Vilma Gold Michael Stevenson   Lives and works in Berlin 1964         Born in Inglewood, New Zealand   1983-86  Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland 1995       Awarded a Creative New Zealand Fellowship 1999       Awarded the Australia councils Green Street Studio Residency 2002       New Zealand Artist in Residence at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2002       Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery 2005       Work grant, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin Solo Exhibitions (selected) 2010 A Question of How Thing Behave, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp Etablissement d'en face, Brussels 2009 Snow Melts in the Upper Clutha, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington Introduction a la Teoria de la Probalidad, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney 2008 The Place To Be, Kröller Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands Persepolis 2530, Arnolfini, Bristol 2007 Answers to Some Questions About Bananas, Vilma Gold, London Persepolis 2530, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 2006 C/O The Central Bank of Guatemala, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Kunstbank, (with Iris Kettner), Berlin 2005 The Smiles Are Not Smiles, Vilma Gold, London The Gift, Neuer Aachen Kunstverein, Aachen Michael Stevenson Retrospective, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach (cat.) Economics in Thirty Fascinating Minutes, Wattis Institute CCA, San Francisco (cat.) 2004 Rakit, KIAD, Canterbury Argonauts of the Timor Sea, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney Keim (with Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek), Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2003 This is the Trekka, New Zealand Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice To Our German Friend, Vilma Gold, London An Evening without Immendorf, Artists studio, Berlin 2002 An Evening with Jorg Immendorf, Hyatt Hotel, Auckland 2001 The Broccoli Maestro and The Strange Voyage of Bas Jan Ader, Malksten, Dusseldorf 2000             Daily Practice, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York Non-Objective Brass, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Songs of Life: The Melbourne International Biennale, RMIT Gallery, Court House Hotel and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Genealogy, (with Steven Brower), Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth Call Me Immendorff, Galerie Kapinos, Berlin Residency, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth Slave Pianos, China Art Objects, Los Angeles Separated at Birth, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York 1999 Slave Pianos: The Music of the City, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney Emancipate the Dissonance, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York 1998 The Gift of Critical Insight, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York Jesus Changed My Life in Eketahura, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1997 PreMillennial (with Ronnie van Hout), Austrailian tour venues: Contemporary art Centre of south Wales, Adelaide; Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Darren Knight Gallery, PreMillennial (with Ronnie van Hout), New Zealand tour venues: City Art Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Alternative Ways of Seeing, (website project), Artspace, Auckland Vehicles for artists who are no longer famous, City Art Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi 1996              Michael Stevenson, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne Art Watchdog, Trevor Smith’s garage, Canberra How NASA Mooned the Avant-Garde, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 1995              First Warning, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington Mike Stevenson, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne Video ART, Teststrip, Auckland      1994              Decline of Western Civilization Part 3 – The Mimnimalist Years, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington The Easyrider, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland Some Latter-Day Art, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne 1993              Badlands, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth: Manwatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne Group Exhibitions (selected) 2010 6th Berlin Biennale, Berlin Morality: Act XI: Remember Humanity, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam There is No Alternative, Konst Hall C and Romanian Cultural Institute, Sweden Ou la Vie Saisie par l'Art, CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, 4th Auckland Triennale, Auckland La Ciudad Interpretada/The City Interpreted, Public Art Project, curated by Pablo Fanego, Santiago de Compestella 2009 The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens A Despot in Flora's Garden, Simon Preston Gallery, New York Sea Oak, International Project Space, Birmingham Dreaming the Mainstream, Vilma Gold, London 2008 8th Panama Art Biennial, Panama City Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden curated by Mats Stjernstedt Familiar Terrain curated by Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel, ZKM, Karlsruhe Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto, curated by Helena Rickett 2007 The Irresistable Force, Tate Modern, London 8th Panama Art Biennial, Panama City Design by Accident, Croy Nielsen, Berlin   2006             Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2005              Saltuna, Roseum, Malmo Monuments for the USA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, CCA, San Francisco; White Columns, New York 2004             Kurzdavordanach, Photographischen Sammlung, Stiftung Kultur, Cologne Slave Pianos: two lives in flux and visa versa, National Drama Theatre, Vilinius Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Black Friday, Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2003               Revolver Launch, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main Korrekturen, Galerie Kamm, Berlin 2002                The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi 0 Tamaki (The World May Be) Fantastic, Sydney Biennial, Sydney Prophets of Boom, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden 2001              Wiedeeraufnahme/Retake, Neuer Aachen Kunstverein, Aachen Audit, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Superman in Bed, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Profiler, Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin Profiler, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; City Art Gallery, Wellington Cancelled Art Fair, China Art Objects, Los Angeles 2000 Circles 3, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnolgie, Karlsruhe 4th Sergey Kuryokhin Festival, Leningrad Palace of Youth, St Petersburg Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen 1999              Toi Toi Toi, Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel Entropy at Home, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen What Your Children Should Know About Conceptualism, Neuer Aachen Kunstverein, Aachen; Brandenburgischer Kunstverien, Potsdam 1998              Ground Control, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York 1997              The Seppelt Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Selections Fall 97, The Drawing Center, New York Let Those Who Ride Decide, The Physics Room, Christchurch Power, Corruption & Lies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Lawyers, Guns & Money, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Multiplication: The Multiple Object in Art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne Drawings, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York 1996              The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Wales, Adelaide Reservoir, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1995-96       Hangover, Waikato Art and History Museum, Govett-Brewster Arts Gallery, New Plymouth 1991-92       Distance Looks Our Way, Pubellon de las Aries, Expo, Seville Selected Bibliography Publications Celebration at Persepolis, Michael Stevenson, Monarchy and the 38th Basel Art Fair, Arnolfini and Christoph Keller Editions JRP Ringier The aircraft carrier, the paddy field, the late modern institution, David Craig, 2006 Art of the Eighties and Seventies, Stadtisches Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt, pp. 77-121, 2006. Michael Stevenson, Brian Dillon, Frieze 89, March 2005. Remastering the Record, Michael Fitzgerald, Time Australia, August 29 2005. This is the Trekka, Michael Stevenson, (Catalogue for  NZ’s 2003 Venice Biennale Entry), 2003. Leistungsveigleich, (exhibition brochure), Jörg Heizer, New Zealand Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2003. 50th Venice Biennale, Ralph Rugoff, Frieze, issue 77, Sept. 2003. Slave Artists of the Piano Cult: An Introduction, Giovanni Intra, Slave Pianos: A Reader, Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt, 2001. Michael Stevenson, Mirina Sorbello, Tema Celeste, March 2001. Mike Stevenson and Danius Kesminas, Charles Labelle, Frieze, no. 53, June August, 2000 Articles 2010 Jasper, Adam, 4th Auckland Triennial, Frieze, Issue 132, June-July 2010, p173 2009 Jasper, Adam, 2nd Athens Biennale, Frieze, Issue 127, November-December 2009, p 134 Hill, Wes, Double Fantasy, Art and Australia, Vol.46 No.3 A Concerted Overview, Kaleidoscope, Issue 1, Spring 2008 Mahoney, Elizabeth, Michael Stevenson, The Guardian, 8 February Heiser, Jörg, A Shareholder and The Jackal: an artist's fables, Frieze.com, October 17 2008 2005 Withers, Rachel, Michael Stevenson, Artforum, April 2005, pp.201-202. 2001 von Schlegell, Mark. Mike Stevenson and Danius Kesminas, Flash Art, no.212, May-June 2000, pp.117-118