Vorname

Jimmie

Nachname

Durham

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— CV & Portfolio

Downloads - English

Jimmie Durham Biography.pdf (182.8 kB)

Jimmie Durham Portfolio.pdf (4,026.5 kB)

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— Exhibitions

Shows - English

looking at my own work (and his), 2012
Glass, 2006
Stones at Home, 2000

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— Text

Text über den Künstler - English

Jimmie Durham insists that we take nothing for granted. Language, objects, institutions – the base elements that constitute „the way things are“ – are all held up to scrutiny, only to show us that things are also always some other way, too. With disarming humor but utter penetrative seriousness, he proffers (to paraphrase the artist) „interruptions to authoritative history,“ the effect of which is to put everything into question, even the ground on which we stand. Where and what is Western art? And is „postcolonial“ too glib a term to describe our present condition?

Michael Archer, Artforum 2009

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Galerie

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Wild Heart</em>, 1998<br />Bicycle and stone<br />150 x 100 x 35 cm

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Himmel und Erde müssen vergehen</em>, 2000<br />Jacket and Stone<br />70 x 120 x 35 cm

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Baby, Please Don't Go</em>, 2000<br />Stilettos and Stone<br />151 x 64, 5 x 101 cm</div>

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Towards Light</em>, 2000<br />Balance and Stone<br />65 x 33 x 35 cm</div>

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Nature Morte</em>, 2000<br />Table, tablecloth, Stone, and documentation video<br />150 x 180 x 100 cm</div>

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>A Stone Asleep in Bed at Home,</em> 2000<br />Bed, mattress, bedclothes, and stone<br />200 x 155 x 101 cm</div>

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Still-Life with Stone and Car</em>, 2004<br />Sydney Biennale

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>The Flower of the Death of Loneliness</em>, 2000<br />Mirror, stone, acrylic<br />90 x 90 x 25 cm</div>

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Nature Morte with Stone and House</em>, 2007<br />Stone, wood, glass, mixed media<br />4 x 4 x 4 m

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> DETAIL <em>Nature Morte with Stone and House</em>, 2007<br />Stone, wood, glass, mixed media<br />4 x 4 x 4 m</div>

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Encore Tranquilité</em>, 2008<br />Airplane and stone<br />150 x 860 x 806 cm

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Radio Vacuum Tube and Bones from Several Animals Along with Bright Plastic and Glass Elements,</em> 2006<br />mixed media<br />43 x 30 x 25 cm

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Glass</em>, 2006<br />Wood, glass, light<br />130 x 48 x 35 cm<br />Base 100 x 48 x 35 cm<br />Stone 30 x 47 x 30 cm

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>A Fountain in Case Your Roof Leaks</em>, 1996<br />Glass, wood, jar, rope<br />123 x 50 x 50 cm

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> DETAIL <em>A Fountain in Case Your Roof Leaks</em>, 1996<br />Glass, wood, jar, rope<br />123 x 50 x 50 cm</div>

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Silver River Under a Pale Sun</em>, 2006<br />Wood, gold, glass, glass stones, mercury, light

JIMMIE DURHAM<br /><em>elements and material from the actual world</em>, 2009<br />mixed media on plywood<br />app. 250 x 300 cm

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Haim Steinbach as Played by Haim Steinbach</em>, 2008<br />b/w-photograph<br />61 x 81 cm<br />Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Semi-linear Study #1, Neodymium Isotope, Non-symmetrical Plagioclase, Computing with Rainbows</em>, 2007<br />4 Bronze works<br />35 x 30 x 100 cm, 42 x 40 x 120 cm, 48 x 38 x 140 cm, 40 x 37 x 150 cm<br />all Ed. 3

<div> <div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves</em>, 2006<br />color photograph<br />100 x 66,5 cm<br />Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.</div> </div>

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves as Terminator</em>, 2006<br />color photograph<br />100 x 66,5 cm<br />Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.</div>

<h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Echo</em>, 2008<br />mixed media

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> <em>Self-Portrait as Rosa Levy</em>, 2006<br />color photograph<br />100 x 66,5 cm<br />Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.</div>

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> DETAIL<em> <em>Untitled (Radio)</em>, 2005</em></div> mixed media, radio<br />147 x 35 x 23 cm<br />Base 121 x 35 x 23 cm

JIMMIE DURHAM<br /><em>Pursuit of Happiness, Actor: Anri Sala</em>, 2002<br />35 mm film<br />13:00 min<br />Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.

<div> <h1>JIMMIE DURHAM</h1> DETAIL <em>It is nearly always like this; a man torments himself, believes the world is about to demand a full explanation, when in fact the world has moved on, thinking of other things. -Jose Saramago-,</em> 2009<br />mixed media<br />145 x 38 cm <br /><br /></div>

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Catalogues

A Matter of Life and Death and Singing, JRP|Ringier, 2012.
Material - dOCUMENTA (13), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012.
Poems that do not go together, Wiens Verlag und Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 2012.
Amoxohtli | Libro de Carretera | A Road Book, Walther König, 2011.
Rejected Stones, Paris-Musées, 2009
The Second Particle Wave Theory. University of Sunderland and Banff Center in Canada, 2005.
Stone Heart, CCA Kitakyushyu, 2001.
Between the Furniture and the Building, Walter König, Köln, 1998.
Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast, Springer, Wien, 1996.
A Certain Lack of Coherence, Kala Press, London, 1994.
The East London Coelcanth, Bookworks, London, 1993.

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Videolist

A Proposal for a New International Genuflexion in Promotion of World Peace, 2007
DVD
00:30 min
Ed. 7

A Telephone Call, 2006
DVD
02:40 min
Ed. 7

Pursuit of Happiness, Actor: Anri Sala, 2002
35 mm Film / 35 mm film
13:00 min
Ed. 1 + 1 a.p.

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
A Curious Event In East Berlin, 2008
DVD
08:21 min
Ed. 7

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
Bruce Lee In The Land Of Balzac, 2007
DVD
02:00 min
Ed. 7

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
Grunewald, 2006
DVD
13:35 min
Ed. 7

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
Tocetea (Yo me Enseño), 2003
DVD
01:00 min
Ed. 7

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
Collected Stones, 13 short films, 2002
DVD
24:00 min
Ed. 10

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
Bruno + The Burning Bush, 1998
DVD
01:15 min
Ed. 7

Jimmie Durham und Maria Thereza Alvez:
The Man Who Had A Beautiful House, 1994
DVD
07:25 min
Ed. 7

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