The 500 Million Year Collaboration Ryan Gander
October 19—December 8, 2019
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

The 500 Million Year Collaboration Ryan Gander

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My family before me, 2006 (left) Framed black and white photograph Equivalent Economies and Equivalent Means, 2018 (right) Vending machine, stones, 10‘000 € Photo © Gunnar Meier

Press Release

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 the artist 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 to the future? What Gander calls “culturefield” is an imaginary, dreamlike parallel world,...
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Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander was born in 1976 in Chester, England. He received his First Class Degree, BA (Hons) in Interactive Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and was a Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant at...