Ryan Gander Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander

Born 1976 in Chester, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London and Suffolk.
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Exhibition view: Ryan Gander, The Markers of Our Time, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2022. © The artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo © Tomoki Imai

Introduction

Ryan Gander has established an international reputation through artworks that materialize in many different forms from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance, among them.

Full biography

Selected works

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I be... (l), 2023
Antique mirror, cold cast marble
115 x 94 x 25 cm
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View into the artist’s studio window, obscured by frost (26th January 2022), 2022
Glass, plywood, steel, acrylic, paint, window fixtures

148,3 x 120 x 10 cm
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In the very beginning, before words, there were…, 2021

Cold cast bronze, black wax    
Dimensions variable
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This natural sign (We stood in a circle beneath the moon, whilst outsiders watched the paint dry), 2021
10 oz indigo black Japanese denim, acrylic paint
180,5 x 130,5 x 3,5 cm (71 1/8 x 51 3/8 x 1 3/8 in)
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I'm never coming back to Oslo again, 2020

Animatronics, US dollar notes, plaster, speaker, audio file
Dimensions variable
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Logic murders magic (Twenty-second sheet), 2020
Graphite
92 x 122 x 6 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/8 x 2 3/8 in)
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I... I... I…, 2019

Animatronic mouse, hole in a wall
19,4 x 24 x 28,2 cm (installation)
Duration (animatronics): 7 min approx.
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Ryan Gander
Evidence of Absence, 2019

Two Peli cases containing 12 glowing acrylic cubes each
Installation dimensions variable
20,4 x 55,6 x 42,8 cm each, 2 Peli cases
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Two hundred and fifty six degrees below every kind of zero, 2019

Painted fibreglass, ribbon
170 x 25 x 25 cm
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Really shiny things that don’t really mean anything, 2018

Stainless steel
ø 220 cm
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Group Portrait - The Artist in the act of experimenting with self image production alongside Pierre Huyghe and Florian Lüdde, The Japan Society, E 47th St, New York City, 3 May 2016, 2017

Acrylic on mirror
100 x 150 x 5 cm
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Up side down Breuer chair after a couple of inches of snowfall, 2017

Wassily Model B3 chair, marble resin
71,5 x 79 x 74 cm
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Disenchantment on a visceral level, or Play Signals, 2017

Bronze, Wood
14 x 104 x 68 cm (figure), 3,2 x 3,2 x 3,2 cm (cube), 2,5 x 5 x 2,5 cm (plinth), 3 parts
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Lost in the complexity of a language of my own making (Rouge Belge), 2017

Wood, marble
126 x 91 x 5,3 cm
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Ryan Gander
Oculus animi index, 2017

Plastic, animatronics
31 x 66,2 x 18 cm
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Ryan Gander
Y gêm (My neotonic contribution to Modernism), 2017

Wood, polystyrene, artificial fur balls
118 x 75 x 60 cm (sculpture)
80 x 80 x 80 cm (plinth)
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Ryan Gander
I be...(xiv), 2016

Antique mirror, marble resin
160 x 90 x 30 cm (mock-up mirror with sheet)
117 x 76 cm (mirror)
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Ryan Gander
Elevator to Culturefield, 2016

Elevator door, bronze resin
215 x 148,5 x 22 cm (elevator)
21 x 12 x 4 cm (button)
215 x 174,5 x 22 cm overall
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We never had a lot of £ around here, 2016

Nickel-brass coin, glue
ø 2,2 cm
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Portrait of a colour blind artist obscured by flowers, 2016

HD video (color, stereo sound)
Duration 13:09 min
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Your Gusto, 2016

Bronze
8 x 30 x 30 cm approx.
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I is… (xii), 2015

Marble resin
95 x 105 x 180 cm
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And You Will Be Changed (Centre Pompidou, Paris), 2014

Video
Duration 11:45 min
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A Lamp Made By The Artist For His Wife (Forty Fourth Attempt), 2014

Colanders, electrical components
50 x 50 x 50 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

