ERIK SMITH (b. Boston, US, lives and works in Berlin, DE)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024	Spatial Politics, ALL, Palermo, IT
2024	Convergence, Dedic, Zagreb, CR
2021	Un-buildings, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, AT
2019	Experiments in Disintegrating, Changing Room, Berlin, DE
2019	Displacements, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
2018	Ghosts, Counterpath, Denver, CO, US
2017	Psychoarcheology, FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, Malta
2016	From the Archive - LocusSolus: Erik Smith, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2014	AABBCCDV (redux Berlin), Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2013	Die Raeume, die raum, Berlin, DE
2012	AABBCCDV, DimensionsVariable, Miami, FL, US
2011	Test Dig No. 1, Skulpturenpark_Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin, DE
2007	The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2006	The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2004	F.L.E., Zentralbuero, Berlin, DE
1999	New Conceptual Sculpture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
1997	Some Assembly Required, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024	El paisaje que hable, Universidad de Guanajuato, MX
2023	Making Miami, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL US (cat.)
2023	As Vozes da Paisagem Contemporânea / The Landscape Speaks, U. Porto, Academy of Fine Arts, Porto, PT
2023	Zero Tolerance, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2022	Blind Vision, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin DE
2022	AIR Artist Gorni Grad, Slovenia
2021	Kommunale Galerie Berlin; Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim; Heinrich-Schutz
	Bibliothek; Dietrich-Bornhoeffer Bibliothek; BHR OX bauhaus reuse in conjunction with Stadt findet Kunst, DE
2020	Stadt findet Kunst, Berlin, DE
2020	20 | 20 - Stadt | Zeit | Kunst, Schoeler.Berlin, Berlin, DE (cat.)
2019	PEACE - don't make me laugh // You A Two Minute Brother, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2019	2nd International Encounter of Objects and Walls: Miami Edition, Supplement Projects, Miami, FL, US
2019	Movement, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin DE
2019	Save As, WAAM, Miami, FL, US
2019	(re)space - Take back the Space, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin DE
2019	anders Platz, im Rahmen des Projektes Der Platz, KungerKiezInitiative e.V., Berlin DE
2018	5 Years of FRAGMENTA, FRAGMENTA, Floriana, Malta (cat.)
2018	ÄRMEL AUFKREMPELN ZUPACKEN AUFBAUEN!, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2017	The Real Estate Show Extended, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, DE (cat.)
2017	Rebellion, Scotty, Berlin, DE
2016	Freux Follet, BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR, cur. Elodie Lesourd
2016	On Site in 16 Cities, Berlin Collective, Bar Babette, Berlin, DE
2015	You knee them in the chin…!, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2015	What is the sound of protest?, Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2014	IWF Moerdertreff, Spor Klübü, Berlin DE
2013	REMIX, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2013	DimensionsVariable, Pulse Miami, Miami, FL, US
2012	Home in Crisis, Temporary Home 2012, Kassel, DE
2012	Cocaine Blows My Brain, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE
2012	Kulturpark, the end / Spring Break, Berlin DE
2012	What I predict to remember what I predict to forget, Stedefreund, Berlin, DE
2011	Navigating Darkness, Tape Modern, Berlin, DE
2011	Berlin Verstehen, servtag GmbH, Berlin, DE
2011	Weak Heart Drop, ExRotaprint, Berlin, DE
2011	Emblem of Modernity, Pink Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010	Black Mirror, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland, cur. Marco Costantini (cat.)
2010	Weil’ auf mir du dunkles Auge, Bauer & Ewald, Berlin, DE
2010	P.A.S.T. Projects, The Woodmill, London, UK
2010	Me, Myself and I (Conversations with Oneself), Input, Armory Show, NYC, US (cat.)
2009	Exhibition, 211 Elizabeth Street, NYC, US
2008	In Practice Projects, SculptureCenter, LIC, NY,, US, cur. Sarina Basta
2008	Svart Kunststykke, Ruimte X, ZXZW Independent Culture, Tilburg, NL
2008	The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling, Scryption Museum voor schriftelijke communicatie, Tilburg, NL
2008	Artforum Berlin, Pierogi Brooklyn/Leipzig, DE
2007	The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Mueller Gallery, Berlin, DE, cur. W. Neidich
2007	Flatfiling, Perogi @ ArtNews Projects, Berlin, DE
2007	The Best of Show, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2007	Artforum Berlin, Pierogi Brooklyn/Leipzig, DE
2006	Me, Myself and I 2, Gutleut 15, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2005	News from the Studios, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, DE
2005	Me, Myself and I, Glue, Berlin, DE; Konsortium, Düsseldorf, DE; Gutleut 15, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
2005	Galerie Hobbyshop, Munich, DE; Arti, Amsterdam, NL
2005	Extraglue Editionen Dauerhaft Ausstellung, Glue, Berlin, DE
2004	Architektur und Film Festival 04, Brotfabrik, Berlin, DE
2004	Utopia U Build It, Rocket Shop, Berlin, DE, cur. Laura Schleussner
2000	Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, ML, US
1998	ArtFrankfurt98, Rena Bransten Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE
1997	Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
1996	Glean, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US, cur. Julie Deamer
1996	The Gramercy Int. Art Fair, Rena Bransten Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,, US
1996	FIAC, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Paris, FR

