Spectral Readings at the Liverpool Biennale

In a video posted by the Guardian, art critic Adrian Searle looks at some of the works in the 2012 Liverpool Biennale: The Unexpected Guest, including one of Dane Mitchell's works which takes the form of wallpaper printed with an interlocking diagram that references and adapts Marcel Duchamp's equation A Guest + A Host = A Ghost.
Image: Dane Mitchell, Spectral Readings (Liverpool), 2012 - Ghost Paper, 2012, installation view, 2012 Liverpool Biennale. The Biennale runs from 15 September -25 November 2012.

Artists announced for the 9th Gwangju Biennale

The 90 artists and collectives selected for ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale have been announced. You can see the list here
Image: Dane Mitchell, detail Celestial Fields, 2012. Mitchell is one of the artists selected for ROUNDTABLE

Dane Mitchell at Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf

Dane Mitchell is in the group show WHY DO BIRDS SUDDENLY APPEAR? at Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf. Curated by Matt Moravec and Kyle Thurman, the exhibition runs from 14 July to 12 August 2012.
Image: from the Volker Bradtke website

Dane Mitchell commissioned to make a new work for the Gwangju Biennale

Dane Mitchell has been selected for the 2012 Gwangju Biennale, which runs from 7 September to 11 November. This year's edition is being directed by six curators - Nancy Adajania (India), Mami Kataoka (Japan), Wassan al-Kudhairi (Qatar), Sun Jung Kim (Korea), Alia Swasticka (Indonesia) and Carol Yinghua Lu (China). Mitchell is also in the lineup of artists selected for the 2012 Liverpool Biennale.
Image: Dane Mitchell, detail Celestial Fields, 2012

Dane Mitchell commissioned to make a work for the 2012 Liverpool Biennale

The full programme of international commissions, exhibitions and special events has been announced for the 2012 Liverpool Biennale. Titled The Unexpected Guest, the Biennale will show work by over 60 artists from across the world in locations around the city, including Auckland/Berlin-based artist Dane Mitchell who has been commissioned to make a new work for the programme. You can see the full list of artists here.
Image: Dane Mitchell, Spectral Readings, Liverpool, 2012

Dane Mitchell at The Company, LA

Dane Mitchell is currently showing in BSSM, a group show at The Company in LA's Chinatown.
Image: Dane Mitchell Good Fortune Spell 2008, Enlightenment Spell 2008, Cleansing Spell 2008, Summoning the Dead/Ancients Spell 2008, Curse 2008, Positive Self Reflection Spell, 2008, Warding Spell, 2008. Glass and spoken word, dimensions variable

This week at Starkwhite

Our Starkwhite Group Show continues this week, closing Saturday 14 April.
Image: Dane Mitchell, The Visible Spectrum (2012), shredder, paper, acrylic

Old Genes review at Critics' Picks

This link take you to a review of Old Genes: Artists reading Len Lye at Artforum's Critics' Picks. Curated by Tyler Caan for the The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (he has since taken up a new curatorial position at IKON Gallery, Birmingham), the exhibition includes works by Phil Dadson and Dane Mitchell.

Image: Phil Dadson, Osmosis (of Len's universe) 2011, single channel video (still grab)

Dane Mitchell publication launch at Artspace

Co-published by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD & Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin), Artspace (Auckland) and designed by Tana Mitchell, RADIANT MATTER I/II/III will be launched tonight in Auckland by Dane Mitchell and Artspace.

RADIANT MATTER was a series of exhibition by Dane Mitchell presented at three public galleries across New Zealand, each exhibition operating in autonmous ways and yet sharing similar aesthetic, conceptual and material concerns. The publication brings together these three bodies of work, anchoring them in research begun while Mitchell was a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2009 and further explored in texts by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Chris Sharp, Aaron Kreisler, Dane Mitchell and foreward by Ariane Beyn.

Old Genes: Artists reading Len Lye

The exhibition Old Genes: Artists reading Len Lye presents the work of five contemporary artists, including Phil Dadson and Dane Mitchell, engaging with Lye's legacy and the role of language in his work. The exhibition opens tonight at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and runs to 26 February 2012.