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
Some Other Life Ryan Gander

Some Other Life

Ryan Gander
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend 2019, Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ryan Gander’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Some Other Life will feature new works—sculptures, installations, and a video—all...
April 26—June 15, 2019
Esther Schipper, Berlin
The Connectivity Suite (And Other Places) Ryan Gander

The Connectivity Suite (And Other Places)

Ryan Gander
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ryan Gander’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, The Connectivity Suite (and other places), following his 2011 presentation with Johnen Galerie. The Connectivity Suite (and other...
June 3—August 27, 2016

External Exhibitions

Ryan Gander, Centred on the periphery, 2023. Photo © Ryan Gander

Chester Contemporary

Curated by Ryan Gander
Chester Contemporary is a major new visual arts event with a core program curated by Chester-born artist Ryan Gander OBE RA.
September 22—December 1, 2023
Various locations, Chester
I’M JUST RESTING MY EYES Ryan Gander

I’M JUST RESTING MY EYES

Ryan Gander
Fukuoka Shoyu Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Ryan Gander entitled IʼM JUST RESTING MY EYES. The exhibition will showcase Gander’s latest works, as well as works that have yet to be...
July 15—November 26, 2023
Fukuoka Shoyu Gallery, Okayama
Ryan Gander, The Find, 2023, Dimensions variable. © Ryan Gander; Courtesy the artist and Manchester International Festival. Photograph by Lee Baxter.

Manchester International Festival

With Ryan Gander and Tino Sehgal
Manchester International Festival (MIF) 2023 takes place June 29 – July 16, 2023. Since 2007 the festival has invited some of the greatest artists on the planet to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes...
June 29—July 16, 2023
Various locations, Manchester
Transformers With Ryan Gander

Transformers

With Ryan Gander
This exhibition transforms the museum into a place where visitors can meet avatars, human machines that are able to move, talk, and learn; observe the richness of the movements, language, and responses of these transformed beings; witness how an animatronic...
December 10, 2022—April 30, 2023
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
The Markers of Our Time Ryan Gander

The Markers of Our Time

Ryan Gander
For The Markers of Our Time at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Ryan Gander has combined a variety of new and older works to turn an expansive gallery into a single work.
July 16 – September 19, 2022
Tokyo Opera City Gallery
Une seconde d’éternité With Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal

Une seconde d’éternité

With Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal
The exhibition Une seconde d'éternité is gradually taking over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. It brings together the works of some twenty artists including Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino...
June 22, 2022—January 9, 2023
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
The 500 Million Year Collaboration Ryan Gander

The 500 Million Year Collaboration

Ryan Gander
Many of the works shown in The 500 Million Year Collaboration, Ryan Gander’s most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date, focus on notions of time and the perception of the self. The title...
October 19—December 8, 2019
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Museum with Ryan Gander

Museum

with Ryan Gander
In a time of constant change and the attending sense of powerlessness, the exhibition Museum seeks to open up and occupy new spaces. Rather than critically questioning the institution, the focus is...
August 16, 2019—February 16, 2020
MMK–Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main
Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection

with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala
Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, 2019, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private...
June 29—September 29, 2019
MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier
Hate Speech, Aggression and Intimacy with Ryan Gander

Hate Speech, Aggression and Intimacy

with Ryan Gander
Against the backdrop of current developments in politics and the media, the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, in Graz is focusing on freedom of speech, its use and its abuse. Hate...
February 2—April 18, 2019
Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft with Ryan Gander

Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft

with Ryan Gander
ICA Milan inaugurates its exhibition activity with the show Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft, curated by Alberto Salvadori and Luigi Fassi. Presented for the first time, the project communicates dynamically...
January 24—March 15, 2019
ICA Milano, Milan
The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy Ryan Gander

The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy

Ryan Gander
In September 2017, The Contemporary Austin presents The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy, three newly commissioned, site-specific outdoor sculptures by Ryan Gander. Taking the form of a ballet...
September 23, 2017
The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
These wings aren't for flying Ryan Gander

These wings aren't for flying

Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander's solo exhibition These wings aren't for flying will present approximately 60 new works at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. At the same time, Gander will curate an exhibit made...
April 29—July 2, 2017
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Heterotopias. Avant-gardes in Contemporary Art with Ryan Gander

Heterotopias. Avant-gardes in Contemporary Art

with Ryan Gander
December 10, 2016—April 30, 2017
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Aubette 1928, Strasbourg
Make every show like it’s your last Ryan Gander

Make every show like it’s your last

Ryan Gander
March 3—May 22, 2016
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal
To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows Ryan Gander

To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows

Ryan Gander
To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows is the first overview exhibition in Belgium of the work of British artist Ryan Gander (born 1976). In this exhibition, the...
January 31—March 27, 2016
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander

Make every show like it's your last

Ryan Gander
November 20, 2015—February 7, 2016
Aspen Art Museum
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander

Make every show like it's your last

Ryan Gander
September 11—November 1, 2015
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Read Only Ryan Gander

Read Only

Ryan Gander
Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Ryan Gander’s works involve a questioning of language and knowledge, and a reinvention of the modes...
June 4—August 2, 2015
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Documenta 13 with Ryan Gander

Documenta 13

with Ryan Gander
June 9—September 16, 2012
Documenta 13, Kassel
Icarus Falling – An Exhibition Lost with Ryan Gander

Icarus Falling – An Exhibition Lost

with Ryan Gander
British artist Ryan Gander was invited to create a new work for the Forum’s 10th birthday celebrations. The intriguing installation revisits the history of Western art, the memory of the Forum itself...
November 3, 2011—January 29, 2012
Le Forum, Tokyo
Locked Room Scenario Ryan Gander

Locked Room Scenario

Ryan Gander
A group show in a warehouse in Hoxton. A number of artists and a range of work: sculptures, paintings, photographs, performance and video. You’d made an appointment to see the show. When...
August 30—October 23, 2011
Artangel, London
Intervals: Ryan Gander Ryan Gander

Intervals: Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander
October 1, 2010—January 9, 2011
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Die Is Cast Ryan Gander

The Die Is Cast

Ryan Gander
June 26—October 18, 2009
Villa Arson, Nice

Featured stories

On Chester Contemporary curated by Ryan Gander BBC Front Row
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On Chester Contemporary curated by Ryan Gander

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The Best Shows to See at Manchester International Festival Frieze
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The Best Shows to See at Manchester International Festival

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Ryan Gander's coin hunt brings out competitive edge at Manchester International Festival The Art Newspaper
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Ryan Gander's coin hunt brings out competitive edge at Manchester International Festival

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You're about to start coming across strange coins all around the city; this is why, and this is what they...
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You're about to start coming across strange coins all around the city; this is why, and this is what they mean

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Ryan Gander: ‘Going to a gallery is like taking your imagination to the gym’ The Guardian, UK
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Ryan Gander: ‘Going to a gallery is like taking your imagination to the gym’

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Ryan Gander, The Markers of Our Time
Tokyo Opera City Gallery

Ryan Gander, The Markers of Our Time

Ryan Gander The Markers of Our Time Tokyo Opera City Gallery 3 Chome-20-2 Nishishinjuku 163-1403 Tokyo July 16 – September 19, 2022 www.operacity.jpFor The Markers of Our Time at Tokyo Opera City...
July 16 – September 19, 2022
Paradise Kortrijk
various locations, Kortrijk

Paradise Kortrijk

From June 26 to October 24, 2021 the second Kortrijk Triennial will take place. Titled Paradise Kortrijk 2021, it includes works by Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone. Paradise Kortrijk 2021 invites contemporary artists to participate and...
June 26 – October 24, 2021
Spotligt: Ryan Gander
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Spotligt: Ryan Gander

This week for our Spotlight we present Ryan Gander's Y gêm (My neotonic contribution to Modernism), 2017.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Y gêm (My neotonic contribution to Modernism) takes as point of departure a 1918 abstract...
Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander
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Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander

Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander and Princeton Program in Visual Arts faculty member David Reinfurt February 9, 2021, 12 pm (EST), 6pm (CET) Pre-registration is required Register for the...
February 9, 2021, 12 pm (EST), 6pm (CET)
Ryan Gander at SOLID HAUS
Online Exhibition

Ryan Gander at SOLID HAUS

Natural and Conventional Signs is an exhibition in which Ryan Gander presents a selection of new works directly guided by his research at Princeton undertaken during his time as a Hodder Fellow (2019-2020)...
A recorded tour of the exhibition will be available to view on-demand from February 5–26, 2021
Art in 2020⁠ - Live Broadcast⁠ by Art Basel with Simon Fujiwara and Ryan Gander
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Art in 2020⁠ - Live Broadcast⁠ by Art Basel with Simon Fujiwara and Ryan Gander

OVR:2020, which opens on September 23, is dedicated to art made in 2020. On the eve of its launch, Art Basel and the Financial Times invite leading artists to discuss their new...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020,⁠ 10 AM ET / 4PM CET / 10HKT⁠
Ryan Gander at Kunsthalle Bern
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Ryan Gander at Kunsthalle Bern

The title Ryan Gander has chosen for his exhibition asserts an inconceivable temporal dimension. A collaboration over 500 million years? Between man and earth? Is it a look into the past or...
October 19 – December 8, 2019
Artist Talk with Ryan Gander
Merrivale Model Village, Great Yarmuth

Artist Talk with Ryan Gander

A discussion between Ryan Gander and Will Self about Ryan's 1:12 scale commission for Merrivale Model Village one-twelfth is a series of 12 annual 1:12 scale public art commissions organised by originalprojects;....
July 10, 2019, 5.30-7.30 pm
Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO
MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel de Collections, Montpellier

Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private collection...
June 29 – September 29, 2019
Artist Talk with Ryan Gander
Armory Live Theater on Pier 94

Artist Talk with Ryan Gander

On Saturday March 9 at 1pm, Ryan Gander will join the panel discussion Biennials Then and Now during The Armory Show together with Liverpool Biennial director, Sally Tallant, to discuss the relevancy of biennials today. Read more
March 9, 2019, 1:00pm
Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft with Ryan Gander
ICA Milano

Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft with Ryan Gander

Works by Ryan Gander will be on view until March 15, 2019, in the group exhibition 'Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft' at the ICA Milano. Read more
January 24 – March 15, 2019
Conversation with Ryan Gander
Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin

Conversation with Ryan Gander

September 23, 2017 at 12pm
Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying
The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying

Ryan Gander's solo exhibition These wings aren't for flying (April 29 – July 2, 2017) will present approximately 60 new works at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. At the same time, Gander will...
April 29–July 2, 2017
Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying
The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying

April 29 – July 2, 2017
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

Ryan Gander The Annotated Reader

Ryan Gander

The Annotated Reader
Ryan Gander’s oeuvre evokes fictional spaces, institutions and figures. His work is extremely varied, unified more by a conceptual vision than by formal appearance. It often combines fictional presence and absences, creating...
2019
Ryan Gander Culturefield

Ryan Gander

Culturefield
'Ryan Gander's work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas. His meticulously researched projects - which have included such diverse conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a...
2014
Ryan Gander Soft Modernism

Ryan Gander

Soft Modernism
2017
Ryan Gander Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1

Ryan Gander

Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1
“Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1” was conceived by Åbäke as a “reasonable alternative” to a catalogue raisonné for the artist (i.e. a monograph giving a comprehensive and exhaustive catalogue of artworks...
2010
Ryan Gander Leporello N° 04

Ryan Gander

Leporello N° 04
The narrative is not completely linear. Or perhaps it can be? Ryan Gander’s Leporello N° 04 presents excerpts of his digital word compositions displayed as part of the 2020 work Staccato Refractions....
2021