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Date: 2019

Location: London, England

Project: Artist Presentation + Performance

Partner: Art Fund

Artist: Roger Hiorns

In association with Art Fund, we are delighted to present Turner nominated artist, Roger Hiorns, who will share ideas on the role of public art and how it influences our Understanding of Place and the facility of being. A leading artist of his generation, Hiorns makes works of art whose particular aesthetic lies somewhere between the representational and non-representational, and so disrupts our expectations of the boundaries between them. His sculptures have a seemingly straightforward, functional material presence, but this is always combined with an element which provides a sense of the imaginary, the poetic or the esoteric. The tension between these two aspects is a vital part of Hiorns' work.

Hiorns will present ideas about place and how it relates to his practice, with particular focus on the recently completed permanent public artwork on Bristol’s floating harbour which saw the artist closely collaborate with award-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann. 

Hiorns has featured in numerous exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Biennale of Venice; MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Tate Modern, London; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and De Hallen, Haarlem. Hiorns’ work is included in such institutional collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Tate Modern, London.

In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work, Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council estate. In 2011, Seizure was acquired by the Arts Council Collection and is currently on a ten-year loan for exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Yorkshire, England. Hiorns won the Faena Prize for the Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2016 and has recently had solo exhibitions at Centre PasquArt, Biel; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

Roger Hiorns is represented by Corvi Mora in London, Luhring Augustine in New York, C + N Canepaneri in Milan and Annet Gelink in Amsterdam.