Andrew McNiven
BORN: 1963, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
External examiner, Doctoral Programme: Universitat Politècnica de València
Chair: WHALE Arts, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
Trustee: Stills, Edinburgh
EDUCATION
2006-2010: Ph.D.: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: (fine art, AHRC award, full-time)
Monkey Business: an artist’s action research into temporary gallery installation through formal & informal documentary practice.
1993-1995: M.A., Fine Art: University of London, Goldsmiths' College, (p/t).
1984-1987: B.A. Hons., Fine Art: University of London, Goldsmiths' College, (First Class).
1981-1982: Foundation Certificate in Art & Design: St. Martin's School of Art, London.
EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS:
One Person:
2024: P.Y.M.: Pictura, Dordrecht (as part of project ‘De Verplaatsing’)
2022: Black Sun, 222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2021: Found Estate Agents’ Images: The Artificial (online: https://the-artificial.org)
2020: Der verstehende Blick/The Understanding Gaze, Pierre Bourdieu/Andrew McNiven, White Box, Friedrichshafen
2018 50 Hz (Audio Described), public commission, University of Wolverhampton
2017: Das Umverteilen von Vermögenswerten durch Zerstäuben
(The Airborne Redistribution of Resources) Public commission, Stadtverkehr Friedrichshafen
2011: The Messiah, Gallery North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2011: Monkey Business, Zeppelin University, Germany *
2009: Monkey Business, Gallery North PS, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2002: Witten Apparatus, (CinemaScope), Witten Town Hall, Germany
1999: Possum's Fargo, Readysteadymade, Glasgow
1997: Hamburg from 987 kms., Philip Mecklenburg, Hamburg, Germany*.
1992: Remote Sensing, ACAVA Central Space/Riverside Studios, London.
1990: Artist of the Day, Flowers East, London. (Selected by Richard Wentworth)*
Group (Selected):
2024: Garage Imaginaries: University of Oxford
2024: De Verplaatisng (The Relocation): Pictura, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2024: The Third Festival of the Smallest: 222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2023: 197th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2021: CutLog: artists’ moving image, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2021: The Artist Was Present (Proxy Version), Collaboration with Peter Baren: 222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2020: Nieuwstraat Project, 222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2020: The Social Distancing Festival (online during C-19)
2019-2020: CutLog: artists’ moving image, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2019: TIDE: Dunbar Town House and Museum, Dunbar
2019: The First Night of Experimental Boredom: 222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2018: TPSGF (The Parallel Show Grand Finale), NP3, Groningen; Greylight Projects, Brussels
2018: Visual Images by Verbal Means: Kunsthal Rotterdam
2018: Seeing Sound: Bath Spa University
2017: Denial as the Leading Principle, The Movies/222Lodge, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2017: Unnoticed Art: Platforms Project, Documenta 14, Athens, Greece
2016: Unnoticed Art: Utrecht, Netherlands
2016: Doctoring the Evidence: Haags Bakkie?: Willem de Kooning & Piet Zwart Institute. The Hague
2016: Inside Job: The Director’s Cut: Locatie Z, The Hague (with Yvo van der Vat & Ibrahim R. Ineke)
2016: TheParallelShow: London: Tate Britain; Rotterdam: Art Rotterdam (with Frans van Lent)*
2015: Unnoticed Art, La Biennale de Venezia/Witte de With, Rotterdam*
2015: Doctoring the Evidence, Square Yard Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (touring)*
2015: The Concept Bank, Wolfart Projectspaces, Rotterdam
2015: Baracca, London. (with Yvo van der Vat & Ibrahim R. Ineke)*
2014+: www.theconceptbank.org (ongoing)
2014: Unnoticed Art: Haarlem, & Pictura, Dordrecht (NL), Zeppelin Universität (D)*
2012: DIY 9: the1882 Walsall Anarchist Bomb Plot, The New Gallery, Walsall
2009: Packing for the Crash, Gallery North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne*
2008: The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2000: Bleibe, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin.*
1996: Ferne im Innern, Town Hall, Witten, Germany, & Neue Gallerie, Dachau, Germany.*
1996: 50x50x50, BANK, London.*
1994: Convento da Arrabida, Lisbon, Portugal. (Cultural Capital of Europe)*
1994: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.*
1993: 2 out of 4, Centre 181 Gallery, London.
