Ruth Buchanan
b. 1980, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (Pakehā/Te Ati Awa/Taranaki)
Lives and works in Berlin
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Ruth Buchanan gained her BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2002; her MA (Fine Art) from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, in 2007; and from 2008-2009 she was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
News
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Recent Solo Exhibitions
- Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history – Future, Kunstmuseum, Basel (2022)
- Uneven Bodies; international symposium, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (2020)
- A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear), The New Commissioners in collaboration with Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladback (2019)
- The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (2019)
- My I,I,I be broke, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2019)
- Dead Marble, Artspeak, Vancouver (2018)
- BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS; in The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, (2018)
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Group Exhibitions
- The Polyphonic Sea Bundanon, Nowra (2023)
- Walls to Live Beside, Rooms To Own, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022.
- Celebration? Real Life, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
- Transition Exhibition, Brucke Museum, Berlin (2021)
- Feminist histories: artists after 2000, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2019)
- Lexicon of Infinite Movement, Kröller Möller Museum, Otterlo (2019)
- Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2018)
- TOUCH, ngbk, Berlin (2018)
- Tilt, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- Can Tame Anything, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- Moment I: EVER, Shimmer, Rotterdam (2018)
- ITS INTERIOR / AND A FACADE. On the Architecture of Badischer Kunstverein , Architekturschaufenster e.V., Karlsruhe (2018)
- Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL (2017)
- Rest in the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2017)
- Through the things we make, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE (2017)
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
Cut Ups, 2019
hand latch-hooked rug
1250 x 1050mm
Ruth Buchanan
Feminist histories: artists after 2000, 2019
installation detail: Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Readings
- Clementine Deliss, PURPLE RAIN on "Heute Nacht getrāumt. An exhibition by Ruth Buchanan, (Review), Contemporary HUM, June 2022.
- Alex Greenberger, Artist Ruth Buchanan on How She Made Basel’s Biggest Museum Come ‘Totally Alive’, (Response) Art News, June 2022.
- Christina Barton, Mother Lode; On the Phenomenon of the 'Older Women Artists', (Response), ArtNow, October 2021
- Lucinda Bennet, Review: The Friction in the Collection / Or, Ruth Buchanan Rubs up Against Govett-Brewster, (Review), 2020
- Tara McDowell, The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, (Review), Art-Agenda, January 2020
- Tim Riley Walsh, Ruth Buchanan; Where does my body belong, (Review) 2018
- Jan Verwoert, In Focus; Ruth Buchanan. Meaning, Memory and Mockery, (Response), Frieze, 1 January 2013
- Anthony Byrt, Ruth Buchanan; Hopkinson Cundy, (Review), Artforum, May 2013
- Martin Herbert, Ruth Buchanan; Put a Curve, an Arch Right Through It, (Review), ArtReview, December 2012
Ruth Buchanan
Columns, Curtains, Columns, 2018
hand latch-hooked rug,
custom perforated steel frame
870 x 680mm
Publications
- Where does my body belong? Form institutional critique to infrastructural transformation, BEACON, CA (artist book) (year)
- Uneven Bodies (reader), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, 2021 (co-ed.)
- Evacuation Tapes, online publication, self-published, 2020 (ed.)
- Bad Visual Systems, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2017 (cat.)
- A-Z Die Sammlung Marzona, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, DE, 2017 (cat.)
Ruth Buchanan
The actual and its document, 2016
installation view: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth