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Through photography, film and installation the Canadian artist Stan Douglas has, since the late-1980s, examined complex intersections of narrative, fact and fiction while simultaneously scrutinising the media he employs and how it shapes our understanding of reality. Douglas' work is often in the first instance an examination of place – Lisbon, Potsdam, Havana and Detroit have provided the impetus for, respectively, The Secret Agent, 2015, Der Sandmann, 1995, Inconsolable Memories, 2005 and Le Détroit, 1999 – but entangled with the detail of specific geographical and political circumstance is a diverse range of source material that has included the literary constructs of Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Samuel Beckett and ETA Hoffmann, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.
While we may recognise the literary, filmic or musical references, along with the stories, places or even characters appropriated in these complex works, expectations are often frustrated. Instead of narrative fulfilment, Douglas offers us complexity, perplexity and doubt. The artist has remarked that 'life is all middle' and in Douglas' work the viewer often finds himself plunged into events whose beginnings are obscured and whose ends seem to dissolve into mutability.
For instance, the films Journey Into Fear, 2001, which makes reference to Eric Ambler's 1940s spy novel as well as Herman Melville's 1857 novel The Confidence Man, and Klatsassin, 2006, which referring to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon reveals details of a murder in nineteenth-century British Columbia through a series of sometimes contradictory flashbacks and anecdotes, unfold over many days. Both are examples of Douglas's 'recombinant' works - sequences of imagery and dialogue generated by computer as permutations that are capable of running without repetition for timespans way in excess of the conventional art-viewing experience. As such, the works unmoor themselves from formal requirements of narrative and expectations of authorship as they liberate the viewer to reflect on the contingencies of truth in the wider world.
A retelling of Joseph Conrad's 1907 spy novella – a story of espionage, double-crossing and murky political entanglement – the six-screen work The Secret Agent restages the narrative in 1970s Portugal and the aftermath of the country's Carnation Revolution. Characteristic of Douglas' sensitivity to the nuanced dynamics of public and private memory in its subtle blending of historical fact, meticulous reconstruction, and fictive source material, this immersive six-screen work withholds conclusions from the viewer, even as multiple viewpoints tantalisingly suggest the possibility of privileged access to the truths of a complex situation.
Midcentury Studio, 2010, a series of large-scale stark monochrome photographs, each depicting a single scene from a much larger narrative, takes up the conceit of a fictional photojournalist as central protagonist. The series follows an orderly sequential chronology, yet Douglas defies straightforward storytelling conventions in favour of more elaborate constructed narratives in a questioning of authorship and reality. This affords Douglas the chance to create a series which, whilst being rooted in the contemporary evokes the aura and preoccupation with melodrama of the mid-century through the guise of jugglers, actresses, magicians, carnival curiosities, paparazzi and crime scene reportage. Through these individual casts of characters, Douglas carefully choreographs the underlying tension of the era and documents a series of events highlighting a historical nascent dystopia.
It is no coincidence that Douglas often chooses to locate his work where failures of political and social systems are most apparent. Douglas' preoccupation with failed utopias and the obsolete of the post-war North American period, is not about a redemption of past occurrences, but rather, as the artist says, a way to reconsider them, to understand why these utopian moments did not fulfil themselves, what larger forces kept a local moment a minor moment: what was valuable there – and what might still be useful today.
Premiering at Victoria Miro in 2017, the first in a series of works triggered by the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and riots across global locations including London and the artist’s home town of Vancouver, focused on two scenes associated with events in London in August 2011: Mare Street in Hackney Central, and Hackney Downs, where events were focused around the Pembury Estate. To create the panoramic mise-en-scènes on display, Douglas conducted intensive research, mining sources including contemporary aerial news reports and still images. He also chartered a helicopter to fly over the locations, meticulously combining his own footage with media images to reconstruct moments frozen at specific points in the unfolding disturbance.
The video installation Doppelgänger debuted at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, in 2019 and was exhibited for the first time in the UK at the gallery in 2020, concurrently on view at David Zwirner, New York. Doppelgänger is set in an alternative present. Displayed on two square-format, translucent screens, each of which can be viewed from both sides, the looped narrative unfolds in side-by-side vignettes that depict events on worlds that are light years apart. When one spacecraft embarks on its journey, another is launched at the same time in a parallel reality. Alice, a solitary astronaut, is teleported to a distant planet, and so is her double. Then, Alice and her ship, the Hermes II, for unknown reasons, return. Alice assumes her mission has failed and she has somehow returned home; but she has, in fact, arrived at a world where everything, from writing to the rotation of the sun, is literally the reverse of what she once knew. Intercut with quasi-abstract passages of colour and light, which nod both to avant-garde cinema as well as the history of space exploration, Doppelgänger presents a nuanced and layered parable that powerfully addresses the slippery notion of objective truth, and the position of the ‘other’ in contemporary society.