PERFORMANCES

2019	ACIINTT - Wiesenburg, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin DE
2019	ACIINTT - slow listening berlin, Changing Room, Berlin DE
2019	Titanic, Errant Sound, Berlin DE
2007	Perfect is My Death Word (Sammath), De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2007	Perfect is My Death Word (Neithan), Magnus Mueller Gallery, Berlin, DE
2006	Perfect is My Death Word (Blodsrit), K17, Berlin, DE

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

2023	Catalog Funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2022	Neustart Kultur Fellowship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2022	Rezidenca Gornji Grad, artist residency, Slovenia
2021	AIR – Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria
2020	Stadt findet Kunst - Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf von Berlin, project funding
2018	Counterpath, artist residency, Denver, CO, US
2017	FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, artist residency, Malta
2017	Headlands Center for the Arts, artist residency (alternate), Marin, CA US
2012	LegalArt/Cannonball, artist residency, Miami, FL, US
2011	Expodium: Kanaleneiland, artist residency, Utrecht, NL
2008	ZXZW Festival for Independent Culture, artist residency, Tilburg, NL
2000	SECA award finalist, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

TALKS / SCREENINGS / ARTIST PUBLICATIONS

2024	Substrata, book launch/artist talk with Tommaso Gorla, founder animaloci.org., ALL, Palermo, IT
2024	Substrata, book launch/artist talk with Andreas Koch, permanent Verlag, Berlin
2024	Substrata, monograph, co-published by permanent Verlag, Berlin, U. Porto–i2ADS, Porto, and
	Counterpath Press, Denver/New York
2023	Guest Lecturer, U.Porto, Academy of Fine Arts, workshop seminar with Masters students
2023	Artist talk, exhibition conference As Vozes da Paisagem Contemporânea / The Landscape Speaks, University of
	Porto, Academy of Fine Arts, Portugal
2023	Pizzo Sella, fort da, Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
2021	Public Art, artist publication, in conjunction with Stadt findet Kunst, DE
2019	Experiments in Disintegrating, Changing Room, Berlin, artist talk w/ Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez & Jaro Straub
2017	Psychoarcheology, artist publication, in conjunction with FRAGMENTA/Valetta 2018, Malta
2015	AABBCCDV (Redux Berlin), Errant Bodies, Berlin, artist talk with Jeremiah Day
2012	Variable Discourse, AABBCCDV, Miami FL, artist talk with Chris Cook and Adler Guerrier
2005	FTV://berlinvideotalks, Berliner Kunstsalon 02, Berlin, artist talk with Pirate Cinema and V2V

