Uriel Orlow has exhibited and published in the UK and internationally. This site contains an online archive of selected work by Uriel Orlow.
Selected One Person Exhibitions and Commissions
2009 Neither Fish nor Fowl, Les Complices*, Zurich
2008-9 1942 (Poznan), Jewish Museum, New York
2008-9 In These Great Times, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
2008-9 In These Great Times, ICIA, Bath
2008 Uriel Orlow: New Works, London Gallery West
2008 Black Box: Uriel Orlow, Argos, Brussels
2006 Performance, Wings Projects Art Space, St Prex, Switzerland (2 Person Exhibition)
2005 Extra-Muros Project, Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain/Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
2004 Mnemoscapes at Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva
2004 Unleashing the Archhive, School of Advanced Study/The National Archives, London, commission of book, video and poster (collaboration with Ruth Maclennan)
2003 A Dance of Death and Life at the Embassy of Switzerland, London.
2002 Deposits at Brighton Media Centre Gallery and Brighton Cinematheque.
2000 Housed Memory at The Wiener Library and the RIBA architecture gallery, London.
   
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2009 Zulu, Museum N. Gutmann, Tel Aviv
  Swiss Art Awards 2009, Art Basel
  Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle Zürich
  Survivors and Liberators, White Space, Florida
  The Hidden Trace, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück
2008 Historians of the Present, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
  The Whole World, Tate Modern, London
  3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdon Museum of Art
  Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel
  Antarctica Starts Here, BFI Southbank, London
  The Longest Day of the Year Film Festival, Whitstable Biennale
  African Adventures, Tatton Park Biennial
  International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  Tempo, Tempo, Opelvillen, Rüsselheim
  ARTfutures, Bloomberg Space, London
  Borders & Identities, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
  IDEAL #10, Espace Croisé, centre d'art contemporain, Roubaix
  The Whole World, tank.tv
2007 Archway Polytechnic, London (Performance and Publication)
  12 Shooters, South London Gallery, London
  New Work UK, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Historians of the Present, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
  Transmission, Arts Gallery, London
  Videonale, Museo Nacional Centro del Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
  Visual Dislocation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka
  Play Forward, 60th film festival Locarno
  Retracing Territories, Fri-Art centre d'art contemporain / Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland
  New Lands, BFI, London
  Swiss Art Awards 2007, Art 38 Basel, Switzerland
  Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
  'To be continued...' Was macht Video anders?, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
  Sneak Preview, Galerie Gillian Morris, Berlin
  Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
  The Bigger Picture, Cornerhouse/BBC Big Screen, Manchester
2006 Recent Acquisitions, London Jewish Museum of Art
  Videoland, Artneuland, Berlin
  Fortnight of Solo Shows, Ben-Uri Gallery, London
  Repatriating the Ark, Museum of Garden History, London
  A Shelter in the Time of Storm, Lichfield Festival
  Swiss Art Awards 2006, at ART 37 Basel, Switzerland
  Ghosting: In the Dark, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA and South London Gallery
  History, City Gallery Leicester offsite exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester
  Cornerhouse, Manchester
  Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany
2005 Dash Arts Festival, 291 Gallery, London
  Prog:Me, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
  Stets gern für Sie beschäftigt, Dokumentationszentrum Prora, Germany
  Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva
  State of Mind, LSE, London. Further info
  Always glad to be of service, ifa Galerie, Berlin
2004 Something Strange, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
  The Well, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
  LaIsle: Ulisses, Teatro Odisséa, Rio de Janeiro
2003 10 Biennial of the Moving Image, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland.
   
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2010 Pro Helvetia Residency in Cairo
2009 Utopiana Residency in Armenia
2009 Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (curated by Tirdad Zolghadr)
2009 Swiss Art Award
2008 Swiss Art Award
2008 Arts Council England, Individual Artist Grant
2007 Arts Council England, Individual Artist Grant
2006 Arts Council England, Individual Artist Grant
2006 Henry Moore Foundation Grant
2005 Arts Council, Zurich, Switzerland (Präsidialdepartement), Publication Grant
2005-2008 AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts
2004 Individual Artist Grant, Arts Council of England, London
2002 Exhibition Grant, Arts Council England, South-East
2001 Shortlist for The Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art & Design, Israel
2000 Artist in residence at Wiener Library, London
2000 Arts Council of England / London Arts Board: Year of the Artist Award
   
  Curatorial Projects
quarterly Betsey's Salon,co-curator with Michal Sapir
2007 Historians of the Present, Programme 1, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
2005 The Trouble with Talkies, ADI Project Space, London, co-curated with other members of Double agents
2005 Still Moving - Moving Still, seminar series at Photographers Gallery, London, co-curated with Catherine Yass, download programme
   
