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Ceal Floyer

Born in 1968. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Cf Kunstmuseum Bonn 2105 09
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Exhibition view: Ceal Floyer, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Ceal Floyer’s work often uses everyday but generally overlooked objects or images to introduce defamiliarizing and somewhat startling moments into the spectator’s experience of a space.

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Selected works

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Ceal Floyer
Ink On Paper (Set Of 10), 2023

Felt-tip pen on blotting paper

32,5 x 25 cm each, set of 10 (unframed)
37,8 x 30,2 x 2,8 cm each, set of 10 (framed)
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12 pieces, 2022
Graphite on paper
20 x 20 cm each (12 parts, unframed)
26,5 x 26,5 x 4 cm each (12 parts, framed)
90 x 122 x 4 cm (overall)
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Umbrella, 2018

C-print on alu-dibond
86 x 119 cm
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Untitled (Static), 2018
Parabolic speaker, ready-made sound effect
Dimensions variable
Duration: 60 minutes (loop)
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Slinky, 2018
Slinky, pedestal

84 x 14 x 14 cm
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Newton’s Cradle, 2017

Newton’s cradle, plinth
17 x 13 x 13 cm (cradle)
123 x 14 x 14 cm (pedestal)
140 x 14 x 14 cm overall
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Helix, 2015

Shelf, stencil, diverse objects
Dimensions variable
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Saw, 2015

Blade, acrylic, chalk marker
Dimensions variable
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The Answer, 2015

Photographic print mounted on aluminum
102 x 160 cm
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Drop, 2013

HD video, silent
Duration 11:18 min (loop)
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No Positions Available, 2007

Installation, signs on wall
Installation dimensions variable, each sign 20 x 30 cm
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Scale, 2007

Audio sculpture/installation, wall-mounted speakers, computer, stereo amplifiers, audio sequence
20 x 86 x 25 cm each (speakers), 24 parts
Overall dimensions variable
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Exit, 2006

Laser cut plastic sign
34 x 17,5 x 0,4 cm
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Solo, 2006

Microphone stand, hairbrush
150 x 50 x 50 cm
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Double Act, 2006

Photographic gobo, theatre lamp
⌀ 300 cm
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Warning Birds, 2002

Self-adhesive stickers on window
Variable
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Throw, 1997
Profile-spot theatre lamp, light mask
Dimensions variable
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Untitled Installation (Dotted Line), 1993-2022
Letraset (adhesive vinyl), digital image display (tablet), plinth
Dimensions variable
Plinth: 125 x 35 x 35 cm
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Light Switch (Switzerland), 1992

35mm slide, slide mask, slide projector with 70-120 mm lens
Dimensions variable

Gallery Exhibitions

Ceal Floyer Spring Program

Ceal Floyer

Spring Program
The three projects presented under the heading The Window at Esther Schipper, Seoul—Ceal Floyer, Isa Melsheimer, and Karin Sander— each in their own way, create worlds for us to visit. But the direction of the gaze will go both ways:...
March 7—April 14, 2023
Esther Schipper, Seoul
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Ceal Floyer

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Ceal Floyer at our Paris gallery. This is the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. On view will be a selection of new, recent and historical works.
December 10, 2022—February 4, 2023
Esther Schipper | Paris
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
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Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ceal Floyer’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes all new works. On view will be three sculptures, a photographic and an audio work....
March 16—April 14, 2018
Esther Schipper, Berlin
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Ceal Floyer
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ceal Floyer’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes three installation works, a suite of works on paper and an audio work. These new...
November 6—December 19, 2015
Paper Work Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander

Paper Work

Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce an exhibition of Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander entitled Paper Work that focuses on the artists’ drawing practice. Ceal Floyer will present a new work from...
July 4—August 23, 2014
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Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ceal Floyer in her third solo exhibition with the gallery. The show comprises eight works in an arrangement specifically adapted by the artist to the space’s...
June 9—August 30, 2011
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In her second solo show at Esther Schipper, Ceal Floyer is showing an audio installation and two works based on found objects that address the viewer’s perceptions and cognitive faculties. Floyer often...
September 6—October 11, 2008
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Ceal Floyer
Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer appeared in the 90s as one of the artists who builds upon the history and language of minimal and conceptual art. Her work often functions as a simultaneous...
September 3—October 28, 2005
The Stars Are So Big, the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are (Part II) Curated by Robert Meijer...