About the artist
Born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work, Stan Douglas has been the subject of numerous exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide. Recent venues for solo exhibitions include Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice; Phi Foundation, Montreal, Canada (2022); Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; The Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris (2021); Victoria Miro, London (concurrently on view at David Zwirner, New York (2020); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2019-2020); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2018–2019); the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (2016); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida (2016); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2016); WIELS, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2015); Museu Coleçäo Berardo, Lisbon (2015); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2014-2015); Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes (2013, solo, travelling to Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2014; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2015 and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2015); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota (2013) and the Moscow Photobiennale 2013.
His work has additionally been presented at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2020); 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2019); Sharjah Biennial 14, UAE (2019); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2018); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2018); Tate Modern, London (2018); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland (2017); Hayward Gallery, London (2016-2017); Audain Art Museum, Whistler (2016); The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2016); Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (2014); Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (2012, travelling to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2012); ZKM/Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2010); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010).
Work by the artist is held in major museum collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Stan Douglas is the recipient of the 2016 Hasselblad Award and the 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts. He represented Canada at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.
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November 25 2024
Just announced – a major survey of Stan Douglas to open at CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art in June 2025
The presentation (21 June–30 November 2025) will feature the North American premiere of an immersive and multi-channel video installation by the artist, and a selection of nearly 40 works from the 1990s to the present. Hessel Museum of Art, New York -
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June 28 2024
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, featuring Stan Douglas, travels to Cincinnati Art Museum
In the wake of hip hop’s 50th anniversary, the Cincinnati Art Museum hosts this groundbreaking exhibition exploring the genre’s extraordinary influence on contemporary society over the past two decades. On view 28 June–29 September 2024. Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio -
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May 28 2024
Stan Douglas: ISDN at Serralves
On view 29 May 2024–12 Jan 2025. Centred on the film ISDN (initially conceived for the 59th Venice Biennale), the exhibition presents a vibrant dialogue between different cultures and social movements, portrayed via a fictional musical performance between rappers from London and Cairo, whose verses address key issues such as race, class, love, identity, and justice. Serralves, Porto -
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May 10 2024
The Vinyl Factory at 180 Studios presents REVERB, featuring Stan Douglas
A major multimedia exhibition (23 May–28 September 2024) exploring the intersection of art and sound and bringing together over 100 artists and musicians working across mediums including visual arts, music, film and live performance. 180 The Strand, London -
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February 26 2024
Stan Douglas features in The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at Schirn Kunsthalle
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop, this major exhibition (29 February–26 May 2024) explores its profound influence on the current art and cultural landscape. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt -
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September 16 2023
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848 at the De Pont Museum
In this ambitious installation (on view 16 September 2023–4 February 2024) Douglas reconstructs crucial moments of social unrest from 2011 and draws a historical parallel with the year 1848, when numerous European countries were fighting for democratic freedoms. Tilburg, Netherlands -
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September 14 2023
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848, on view at the National Gallery of Canada
On view 14 September 2023–September 2024, 2011 ≠ 1848 draws a comparison between the events of 2011 and those of 1848: a year in which continent-wide upheaval found European middle and working classes allied in a fight against a lack of democratic freedoms, restrictions on the press, and the continued dominance of an aristocratic elite. Ottowa, Canada -
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January 3 2023
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848, coming soon to Remai Modern, Saskatoon
The exhibition (3 February–4 June 2023) comprises a series of works inspired by historical events of social and political turbulence. Douglas connects points of social rupture, rendering in minute detail and with technical ingenuity historic moments of protest, riot, and occupation from 2011 that echoed upheavals that swept Europe in 1848. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada -
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September 9 2022
On view at The Polygon, North Vancouver – Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848
