exhibitions/works

All exhibitions curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer unless otherwise stated. To receive information about our forthcoming programme, contact on@thecentreofattention.org or the Centre of Attention, 67 Clapton Common, London E5 9AA, UK (tel 020 8880 5507)

current:

Production Meeting 3 (Berlin)
Ard Bia Berlin, 39 Chodowieckistr., Berlin, D10405 Berlin
Opening: Saturday 10 May, 15.00 to 20.00
Exhibition: 10 May to 5 June 2008, Wed to Sat, 11.00 to 18.00

Resilience (Stockholm)
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
curated by Peter Hagdahl with Frida Cornell
12 April to 7 September 2008
(images here)

The Centre of Attention (Stockholm)
Mejan Labs, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Akademigränd 3, Stockholm
curated by Björn Norberg and Peter Hagdahl
9 April to 15 June 2008
(images here)

past:

things that go bump in the night (London)
Cafe Gallery Projects
curated by Clare Goodwin and Liz Murray
2 April to 4 May 2008
(images here)

art in the life world (Dublin)
Ballymun Old Swimming Pool
A Breaking Ground exhibition curated by Aisling Prior
29 February to 12 April 2008
(images here)

double entry (Rotterdam)
at Project(or) platform for current art stages, Art Rotterdam
6 to 10 February 2008
(images here)

Production Meeting 2 (Göteborg)
bezdomny
25 November 2007

Aggression (Winterthur)
Kunsthalle Winterthur
curated by Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova
21 October to 2 December 2007
(images here)

The Centre of Attention Magazine No 4 (Toulouse/London/Glasgow)
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 16 June 2007
Publish and Be Damned Fair, London, 29 July 2007
CCA Book Fair CCA Glasgow, 17 November 2007

The oubliettes of Wolstenholme (Liverpool)
Wolstenholme Projects
Oreet Ashery, Ron Athey, Vanessa Bartlett, Ann Course, Camille Henrot, Seulgi Lee, Tony Chestnut Brown people's poet of Liverpool, Eric Rosoman, David Sherry, Jamie Torode, Markus Vater, Adam Vaughan
7 September to 21 October 2007
(images here)

Free Art Fair (London)
curated by Jasper Joffe
8 to 14 October 2007

Production Meeting (Glasgow)
InterMedia, CCA Glasgow
An installation/performance with works from Hayley Caradoc Hodgkins, House of O'Dwyer and Colin Tennant
24 to 27 July 2007
(images here)

Winnebago (Birmingham)
commissioned by Capital Art Projects
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham
31 March 2007

Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Düsseldorf)
nüans gallery, Düsseldorf
March 2007 and ongoing
(images here)

Slow (Plymouth)
Plymouth Arts Centre
curated by Paula Orrell
19 January to 18 March 2007
(images here)

Venedik-Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul Modern
curated by Rosa Martinez
17 October 2006 to 2 February 2007

so sad (London)
Guy Hilton Gallery
curated by Mark McGowan
13 to 28 January 2007

Petit Pois (London)
performances, June to November 2006
14 June: The House of O'Dwyer at the Barbican
4 July: Theo Cowley at Tate Modern
14 July: Rachel Brooksby at the Camden Arts Centre
19 Sept: Relâche (hommage to Picabia) at the Whitechapel Gallery
28 Sept: Eileen Perrier at the Photographers Gallery
26 Oct: Children at Bischoff Weiss
31 Oct: Julie Wells at the V&A
18 Nov: Anthony Schrag at Carter Presents
23 Nov: Ben Cummins at Anthony Reynolds

fast and loose (my dead gallery) (London)
Fieldgate Gallery, London
New Vision Centre, Signals, London Free School, Indica, Arts Lab, Gallery House, The Gallery, 2B Butler's Wharf, Fantasy Factory, Art Meeting Place, B2, NeTWork 21, The Women's Art Library/Make, BANK, workfortheeyetodo
13 October to 5 November 2006
(images here)

PROSUMER (Graz)
Kunsthaus Graz / steirischer herbst 2006
in Protections curated by Adam Budak and Christine Peters
23 September to 22 October 2006

The truth about Susan Gescheidle (Chicago)
gescheidle Gallery, Chicago
An installation with works from Franko B, Jessica Brouder, Robert Heinecken, House of O'Dwyer, Karin Kihlberg, Steve Reinke, Dani Leventhal, Cath Rive, Mariah Robertson and Ken Weaver
9 September to 7 October 2006
(images here)

re/location I: Sanatorium (Zürich)
Schauspielhaus Zürich
curated by Matthias von Hartz
19 and 20 May 2006
(images here)

the miracle of Limerick (Ireland)
Giv(e)way, 30th annual, 6th biennial Exhibition of Visual Art (ev+ a 2006)
Limerick City Gallery of Art
curated by Katerina Gregos
10 March to 21 May 2006
(images here)