The Stars Are So Big, the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are (Part II)

Curated by Robert Meijer & Christophe Wiesner
Saâdane Afif Jason Dodge Ceal Floyer Kendell Geers Knut Henrik Henriksen Olivier Millagou Susan Philipsz C. never understood why people looked to the stars. Up was not about heaven, the future or...
October 22—November 27, 2004

External Exhibitions

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Karin Sander and Julia Scher

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Karin Sander and Julia Scher
This is an exhibition of our time: Superman is thwarted and hits a wall, an oversized hybrid female hare offers motherly protection, a pair of seahorses switch traditional gender roles, and passion creates sparks. With a selection of contemporary works...
May 13—October 8, 2023
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Ceal Floyer Base / Projects for art

Ceal Floyer

Base / Projects for art
Ceal Floyer has created a project for Base / Projects for art, Florence.
November 25, 2022—January 20, 2023
Base / Projects for art, Florence
#145: What should I call it? With Ceal Floyer
Berlin Art Week 2022

#145: What should I call it?

With Ceal Floyer
This group exhibition, including Solo, 2006 by Ceal Floyer, tackles naming and titling as art practices that involve a personal, contextual, and subversive approach to creating an alleged identity
September 15—18, 2022
Studio Christian Jankowski, Berlin
Under Construction With Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Under Construction

With Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The Hamburger Bahnhof holds an exhibition entitled Under Construction, presenting the latest additions to the Nationalgalerie collection, including works by Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
June 2, 2022—January 15, 2023
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
FUTURA. Measuring Time Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe

FUTURA. Measuring Time

Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe
FUTURA. Measuring Time at Hamburger Kunsthalle invites 30 international artists, including Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe, to address fundamental questions about temporality, sustainability and visions.
January 14—April 10, 2022
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Pierre Huyghe and Karin Sander

NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence

With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Pierre Huyghe and Karin Sander
John Cage described the equivalent of silence in the visual arts as “nothingtoseeness” and circumscribes nothingness through seeing and feeling. The NOTHINGTOSEENESS - Void/White/Silence exhibition is dedicated to this experience of seeing...
September 15—December 12, 2021
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin
Unrequited Line Ceal Floyer

Unrequited Line

Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s light intensive and transparent works show 'qualities that integrate purity and silence, elements that define a point of origin which Rosalind Krauss has called the perfect modernist gesture, the creation...
September 29, 2020—May 1, 2021
Y8 Kunstraum, Hamburg
Exercises in Harmony 3 with Ceal Floyer

Exercises in Harmony 3

with Ceal Floyer
The third chapter of this year’s summer trilogy curated by René Block, Exercises in Harmony at Kunsthal 44Møen consists of a double presentation of works by Ceal Floyer and Jarosław Kozłowski. Both...
July 28—September 8, 2019
Kunsthal 44Møen, Askeby
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Maximum Headroom

Ceal Floyer
With the work Maximum Headroom (2014/2018), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein continues its project series on urban space. Ceal Floyer’s intervention on the façade of the n.b.k. consists of a series of individualized traffic...
September 26, 2018—August 31, 2019
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
MENTALES GELB. SONNENHÖCHSTSTAND. Works from The KiCo Foundation with Ceal Floyer

MENTALES GELB. SONNENHÖCHSTSTAND. Works from The KiCo Foundation

with Ceal Floyer
The KiCo Foundation was established in 2009 by the husband-and-wife collectors couple Hans-Gerd Riemer and Doris Keller-Riemer who began collecting young contemporary art about 20 years ago. Right from the beginning, it...
May 4—August 20, 2018
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
KEDEM–KODEM–KADIMA with Ceal Floyer

KEDEM–KODEM–KADIMA

with Ceal Floyer
March 29—May 26, 2018
The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Mind the Step Ceal Floyer

Mind the Step

Ceal Floyer
March 25—April 15, 2018
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Stories of Almost Everyone with Ceal Floyer

Stories of Almost Everyone

with Ceal Floyer
Stories of Almost Everyone is an exhibition about the willingness to believe the stories that are conveyed by works of contemporary art. In recent years, a continued emphasis on an art of...
January 28—May 6, 2018
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Transported Man with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, and Ugo Rondinone