Selected Publications by Uriel Orlow: Artist's Books, Monographs, Essays, Catalogues
2009 Oddly... newspaper, 40pp
2008 How To Do Things with Words and A Camera, in EPISODE - Please and Persuasion in Lens Based Media (Artwords)
2007 The One Day Gazette (London: Department of Conductivity and Receptivity)
2007 The Benin Project (Londo: future perfect, 2007) with an essay by Gilane Tawadros
2007 'The Dialectical Image' in The Cinematic, ed. David Campany (MIT/Whitechapel)
2006 Deposits (Berlin/Zurich: The Greenbox Press) Greenbox
2006 'Latent Archives, Roving Lens', in Ghosting: the role of the archive in contemporary film and video (Picture This: Bristol, 2006)
2006 'Untitled' in Chroma, issue 4, Spring 2006
2005 What the billboard saw / La ville mode d'emploi, artist's book (Fribourg: Centre d'art contemporain Fri-Art, 2005) ISBN: 2-9700083-8-6
2005 'Talk is Cheap: Some Notes on Freedom of Speech and the Ethics of Listening in Route 181 by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan', in 1+1+1, nr. 2 (Double agents: Summer 2005)
2005 Stets gern für Sie beschäftigt, catalogue, essays by Alexander Garcia Düttmann and Dan Smith (Berlin: ifa, 2005)
2004 Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep, with Ruth Maclennan, commissioned by the School of Advanced Study and The National Archives (London: Double agents, 2004). ISBN: 0-9548947-0-7
2003 "Threshold of Light-Threshold of Language", in Borders of Sanctity, ed. by Emily Bilski and Avigdor Shinan (Israel: Keter, 2003). ISBN: 965-07-1172-4
2002 "Chris Marker: The Archival Powers of the Image", in Lost in the Archives, ed. by Rebecca Comay (Toronto: Alphabet City, nr. 8, 2002) ISBN: 0-88784-643-2
2000 "...trailer...", on the Home 2 DVD, published by Home, ed. by Laura Godfrey-Isaacs
1999 "Photography-as-Cinema: La Jetée and the Redemptive Powers of the Image" in Creative Camera, August/September issue 1999. ISSN: 001-0876
   
  Selected Reviews , Articles, Essays on Uriel Orlow
  Bury, Stephen: ‘Archives’, Art Monthly, no 285, April 2005, p. 33
  Düttman, Alexander Garcia: 'Aus dem Gedächtnis' (From Memory), in Stets gern für Sie beschäftigt... (Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 2005). Read
  Findeisen, Ralph: 'Wer bist du wo', artnet.de, 30/11/06. Read
  Grandjean, Emmanuel: ‘Uriel Orlow’, Tribune de Genève (Geneva), 2 November 2004
  Hansen, Rikke: 'Around the World in Eighty Days', Art Monthly, no. 298, July-August 2006, pp. 26-27
  Hemken, Kai-Uwe: 'Zwischen Stimulanz und Sachlichkeit. Notizen zur Gedächtnis-Kunst von Uriel Orlow' (forthcoming).
  Hunt, Ian: 'Uriel Orlow: In Concert', Performance (St Prex: Wings, 2006), pp. 2-5
  Lapp, Axel: Germany calling, Art Monthly (London), no 285, April 2005, pp. 1-4
  Lunn, Felicity: Uriel Orlow, Frieze, January 2009. Read
  Morra, Joanne: ‘Thoughts on Something Strange’, NU: Nordic Art Review, 2004
  Newman, Michael: 'Archive, Testimony, and Trace: Uriel Orlow's Housed Memory', in Deposits (forthcoming).
  Sapir, Michal: 'Housed Memory', Hadoar (New York) Vol. LXXX No. 4 (3230) Jan 5 2001, p.23. Read
  Smith, Dan: 'Housed Memory', in Stets gern für Sie beschäftigt... (Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 2005). Read
   
Selected Lectures, Conferences, Talks
Ongoing Invited speaker at numerous art colleges, including Art Institute Bournemouth, Brighton University, Camberwell College of Art, Goldsmiths College, Loughborouh University, Royal College of Art, Surrey Insitute of Art & Design, University of Westminster and others.
2008 Please and Persuasion in Lens-Based Media, Tate Britain, London
2008 Cultural Memory, University of Kent
2008 Ping Pong Art Space, Guangzhou, China
2008 Talking Pictures, LSE, London
2008 Vicissitudes, School of Advanced Study, London
2007 Cødeshop, E:vent Gallery, London
2007 The Archival Impulse: Artists and Archives, Tate Britain, London
2007 Inventing Methodologies, Symposium, Goldsmiths College, Univeristy of London
2006 Living On Undead: La Jetée’s Lazarian Protagonist, at CATH congress, University of Leeds
2006 Archive Study Day, Watershed, Bristol (organised by Picture This)
2006 Useful Theory? Critical Practice, Birkbeck College, University of London
2005 On Time, The National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway
2005 Flicker, Blink and Other Instabilities, Photographers' Gallery, London
2004 Unleashing the Archive, Senate House, School of Advanced Study and The National Archives
2004 Elia 8th Biennial Conference: Challenging the Frame, Lucerne, Switzerland
2002 Moving Images, Tate Modern, London
1999 Silent Movie, Beaconsfield, London
   
Academic Positions
2005- Research Fellow, University of Westminster, London
2000-2005 Lecturer, BA/MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1997-2005 Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
   
 
Education
1997-2002 PhD in Fine Art, The Slade School of Art & University of the Arts, London
1996-1997 Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures (Masters degree) in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature, University of Geneva, Switzerland
1993-1996 BA (Hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice, First Class, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
1990-1993 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Zürich / Wimbledon School of Art, London
   
 

 

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