Origin Stories (2023)
WHAT'S ON
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Summer Breeze
summer, 2023
‘Summer Breeze’, a new group artcast about our dreams of summer and the realities of the climate emergency, featuring Kelly Richardson’s work entitled ‘Halo’ alongside artists Frederik de Wilde, Diane Drubay, Keaton Fox, Ronen Tanchum, Yuge Zhou and Marina Zurkow.
Curated by Pau Waelder
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Metallica
72 Seasons
Video premiere date: March 30, 2023
METALLICA: 72 SEASONS (full album and film) – Global Premiere in 81 countries, April 13, one night only in cinemas worldwide
72 Seasons on YouTube
Three of Kelly Richardson’s works including Origin Stories, Origin Stories (AR) and HALO (III) are featured in Metallica’s music video for the title track off of their new album and film entitled ’72 Seasons’. Click for more.
Directed by Tim Saccenti
Curated by Dina Chang
Fondation Giverny
The Erudition
On view now
Montréal, Canada
The Fondation Giverny pour l’art contemporain is pleased to present its activities with a first exhibition of works from the Giverny Capital Collection. With a selection of works and installation pieces by Eduardo Basualdo, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Jodoin, Folkert de Jong, Adad Hannah, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Magali Reus, Kelly Richardson, Marc Séguin, Bill Viola, Hajra Waheed, this exhibition highlights the principles of temporality, memory, and the construction of the image.
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
Feb 9, 2021 – Dec 2, 2024
online (MAC), curated by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman
A veritable audiovisual immersion, this exhibition establishes a dialogue between the œuvre of Leonard Cohen and a selection of artworks from the MAC’s collection.
JUST FINISHED
EXPANDED.ART
A BEATING HEART.
FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART
May 17 – June 4, 2023
Berlin, Germany
EXPANDED.ART is pleased to present the group exhibition A BEATING HEART. FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART on view 17 May – 4 June at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin.
Curated by Anika Meier
The Amelia
Kelly Richardson – Leviathan
February 3 – May 15, 2023
Tunbridge Wells, UK
Leviathan returns to the UK with a timely solo exhibition at The Amelia. The work draws on Richardson’s distinct art practice which focusses on ideas around conservation and a careful observation of the effects of humanity on the planet… The staging of Leviathan at The Amelia Scott comes at a significant time historically, in reflection of growing global climate concerns and places Tunbridge Wells once again at the centre of environmental and conservation debates.
Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
OUTRAGEOUS
February 1 – April 30, 2023
mowna.org
On January 2nd, net.art artist Lorna Mills tweeted a list of the highest selling Tezos artists for 2022 which featured just 1 woman, along with the statement “OMFG, just loaded with women, ain’t it? Just like a goddam Lilith Fair. EXCUSE MY F*CKING PISSED OFFEDNESS.” MOWNA responds with an exhibition of over 100 emerging and established women and non-binary artists from 39 countries.
Waldburger Wouters Gallery
REVENANTS
January 20 – February 20, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
A new exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kelly Richardson, Franco-Canadian artist Nicolas Sassoon and Brazilian-American artist Rick Silva. Curated by Brussels-based art space Rectangle, “Revenants” plays with ideas of scale and time as it relates to human perception and our place on this planet.
UNSIGNED
UNSIGNED
now until Dec 31, 2022
downtown LA (DTLA), USA
UNSIGNED is bringing in the new year in downtown LA (DTLA) with a video billboard featuring 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists created to reverse the ongoing negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. A project by Operator and Anika Meier with the support of 100 artists including Kelly Richardson, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey, Addie Wagenknecht, Anne Spalter, Claudia Hart, Sarah Zucker, Rhea Myers, Alexandra Crouwers, among others.
Origin Stories on set with Metallica (photo: Setta)
NEWS
articles, reviews, interviews, news
Buffalo AKG: Collection Handbook
Published: September, 2023
A thoughtful selection of works which celebrates the opening of the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and provides a flavour of one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of modern and contemporary art. With nearly 400 pages, this new collection handbook presents over 330 works by 265 artists, and will be the Buffalo AKG’s premier souvenir publication for museum visitors and art lovers alike.
Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry
May 16, 2023, 6pm-8pm
Chicago, USA
The Awi’nakola art team including Rande Cook, Lindsay Delaronde, Kelly Richardson and Paul Walde will share working processes and work-in-progress at the Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, co-hosted by curator Stephanie Smith and the Gray Center’s Zachary Cahill. Free and open to the public!
CBC As It Happens
Interview and article
April 7, 2023
CBC As It Happens interviews Kelly Richardson and Setta Studio (Director, Tim Saccenti and curator, Dina Chang) about the inclusion of her art in Metallica’s title track music video for 72 Seasons, and worldwide cinema screening.
Metallica: 72 Seasons
Filmed in Los Angeles, CA, on Feb 12, 2023
Video Premiere Date: March 30, 2023
3 of Kelly Richardson’s works including Origin Stories, Origin Stories (AR) and HALO (III) were featured in Metallica’s music video for the title track off of their new album and film entitled ’72 Seasons’, and part of a global premiere in cinemas in 81 countries.
Rectangle (at Waldburger Wouters Gallery)
January 20 – February 20, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva present REVENANTS, featuring the premiere of ‘Origin Stories’. “We find ourselves in a region between Mars – a planet Richardson previously visited in the monumental installation, ‘Mariner 9’ – and Jupiter…When we return, we’re left with the realisation that while our species’ behaviour is responsible for the current global extinction event, it’s equally capable of producing uniquely imaginative visions. Art alone can’t save the world but the creation of art may very well be considered as the yin to our destructive yang.”
UNSIGNED in DTLA
now until Dec 31, 2022
downtown LA (DTLA), USA
UNSIGNED is bringing in the new year in downtown LA (DTLA) with a video billboard featuring 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists created to reverse the ongoing negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. A project by Operator and Anika Meier with the support of 100 artists including Kelly Richardson, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey, Addie Wagenknecht, Anne Spalter, Claudia Hart, Sarah Zucker, Rhea Myers, Alexandra Crouwers, among others.
ecologyst: The Awi’nakola Tree of Life Project
Kristen Bounds writes about Awi’nakola for ecologyst
Published: October 29, 2022
Comprised of artists, scientists, and Indigenous knowledge keepers coming together through the confluence of their work and research, the Awi’nakola Project is a research group working to keep the rich ecosystems of the some 2.7% of high productivity old growth left in the province intact.
Niio Art Editorial
The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency
Pau Waelder
October, 2022
Pau Waelder responds to recent events contemplating The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency through different artists lenses including Joanie Lemercier, Marina Zurkow, Tamiko Thiel, Kelly Richardson, Diane Drubay, Alexandra Crouwers, and Katie Torn.
Unsigned
‘Unsigned’ by Operator & Anika Meier
A collection of 100 artist signatures
Published: September 14, 2022
“…the addition of a woman’s signature can devalue artwork to the extent that female artists are more likely to leave their work unsigned.” (Helen Gorrill) The collection reverses the current negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. Unsigned is a conceptual artwork raising the symbolic and literal value of women and non-binary artists’ signatures.