The exhibition (9 September–6 November 2022) presents a series of works which premiered at the 2022 Venice Biennale, inspired by historical events of social and political turbulence. Douglas connects points of social rupture, rendering in minute detail and with technical ingenuity historic moments of protest, riot, and occupation from 2011 that echoed upheavals that swept Europe in 1848. The Polygon, North Vancouver -
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June 1 2022
The Art Newspaper podcast with Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas speaks with Ben Luke in the latest episode of A brush with... The Art Newspaper's official podcast. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
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April 22 2022
‘Stan Douglas packs a punch’: The New York Times reviews the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale
Stan Douglas, Vancouver's towering intellect of photography and video art... delves into the intersecting uprisings of 2011 (the Arab Spring, the London riots, Occupy Wall Street) in a contribution split between the Canadian pavilion and an old salt storage depot. The New York Times -
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April 21 2022
Frieze reviews Stan Douglas at the 59th Venice Biennale
Drawing a through line between the global social and political unrest of 2011 (e.g. the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, etc.) and the working-class upheaval that took place in 1848 across continental Europe, Douglas exhibits a suite of works that demonstrate how social movements are so often predicated on the news disseminated via mass media. Frieze -
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April 21 2022
Artnet reports on Stan Douglas’s two-part Canada Pavilion exhibition in Venice
In a triumphant turn, Douglas looks at four distinct uprisings that were different in character but similarly driven by disenfranchisement and a sense of frustration with social systems. Artnet -
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April 20 2022
The Art Newspaper names Stan Douglas’s presentation a ‘must-see pavilion’ at the Venice Biennale 2022
Douglas’s photographs are a technological masterclass. He has turned chaotic scenes into dramatic tableaus of impossible detail. They are peans, in sound and light, to what is increasingly a truism: art at its best is an act of resistance. The Art Newspaper -
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April 18 2022
On view at La Biennale di Venezia 2022
Stan Douglas represents Canada, and Paula Rego and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami are featured in The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy -
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April 8 2022
Stan Douglas talks to Artforum about his project for the Canadian Pavilion
Stan Douglas discusses work to be featured in the 59th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. Artforum -
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March 11 2022
Initial details released for Stan Douglas 2011 ≠ 1848 at the 59th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia Canada Pavilion
Initial details have been released for Stan Douglas 2011 ≠ 1848 at the 59th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia Canada Pavilion, Giardini/Magazzini del Sale No. 5, Zattere. On view from 23 April–27 November 2022. -
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February 18 2022
Stan Douglas: Revealing Narratives at PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art
The exhibition (19 February–22 May 2022) will present the Canadian premiere of Douglas’s most recent photo series Penn Station's Half Century (2021) and Disco Angola (2012), a series of photos that will be presented in Québec for the first time. PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal -
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January 21 2021
Stan Douglas in conversation
Join Stan Douglas for a talk on Thursday 28 January 2021, hosted virtually by Public Art Fund and The Cooper Union, when the artist will discuss his ambitious new site-specific work at Moynihan Train Hall, Penn Station's Half Century. -
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January 5 2021
Installations by Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset open at Penn Station
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces the opening of the new Moynihan Train Hall, along with three unprecedented site-specific art installations by Stan Douglas, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley, counted among the most innovative and revered artists working today. Public Art Fund -
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December 30 2020
The New York Times previews Penn Station’s major new permanent installations, featuring work by Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset
Natural light spills across the new Moynihan Train Hall through its massive, 92-foot-high skylight ceiling and illuminates another surprise: permanent installations by some of the most celebrated artists in the world. Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have major pieces prominently displayed in the new $1.6 billion train hall. Dionne Searcey, The New York Times -
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March 10 2020
The March issue of ArtReview features a review of Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro
'Douglas's film plays with questions of ethics... but more profoundly with questions of communication.’ Nina Power, ArtReview -
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February 19 2020
Aesthetica reviews Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger and Scenes from the Blackout
'Both the structure and the subject matter of the exhibition offer an overarching sense of displacement or the uncanny.' Robyn Sian Cusworth, Aesthetica Magazine -
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February 14 2020
Wallpaper* writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger
'Beneath the film’s retro-futuristic veneer and vibrant passages of colour – a stylistic nod to avant-garde cinema – lies a pressing message for our times.' Jessica Klingelfuss, Wallpaper* -
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February 3 2020
Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger features in The Imagination of Time at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The exhibition, held as part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (7–23 February 2020) considers notions of time as explored in art and imaging. It marks Doppelgänger's debut in Asia. Tokyo, Japan -
