About
Uriel Orlow is known for his modular, multi-media installations that take specific locations and events as starting points and combine archival research with evocative visuals and sound. Orlow explores the spatial and pictorial conditions of history and memory, focusing on blind spots of representation and forms of haunting. Working across video, photography, drawing and sound Orlow brings different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.
In 2011 Orlow’s work is presented at the Swiss Pavilion/54th Venice Bienniale, Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Loop Barcelona, Mercosul Biennial Brazil, Frac Aquitaine Bordeaux, Casa Encendida Madrid, ACAF Alexandria, La Rada Locarno and Helmhaus Zürich amongst others.
Recent solo projects include Campagne Première, Berlin (2010) Laure Genillard, London (2010), Les Complices*, Zurich (2009), Habres & partner, Vienna (2009), Jewish Museum New York (2008-9), Blancpain Art Contemporain Geneva (2008-9) and Argos Brussels (2008). His work has also been shown at Tate Modern London, Third Guangzhou Triennial China, Gasworks London, Whitechapel Gallery London, South African National Gallery Cape Town, Centre d’Art Geneva and at numerous film festivals.
Orlow is a senior research fellow in art at the University of Westminster, London and visiting lecturer at the University of the Arts, Zurich. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and The Slade School of Art, London and philosophy at the University of Geneva, graduating with a PhD in Fine Art in 2002. In both 2008 and 2009 he was the recipient of a Swiss Art Award at Art Basel.
Contact
Galleries
Blancpain Art Contemporain
Marie-Claude Stobart
63 rue des Maraîchers, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
T +41 22 328 38 02
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Campagne Première
Dr. Nina Koidl + Henning Weidemann
Chausseestrasse 116, 10115 Berlin, Germany
T +49 30 400 54300
E mail [at] campagne-premiere.com
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Distribution
LUX
Mike Sperlinger / Gil Leung
18 Shackelwell Lane, London, E8 2EZ, England
T +44 20 7503 3980
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Studio
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Commissioning, Financial & Institutional Support
Arts Council England, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Blancpain Art Contemporain Geneva, British Council, Campagne Première Berlin, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Culture Ministry Switzerland, Double agents, Fri-Art centre d’art contemporain/Kunsthalle Fribourg, Gasworks London, Henry Moore Foundation, IFCAR Zurich, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Les Complices* Zurich, London Arts Board, Lux, Parabola Trust, Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Pro Helvetia, School of Advanced Study, Shedhalle Zurich, University of Westminster, Utopiana
Production, Research, Studio & Technical Support
Ed Atkins, Jens Arndt, René Baumann, Tom Brookes, Michelle Deignan, Roberto Ekholm, Juja Elena Dobrashkous, Nora Galfayan, Sigfried Hellwig, Silje Hyenes Lysne, Ayman Hussein, Fayd Jungnickel, Mikhail Karikis, Maysoon Mahfoudh, Emma Mkhitaryan, Adel Mohammed, Günter Schwarz, Tsolak Topchyan, Ed Webb-Ingall
Collaborators & Curators
Anna Barseghian, Anna Colin, Celine Condorelli, Graham Ellard, Marcia Farquhar, Andreas Fiedler, Berit Fischer, Sønke Gau, Laure Genillard, Andrew Ingall, Mia Jankowicz, Mikhail Karikis, Eszter Lazar, Ruth Maclennan, Bettina Malcomess, Victoria Preston, Hans-Rudolf Reust, Michele Robecchi, Monica Ross, Katharina Schlieben, Hebba Sherif, Claire Staunton, Noah Stolz, Anne Tallentire, Andrea Thal, Ian White, Catherine Yass, Sarah Zürcher, Tirdad Zolghadr
Additional Thanks
Sylvia Alberton, Oreet Ashery, Anita Beckers, Bernd Behr, Benjamin Cook, Michael Hiltbrunner, Mikhail Karikis, Nina Koidl, Monica Ross, Joshua Sofaer, Marie-Claude Stobart, Anne Tallentire, Andrea Thal, Michal Sapir, Zineb Sedira, John Seth, Christoph Schenker, Cherry Smyth, Mike Sperlinger, Gilane Tawadros, Henning Weidemann, Sarah Zürcher
© All images are copyright Uriel Orlow. Texts copyright Uriel Orlow and the respective authors.