Bio / CV

Patricia Reed
[AKA Yukiko Ijuin {jp}, Gordana Kovacevic {hr}, Lucia Mondella{it}, Barbara Radziwillowna {po}, Libuse Stastna {cz}, Pia Fuchs {de}, Ileana Cusnir {md}, Daria Zaozerskaia {ru}, Rose Berthier {fr}, Eleni-Candan {cy}]

Born 1977, Ottawa, Canada
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

[Education / Artists’ Residencies]

2011
2010
  • MA, European Graduate School, Switzerland
2009
2005, 2003–04
2003
  • FCCA Jeleni Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague Czech Republic
2001- 02
2000
  • Electro-acoustic, Digital Audio residency at Studio XX, Montréal
1999
  • BFA Concordia University, Major in Studio Arts, Montreal, QC.

[Group Exhibitions (*denotes Catalogue)]

2011
  • Metrospective, Program, Berlin. Curated by Carson Chan and Michael Ruiz.
2010
  • Jewelry, Samsa, Berlin. Curated by Shannon Bool.
  • Flagpole, Plateforme, Paris. Curated by Cécile Azoulay
  • The Traveling Show, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by Johan Lundh
  • Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. Curated by Iris Dressler & Hans D. Christ
  • They go round and round, 0047 Project Space, Oslo. Curated by Carson Chan.
  • We Want Something From You, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada
  • Celebration, Uqbar Project Room, Berlin.
  • Source/Resource, Wilde Galerie, Berlin. Curated by Peter Wilde
  • ev+a, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland. Curated by Elizabeth Hatz
  • First Nations/ Second Nature, Audain Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by Candice Hopkins.
2009
2008
2007
  • Participation in Biennale de Lyon*- Installation and Publication of Miessen/Pflugfelder the Violence of Participation
  • Just Space(s), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles. Curators: Ava Bromberg & Nicholas Brown
  • M6 Dept III: Abschlussball. WestGermany -Berlin. (co-curated by Patricia Reed & Société Réaliste)
  • Airs de Paris*. Centre Pompidou -Paris, Fr. with Bruno Latour. Curated by: Valerie Guillaume
  • Searching for an Ideal Urbanity*. Akademie Schloss Solitude -Stuttgart, Ger. Curated by: Fabrizio Gallanti
2006
  • Grand Narrative. Galerie Bergstuebl’ -Berlin, Ger.. Curated by Vic Vicarious
  • No Man’s Land. Online Project -Bangkok, Th., Curated by Varsha Nair, Keiko Sei
  • Traversing Tableaux.  Modern Fuel Gallery -Kingston, Canada
  • The Cult of Speed, Toronto Free Gallery -Toronto, Ca. Curated by Heather Haynes
  • The Peninsula*. Singapore History Museum -Sg. Curated by Heman Chong
2005
  • Zeltlager. Rohkunstbau -Spreewald, Germany. Curator Heman Chong
  • Das Auge des Ich. Otto-Braun-Str. (Public) -Berlin. Curator Sibylle Hofter
  • Boundless. Stenersenmuseet -Oslo, Norway. Curator Jan Christensen
2004
  • Rewriting Ones Own History. Sparwasser HQ -Berlin. Curator Lise Nellemann
  • Interference. Akademie Schloss Solitude (Rommerstr.) -Stuttgart, Germany
2002
  • Void Archive. Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan. Organized by Akiko Miyake and Nobuo Nakamura
  • Safty*. Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
  • C O O P. Maeda Studio, Kitakyushu, Japan
2001
  • ergoticks.org. virtual launching, supported by Galérie Articule, Montreal, Canada

[Solo Exhibitions]

2006
  • Estranged Proximities. Latitude 53 -Edmonton, Canada
  • Pedestrian. WestGermany -Berlin, Germany. (duo). Cat*
2005
  • Polyrhythmy. Akademie Schloss Solitude -Stuttgart, Germany
2004
  • A Space Traversed With Signals. Akademie Schloss Solitude -Stuttgart, Ger
2003
  • CO-operative IN difference. Espace 410 Belgo Building, Montreal, Canada
2003
  • ands, buts & interruptions. Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
2003
  • playing with paradox. Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

[Published Writing]

