ERIK SMITH (b. Boston, US, lives and works in Berlin, DE)

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Un-buildings, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, AT
2019 Experiments in Disintegrating, Changing Room, Berlin, DE
2019 Displacements, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
2018 Ghosts, Counterpath, Denver, CO, US
2017 Psychoarcheology, FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, Malta
2016 From the Archive - LocusSolus: Erik Smith, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2014 AABBCCDV (redux Berlin), Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2013 Die Raeume, die raum, Berlin, DE
2012 AABBCCDV, DimensionsVariable, Miami, FL, US
2011 Test Dig No. 1, Skulpturenpark_Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin, DE
2007 The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2006 The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2004 F.L.E., Zentralbuero, Berlin, DE
1999 New Conceptual Sculpture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
1997 Some Assembly Required, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 As Vozes da Paisagem Contemporânea / Voices of the Contemporary Landscape, University of Porto,
  Academy of Fine Arts, Porto, PT
2023 Making Miami, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, US
2023 Zero Tolerance, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2022 Blind Vision, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin, DE
2022 AIR Artists, Gornji Grad, Slovenia
2021 Kommunale Galerie Berlin; Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim; Heinrich-Schutz
  Bibliothek; Dietrich-Bornhoeffer Bibliothek; BHR OX bauhaus reuse in conjunction with Stadt findet Kunst, DE
2020 Stadt findet Kunst, Berlin, DE
2020 20 | 20 - Stadt | Zeit | Kunst, Schoeler.Berlin, Berlin, DE (cat.)
2019 PEACE - don't make me laugh // You A Two Minute Brother, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2019
2nd International Encounter of Objects and Walls: Miami Edition, Supplement Projects, Miami, FL, US
2019 Movement, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin DE
2019 Save As, WAAM, Miami, FL, US
2019 (re)space - Take back the Space, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin DE
2019 anders Platz, im Rahmen des Projektes Der Platz, KungerKiezInitiative e.V., Berlin DE
2018 5 Years of FRAGMENTA, FRAGMENTA, Floriana, Malta (cat.)
2018 ÄRMEL AUFKREMPELN ZUPACKEN AUFBAUEN!, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2017 The Real Estate Show Extended, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, DE (cat.)
2017 Rebellion, Scotty, Berlin, DE
2016 Freux Follet, BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR, cur. Elodie Lesourd
2016 On Site in 16 Cities, Berlin Collective, Bar Babette, Berlin, DE
2015 You knee them in the chin…!, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2015 What is the sound of protest?, Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2014 IWF Moerdertreff, Spor Klübü, Berlin DE
2013 REMIX, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2013 DimensionsVariable, Pulse Miami, Miami, FL, US
2012 Home in Crisis, Temporary Home 2012, Kassel, DE
2012 Cocaine Blows My Brain, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2012 Kulturpark, the end / Spring Break, Berlin DE
2012 What I predict to remember what I predict to forget, Stedefreund, Berlin, DE
2011 Navigating Darkness, Tape Modern, Berlin, DE
2011 Berlin Verstehen, servtag GmbH, Berlin, DE
2011 Weak Heart Drop, ExRotaprint, Berlin, DE
2011 Emblem of Modernity, Pink Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010 Black Mirror, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland, cur. Marco Costantini (cat.)
2010 Weil’ auf mir du dunkles Auge, Bauer & Ewald, Berlin, DE
2010 P.A.S.T. Projects, The Woodmill, London, UK
2010 Me, Myself and I (Conversations with Oneself), Input, Armory Show, NYC, US (cat.)
2009 Exhibition, 211 Elizabeth Street, NYC, US
2008 In Practice Projects, SculptureCenter, LIC, NY,, US, cur. Sarina Basta
2008 Svart Kunststykke, Ruimte X, ZXZW Independent Culture, Tilburg, NL
2008 The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, Scryption Museum voor schriftelijke communicatie, Tilburg, NL
2008 Artforum Berlin, Pierogi Brooklyn/Leipzig, DE
2007 The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Mueller Gallery, Berlin, DE, cur. W. Neidich
2007 Flatfiling, Perogi @ ArtNews Projects, Berlin, DE
2007 The Best of Show, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2007 Artforum Berlin, Pierogi Brooklyn/Leipzig, DE
2006 Me, Myself and I 2, Gutleut 15, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2005 News from the Studios, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2005 Me, Myself and I, Glue, Berlin, DE; Konsortium, Düsseldorf, DE; Gutleut 15, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
2005 Galerie Hobbyshop, Munich, DE; Arti, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Extraglue Editionen Dauerhaft Ausstellung, Glue, Berlin, DE
2004 Architektur und Film Festival 04, Brotfabrik, Berlin, DE
2004 Utopia U Build It, Rocket Shop, Berlin, DE, cur. Laura Schleussner
2000 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, ML, US
1998 ArtFrankfurt98, Rena Bransten Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE
1997 Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
1996 Glean, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US, cur. Julie Deamer
1996 The Gramercy Int. Art Fair, Rena Bransten Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,, US
1996 FIAC, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Paris, FR
 
