Ian Kiaer

Born 1971, Ian Kiaer lives in London. He makes fragile installations involving groupings of architectural models, untouched or slightly modified found objects, and two-dimensional work to create fragmented narratives. He has exhibited internationally since 2000, with solo exhibitions at institutions including Heidelberger Kunstverein (2020), Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2017), Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2011) and the Tate Britain, London (2003). He has also exhibited at the Venice Biennale (50th), Istanbul Biennale (10th), Berlin Biennale (4th), Lyon Bienniale (10th) and Manifesta 3. Several works are part of prestigious public collections including The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK ; FRAC Ile de France, Paris, FR; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US.

Education

2008
Royal College of Art, London, UK (PhD Painting Research)
2000
Royal College of Art, London, UK (MA Painting)
1995
Slade School of Art, University College London, UK (BA Fine Art)

Solo exhibitions

2023
Barbara Wien, Berlin, DE, Endnote oblique, pink
Barbara Wien Gallery, London, UK, Endnote oblique
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, Endnote, oblique

2021
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Pink cloth

2020
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, DE, Endnote, yellow
Heidelberger Kunstverein,DE, Endnote, ping

2019
Kunsthalle Lingen, DE, Endnote, ping
Base/Progetti per l'arte, Firenze, IT, Ping, murmer
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, Endnote, ping

2017
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, FR, Endnote, Tooth
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, DE
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Endnote, Tooth

2016
Neubauer Collegium, Chicago,USA, Endnote, Ledoux

2015
Lulu, Mexico City, MX, Limp Oak
And Now, Dallas, USA, Ian Kiaer

2014
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK, Tooth house
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK, Tooth house

2013
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR
Centre International d'art et du Paysage, Vassivière, FR

2012
Alison Jacques, London, UK
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
FIAC (with Marcelle Alix), Paris, FR

2011
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, IT, Il baciamano,

2010
Kunstverein, Munich, DE, Endnote, Pink,
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

2009
Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK, COMMA 15
GAM (Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Turin, IT, What Where
BASE Contemporary Art Projects, Florence, IT
Alison Jacques Gallery Project Space, London, UK
SE8, London, UK, Three Proposals

2007
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, Bruegel project

2006
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT, Erdrindenbau

2005
British School at Rome, Rome, IT
Art Statements, Art Basel
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, The Grey Cloth

2004
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK, Endless House project
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT

2003
Art Statements, Art Basel Miami Beach
Tate Britain, London, UK, Ian Kiaer: ArtNow
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, Endless Theatre Project
aspreyjacques, London, UK, Ian Kiaer/Jeff Ono
W139,Amsterdam, Interstice/Double Impact

2001
aspreyjacques, London, UK

Group exhibitions

2024
Northern Alps Art Festival 2024, Omachi, JPN, Water, Trees, Earth, and Sky

2023
Drawing Room, London, UK, UNBUILD: a site of possibility

2022
Phenomenon Biennial 4, Anafi, GR
The Drawing Room, London, UK, UNBUILD

2020
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE, Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe
Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR

2019
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Marcelle Alix ouverte
Cahn Contemporary, Paris, FR, mains amies
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, FR, YOU
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, Prince.sse.s des villes

        2018
        Fidelidade - Chiado 8, Lisbonne, PT, Back in Five
         Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, DE, Various Others
        Towner art gallery, Eastbourne, UK, We stared at the
          Moon from the centre of the Sun: Haroon Mirza Curates
          the Arts Council Collection
         Modern Art Oxford / Drawing Room, EN, A Slice through
          the World: Contemporary Artists? Drawings

2017
Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, FR, Strange Days

2016
Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, DE, Klappe eins, Affe tot
Annette Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, What are we gonna paint?
Old Church, Rotterdam, NL, Calling All Ghosts

2015
Galeria Graça Brandao, Lisbonne, PT, In Absentia,
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Rushes (with Charlotte Moth)
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, Concrete
A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL, The Story of the Stone

2014
SpazioA, Pistoia, IT, Non-Profit & Profit

2013
MUDAM, Luxembourg, L'image papillon (cur. Christophe Gallois)

2012
Biennale de Rennes, FR, Les prairies
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Le vicomte pourfendu
Tate Britain, Londres, UK, Contemporary Collection : The space between
CIAP Vassivière, FR, Champ d'expérience,
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR, Ahoy! An Island!

