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Cathy Wilkes
Artist's Name: Cathy Wilkes
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1967
Nationality: IE
City: Glasgow

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Cathy Wilkes makes fragmentary but meticulously composed and poetic installations with sculptures, found objects and materials, which she picks up in a great variety of places. Although they are essentially abstract, Wilkes' creations make a surprisingly narrative impression on the spectator. The explanation for this is the highly poetic principles on which Wilkes works when compiling her installations: she invariably acts on the basis of her intimate personal memories, which she then 'dehumanises' by means of a painstaking, detached yet hyper-personal choice of materials. The objects are hereby transformed into purely mechanical depictions of her thoughts. On the other hand the narrative and accessible aspect of her installations lies in their sometimes explicit references to human or animal figuration. By clever assemblages of a variety of materials that form a more or less anthropomorphic whole - which is often emphasised even more by paintings (usually figurative) close to the installation - the artist succeeds in making these mechanical representations of thoughts appear strikingly personal. In terms of form, Wilkes' installations frequently refer to a number of significant precedents in art history. (SMAK Gent)

important exhibitions from Cathy Wilkes

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Cathy Wilkes I Give You All My Money Renaissance Society Chicago US 19.01.2012
Cathy Wilkes Carnegie Museum of Art - CMA Pittsburg US 12.11.2011
Cathy Wilkes Aspen Art Museum Aspen US 20.05.2011
Cathy Wilkes Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAK Bremen DE 25.11.2011
Cathy Wilkes Kunstverein München München DE 16.04.2011
51. Biennale Venedig 2005 "The Experience of Art" Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 12.06.2005
4. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst 2006 Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin DE 25.03.2006
Abstract Resistance Galerie Jürgen Georg Wolfstädter Frankfurt DE 01.06.2010
Turner Prize 2008 - shortlist Tate Britain London GB 30.09.2008
Manifesta 7 Trentino - Alto Adige / Südtirol 2008 Manifesta Trentino Bozen IT 19.07.2008

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Galleries representing
Cathy Wilkes:

Galleria Raucci/Santamaria
Giti Nourbakhsch
The Modern Institute

Collections representing
Cathy Wilkes

Fondazione Morra Greco
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
National Galleries of Scotland
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)