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Uriel Orlow

Uriel Orlow lives and works between London and Lisbon.

He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London, the Slade School of Art, University College London and the University of Geneva, completing a PhD in Fine Art in 2002.
In 2020 he received the C. F. Meyer Prize and in 2017 he was awarded the Sharjah Biennial prize. He also received the annual major art-award of the City of Zurich in 2015 and three Swiss Art Awards at Art Basel (2008, 2009, 2012) and was shortlisted for the Jarman award in 2013.
In 2020 Archive Books is publishing his monograph Conversing with Leaves, in 2019 Shelter Press published Soil Affinities and in 2018 Sternberg Press published Theatrum Botanicum.
Uriel Orlow’s practice is research-based, process-oriented and multi-disciplinary including film, photography, drawing and sound. He is known for single screen film works, lecture performances and modular, multi-media installations that focus on specific locations and micro-histories and bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence. His work is concerned with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, blind spots of representation and plants as political actors.
Orlow’s work has been presented in many international survey shows including the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Manifesta 9 and 12, Genk/Palermo (2012, 2018), Kathmandu Triennale 2077 (2022), British Art Show 9 (2021-2002), Thailand Biennale (2021-2022), Vienna Biennale (2021), Riboca 2 – Riga Biennale (2020), Taipei Biennale (2020), Lubumbashi Bienniale (2019), 13th Sharjah Bienniale (2017), 7th Moscow Biennale (2017), EVA Biennale (2016, 2014), 8th Mercosul Biennial, Brazil (2011), Aichi Triennale (2013), and Bergen Assembly (2013) amongst others.
Solo exhibitions in 2020 include Kunsthalle Mainz, La Loge Brussels and State of Concept Athens.  Other recent solo exhibitions include Tabakalera, San Sebastian (2019); Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2018); Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris (2018); Market Photo Workshop & Pool, Johannesburg (2018) ; PAV – Parco Arte Vivente (2017);  Parc Saint Léger (2017), The Showroom, London (2016); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2015); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2015); Depo, Istanbul (2015), Spike Island (2013).
Orlow’s work has also been shown widely in museums and galleries internationally including in London at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, ICA and Gasworks; in Paris at Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, Maison Populaire, Bétonsalon; in Zurich at Kunsthaus, Les Complices, Helmhaus and Shedhalle; in Geneva at Centre d’Art Contemporain and Centre de la Photographie; as well as in Berlin, Ramallah, Marseille, Cairo, Alexandria, Istanbul, Mexico City, Dublin, San Sebastian, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and elsewhere.
Orlow’s films have been screened at Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival; Videoex, Zurich; Centre Pompidou, Paris; BFI, London; Kino der Kunst, Munich; Visions du Réel, Nyon; Biennale of the Moving Image, Geneva and others.
Orlow’s writing has been published in MIRAJ (Moving Image Review and Art Journal), the Journal of Visual Culture and the Whitechapel /MIT Documents of Contemporary Art series amongst others.
Orlow has taught at art colleges internationally including Goldsmiths, London; Central Saint Martins, London; HEAD – University of the Arts Geneva. He is visiting professor at the Royal College of Art London and is currently Reader (associate professor and senior researcher) at University of Westminster, London and lecturer at ZHdK, the University of the Arts, Zurich.

BIO

Ghost Weeds

Ghost Weeds, 2022

print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper
30 × 30 cm

Ghost Weeds

Ghost Weeds, 2022

print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper
30 × 30 cm

Ghost Weeds

Ghost Weeds, 2022

print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper
30 × 30 cm

Olive Tree, Cassibile, Sicily

Olive Tree, Cassibile, Sicily, 2018

part of the ongoing series The Memory of Trees, black and white photograph
150 × 120 cm

Untitled #1 (Wishing Trees)

Untitled #1 (Wishing Trees), 2018

part of the ongoing series The Memory of Trees, black and white photograph
40 × 26 cm

Wishing Trees

Wishing Trees, 2018

3 chromgenic photographs
60 × 40 cm

Wishing Trees

Wishing Trees, 2018

8-channel video, 2 black and 2 black and white photographs, framed 40 x 26 cm each one

The Crown against Mafavuke

The Crown against Mafavuke, 2016

single channel video with audio
18‘41‘‘

THE FAIREST HERITAGE

THE FAIREST HERITAGE, 2016

Single channel video
4’ 18”

Bounds (#2)