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2010	Weil’ auf mir du dunkles Auge, with Mario Asef, Jeremiah Day, Klara Hobza, Daniel Seiple, and Erik Smith,
	Oct 23 – Dec 11, 2010, Bauer & Ewald, Berlin-NeuKoelln, DE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024	Making Miami, exh. cat. (Miami: The Knight Foundation, 2024)
2021	Komary, David et al., From the Center of the Periphery, Twenty Years of AIR-Aritst in Residence Niederösterreich
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2019	Hutschek, Bettina et al., FRAGMENTA—Art and Life in Public Space 2013–2018 (Malta, 2019).
	Reljic, Teodor, "Collating the Fragments | Fragmenta," Maltatoday, August 2, 2019,
		https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/art/96565/collating_the_fragments_fragmenta.
2016	Carey, Brainard, "Interviews from Yale Universtiy Radio WYBCX: Erik Smith," WYBCX Yale Radio, July 19,
		2016, http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/erik-smith/.
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2015	Burbidge, Matthew, Exhibition Review: "Jeroen Jacobs, Erik Smith, Sommer & Kohl, Errant Bodies," vonhundert,
		5/ 2015, http:// www.vonhundert.de/2015-05/649_matthew-burbidge.php.
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2013	Suhr, Constanze, “Raumsozialist,” Tip Berlin, No. 08/2013 42, April 4, 2013,
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	Lesourd, Elodie, “Baptism or Death. Black Metal in Contemporary Art: Birth of a New Aesthetic Category,”
		Helvete Journal of Black Metal Theory, Incipit, Winter 2013, http://helvetejournal.org/.
2012	Young, Marc, “Struggling with Berlin’s Artsy Hype,” The Local, November 30, 2012,
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	Tschida, Anna, “Dig into Dimensions Variable’s New Space,” Knight Arts, June 1, 2012,
		http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/dig-into-dimensions-variables-new-space.
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		p. 30, http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-05-10/culture/wynwood-clandestine-culture-takes-center-stage/
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	Schreiber, Arne, “Einblick (417),” taz.de, Jan 25, 2012.
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		http://artberlin.de/erik-smith/.
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		(ed.), Amsterdam, 2011, https://www.valiz.nl/publicaties/see-it-again-say-it-again.html
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	Tard Pour Bar, “Les dieux du rock sont eternels…,” tsr - Radio Television Suisse, March 4, 2010.
	Exh. cat. Malfettes, Stephane, “Quelque Chose de Noir,” Inbetweenout/Black Mirror, Lausanne, CH, March, 2010.
	Exh. cat. Stokou, Despina, Equinox, Grimm Museum, Berlin, March, 2010.
	Vara, Rene, Bajo, Elena, “Me, Myself, and I (Conversations With Oneself),” Input Art Journal, Iteration 2, Spring,
		2010, http://issuu.com/inputjournal/docs/input2/1?e=0.
2009	The Nameless Dead, “Perfect is My Death Word,” The Nameless Dead, Nov 8, 2009,
		http://thenamelessdead.wordpress.com/tag/black/.
	Neidich, Schillinger, Nathalie Anglès, Eric Anglès, Bajo, “The Rules of Engagement,” Art Lies, Summer 2009.
	T.J. Carlin, “Do It Yourself”, Art in America Online, June 18, 2009.
	T.J. Carlin, “The Best New Art,” Time Out New York, Issue 713: May 28–June 3, 2009.
2008	Kasper, Chris, “Whitehot July 2008: Tom Burr Addict Love & In Practice,” Whitehot Magazine, July, 2008,
		http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-tom-burr-addict-love/1505.
2007	Rule, Alix. Saatchi Gallery, “Alix Rule's Round-Up of Shows in Berlin,” May 2007.
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		http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/8028/Tentoonstelling-kunst-voor-metalfans.html.
2006	Sharp, Willoughby; Smith, Pamela Seymour, “Videoview with Erik Smith,” Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, July 2006.
	Mirschel, Markus. “The Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling,” Legacy, 03/2006, Nr. 43, Juni/Juli, p.66.
	Cattelan, Maurizio; Gioni, Massimiliano; Subotnik, Ali. Checkpoint Charlie, 4th Berlin Biennial Cont. Art, 2006.
	Smith, Erik, “Transplantation as Collage,” Atopia Polylogic E-zine, Greffe/Graft/Graphium, June, 2006.
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LINKS

	https://www.instagram.com/studio.smith/
	https://vimeo.com/user36364161
	https://soundcloud.com/titanicbrln
	https://www.permanentverlag.de/buch/erik-smith-substrata
	https://asterismbooks.com/product/substrata-erik-smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

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