Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ‘State Britain’. His work ‘Ecce Homo’ (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. ‘Labyrinth’ (2013), a major and permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work ‘Writ in Water’ was realised for the National Trust to celebrate Magna Carta at Runnymede, and ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ was unveiled in 2019 for the London School of Economics.
A surprising, inventive and profound artist, whose multi-faceted work encompasses painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, film and video, performance and work for the public realm. Stylistic disparity conceals a conceptual coherence, as Wallinger poses big questions about identity, and about the social, cultural and political power structures that guide us, and because of which we are as we are.
Wallinger has held solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London, England (1995); Portikus, Hamburg, DE (1999); Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH (1999); Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE (1999); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2000); Vienna Secession, Vienna, AT (2000); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2001); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE (2004); Hangar Bicocca, Milan, IT (2005); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX (2006); Tate Britain, UK (2007); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH (2008); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO (2010); Museum de Pont, Tilburg, NL (2011); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2012); Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, FI (2016); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2017); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT (2018); Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, US (2019) and Museum Langmatt, Baden, CH (2022), among others. His work is included in the collections of international museums such as such as Guggenheim, New York; Tate, London, UK; MoMA, New York, US; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR.
Represented by Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich. For further inquiries please write to Fabian Lang at info@fabianlang.ch.
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SELECTED PRESS
Selected works:
Self-Portrait (Freehand 122), 2014
Acrylic on canvas
213 x 101.5 cm, 83.86 x 39.96 in.
Self-Portrait (Freehand 82), 2014
Acrylic on canvas
76.5 x 51 cm, 30.12 x 20.08 in.
Panorama London 2020 13 April at 14-39-29, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
120 x 116 x 3 cm 47.24 x 45.67 x 1.18 in
Panorama London 2020 15 April at 18-34-27, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
104 x 115 x 2.2 cm, 40.94 x 45.28 x 0.87 in
Panorama London 2020 20 April at 14-55-22, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
86 x 129 x 2.2 cm, 33.86 x 50.79 x 0.87 in
Panorama London 2020 21 April at 16-25-46, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
86 x 170 x 2.2 cm, 33.86 x 66.93 x 0.87 in
Panorama London 2020, 26 April at 15-32-24, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
81 x 225 cm, 31.89 x 88.58 in
Panorama London 2020, 22 April at 13-39-45, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
51 x 216 x 3 cm, 20.08 x 85.04 x 1.18 in
Arcadia, 2020
Two channel video work
Video 1 - 4 hours, 38 minutes, 26 seconds
Video 2 - 5 hours, 9 minutes and 49 seconds
Panorama London 2020 13 April at 18-34-27, 2020
Somerset paper mounted on Dibond
111 x 116 x 2.2 cm, 43.70 x 45.67 x 0.87 in
Isolated Figure (2), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
183 x 102 x 5 cm (72.05 x 40.16 x 1.97 in)
Isolated Figure (4), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
167 x 48 x 5 cm (65.75 x 18.90 x 1.97 in)
Isolated Figure (3), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
175 x 70 x 5 cm (68.90 x 27.56 x 1.97 in.)
Isolated Figure (6), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
162 x 70 x 5 cm (64 x 27.56 x 1.97 in)
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Isolated Figure (1), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
176 x 74 x 5 cm (69.29 x 29.13 x 1.97 in)
Isolated Figure (6), 2020
Colour Print on 5mm PVC Foamex, Rotating Motor, Thread
162 x 70 x 5 cm (64 x 27.56 x 1.97 in)
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Field Painting Study 3, 2025
Voile
60 x 60 cm, 23.62 x 23.62 in.