Leaving on a flat-bed picture plane (London)
John Armleder/Team 404, Emi Avora, Calum Colvin, Donna Conlon, Gareth Jones, Valérie Mréjen, Frida Yngström
18 February to 12 March 2006
(images here)

Embedded (Miami)
frisbee, room 101, Cavalier Hotel, Ocean Drive
1 to 4 December 2005

the Centre of Attention (Toronto)
Mercer Union
3 to 7 November 2005 (talk on 2 Nov)

Fodder in PILOT (London)
The Centre of Attention feat. Franko B, Breyer P-Orridge, Jessica Brouder, Ben Carpenter, Ann Course & Paul Clark, Tyler Coburn, Dave Critchley, Sam Ely/Lynn Harris, Ken Friedman, Katharina Heilein, House of O'Dwyer, Jasper Joffe, Susanne Oberbeck, ERIC Rosoman, Markus Vater
21 to 24 October 2005

Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation (Plovdiv)
Center for Contemporary Art
Ancient Baths/Bania Starinna, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
curated by Dimitrina Sevova
8 October to 8 November 2005

On Demand (London)
Oreet Ashery, Guerrilla Girls, Ben Morieson, Eileen Perrier, Markus Vater
August and September 2005
(images here)

Always a little further (Venice)
51st Venice Biennale
Arsenale
curated by Rosa Martinez
12 June to 6 November 2005
(images here)

The Centre of Attention at the Rio Cinema (London)
Al+Al, Allsopp and Weir, Sebastian Buerkner, David Critchley, Bernard Debaillie, France Dubois, Dan Kennedy-Martin, Susanne Oberbeck, Breyer P-Orridge, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Mathieu Rouget, Anri Sala, Sebastiaan Schlicher, Nicolas Schöffer, Erica Scourti, Wolfgang Tillmans, The Vacuum Cleaner, Thomson and Craighead, Myriam Thyes and Erwin Wurm
12 March 2005

Nicolas Schöffer - a found exhibition (Paris)
Villa des Arts, Montmartre
14 to 23 January 2005
(images here)

The 3rd Centre of Attention Art Prize (London)
Al + Al, Chris Aldgate and Lee Johnson, Isobel Brown, Helena Kvarnström, Thomson and Craighead
29 November 2004 to 11 January 2005
(images here)

Boyle Family: London Sound Study (Internet)
1 October to 7 November 2004

Schwanengesang (Frankfurt)
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
21 to 24 October 2004

The House of O'Dwyer: Masks and Microphones (London)
26 June to 25 July 2004

Baroque Povera (London)
Jessica Brouder, Babak Ghazi, Damien Roach, Andrea Winkler
19 February to 21 March 2004

the curators (New York)
the:artist:network, Soho
15 to 31 January 2004

Featuring... (London)
Al + Al, Oreet Ashery, the estate of Hans Shielder, Simeon Banner, Benedict Carpenter, Rosie Cooper, Greg Daville, Eveleigh and Evans, Nooshin Farhid, A.M.Hanson ('alexcalledsimon'), Jasper Joffe, Tina Keane, Josie McCoy, Wiebke Morgan, Eileen Perrier, Brian Reed, Catherine Rive, Tai Shani, Erasmia Stravoravdi feat. the Centre of Attention
18 December 2003 to 4 January 2004

Aperitif (London)
15 to 22 October 2003

International Art Blog (Internet)
Matti Blind+Lotte Møller, Adam Chodzko, Meredith Etherington-Smith, AmirAli Ghasemi, RoseLee Goldberg, Dave Muller, Abner Nolan, Steve Reinke, Martha Rosler, Chiara Somajni, Johnnie Walker
13 September to 13 October 2003

Paris Beaux-Arts (London)
Eric Baudart, Rada Boukova, David Cousinard, Emmanuelle Lainé, Mohamed Louanjli, Chen-Yu Wang, Virginie Yassef (performance: Emmanuelle Laine)
7 June to 13 July 2003

To predict the future you must change the past (Bath)
Beckford Tower
17 May to 1 June 2003 (Talk 25 May)

The Centre of Attention Magazine No3 (London)
Royal College of Art
25 April 2003

The Center of Attention Search Engine (San Francisco)
Spanganga Gallery, Mission District, SF
24 March to 20 April 2003

