Interested in systems of rules and ordering principles that structure social behavior, Angela Bulloch creates multidisciplinary installations that explore creative connections between modern aesthetic and digitalism through various combinations of light, video, text, sound and different objects. Her functional works provoke the viewer’s way of interpretation of a different type of information, using the conceptual severity, the involvement of senses and occasional humor. Considered as one of the Young British Artists, unlike her colleagues who were still ruled by the supremacy of the work of art, Bulloch strived to pursue fine art practice in the realm of interactivity.
Bulloch was born in 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. She gained her education at Goldsmith’s College in London and was a part of the famous Freeze Exhibition in 1988, organized by Damien Hirst in an empty London Port Authority building, which announced the development of the Young British Artists. Spanning a wide range of media, from video and installation to the sculpture and painting, the artist explores the systems, patterns, and rules, focusing on the creative territory between mathematics and aesthetics. She is recognizable for her “pixel boxes”, commonly made of beech wood with a plastic front screen, characterized by changing and pulsing colors that transfer complex visual patterns into simple shifting monochromes. During the time, besides beech, she adopted their production in copper, aluminum, and corian, getting closer to the minimalist heritage and liberating colors of pure abstraction. Since the early 2000’s, she advanced her “pixel boxes”, using them as components of sculptural installations, creating different structures, from towers to floors, to bog screens which translate various scenes or changing abstract color compositions. Alongside these sculptural pieces, she revived the “Drawing Machines” she used to make early in her career. Following some external impulse, such as any kind of noise visitors of the exhibition make, these machines draw lines on the walls, conjoining modernist concerns of the grid, monochrome and color field through a concept of interaction. One more interesting series, first shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008 as the part of the exhibition theanyspacewhatever, was an electronic simulation of the night sky. The artificial dark sky filled with constellations of stars has been projected on the interior dome of the Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda[1]. Repeating this installation numerous times, Bulloch always starts with the map of the stars visible from earth, depicting the real space, whether if she works on large-scale public installations or small domestic panels.
Since her graduation in 1988, Bulloch has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and internationally. He one person shows has been held in prestigious institutions, museums, and galleries, such as Kunsthaus Glarus, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Le Consortium in Dijon, Modern Art Oxford, Vienna Secession, The Power Plant in Toronto and Lenbachhaus in Munich. In 1977, Bulloch was short-listed for the Turner Prize when she presented her playful artwork called Rules Series[2]. She has been also nominated for the 2005 Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
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Featured image: Angela Bulloch – Artist’s portrait – Image via whitewallmag.com
Year | Exhibition title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group |
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2016 | Angela Bulloch, Space Fiction Object | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | Solo |
2016 | Brain Multiples at 25 | 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA | Group |
2016 | Collection Gallery & Friends (20 Years) | Galerie Mirko Mayer, m projects, Cologne | Group |
2016 | Tobias Rehberger presently | Neugerriemschneider, Berlin | Group |
2016 | The Natural Order of Things | Museo Jumex, Mexico City | Group |
2015 | Angela Bulloch | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | Solo |
2015 | Angela Bulloch, Topology: No Holes, Four Tails | Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, NY | Solo |
2015 | Angela Bulloch | Simon Lee Gallery, London | Solo |
2015 | Beginnings | GALERIJA VARTAI, Vilnius | Group |
2015 | Lunapark 2000, Lichtkunst aus der Sammlung Marli Hoppe Ritter | Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch | Group |
2015 | Tele Gen, Kunst Und Fernsehen | Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn | Group |
2015 | Sensory Systems | Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Lancashire | Group |
2015 | Faux Amis | Simon Lee Gallery, London | Group |
2014 | Angela Bulloch, Universal Pixels And Music Listening Stations | Kerstin Engholm Galerie,Vienna | Solo |
2014 | Angela Bulloch, In Virtual Vitro | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2014 | Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection | Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi | Group |
2014 | Datascape, Laboral | Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón | Group |
2014 | Diagrams | Holden Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester | Group |
2014 | Angela Bulloch, Adrian Sauer | Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid | Duo |
2013 | Angela Bulloch, Universal Mineral | Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong | Solo |
2013 | 93 CGAC | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela | Group |
2013 | Le Futur Commence Ici FRAC, Nord | Pas de Calais, Dunkerque | Group |
2012 | Angela Bulloch | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2012 | Angela Bulloch, Short Big Drama | Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam | Solo |
2012 | Double and Add: Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, Haroon Mirza | The RISD Museum, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI | Group |
2012 | The Simple Life | Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen | Group |
2011 | Angela Bulloch | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | Solo |
2011 | Vattenfall Contemporary 2011, Information, Manifesto, Rules and other leaks... | Berlinische Galerie, Berlin | Solo |
2011 | Angela Bulloch, Time & Line | Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg | Solo |
2011 | Line Up | Boers Li Gallery, Beijing | Group |
2011 | Exposition De Sculpture Npdc | Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung City | Group |
2011 | Sculpture Now | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | Group |
2010 | KW69 #1 Molecular Etwas von Angela Bulloch | Kunst Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin | Solo |
2010 | Discrete Manifold Whatsoever | Simon Lee Gallery, London | Solo |
2010 | Angela Bulloch, Redux | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2010 | European Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture 2010. Split Identities: Objects at the Interstice of Art and Design | Galerija Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota | Group |
2010 | The New Decor | Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, GCCC, Moscow | Group |
2010 | Fresh Hell | Palais de Tokyo, Paris | Group |
2009 | Angela Bulloch Trajectories and other Lines | Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon | Solo |
2009 | Angela Bulloch, Smoked, Formed & Quartered | Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid | Solo |
2009 | We are sun kissed and snow blind | Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris | Group |
2009 | Verausgabungssymposium | COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna | Group |
2009 | Moby Dick | CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA | Group |
2009 | L'attraction de l'espace | Musée d'Art moderne de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne | Group |
2008 | Angela Bulloch | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | Solo |
2008 | Angela Bulloch, The space that time forgot | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau,Munich | Solo |
2008 | The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey | Arnolfini, Bristol | Group |
2008 | theanyspacewhatever | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY | Group |
2008 | Living Box | Centre d’art Le hangar à Bananes, Le Hab, Nantes | Group |
2007 | Angela Bulloch, Are you coming or going, around? | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2007 | Jubilee Exhibition | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | Group |
2007 | Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst | Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | Group |
2007 | BODYPOLITCX | Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam | Group |
2007 | Accords Excentriques | BPS22, Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi | Group |
2006 | Angela Bulloch | The Power Plant, Toronto, ON | Solo |
2006 | Angela Bulloch | DE PONT, museum of contemporary art, Tilburg | Solo |
2006 | In the darkest hour there may be light | Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, Essex | Group |
2006 | Absolumental | les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse | Group |
2006 | Bewegung im Quadrat | Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch | Group |
2005 | Yuko Gothic Grid, Angela Bulloch | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | Solo |
2005 | Angela Bulloch | Modern Art Oxford, Oxford | Solo |
2005 | Angela Bulloch, To the Power of 4. | Wiener Secession, Vienna | Solo |
2005 | Angela Bulloch | Le Consortium, Dijon | Solo |
2005 | Angela Bulloch | Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid | Solo |
2005 | Naturalia | Futura, Prague | Group |
2005 | 100 Artists See God | Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA | Group |
2005 | The Treason of Sculpture | Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga | Group |
2004 | Angela Bulloch | Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna | Solo |
2004 | Angela Bulloch | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich | Solo |
2004 | The Dutch Show, Contemporary Dutch artists in Greek | The Netherlands Institute, Athens | Group |
2004 | 100 Artists See God | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London | Group |
2003 | New Work 8: Angela Bulloch | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | Solo |
2003 | Angela Bulloch, Matrix 205 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM PFA, Berkeley, CA | Solo |
2003 | It's in our hands | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich | Group |
2003 | An exhibition of ephemera | Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton | Group |
2003 | Bright Lights, Big City | David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY | Group |
2003 | Form Specific Arteast Exhibition | Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana | Group |
2002 | Angela Bulloch | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | Solo |
2002 | ANGELA BULLOCH | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2002 | Angela Bulloch | 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA | Solo |
2002 | 4th Shanghai Biennale, Urban Creation | Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai | Group |
2002 | Remix: Contermporary art & pop | Tate Liverpool, Liverpool | Group |
2001 | Angela Bulloch, Z Point | Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus | Solo |
2001 | Black, Silver and Gold | Galerie d'Art Contemporain Du Bellay, Mont Saint Aignan | Group |
2001 | Total Object Complete with Missing Parts | Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland | Group |
2001 | Stuffed | 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA | Group |
2000 | Angela Bulloch, Headless + Tripping | 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA | Solo |
2000 | From the Eiffel tower to the Riesenrad | Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna | Solo |
2000 | BLOW UP T.V. Prototypes | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Solo |
2000 | Angela Bulloch | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Solo |
2000 | umziehen | Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin | Group |
2000 | At Home With Art | ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire | Group |
2000 | Aussendienst | Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg | Group |
1999 | Space | Esther Schipper, Berlin | Group |
1999 | Group Exhibition | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Group |
1999 | Common People | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin | Group |
1999 | To design for | Le Spot, Le Havre | Group |
1998 | Angela Bulloch: Sounds Off | Corvi Mora, London | Solo |
1998 | Angela Bulloch | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Solo |
1998 | Angela Bulloch, Superstructure | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich | Solo |
1998 | Emotion, Junge Britische Und Amerikanische Kunst Aus Der Sammlung Goetz | Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg | Group |
1998 | Root | Chisenhale Gallery, London | Group |
1998 | Lifestyle | Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz | Group |
1997 | Vehicles | Le Consortium, Dijon | Solo |
1997 | The Mag Collection | Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull | Group |
1997 | HIP: Special Guest Susann Walder | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich | Group |
1997 | Moment Ginza | Färgfabriken Stockholm, Stockholm | Group |
1996 | Angela Bulloch | Corvi Mora, London | Solo |
1996 | Group Exhibition | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Group |
1996 | Multiple Pleasure | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, NY | Group |
1996 | Group Exhibition | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Group |
1996 | Model Home | MoMA PS1, New York City, NY | Group |
1995 | Angela Bulloch | Schipper & Krome, Cologne | Solo |
1995 | Space Odyssey | Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens | Group |
1995 | En passant | Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg | Group |
1995 | How is Everything | Wiener Secession, Vienna | Group |
1994 | Angela Bulloch | Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg | Solo |
1994 | The Institute Of Cultural Anxiety: Works From The Collection | Institute of Contemporary Arts,London | Group |
1993 | An Old Song and a New Drink | Air de Paris, Paris | Group |
1992 | Still | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY | Group |
1992 | Group Show | Le Case d'Arte, Milan | Group |
1991 | Broken English | Serpentine Gallery, London | Group |
1991 | Angela Bulloch, Sarah Seager, Craig Wood, Nicholas May, Nicolas Rule | MAUREEN PALEY,London | Group |
1991 | Group exhibition | Victoria Miro Gallery, London | Group |
1990 | Angela Bulloch | MAUREEN PALEY, London | Solo |
1988 | Freeze | London Port Authority building, London | Group |