasts) the political mood in art and in the world – vaguely and terribly threatening yet somehow primed with possibility – in his three stunning and disturbing short manifesto videos, which feel like terrorist training guides – pixellated, fanatical, illicit, anonymous, you could be watching them on YouTube pre-their removal, or on some dodgy backwoods website, and the feds could be about to bust down your door. The videos, made primarily with found footage, are paranoiac calls to arms from bizarre political cults, made in blank, earnest computerized voices, for an apparently imminent revolution or action, like the release of a flood when a secret signal is given. In Where We Are Now a voice pushes on us its massive suspicion of mere birds and says 'we need to do more' to round them up and 'store them securely in places where they can operate freely'. James Westcott, Artreview
Whitstable Biennale
Whitstable, Kent
June 28th and 29th
For this newly commissioned performance I will be building a shelter and installation in the guise of the Man From Above on the seafront at Whitstable and lecturing visitors on plans for a new safe community high up above the surface.