Tacita Dean, a British-European artist born in 1965 in Canterbury, currently resides and creates in Berlin and Los Angeles. She gained recognition for her work exploring history, time, place, light, and the essence of film. Dean’s focus lies in capturing genuine moments, celebrating film as a medium, and embracing individual sensibilities.
She has received numerous awards, including the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 2019, the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009, the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and the Sixth Benesse Prize in 2005.
Dean’s recent solo exhibitions were featured at prominent venues like the Bourse de Commerce in Paris (2023), MUDAM in Luxembourg (2022), and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2022). She also designed sets and costumes for “The Dante Project,” a ballet premiered in October 2021 at the Royal Opera House in London.
Notably, her work “FILM,” showcased in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011, marked the beginning of a campaign to preserve photochemical film.
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
10 February 2021 • Mark Westall
One of the most important new contemporary art museums in Europe, The Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain, designed by award-winning Tuñón Arquitectos Studio, will open in spring 2021.
12 December 2020 • Irene Machetti
Until 31st December 2020, James Hyman Gallery is hosting an online fundraising sale where 50% of the proceeds will be donated to the Trussell Trust.
29 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Among the Trees celebrates key works of art that reimagine how we think about trees and forests. Spanning the past 50 years, the exhibition brings together major works by 38 leading international artists from five different continents.
21 June 2018 • Staff
One of the works offered by Niels Borch Jensen Gallery that struck me was Tacita Dean’s Quarantania (2018) – a stunning work on seven panels depicting a mountain against a rusty pink graduated sky, reminiscent of Ed Ruscha.
30 January 2017 • Mark Westall
25 leading international artists, including Simon Starling, Sir Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon have used materials retrieved from The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh library after the fire to create original works of art to help raise money for restoration of the Mackintosh Building.
26 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Reading performance event ‘Hack Gloss’ by Anne Carson on the occasion of Roni Horn’s exhibition ‘Butterfly Doubt’ at Hauser &Wirth London.
20 August 2013 • Mark Westall
This September at the Whitechapel Gallery, The London Art Book Fair celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing.
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The doyen of British sculpture gives the Guardian an exclusive preview of his major new exhibition in the German capital
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Artists and Art Writers from over 30 Countries among the Nominees click the image above to see the full list ..
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Exhibition to feature James Richards, Ed Atkins and Helen Marten, as well as better-known names including Sarah Lucas
8 November 2012 • Mark Westall
TWENTYEIGHT FINGERS has been realised by Joanna Brown after the idea cropped up in a conversation with five fellow fine arts masters students from the University of Leeds in 2007. It has resulted in a collection of 28 bronze casts of the index fingers of significant creative figures of our time.
4 April 2012 • Mark Westall
What’s it like to make giant monuments for Rachel Whiteread? Or to paint spots for Damien Hirst? The people behind some of Britain’s best known art share their highs – and lows
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Scorsese’s Hugo, shot in 3D, is an excited paean to film history using modern techniques. But Dean’s much darker Film, at Tate Modern, mourns the passing of celluloid
19 October 2011 • Mark Westall
There is something very English about Dean’s latest work in Tate’s Turbine Hall, so why do we call her a British artist? You wouldn’t call Dylan Thomas British, would you?
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
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26 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Nadja Romain and Jenny Saville invite internationally renowned contemporary artists to support Women for Women International 27th September to 1st… Read More
3 January 2011 • Mark Westall
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
16 December 2010 • Mark Westall
Tacita Dean to Undertake Next Commission in The Unilever Series- Tate and Unilever have announced that Tacita Dean will undertake… Read More
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11 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Tacita Dean at Frith Street Gallery – In November 2008, Tacita Dean filmed the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) and his dance company rehearsing for an event in a former Ford assembly plant in Richmond, California
2 November 2009 • Mark Westall
Image credit: Copyright Alex Katz; Courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 4 November – 13 December 2009 Jerwood Space, 171 Union… Read More
15 June 2009 • Mark Westall
Contemporary Art at Tate Britain– Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries Recent major acquisitions of British contemporary art will go on display… Read More