The Transported Man

with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, and Ugo Rondinone
April 29—October 22, 2017
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing
moving is in every direction. Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces with Ceal Floyer

moving is in every direction. Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces

with Ceal Floyer
March 17—September 17, 2017
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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Ceal Floyer
The Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present the second major US solo exhibition of the work of critically acclaimed British artist Ceal Floyer. The exhibition will feature a curatorial selection of...
October 14, 2016—January 22, 2017
Aspen Art Museum
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Ceal Floyer
Romance was especially conceived on occasion of Manifesta 11. The sound work consists of a two-part audio recording, created at a live translation session: in response to Ceal Floyer’s reading of the...
June 6—September 18, 2016
Manifesta 11, Zurich
On Occasion Ceal Floyer

On Occasion

Ceal Floyer
January 30—April 10, 2016
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
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Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer, born in 1968, is an artist who has lived many years in Berlin, whose art seems almost to be hiding. With strict simplicity, fine irony and a feeling for the...
October 29, 2015—January 10, 2016
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Zehn Räume, drei Loggien und ein Saal with Ceal Floyer

Zehn Räume, drei Loggien und ein Saal

with Ceal Floyer
September 19, 2015—January 10, 2016
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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Ceal Floyer

Ceal Floyer
Recognized internationally for her refined, apt and poetic conceptual art, Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer presents a site-specific exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein. The exhibition reflects on the particular architectonic conditions of the...
September 6—October 20, 2013
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
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Ceal Floyer
June 9—September 16, 2012
Documenta 13, Kassel
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Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s art displays a clarity of thought within elegantly concise presentations. Engaged and active viewing is typically required—and then rewarded—in the artist’s minimalist-conceptualist amalgams. Her work, which resonates in a gently...
February 16—May 16, 2011
DHC Art Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal
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February 3—March 31, 2011
Centre of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Show Ceal Floyer

Show

Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s practice includes works on paper, photographs, sound works, films and readymades. Words, proverbs and allegories often constitute her points of departure. Ceal Floyer’s works typically require an attentive and engaged...
August 23—October 18, 2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Auto Focus Ceal Floyer

Auto Focus

Ceal Floyer
This mid-career survey is Floyer’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, featuring multi-media works from the late 1990s to the present. The exhibition was curated by MOCA Executive Director and...
March 11, 2009—May 9, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Vorsicht Stufe Ceal Floyer

Vorsicht Stufe

Ceal Floyer
The artist placed a large number of identical signs which bear the text Vorsicht Stufe (Mind the step) on a staircase, one on each of the 56 treads connecting the ground level...
January 1, 2009
Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Featured stories

Ceal Floyer, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané – Under Construction, New Acquisitions for the Nationalgalerie’s Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Ceal Floyer, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané – Under Construction, New Acquisitions for the Nationalgalerie’s Collection

The Hamburger Bahnhof holds an exhibition entitled Under Construction, presenting the latest additions to the Nationalgalerie collection, including works by Ceal Floyer and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Read More
June 2, 2022 – January 15, 2023
FUTURA. Measuring Time with Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe
Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

FUTURA. Measuring Time with Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe

What is time and how can it be represented and measured artistically? And how can the future be thought? FUTURA. Measuring Time at Hamburger Kunsthalle invites 30 international artists, including Ceal Floyer...
January 14 – April 10, 2022
Artist Talk with Ceal Floyer
44møen, Askeby

Artist Talk with Ceal Floyer

An artist talk with Ceal Floyer to mark the opening of the third chapter of 44møen's summer trilogy Exercises in Harmony.⁠ ⁠
July 28, 2019, 2 pm
Ceal Floyer at UMMA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan

Ceal Floyer at UMMA

Upon entering the large-scale installation, visitors encounter a collection of identical plinths that would ordinarily be used to display art objects in a museum. In place of visible objects, each plinth is...
June 15 – September 22, 2019
The Transported Man, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone
Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

The Transported Man, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone

April 29 – October 22, 2017

Publications

Ceal Floyer A Handbook

Ceal Floyer

A Handbook
“Those who experience the oeuvre of Ceal Floyer (*1968), who has lived for many years in Berlin, for the first time may initially be surprised, irritated, and ultimately delighted. She plays with...
2015