2011
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR, Ahoy! An Island!
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Nothing Personal
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE, Antic Measures
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, AT, Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT, Essential Art
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, All of this and Nothing

2009
Xth Biennale de Lyon (curated by Hou Hanru), Lyon, FR
BP British Art Displays 1500-2009, Tate Britain, London, UK, Concrete Island (Room 30)
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, Material Intelligence (touring to Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield)
Drawing 2009 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK
SE8, London, UK, Cabinets No. 1

2008
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, BE, No Information Available (curated by Francesco Bonami)
Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin, DE, Reinvented: Study & Play
Fundação Serralves, Porto, PT, Livre Circulacao: Arquitectors Europeus em Transito
Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, DE, Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IR, Ephemera (w/ Gabriel Kuri, Jonathan Monk & Simon Starling)
Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, IT, Peripheral vision and collective body
Limerick, IR, Too Early For Vacation (curated by Hou Hanru)
International Project Space, Birmingham, UK, Ian Kiaer and Sara MacKillop
The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA, Project for a New American Century
Altefabrik / Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil-Jona, CH, Die Kugeln! Die Kreise! Die Räder! (The Spheres! The Circles! The Wheels!) (curated by Christiane Rekade)

2007
War: 10th International Instanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TUR, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessar: Optimism in the Age of Global
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL, Winter Palace
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH, Poor Thing
Atelier als supermedium, The Hague, NL, Plankjes, tak, atelier als supermedium # 14
Locus, Athens, G, Disco Coppertone
Murska Sobota, SI, European Triennial of small-size sculpture (cur. by David Thorp)
Royal College of Art, London, UK, Various Small Fires
Lambretto Art Project, Milan, IT

2006
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL, Behind The Cliché
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, USA, The Impossible Landscape
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, Satellites
4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute of Contemporary Art and further venues along August Straße in Mitte, Berlin, DE, Of Mice and Men

2005
Gasworks, London, UK, The Music of The Future
Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK, ARTfutures
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, Universal Experience
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, Controlled, Contained, Configured
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, The Way We Work Now
St Paul's Church Gallery, London, UK, New Monastery
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK, Ordering the Ordinary (cur. by David Thorpe)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT, Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection
The Gallery at Wimbledon, School of Art, UK, The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss
Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, IR, The Hugh Lane Re-Opening Exhibition
Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, BE, (In) Tension
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, Material as Metaphor 

2004
Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP, Empty Garden II
L'Observatoire, Brussels, BE, This is not a home this is a house
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, IT, Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 
117 Commercial Street, London, UK, Wider Than the Sky 
FA Projects, London, UK, XS

2003
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of The Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, IT, Delays and Revolutions (cur. by Franceso Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum)
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP, Harmony, at Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art & Life (cur. by Pier Luigi Tazzi)
Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, DE, Invite #8
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT, Atto Primo
The Ship, London, UK, Ponce
Cover Up, London, UK, In to the Grey
Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK, The Straight or Crooked Way
RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, AU
The Gallery at APT, London, UK, Infallible

2002
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA, Building Structures
ICA, Boston, USA, Artists Imagine Architecture (cur. by Jessica Morgan) 
The Pavillions, London, UK, The Bold and the Beautiful 
RMIT Project Space, Melbourne (cur. by Akiko Usami and Jasper Joffe)
GreeneNaftali Inc., New York, USA, Pictures

2001 
Watou Poetry Summer 2001, (cur. by Pier Luigi Tazzi and Ann Demeester), Watou, BE, An Empty Spot to Stay

2000 
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, SI, (cur. by Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Mária Hlavajová and Kathrin Rhomberg)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, UBS Painting Prize
Exit Art, New York, USA

Publications

2020
Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Endnote, tooth, Berlin,
Archive Books. (exh. cat.)
2014
Tooth House – Ian Kiaer, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute. (exh. cat.)
2013
Marianne Lanavère (dir.), Ian Kiaer, Vassivière, édition du CIAP Vassivière. (exh. cat.)
2012
Ian Kiaer, Aspen Art Museum. (exh. cat)
2009
What Where, Turin, Galleria d?Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. (exh. cat.)
2007
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Mark Godfrey, Ian Kiaer, Rome/London, British School at Rome/British Council. (exh. cat.)

Awards

2018
The Philip Leverhulme Prize, London, UK
2000
The Boise Scholarship, Boise, US
1998
The Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation Scholarship Award, London, UK
1995
The Duveen Travel Scholarship, Oxford, UK

Public collections

FRAC Piemonte, Turin, IT
Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin, IT
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Tate, London, UK
FRAC Ile de France, Paris, FR
FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, FR
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
MAMC+, Saint-Etienne, FE
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, FR

Oeuvres