1993: Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London.
1992: A Simple Twist of Fate, Riverside Studios, London.
1985: New Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
(*Denotes accompanying publication)
Curatorial Projects (selected):
2016: Joe Carcary/Pandora Vaughan: Courtyard, Hereford
2015: Made in Knucklas: Courtyard, Hereford & touring
2015: no is e screenprint: contemporary underground graphics from the Netherlands:
Courtyard, Hereford
2013: Lois Hopwood: It’s in the Trees, It’s Coming..., Courtyard, Hereford
2013: The A49 Limes: Courtyard, Hereford
CONFERENCE PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS/LECTURES:
2017: 'Who Pays?', Kunstmusuem Liechtenstein
2016: From Social Sculpture to Art-related Action, symposium, Zeppelin Universität
2016: Doctoring the Evidence #2, Haags Bakkie?, Willem de Kooning Akadeimie & Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam & The Hague
2015: Biennale Culture in Context: Venice/Istanbul. Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen
2015: Doctoring the Evidence (with Dr Jolande Bosch, Willem de Kooning Akademie), Northumbria University.
2014: On Documentation: Dürer’s Rhinoceros, Break-dancing, and the Value of an Unreliable Narrator
Public Lecture: Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2013: Goya’s Etchings: Invention and Truth, Public Lecture, Meisterwerks series, Zeppelin Universität
2012: Discursive Sensuality: The Museum and a New Politics of Objects
(with Professor Dr Karen van den Berg, Zeppelin Universität)
Association of Art Historians, Conference 2012, ‘Critical Museum’ panel.
2012: The Eye Sees What the Ear Hears: dissonance between looking at and listening to objects and spaces.
DURATION/AV12/ University of Newcastle.
2011: Collateral effects: ‘a man I met on the internet’, AHRC New Media & Academia Conference
Universities of Manchester, Central Lancashire, Newcastle, Northumbria and Nottingham:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2009: Son et Lumière: National Museum of Wales/Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
The Go Between: methodologies and taxonomies between museums, galleries, creative practice and learning'
PUBLICATIONS/OTHER (not exhibition-related)
2017: The ParallelShow (chapter in book), Jap Sam Books, Heijningen. Ed. Frans van Lent
2014: Unnoticed Art: Soundworks: (chapter in book), RAD, Dordrecht. Ed. Frans van Lent
2011: The UK Soundmap, British Library, London: http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/UK-Soundmap
2010: Politik des Zeigens (The Politics of Display) Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn
Cover photography by Andrew McNiven, Ed. Karen van de Berg.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Peer reviewed)
2014: The Eye Sees What the Ear Hears: dissonance between looking at and listening to objects and spaces
engage: the international journal of visual art and gallery education, no. 34, spring 2014:
Experiencing Gallery Architecture: http://tinyurl.com/kkkdeq5 (Original link behind paywall.)
2011: Reflected or Deflected: photography, sound and the processes of display.
portfolio: emerging research in visual culture. Vol. 1, issue 1, Winter 2011.
http://tinyurl.com/pgst9ay (Original link no longer active.)
AWARDS
2024: VACMA Award: Creative Scotland/East Lothian Council Arts Service
2024: Creative Scotland
2022: VACMA Award: Creative Scotland/East Lothian Council Arts Service
2022: Creative Scotland
2018: Kerr-Fry Award: University of Edinburgh
2018: New Art West Midlands Bursary
2015: Teaching Award: Zeppelin Universität
2009: Travel Award: Arts & Humanities Research Council
2007: Kerr-Fry Research Award: University of Edinburgh
2006: Doctoral Award: Arts & Humanities Research Council
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