Gallery Exhibition
31 January - 14 March 2020
Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger
Victoria Miro is pleased to present Doppelgänger, a video installation by Stan Douglas. Debuted at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, this... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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January 31 2020
Stan Douglas talks to Interview
'I can’t predict the future, so in a way, my science fiction – like everything else, like historical things – is an allegory of the present.' Ella Huzenis, Interview -
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January 15 2020
Stan Douglas to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022
Stan Douglas has been selected to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Douglas's multidisciplinary works, including films, photographs and, more recently, theatre productions, reflect on the dynamic potential embedded in pivotal historical moments. -
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December 11 2019
ARTnews announces mirroring UK and US debuts of Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger in concurrent exhibitions at Victoria Miro in London and at David Zwirner in New York
In the two-channel video, an astronaut and her doppelgänger are sent to two different planets; one is welcomed, and the other is treated as a potential foe. The exhibitions will mark the US and UK premieres of the piece. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews -
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November 1 2019
Stan Douglas: Splicing Block opens at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
The exhibition (1 November 2019–1 March 2020) examines the relationship between music and society, and is at the same time a reflection on the media of film and photography. Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin -
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September 24 2019
Stan Douglas is awarded the 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
This annual prize worth $100,000 is awarded to a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the arts. -
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May 20 2019
Jason Farago writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger in The New York Times
'The plot wittily hinges on a phrase that reads differently depending on where you’re sitting: the Marxian LIVE REIFIED TIME or, in reverse, the satanic EMIT DEIFIER EVIL.' Jason Farago, The New York Times -
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May 1 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Stan Douglas are featured in La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times
The 58th International Art Exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff and is open to the public from 11 May to 24 November 2019. Venice, Italy -
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January 18 2019
Stan Douglas: Hors-champs goes on view at Western Front, Vancouver
In Douglas’ Hors-champs, 1992 (on view 18 January–23 February 2019), a quartet of musicians—Kent Carter, Douglas Ewart, Oliver Johnson, and George Lewis—perform Albert Ayler’s Spirits Rejoice. Projected simultaneously on opposite sides of the same screen, Douglas’ installation considers the Black musical traditions (blues, gospel, etc) embedded into Ayler’s composition. Western Front, Vancouver -
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May 30 2018
Stan Douglas in Resist! The 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy at BOZAR, Brussels
The exhibition (27 June–26 August 2018) brings together works by seminal figures from the photographic and photojournalistic world, alongside rare archive images. BOZAR, Brussels -
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May 10 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili donate works to Creating Space: Artists for the Studio Museum in Harlem
Sotheby's New York hosts the viewing (4 – 16 May 2018) and auction (16, 17 May 2018) of works to benefit the Studio Museum's new building. Sotheby's New York -
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May 2 2018
Stan Douglas in Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern
This major exhibition (2 May – 14 October 2018) tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. Tate Modern -
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January 25 2018
Work by Stan Douglas featured in Faithless Pictures at Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
The exhibition (9 February – 13 May 2018) features around 40 international artists and explores the complex relationship between image and reality. Oslo, Norway -
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January 8 2018
Stan Douglas’s Luanda-Kinshasa is featured in Domestic Arenas at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
The exhibition (19 January – 18 March 2018) is a synthesis of video art, documentary and music videos from American and European artists. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague -
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December 12 2017
Artforum reviews Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro Mayfair
'Douglas… reveals that beneath a media reporting – which is prone to quick headlines and opportunistic characterizations – an event leaves traces that can be reassembled and rethought.' Duncan Wooldridge, Artforum -
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November 1 2017
Time Out reviews Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro Mayfair
★★★★ 'Douglas’s elegant – even beautiful – pin-sharp pictorial renderings don’t just operate on a visual plane…' Chris Waywell, Time Out London -
Gallery Exhibition
26 October - 20 December 2017
Stan Douglas
The first in a new series of works triggered by the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and riots across global locations including London and the artist’s... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
Interview
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October 26 2017
Stan Douglas talks to the Guardian about his latest photographic works
'The streets are these arteries where the people, the police and objects are all interacting…It’s not focusing on mayhem and that fascinates me.' Kieran Yates, The Guardian -