2011
  • “Democracy at All Cost: The Indisciplinary Participant” in The Nightmare of Participation (Post-Production). eds Markus Miessen. Utrecht: Expodium, 2011 (forthcoming)
  • “Choreo-graphies of Round and Round Revolution” in On the Seasons-They Go Round and Round, eds. Carson Chan. Oslo: 0047 Publications, 2011
2010
  • “Politics of I Can…”, in Cognitive Architecture; From Bio-politics to Noo-politics. Eds. Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich. Amsterdam: 010 Publishers, 2010.
  • “Ten Theses on Publicity and Art”, in Secret Publicity (Pulbication as Exhibition), curated by A. Firth-Eagland
  • “From Culpability to Capacity”, in Kapital G: Facing the Good (Reader). Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2010.
  • “Improper Human-ness”, YYZ Essays, Toronto (online).
  • “Potentiality and the Politics of Indistinctive Equality”, Shifter Magazine (16), New York (eds. Sreshta Rit Premnath and Warren Neidich)
2009
  • The Struggle for Incapacity…, Framework: The Finnish Art Review, Helsinki (Issue 11)
  • Hadley+Maxwell in Review, Art Papers, Atlanta (Nov/Dec 09)
  • Staging Shadows Without Source, C Magazine, Issue 101, Toronto (March 09)
  • Through, Around and Against the Document: Interview with Maryam Jafri, Art Papers, Atlanta (Feb 09)
2008
  • Conversation on Participatory Practice (with David Goldenberg), Fillip Magazine, Fall 08, Vancouver
  • Uberleben. Review of group exhibition for C Magazine, Toronto
2007
  • In the Absence of Unambiguous Criteria.  Review of Rodney LaTourelle for C Magazine, Toronto
2006
  • Untitled (Excerpts #01) Anthology edited by Heman Chong & Leif Magne Tangen
2005
  • “Distracted Transformations” by Erik Bünger & Patricia Reed. Neue Review April 2005, #9, Berlin. Review of Paul Pfeiffer
2004
  • “Who’s Depending on Who and All These Strange Things” by Ilya Gridneff & Patricia Reed. Neue Review September 2004, #7, Berlin.  Review of Julian Rosefeldt

[Teaching / Talks / Conferences / Panel Discussions]

2011
  • The Becoming Lives of Diwaniyah, On the Production of Eccentric Space. Theory Seminar, The Winter School Middle East, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2010
  • Presentation on Capacities at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • Artists’ Talk, University of Delaware Exchange in Berlin.
  • Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Waterloo Berlin Exchange Trip.
2009
2008
  • Archives of Memory II, collaboration with Sönke Hallmann (Dept of Reading), at Program, Berlin
2007
  • Artist Talk at EMAA Headquarters, Nicosia, North Cyprus
  • Structures of Co-habitation – Death of Relational Aesthetics reading and discussion group (Program, Berlin)
  • Panel Discussion with Ong Keng Seng: Art and Economy. Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin. Inv. Lise Nellemann
2006
  • Artists’ Talk Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Bremen, Germany. Inv: by Bernd Milla
  • Artists’ Talk Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada. Inv: by Todd Janes
  • Universität der Kunst, Berlin, Germany.  Panel discussion on Alternative Knowledge  Production, Inv: by Joel Mu
  • Transient Institution / Institute of Urban Memory, Workshop with Markus Miessen, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
2005
  • Visualising Science –Interventions in the presentation of the sciences. Conference, Gallery of Research, Vienna, Austria
  • Picturing Research, Conference, Gallery of Research, Vienna, Austria
2004
2003
  • Artist’s Talk at Akademie of Fine Arts Prague, Czech Republic
2000
  • Guest on CKUT XX Files, Montréal, Canada. (Radio Interview)
  • Artist’s Talk at Studio XX, Montréal, Canada

[Curatorial Projects]

2007
  • M6.1 DIII: Offseason, Cyprus , Various Locations, Cyprus
  • M6 Dept III: Abschlussbal. WestGermany -Berlin. (co-curated with Société Réaliste) mobilizing the “lost” network of Manifesta 6, Dept. III participants
2006
  • Erratic Signals. Latitude 53 -Edmonton, Canada. Single channel video works from 10 International artists.  In tandem with Artists Talk
  • The Momental. Sparwasser HQ -Berlin, Germany. Curatorial Project. Cat*
    (With Artists: Larissa Fassler, Ivana Franke, Germaine Koh, Jeff Preiss, Stephan Kurr, Asa Stahl; Workshops: Markus Miessen, Juergen Krusche; Talks: Dr. Mark Paterson, Dr. Christel Weiler, Dr. Barbara Gronau, Judith Manzoni, Johan Zetterquist)

[Video screenings and festivals]

2006
  • Made in Video, Copenhagen, Denmark. Cat*
2005
  • Jianghu Mobile Video. Lijiang Studio, Kunming, China
2004
  • Out Video Festival. National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia,  curated by Arseny Sergeev
2002
  • Tranzit Days Festival, Tranzit Foundation, Transylvania, Romania, curated by Erzsebet Aszalos
  • Videomaraton, Center of Contemporary Art, Moldova, curated by Marin Turea

[Grants/Awards and Nominations]

2011
  • Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Residency Scholarship, Warsaw, Poland
2009
  • Banff Centre for the Arts, Residency Scholarship, Canada
2008
  • Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2007
  • European Mediterranean Artists Association Travel Grant, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Gasag Prize Nomination for Berlin Artist under 35
2006
  • Kulturamt Mitte, Berlin, Germany.  Exhibition assistance for The Momental
  • Quartier Management Kottbusser Tor, Berlin, Germany
  • Botschaft von Kanada exhibition assistance, Berlin, Germany
2005
  • Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Germany
2004
  • Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Germany
2003
  • Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Production Grant, Canada
2001
  • Sheila Hugh Mackay Grant recipient for Québec, Canada
  • Center of Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Artist in Residence Scholarship Japan
  • Special Project Grant for the ergoticks.org Project from Galérie Articule

Biography

The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]

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