PERFORMANCES

2019 ACIINTT - Wiesenburg, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin DE
2019 ACIINTT - slow listening berlin, Changing Room, Berlin DE
2019 Titanic, Errant Sound, Berlin DE
2007 Perfect is My Death Word (Sammath), De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Perfect is My Death Word (Neithan), Magnus Mueller Gallery, Berlin, DE
2006 Perfect is My Death Word (Blodsrit), K17, Berlin, DE
 
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS   

2023 Catalog Funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2022  Neustart Kultur Fellowship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE  
2022  Rezidenca Gornji Grad, artist residency, Slovenia     
2021 AIR – Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria
2020 Stadt findet Kunst - Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf von Berlin, project funding
2018 Counterpath, artist residency, Denver, CO, US
2017 FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, artist residency, Malta
2017 Headlands Center for the Arts, artist residency (alternate), Marin, CA , US
2012 LegalArt/Cannonball, artist residency, Miami, FL, US
2011 Expodium: Kanaleneiland, artist residency, Utrecht, NL
2008 ZXZW Festival for Independent Culture, artist residency, Tilburg, NL
2000 SECA award finalist, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, US
 
TALKS / SCREENINGS / ARTIST PUBLICATIONS / TEACHING

2023 Guest Lecturer, Univ of Porto, Academy of Fine Arts, seminar with PhD. and Masters students, Porto, Portugal
2023 Artist talk, exhibition conference As Vozes da Paisagem Contemporânea / The Landscape Speaks,
  University of Porto, Academy of Fine Arts, Porto, Portugal
2023 Pizzo Sella, fort da, Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, CA, US
2021 Public Art, artist publication, in conjunction with Stadt findet Kunst, Berlin, DE
2019 Experiments in Disintegrating, Changing Room, Berlin, artist talk w/ Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez & Jaro Straub
2017 Psychoarcheology, artist publication, in conjunction with FRAGMENTA/Valetta 2018, Malta
2015 AABBCCDV (Redux Berlin), Errant Bodies, Berlin, artist talk with Jeremiah Day
2012 Variable Discourse, AABBCCDV, Miami FL, artist talk with Chris Cook and Adler Guerrier
2005 FTV://berlinvideotalks, Berliner Kunstsalon 02, Berlin, artist talk with Pirate Cinema and V2V
 
CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2010 Weil’ auf mir du dunkles Auge, with Mario Asef, Jeremiah Day, Klara Hobza, Daniel Seiple, and Erik Smith,
  Oct 23 – Dec 11, 2010, Bauer & Ewald, Berlin-NeuKoelln, DE
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Komary, David et al., From the Center of the Periphery, Twenty Years of AIR-Aritst in Residence Niederösterreich
    (Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2021).
2019 Hutschek, Bettina et al., FRAGMENTA—Art and Life in Public Space 2013–2018 (Malta, 2019).
2019
Reljic, Teodor, "Collating the Fragments | Fragmenta," Maltatoday, August 2, 2019,
    https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/art/96565/collating_the_fragments_fragmenta.
2016 Carey, Brainard, "Interviews from Yale Universtiy Radio WYBCX: Erik Smith," WYBCX Yale Radio, July 19,
    2016, http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/erik-smith/.
2016 Vesi, Francois, "Le Black Metal est-il soluble dans l'art contemporain?" Noisey - Music by Vice, April 13, 2016,
    http://noisey.vice.com/fr/ blog/elodie-lesourd-exposition-freux-follets-black-metal.
2015 Burbidge, Matthew, Exhibition Review: "Jeroen Jacobs, Erik Smith, Sommer & Kohl, Errant Bodies," vonhundert,
    5/ 2015, http:// www.vonhundert.de/2015-05/649_matthew-burbidge.php.
2015 Burbidge, Matthew, "Essays & Argumentations #2 Smith/Jacobs" July 2015,
    https://vimeo.com/119885613.
2015 Cremer, Till, Berlin Artists, Kerber Verlag: Berlin, 2015.
2013 Suhr, Constanze, “Raumsozialist,” Tip Berlin, No. 08/2013 42, April 4, 2013,
    https://www.tip-berlin.de/erik-smith-der-galerie-die-raum/.
2013 Lesourd, Elodie, “Baptism or Death. Black Metal in Contemporary Art: Birth of a New Aesthetic Category,”
    Helvete Journal of Black Metal Theory, Incipit, Winter 2013, http://helvetejournal.org/.
2012 Young, Marc, “Struggling with Berlin’s Artsy Hype,” The Local, November 30, 2012,
    https://www.thelocal.de/20121130/46483#.UVDoDlsk7R0.
2012 Tschida, Anna, “Dig into Dimensions Variable’s New Space,” Knight Arts, June 1, 2012,
    http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/dig-into-dimensions-variables-new-space.
2012 Batet, Janet, “Erik Smith: arquelogia urbana,” el Nuevo Herald, Artes y Letras, May 27, 2012,
    http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2012/05/27/1211874/erik-smith-arqueologia-urbana.html.
2012 Arroyo, Eddie, “Erik Smith, Dimensions Variable,” Art is About, May 25, 2012,
    http://artisabout.com/2012/05/25/eric-smith-dimensions-variable/.
2012 Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “Clandestine in the Open,” Miami New Times, Art Section, May 10, 2012, Vol. 27, No.7,
    p. 30, http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-05-10/culture/wynwood-clandestine-culture-takes-center-stage/
2012 Baroni, Lia, “I’m an article,” berlinartparasites, February 2, 2012.
2012 Schreiber, Arne, “Einblick (417),” taz.de, Jan 25, 2012.
2012 Plodeck, Judith, “Erik Smith: Emerging Künstler bei Galerie Stedefreund,” ArtBerlin, Jan 20, 2012,
    http://artberlin.de/erik-smith/.
2011 Day, Jeremiah, “The Use and Abuse of Research for Art and Vice-Versa,” See It Again, Say It Again, J. Wesseling
    (ed.), Amsterdam, 2011, https://www.valiz.nl/publicaties/see-it-again-say-it-again.html
2011 Van Kampen, Martine, “Derelict Public Spaces,” Hard Rock & Soft Power,
    http://abapublicart.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/derelict-public-spaces/, Oct 30, 2011
2011 Suhr, Constanze, “Bohrend,” Tip Berlin, Nr. 01/2012 41, Dec 22, 2011,
    https://www.tip-berlin.de/erik-smith-im-skulpturenpark/.
2011 Knight, Ben, “Digging Up Artistic Berlin,” The Local, Germany Edition,
    https://www.thelocal.de/20111202/39219, Dec 2, 2011.
2011 Reichert, Teresa, “Fundstücke der Vergangenheit – Erik Smith’s ‘Test Dig No. 1’” art-in-berlin online, 9/12/ 2011,
    http://www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeld.php?id=2313&-erik-smith.
2010 Cochard, Catherine, “Erik Smith – Black Mirror,” Ars Brevis Vita Longa, March 1, 2010,
    http://arsbrevisvitalonga.com/2010/03/page/4/.
2010 Tard Pour Bar, “Les dieux du rock sont eternels…,” tsr - Radio Television Suisse, March 4, 2010.
2010 Exh. cat. Malfettes, Stephane, “Quelque Chose de Noir,” Inbetweenout/Black Mirror, Lausanne, CH, March, 2010.
2010 Exh. cat. Stokou, Despina, Equinox, Grimm Museum, Berlin, March, 2010.
2010 Vara, Rene, Bajo, Elena, “Me, Myself, and I (Conversations With Oneself),” Input Art Journal, Iteration 2, Spring,
    2010, http://issuu.com/inputjournal/docs/input2/1?e=0.
2009 The Nameless Dead, “Perfect is My Death Word,” The Nameless Dead, Nov 8, 2009,
    http://thenamelessdead.wordpress.com/tag/black/.
2009 Neidich, Schillinger, Nathalie Anglès, Eric Anglès, Bajo, “The Rules of Engagement,” Art Lies, Summer 2009.
2009 T.J. Carlin, “Do It Yourself”, Art in America Online, June 18, 2009.
2009 T.J. Carlin, “The Best New Art,” Time Out New York, Issue 713: May 28–June 3, 2009.
2008 Kasper, Chris, “Whitehot July 2008: Tom Burr Addict Love & In Practice,” Whitehot Magazine, July, 2008,
    http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-tom-burr-addict-love/1505.
2007 Rule, Alix. Saatchi Gallery, “Alix Rule's Round-Up of Shows in Berlin,” May 2007.
2007 Kunst & Markt, “Kunststuecke,” Tagesspiegel, April 21, 2007.
2007 Voors, Mike, “Tentoonstelling: Kunst voor Metal Fans,” Zwar Metalen.com, March 17, 2007,
    http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/8028/Tentoonstelling-kunst-voor-metalfans.html.
2006 Sharp, Willoughby; Smith, Pamela Seymour, “Videoview with Erik Smith,” Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, July 2006.
2006 Mirschel, Markus. “The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling,” Legacy, 03/2006, Nr. 43, Juni/Juli, p.66.
2006 Cattelan, Maurizio; Gioni, Massimiliano; Subotnik, Ali. Checkpoint Charlie, 4th Berlin Biennial Cont. Art, 2006.
2006 Smith, Erik, “Transplantation as Collage,” Atopia Polylogic E-zine, Greffe/Graft/Graphium, June, 2006.
2005 Heinrich, Karl, “Berliner Kunstmarkt,” Die Welt, May 27, 2005:38.
2005 Wollenhaupt, Annette. “Galerie 'gutleut 15’ ist wieder praesent,” Frankfurter Rundschau, May 22, 2005.
2005 Schuette, Christoph, “Der Kunstler als armer Hund,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, June 3, 2005.
1999 Baker, Kenneth, “Art Here and Now,” S.F. Chronicle Datebook, Nov.14, 1999:38-41.
1999 Baker, Kenneth, Art review, S.F. Chronicle, May 22, 1999:D1.
1997 Baker, Kenneth, Art review, S.F. Chronicle, Jan. 18, 1997:D4.
1997 Roche, Harry, Art review, S.F. Guardian, Vol.31, No.17, Jan. 22-8, 1997:73.
 
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