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October 25 2017
Stan Douglas artist’s talk at Tate Modern
The talk took place on 25 October 2017, in conversation with Mark Godfrey. An audio version is available by request via the Tate website. Tate Modern, London -
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October 23 2017
Remai Modern’s opening displays feature Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent
Field Guide, the inaugural exhibition at the new Remai Modern art museum, rethinks the idea of 'modern' from multiple cultural, geographic, historic and contemporary perspectives. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada -
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October 6 2017
Stan Douglas in Performance! at Le Tripostal, Lille
Part of the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary celebrations, this exhibition (6 October 2017 – 14 January 2018) features Douglas' Hors-Champs, 1992. Le Tripostal, Lille -
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March 9 2017
Stan Douglas artist’s talk at Aargauer Kunsthaus
A conversation (22 March 2017) with the artist and Madeleine Schuppli, Director, on the occasion of the presentation of The Secret Agent, 2015. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland -
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November 15 2016
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent in Cinéma mon amour: Film in Art at Aargauer Kunsthaus
Film and art have been inseparably linked since the invention of the medium of film. In January 2017, the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Solothurn Film Festival are devoting an exhibition (Cinéma mon amour. Film in Art, 22 January - 17 April 2017) and a special programme (Art mon amour) to the reciprocal fascination between art and film. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland -
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November 5 2016
Stan Douglas in Intersections: Contemporary Artist Films at Audain Art Museum
Douglas' Klatsassin features in Intersections (29 October 2016 - 6 February 2017), an exhibition framed as a series of visual and experiential intersections – a place and/or space where two or more lines of inquiry converge or cross. Audain Art Museum, Whistler -
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November 3 2016
Stan Douglas in The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now at ICA University of Pennsylvania
Douglas' two-channel video installation Hors-champs, 1992, is included in a group exhibition (14 September 2016 - 19 March 2017) that links the vibrant legacy of avant-garde jazz and experimental music of the late 1960s (particularly within the African American arts scene on the South Side of Chicago) and its continuing influence on contemporary art and culture today. ICA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia -
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October 14 2016
Stan Douglas interviewed in The Globe and Mail
A black man in a city where there are few black people, Douglas uses that feeling of being different to influence his work. Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail -
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October 1 2016
Stan Douglas: Hasselblad Award Exhibition at Hasselblad Foundation
The foundation presents an exhibition (18 October 2016 - 29 January 2017) of Douglas' work, as the 2016 Hasselblad Award winner. Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden -
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September 18 2016
Stan Douglas’ sumptuous film… read Laura Cumming’s review of The Infinite Mix in The Observer
'....Indeed, if there is a theme to this wonderfully various show, it is the resurgence of history in the present. This is so subtly conveyed in Canadian artist Stan Douglas’s Luanda-Kinshasa…' -
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September 2 2016
Stan Douglas’ Luanda-Kinshasa included in the Hayward Gallery’s off-site exhibition The Infinite Mix
The Infinite Mix (until 4 December 2016) brings together major audio-visual artworks from ten leading international artists including Stan Douglas. The Store, 180 The Strand, London -
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May 30 2016
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent reviewed in Artforum
"Douglas has long been fascinated by periods of sociopolitical resistance as visualized in their special sites, artistic results, and people." Gilda Williams, Artforum -
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May 27 2016
Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa at Pérez Art Museum, Miami
On view until 25 September 2016. Jointly acquired by PAMM and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this film depicts a fictitious band of professional musicians at the famed CBS 30th Street Studio in 1970s New York City. Pérez Art Museum, Miami -
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February 4 2016
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent reviewed in the Guardian
'With Douglas's work, you often feel like you have stepped into a much bigger narrative that concerns, among other things, the lingering effects of post-colonialism and modernism.' Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian -
Gallery Exhibition
2 February - 24 March 2016
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent
A solo exhibition by the celebrated Canadian artist Stan Douglas, featuring the UK premiere of a new multi-screen film installation along with a series of large-scale photographs. Saturated with information,... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Gallery Exhibition
23 November 2013 - 18 January 2014
Stan Douglas: Disco Angola
The artist's second solo show with Victoria Miro and his first at our new Mayfair gallery. In Midcentury Studio, Douglas' first exhibition with Victoria Miro, monochrome photographs were created in... Victoria Miro Mayfair -
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18 April - 26 May 2012
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio
Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the first gallery exhibition of Canadian artist Stan Douglas. Since the 1980s Stan Douglas has reappropriated key moments from history, precisely examining political, social... Victoria Miro Gallery I