Images: Phil Dadson, Osmosis (of Len's Universe), 2011, single channel video (still grab) and Dane Mitchell, Len Lye, 'Snow Birds' 2010, glass, spoken word

Prospect: New Zealand Art Now opens at the City Gallery Wellington

Dane Mitchell is amongst the artists in Prospect: New Zealand Art Now which opens today at the City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition has been curated by Kate Montgomery who has since taken up a new position at Creative New Zealand.

Image: Installation view of Dane Mitchell's Radiant Matter Part II (2011) at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Mitchell is represented in Prospect with works from this exhibition

Whitney Bedford with Dane Mitchell at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Dane Mitchell's RADIANT MATTER reviewed in ARTFORUM

The latest issue of ARTFORUM includes an Anthony Byrt review of Dane Mitchell's RADIANT MATTER, a series of three exhibitions presented at three public galleries across New Zealand.

Images: Dane Mitchell, Radiant Matter III. The Smell of An Empty Space (Liquid) 2011, Artspace, Auckland. Photo Sam Hartnett and courtesy of Artspace

Dane Mitchell in Afterlife at the Museum Tot Zover

Dane Mitchell is represented in Afterlife - art on the final destination at the Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam. The exhibition runs from 3 November 2011 to 1 July 2012. Read more...

Opening tonight at Starkwhite

The Dragon, The Purple Forbidden Enclosure by Dane Mitchell and in a forest by Ann Shelton from 5.30pm.

Dane Mitchell: The Dragon, The Purple Forbidden Enclosure

The Dragon, The Purple Forbidden Enclosure by Dane Mitchell runs at Starkwhite to 23 November with the exhibition launch scheduled for Tuesday 1 November. Read more...

Image: Dane Mitchell, The Dragon, The Purple Forbidden Enclosure (2011), installation view, Singapore Biennale

Dane Mitchell's RADIANT MATTER exhibitions reviewed in the latest issue of frieze

The latest issue of frieze includes a review of Dane Mitchell's RADIANT MATTER, a series of three exhibitions presented at three public galleries across New Zealand. This follows last week's launch of the publication RADIANT MATTER I/II/III in Berlin by the artist and the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD.

Images: frieze cover, issue 142 October 2011 and Dane Mitchell RADIANT MATTER PART 1 installation view, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2011

RADIANT MATTER publication launched in Berlin tonight

Co-published by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD & Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin), Artspace (Auckland) and designed by Tana Mitchell, RADIANT MATTER I/II/III will be launched tonight in Berlin by Dane Mitchell and the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD.

RADIANT MATTER was a series of exhibition by Dane Mitchell presented at three public galleries across New Zealand, each exhibition operating in autonmous ways and yet sharing similar aesthetic, conceptual and material concerns. The publication brings together these three bodies of work, anchoring them in research begun while Mitchell was a guest of the

Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2009 and further explored in texts by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Chris Sharp, Aaron Kreisler, Dane Mitchell and foreward by Ariane Beyn.

Violence, generosity, emptiness and the search for the sacred and ritualisitic at the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

Dane Mitchell is in the lineup of artists represented in the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana. Curated by Beti Zerovc, THE EVENT will explore the rise of the art event in recent decades, along with its distinguishing attributes and its role as a producer as well as presenter of art. The exhibition will be developed around four topics: violence, generosity, emptiness and the search for the scared and ritualistic. Read more...

The Matter of Air at Gertrude Contemporary

Running for over a decade, the annual Octopus exhibition series at Gertrude Contemporary offers a curator "the opportunity to explore key ideas in current curatorial practice, experimenting with their methodology and opening up new possibilities for the discipline."

The Matter of Air takes air as a starting point for broader examination of matter in its many physical, perceptual and symbolic guises. Featuring five artists from around the globe, including Dane Mitchell, the exhibition considers the transformation of artworks that traverse the threshold between the material and the immaterial.

Image: Dane Mitchell, Various Solid States, 2010-2011, installation view, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth