rory pilgrim
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Born in 1988, Bristol

Awards

2023   Turner Prize, Currently Nominated
2019   Prix de Rome
2016   Dolf Henke Prize
2013   Stichting Coca
2012   Volksrant Art Prize 


Solo

2024

Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming) 
Vleeshal Centre of Contemporary Art, Middleburg, NL (forthcoming)
Western Front, Vancouver, CA (forthcoming)
2023

Hop to Hope: Rory Pilgrim, WAMx, Turku City Museum, Turku, FI
2022

RAFTS, andriesse~eyck galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2021

Where the tide takes us, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (Duo)
But I doubt, I tremble, I see (shaking edges) and the wild thorn tree, Pina, Vienna, AT (Duo)
Gardens and Tides, De School, Amsterdam, NL
2020 The Undercurrent Laboratory, HAU Hebbel am Ufer in collaboration with 3hd Festival, Berlin, DE
Software Garden, Theatre Neumarkt In collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, CH
The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2019 Software Garden, Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, USA
Software Garden, Screening and Talk, Images Festival, Toronto, CA
The Resounding Bell, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
Software Garden (performance), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Software Garden Performance, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
2018 Software Garden, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam, NL
The Resounding Bell, South London Gallery, London, UK
2017 Sacred Repositories Trilogy, Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema, UK 
Software Garden, Rowing, London, UK
2016 The Open Sky, Flat Time House, London, UK
2015 Words are not signs, they are years - Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Violently Speaking, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Seeds Upon The Dance Floor, SIC Raum für Kunst, Luzern, CH
The Salt and the Leaven, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL
Platform Residencies: The Artist Proposes, Site Gallery Sheffield, UK
2011 De Stille Revolutie, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
The Rainbow, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, NL

 

Group

2024

Heem, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL (forthcoming)
Woorden Weelde, andriesse-eyck galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2023

Turner Prize 2023, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK
Qui nous raconte, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
Interdependencies, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, CH
New Horizons, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
40th EVA International, Limerick, IE
Cuerpos de Agua, nGbK, Berlin, DE
The Undercurrent, FUORI, Bologna, IT
2022
Radio Ballads, Serpentine North Gallery, London, UK
I hold the table in my hands instead of the broken legs, Trafó, Budapest, HU
SOMETHING IN THE AIR, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
Reboot: Responsiveness, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande, Düsseldorf, DE
Maps of Disquiet, Chennai Biennial, Chennai, IN

2021

Software Garden, Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
ZIN EX. BODY AND ARCHITECTURE, Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sébastian, ES
2020 The Undercurrent, Glasgow Film Festival, CCA, Glasgow, UK
This Event, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Oltre qui, Magic Lantern Film Festival, MAXXI, Rome, IT
The Undercurrent, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
The Undercurrent, Film I Samidskonsten, Zita, Stockholm, SE
The Undercurrent, Manifesta 13, Marseilles, FR
MAXIMUM CALM, Online exhibition, andriesse eyck galerie
2019 Hanging Out, Tramway with LUX Scotland, Glasgow, UK
I AM THE DANGER!, The Art of the TV Series, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE
Queer Backyard Shorts, Syney, AUS
This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word, (Software Garden) Le Delta, Namur, BE
Madlove Take Over: Software Garden, Heart of Glass, The Madlove Take Over Space, St Helens, UK
For Better for Worse, Kunstverein Göttingen, DE
Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF) (Software Garden), LUX Scotland
Prix de Rome 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
An Exhibition of Posters, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
Conversing Motherboards (Software Garden), The Studio, Antwerp Art Weekend, BE (Un)Commoning Voices & (Non)Communal Bodies, Reading International, Reading, UK
Software Garden, Screening and Talk, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Software Garden Performance, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Software Garden Performance, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018

Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
6th KUANDU BIENNALE, Taipei, Taiwan, (The German Library Pyongyang by Sara Sejin Chang)
2017 Among other things, I’ve taken up smoking,Tent, Rotterdam
Dejima. Concepts of In- and Exclusion, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Cure Park, Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam
Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam
Dolf Henkes Award 2016, Tent Rotterdam
2016 The Open Sky. Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Shifting Spaces, W139, Amsterdam
2015 Sfear fan Ynset, Triennale, Beetsterzwaag
Affection is The Best Protection, Land Art Live, Almere
When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2014