Bounds (#2), 2015

Chromogenic photograph mounted on diasec
60 × 90 cm

Bounds (#3)

Bounds (#3), 2015

Chromogenic photograph mounted on diasec
60 × 90 cm

Prisoners in the Garden

Prisoners in the Garden, 2015

photo (cm 150x100 cm), slide projection with 81 slide

The Squirrel’s Revenge

The Squirrel’s Revenge, 2015

seed, concrete plinth  and framed photo (62x41cm)

Deep Opacity

Deep Opacity, 2014

Archival pigment print on Hahnemüle photorag mounted on plywood
15 × 21 cm

Deep Opacity: Collecting Policy

Deep Opacity: Collecting Policy, 2014

c-print mounted on wall 25 x 82 cm three archival pigment prints mounted on plywood 14.85 x 21 cm each, shelf

Deep Opacity: New Acquisitions, 1952

Deep Opacity: New Acquisitions, 1952, 2014

c-print mounted on wall 25 x 82 cm three archival pigment prints mounted on plywood 14.85 x 21 cm each, shelf

Double Vision - Native Plants

Double Vision - Native Plants, 2013

Hand-tinted silver gelatin print
24 × 29 cm

Double Vision - Native Plants

Double Vision - Native Plants, 2013

Hand-tinted silver gelatin print
24 × 29 cm

Double Vision - Native Plants

Double Vision - Native Plants, 2013

Hand-tinted silver gelatin print
24 × 29 cm

Still Aftershock (1)

Still Aftershock (1), 2013

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper
40,2 × 26,8 cm

Still Aftershock (2)

Still Aftershock (2), 2013

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper
40,2 × 26,8 cm

Still Aftershock (3)

Still Aftershock (3), 2013

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper
40,2 × 26,8 cm

Still Aftershock (4)

Still Aftershock (4), 2013

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper
40,2 × 26,8 cm

Still Aftershock (6)

Still Aftershock (6), 2013

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper
40,2 × 26,8 cm

Unmade Film - The Closing Credits

Unmade Film - The Closing Credits, 2013

16mm projection, 6' 58'' loop

Unmade Film - The Proposal

Unmade Film - The Proposal, 2013-2015

lecture performance 45’

Unmade Film - The Score

Unmade Film - The Score, 2013

AUDIO 45‘

Unmade Film - The script

Unmade Film - The script, 2013

Series of 60 drawings, pencil on paper
21 × 29 cm

Unmade Film - The Voiceover

Unmade Film - The Voiceover

Surround sound, dimming light
29‘30‘‘

Unmade Film: The Storyboard

Unmade Film: The Storyboard, 2013

Drawings. Booklet 28x22 16 pages
22 × 28 cm

Dream of the Future (Mayakovsky)

Dream of the Future (Mayakovsky), 2012

photogravure
35,7 × 48 cm

Unmade Film - The Reconnaissance

Unmade Film - The Reconnaissance

Audio, 7‘30", wall paper, sandbox

Unmade Film - The Staging

Unmade Film - The Staging, 2012

HD VIDEO
9‘30‘‘

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still

Unmade Film: The Still, 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Unmade Film: The Still(10)

Unmade Film: The Still(10), 2012

archival print on Baryta paper, framed
36 × 36 cm

Etats des lieux

Etats des lieux, 2011-2012

Pigment ink on paper
100 × 75 cm

Etats des lieux

Etats des lieux, 2011-2012

Pigment ink on paper
76 × 50 cm

Etats des lieux(untitled) b

Etats des lieux(untitled) b, 2011-2012

Pigment ink on paper
100 × 75 cm

Holy Precursor

Holy Precursor, 2011

HD video with sound
14‘13"

AK47

AK47, 2010

Archival pigment print on Hahnemule paper
21 × 32,5 cm

Mike

Mike, 2010

acrylic on canvas
30 × 30 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 42,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 55,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 42,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 24,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 42,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 42,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 55,5 cm

Porous Present

Porous Present, 2010-2014

c-print
32,5 × 24,5 cm

Remnants of the Future

Remnants of the Future, 2010

HD video with sound
18‘17"

Untitled (Production Still #2)

Untitled (Production Still #2), 2010-2011

Pigment ink on paper
90 × 73,5 cm

Untitled (Production Still #3)

Untitled (Production Still #3), 2010-2011

Pigment ink on paper
90 × 73,5 cm

Waterlocked

Waterlocked, 2010

Four archival prints on Baryta paper
14 × 70 cm