Gobbledygook (London)
Jessica Broas, Susan Collis, Kristian Hornsleth, Simon Lewandowski, David Medalla, Gary O'Dwyer, Breyer P-Orridge, Scott Redford (performance: John Rogers)
8 February to 1 March 2003

The Centre of Attention at Shoreditch Church: Art Video Screening (London)
Franko B/Tim Etchells, Michelle Barber, Matti Isan Blind, Sylvie Fleury, Matthieu Laurette, Trine-Lise Nedreaas, Gary O'Dwyer, Tai Shani, Paul Rooney, Konstantin Skotnikov/Dmitry Bulnygin/Slava Mizin, Markus Vater, Kay Walsh (performance: Lee Adams)
6 December 2002

The Centre of Attention Art Prize 2002 (London)
Benedict Carpenter, Eric, Becky Hunt, Martina Mullaney, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Erasmia Stravoravdi, Danny Treacy (performance: Wiebke Morgan)
12 October to 3 November 2002

EMail Art (Internet)
Simon Faithfull, Sylvie Fleury, Ken Friedman, Jenny Holzer, Simon Poulter and Andrew Childs
12 August to 16 September 2002

Viva la Republique! Pagan images of the last Queen of the British Isles by her indigenous subjects (London)
Genesis P-Orridge, Jamie Reid, Banksy, Mike Dawson, Andy Watt, Fiona Banner, Brian Jones, Tim Flitcroft, Josie McCoy, Jasper Joffe, Gary O'Dwyer, Tai Shani, Rachael House, Little Richard and Richard Torry (performances Little Richard/Richard Torry and Rachael House)
the Centre of Attention, 3 May to 1 June 2002
Window Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art & Design, 12 July to 9 August 2002

Otiose vs Marty St James (London)
11 and 12 April 2002

Tai Shani vs Kristian Hornsleth (London)
28 March to 7 April 2002

Thomas Raschke vs Abigail Durrant (London)
14 to 24 March 2002

The Centre of Attention Magazine 2 (London and Berlin)
the Green Room, Soho
27 February 2002
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
13 January 2002

A Man, A Woman, A Machine (London)
Gary O'Dwyer, Carly Rogers, Leon Steele, Liu Zheng, Oreet Ashery, Shaheen Merali & Oficina Humana
27 October to 18 November 2001

The Centre of Attention Magazine No 2 (New York version)
Galapagos, Williamsburg, NY
22 October 2001

Jasper Joffe (1975 - ) (London)
14 September to 7 October 2001

Gypsies, Jews, Blacks and Queers and other free radicals: nu elementz in Performance Art (London)
Notting Hill Arts Club
Oreet Ashery, Marisa Carnesky, Roney Fraser-Munroe, Larry Large, Gary O'Dwyer, LRP, Paper People (Richard Torry, Little Richard, Michael K), Dave Pop, Tomomi Takahashi, Andy Watt
31 May to 15 July 2001

Candy Factory: Eric Heist & Genesis P-Orridge (London)
(performance: Little Richard)
7 April to 6 May 2001

The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection (London)
15 March to 25 March 2001

Eileen Perrier (London)
2 February to 25 February 2001

The Centre of Attention Art Prize 2000 (London)
Mel Brimfield, Luke Caulfield, Claire Heathcote, Wawa Kosugi, Josie McCoy, Gary O'Dwyer, Catherine Rive, June Sira, George Toth, Markus Vater
1 December 2000 to 16 January 2001

Sebastian Hempel (London)
2 November to 26 November 2000

13 artists : 13 films (London)
Wiltons Music Hall
Genesis P-Orridge, Orlan, Franko B, Steve Reinke, Carlos Bayala, Matt Calderwood, Li Cassidy, Oliver Husain, Annis Joslin, Gary O'Dwyer, Anna Thew, Twenteenth Century, Emily Wardill (Programme notes)
14 September 2000

The Centre of Attention Magazine No 1 (London)
14 July to 6 August 2000

Josie McCoy (London)
9 June to 2 July 2000

Nooshin Farhid (London)
28 April to 21 May 2000

Katharina Heilein (London)
9 March to 1 April 2000

Franko B (London)
27 January to 27 February 2000

b.reed (London)
2 December to 12 December 1999

Catherine Rive (London)
7 October to 24 October 1999

Tomorrow belongs to me: Gary O'Dwyer (London)
19 August to 5 September 1999

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The Centre of Attention
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UK

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