Affection is the Best Protection, - Launch Disco - Land Art Live, Polderland Garden of Love and Fire, Almere
Beating around the bush: Episode #3, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
The House in the Sky : Artists Reflect on Concrete Utopias, Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London
Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds and Art Rotterdam
Sacred Repositories, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Screening)
2013  Liste 18, Basel
Wholeheartedly, Detroit, Bristol
Wholeheartedly, Educating Artists, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Performance as Publishing, Rowing Projects, London
Public Display of Affection, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
2012 Pay Attention, Please,  Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Sounds of Protest, Arnolfini and Colston Hall, Bristol
Dialogue is Normal, Herengracht 1, Amsterdam
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2012, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Care,  ARCO, The Dutch Pavilion, Madrid (solo commission)
De Stille Revolutie, Supermarket, Stockholm
2011 Can we leave things as they are? TAG, Den Haag, (duo show with Louwrien Wijers)
He Disappearred into complete silence, De Hallen, Haarlem
Sowing and Weeding, COBRA Museum, Amstelveen
2010 For the Birds, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Women and Children: What has made this building last?, Temporary Stedelijk’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo commission)
Morality Act IX - Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With,
Rotterdam
Offspring 2010, de Ateliers, Amsterdam
For the Birds, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2009 When the lightness of Poetry, Rotterdam, 21st-27th September 2009
Week long public performance commissioned by Sculpture International Rotterdam. Curated by Germaine Kruip with artists Alfredo Jaar, David Lamelas, and Roman Ondak
9x14, (with Mathilde Rosier) Silberkuppe, Städliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Terms and Conditions, curated by Dominc Eichler, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2008 www.weymouthaapsalu.com, released 13th of June, 2008
From Across the Sea, Chelsea College of Art Degree Show, London
Ainult pool Linnast (Only Half the Town), Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn

 

Selected Performances

2024 The Amazing Purse Concert, FRAC Lorraine, Mets, FR (forthcoming)
The Amazing Purse Concert, Stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig,DE (forthcoming)
2022

RAFTS Live, Cadogan Hall, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Songs from Water, Tempel, Amsterdam, NL
What is a story that has helped you to recover?, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DE
2021

Software Garden, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2020

The Undercurrent, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Creamcake, Berlin, DE
RAFTS Showcase, Freeze Online Programme, London, UK
Today and Forever, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
Software Garden, Theater Neumarkt in collaboration Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, CH
2019

Beyond The Echo, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
Software Garden, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Software Garden, Transmediale Festival, HKW, Berlin, DE
2018

As close to the future as possible, South London Gallery, London, UK
2017

Holographic Bonds, MAC and Grand Union, Shout Festival, Birmingham, UK 
Software Garden, Baltic, Newcastle, UK
Software Garden, Block Universe Festival 2017, London, UK
2016

The Open Sky, Peckham Liberal Club, London, UK
2015

Affection Is The Best Protection, Polderland Garden of Love and Fire, Almere, NL
2013

Wholeheartedly, Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE
The loss of hope is more than the loss of everything, Liste 18, Basel, CH
2012

Open, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Care, ARCO, Madrid, ES
2010

Women and Children: What has made this building last?, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Screenings

2023

'The Undercurrent' - Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
'RAFT' - Screening Rights Film Festival, Coventry, UK
'The Undercurrent' - Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2022

The Undercurrent, Movies from Earth, MoMA, New York, USA
RAFTS, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2020

The Undercurrent, MANIFESTA 13, Marseille, FR
The Undercurrent, Zita, Stockholm, SE
Double Feature, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
The Undercurrent, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2019

Software Garden. Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2018

I AM THE DANGER!, The Art of the TV Series, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE

> exhibitions
> publications
Rory Pilgrim, …f…g…. 10,000 flowers, 2022, oil, crayon, pencil and nail polish on board, 30 x 45 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Little Fires, 2021, oil, pencil on wooden board, 24 x 30,5 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Rodeo Music, 2022, pencil, crayon and nail polish on paper, 56 x 76 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Putting The World To Bed, 2021, oil, crayon, nail polish on wooden panel in walnut frame, 30 x 22,5 cm
Rory Pilgrim, The Horse Has The Purse, 2021, oil, pencil, crayon and nail polish on board in walnut wood, 30 x 22,5 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Finite Loss, 2022, pencil, crayon and gesso on panel, gouache, nailpolish, body glitter on paper / hand embroidered beaded purse
10 x 15 cm drawing / 26 x 31 cm frame
Rory Pilgrim, Untitled, 2021, oil, crayon on wooden panel in walnut frame, 40,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm
Rory Pilgrim, An Amazing Purse, 2021, oil, pencil and nail polish on wooden panel, 20 x 15 x 2 cm
Rory Pilgrim, The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstferein, 2020
Rory Pilgrim, The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstferein, 2020
Rory Pilgrim, Dam Fast Dam Hard, 2020, workshop photograph by Jake Whitson, 15 x 28 cm
Rory Pilgrim, The Undercurrent, HD Film, 52:00, 2019 - ongoing
Installation view Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2019
Rory Pilgrim at Between Bridges, The Resounding Bell, installation view 2019
Rory Pilgrim at Between Bridges, The Resounding Bell, installation view 2019
Rory Pilgrim at Between Bridges, The Resounding Bell, installation view 2019
Rory Pilgrim, Software Garden performance at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2019
Rory Pilgrim, Software Garden Performance, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Rory Pilgrim, Software Garden, 2018, poster paint on paper, 137 x 101.5 cm
Software Garden 2018
Rory Pilgrim, Ersatz Provider, 2018, poster paint on paper, 101.5 x 137 cm
Software Garden 2018
Rory Pilgrim, The Garden, 2018, gouache, air brush and colour pencil on paper, 37 x 38.5 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Government Lover, 2018, poster paint on paper, 80 x 50 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Let’s Get Infected, 2018, gouache, colour pencil and nail polish on paper, 37 x 33.5 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Propagating Urgency, 2018, poster paint on paper, Miscanthus and textile panel, 101.5 x 137 cm
Software Garden 2018
Rory Pilgrim, A Body Can Only Take So Much, 2018, poster paint on paper, 90 x 45 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Software Garden, 2018
HD video with sound, 50.59 min.
screen printed plastic bags.
Don’t Leave Me, screen printed plastic bag and Miscanthus
edition of 6

Rory Pilgrim, Concern, 2015, poster paint on paper,
90 x 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, view Tent Dolf Henkes Award, 2016, Rotterdam

Rory Pilgrim, view Tent Dolf Henkes Award, 2016, Rotterdam

Rory Pilgrim, words are not signs they are yeras, 2015, poster paint on paper, 90 X 40 cm

Rory Pilgrim, view Flat Time House, 2016
Rory Pilgrim, view Flat Time House, 2016
Rory Pilgrim, new words are here to stay,, 2015, poster paint on paper, 48 x 30 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Radical! Radical!, 2015, glass sculpture, (2x) Ø 60 x 1.3 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Violently Speaking, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Salt and the Leaven, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm

Rory Pilgrim, exhibition view Violently Speaking, andriesse eyck galerie

Rory Pilgrim, exhibition view Violently Speaking, andriesse eyck galerie

Rory Pilgrim, exhibition view Violently Speaking, andriesse eyck galerie
Rory Pilgrim, Untitled, 2012, silver gelatine print, 60 X 40 cm, ed. of 5
Rory Pilgrim, Sacred Repository N.1: Violently Speaking, 2014, HD video with colour and sound, 14:57 min., ed. of 6

Rory Pilgrim, Sacred Repository N.1: Violently Speaking, 2014, HD video with colour and sound, 14:57 min., ed. of 6
Rory Pilgrim, Time, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Ships, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, We are in this Boat, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Unearthed, 2015, posterverf op papier in wit gelakte houten lijst, 90 X 40 cm
Rory Pilgrim, The Rainbow, 2013, c-print, 19.2 x 13 cm, ed. of 10
Rory Pilgrim, The loss of hope is more than the loss of everything, 2013
Rory Pilgrim, Understanding, 2012
Rory Pilgrim, Understanding, 2012
Rory Pilgrim, Understanding, 2012
Rory Pilgrim, Care, 2012
Rory Pilgrim, Care, 2012
Rory Pilgrim, Care, 2012, acrylic on paper, 100 X 70 cm
Rory Pilgrim, My House is Your House Come in, you\'re welcome, 2011, acrylic on paper, 137 X 57 cm
Rory Pilgrim, De Stille Revolutie, 2011
Rory Pilgrim, De Stille Revolúsje, 2011, hand embroidery on textile, 39 X 49 cm
Rory Pilgrim, De Stille Revolutie, 2011
Rory Pilgrim, The Rainbow, 2011
Rory Pilgrim, Hand painted sign by David Andrews, poster maker \'Come in, you\'re welcome\' text from Quaker outreach poster 2009, 2011, acrylic on paper, 114.3 X 83.2 cm
Rory Pilgrim, The Rainbow, 2011
Rory Pilgrim, The Rainbow, 2011
Rory Pilgrim, Hand painted sign by David Andrews, poster maker \'I guess we are not ready for this yet, are we? \' text froma sermon by Jay Bakker, U.S.A., 2011, acrylic on paper, 83.8 X 113 cm
Rory Pilgrim, Can we leave things as they are?, 2010