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Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, 2006 (still) © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 and © Philippe Parreno

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Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

September 8–November 25, 2018
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) is a film collaboration between Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno. Shot on seventeen synchronized cameras, Zidane frames the movements of footballer Zinédine Zidane in real time over the course of a single match between Real Madrid and Villarreal at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid on April 23, 2005.

Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, 2006 (still) © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 and © Philippe Parreno

Douglas Gordon, Self-Portrait of You + Me (David Bowie), 2007 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

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Douglas Gordon in
The Rat-Catcher

May 11–September 24, 2018
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Poland
muzeumwspolczesne.pl

The starting point for this exhibition will be the 1986 Polish documentary The Rat-Catcher (directed by Andrzej Czarnecki). The show will focus on human nature and on the psyche. Work by Douglas Gordon will be included.

Douglas Gordon, Self-Portrait of You + Me (David Bowie), 2007 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

Douglas Gordon, Looking Down with His Black, Black, Ee, 2008 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

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Artist Rooms
Douglas Gordon

June 2–September 2, 2018
Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk

Berwick Visual Arts presents Gordon’s major installation 10ms-1 (1994), which contains footage from a World War I medical film, alongside Looking Down with His Black, Black, Ee (2008), which takes its title from a popular Scottish poem about a bird sitting on a treetop, looking down on a group of children, suggesting foreboding menace.

Douglas Gordon, Looking Down with His Black, Black, Ee, 2008 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

Douglas Gordon, Îles Flottantes, 2008 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

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Douglas Gordon
Îles flottantes (If Monet Met Cézanne, in Montfavet)

April 15–August 26, 2018
Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
www.ims.com.br

A 2008 video installation by Douglas Gordon, shown on two monitors, is on display in Brazil. The work presents a garden strewn with skulls being gradually flooded. Filmed in the garden of the artist’s residence in Montfavet, the work invokes an immediate parallel with Claude Monet’s infamous Water Lilies.

Douglas Gordon, Îles Flottantes, 2008 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

Douglas Gordon, k.364, 2010 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

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Douglas Gordon
k.364

April 14–August 19, 2018
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
www.kunstsammlung.de

K20 presents Douglas Gordon’s large-scale video installation k.364 (2010). In this fifty-minute work, projected onto a pair of two-sided screens, the artist follows two Israeli musicians of Polish-Jewish heritage on their journey by train from Berlin to Warsaw. During their journey, the pair reflect on the Holocaust and the landscape, which is charged with historical memory.

Douglas Gordon, k.364, 2010 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

Douglas Gordon, August 12, 1999, 2011 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

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Douglas Gordon in
Germany is not an island

March 8–June 3, 2018
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
www.bundeskunsthalle.de

Germany is not an island, which includes some 150 works by eighty-one artists, takes its name from a phrase intended to describe the multicultural location of “Germany” as a place where everyone is welcome. In this show, art often seeks confrontation with traditional perspectives and ideas and thus opens up spaces that call for greater tolerance, openness, and reflection. Work by Douglas Gordon is included.

Douglas Gordon, August 12, 1999, 2011 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018

Douglas Gordon, Revue, 2018 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger

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Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line

March 13–May 6, 2018
Whitechapel Gallery, London
www.whitechapelgallery.org

Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line showcases nine internationally renowned artists and their plans to create major public artworks for London’s newest railway, the Elizabeth line. Each artist has been commissioned to create a work of art sympathetic to the locality, history, or function of one of the stations. The exhibition brings together sketches, maquettes, and prototypes to reveal the artists’ ideas transformed into deliverable public art. Work by Douglas Gordon and Richard Wright is included.

Douglas Gordon, Revue, 2018 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger

Douglas Gordon, going out, 2005 © Studio lost but found and VG Bild-Kunst 2018. Photo by Axel Schneider

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I Am a Problem

September 23, 2017–February 18, 2018
MMK 2, Frankfurt
mmk-frankfurt.de

A gloomy and at the same time provoking parallel world unfolds in the exhibition space, in which works from the Museum für Moderne Kunst’s collection become protagonists of a narrative and enter into a dialogue with one another. The starting point for the staging is a myth about Maria Callas (1923–1977). Work by Douglas Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Taryn Simon, and Andy Warhol is included.

Douglas Gordon, going out, 2005 © Studio lost but found and VG Bild-Kunst 2018. Photo by Axel Schneider

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2011 © Urs Fischer. Photo by Stefan Altenburger

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Fragile State

June 17, 2017–January 7, 2018
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
pinchukartcentre.org

This exhibition’s title and theme, Fragile State, has a double meaning. It refers to a delicate moment of vulnerability both in a physical and psychological sense and, at the same time, it refers to political terminology. Work by Urs Fischer, Douglas Gordon, and Damien Hirst will be included.

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2011 © Urs Fischer. Photo by Stefan Altenburger

Douglas Gordon, Portrait of Janus, 2017 (still) © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Commissioned and produced by Locus+

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Douglas Gordon
Portrait of Janus

November 4–December 17, 2017
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
artsonje.org

Douglas Gordon’s film Portrait of Janus (2017), which focuses on Korea’s demilitarized zone, the strip of land separating North and South Korea, will be shown for the first time at the Arte Sonje Center in Seoul.

Douglas Gordon, Portrait of Janus, 2017 (still) © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Commissioned and produced by Locus+

Douglas Gordon, Black Burns, 2017 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo Studio lost but found/Francesco Paterlini/Andy McGregor for Scottish National Portrait Gallery, courtesy Studio lost but found, Berlin 

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Douglas Gordon
Black Burns

July 29–October 29, 2017
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
www.nationalgalleries.org

Douglas Gordon’s specially commissioned installation Black Burns is a response to the full-length marble statue of the poet Robert Burns, which stands in the Great Hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Gordon’s work often takes as its subject something familiar and explores the ways in which memories and expectations surrounding it can be thrown off balance by subtle interventions in the way it is presented and displayed.

Douglas Gordon, Black Burns, 2017 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo Studio lost but found/Francesco Paterlini/Andy McGregor for Scottish National Portrait Gallery, courtesy Studio lost but found, Berlin 

Douglas Gordon, 24 Hour Psycho, 1993 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017/from Psycho (1960) USA; directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; distributed by Paramount Pictures © Universal City Studios

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Douglas Gordon
24 Hour Psycho

September 29–October 22, 2017
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey
arts.princeton.edu

Douglas Gordon’s art installation 24 Hour Psycho (1993) will inaugurate the Hurley Gallery in the new Lewis Arts complex at Princeton University. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film Psycho, slowed down to approximately two frames per second, rather than the usual twenty four. As a result, a full viewing of the film lasts for exactly twenty-four hours.

Douglas Gordon, 24 Hour Psycho, 1993 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017/from Psycho (1960) USA; directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; distributed by Paramount Pictures © Universal City Studios

Photo © Belvedere, Vienna

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Franz West
Artistclub

December 14, 2016–April 23, 2017
Belvedere, Vienna
www.belvedere.at

Curated by Harald Krejci, this window into Franz West’s collaborative art practice examines a selection of work the artist made with fellow artists such as Urs Fischer, Douglas Gordon, and Albert Oehlen.

Photo © Belvedere, Vienna

Douglas Gordon, Letter Unsent (Number 7), 2005, Miracle Marathon, Day 1, installation at Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Yousef Eldin.

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Speak
Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, and Cally Spooner

March 2–21, 2017
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
www.serpentinegalleries.org

In dialogue with a survey show of John Latham, Speak at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery brings together works by Douglas Gordon with those by contemporary artists Tania Bruguera, Laure Prouvost, and Cally Spooner: the quartet’s diverse practices expand Latham’s ideas.

Douglas Gordon, Letter Unsent (Number 7), 2005, Miracle Marathon, Day 1, installation at Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Yousef Eldin.