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| Ben Cain | |
| Education | |
| 01.09.98 - 15.08.00 | MA, Jan van Eyck Akademie |
| 09.09.94 - 20.07.97 | BA, Interactive arts. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Inc. research on Arts Education in UK |
| 10.01.96 - 01.05.96 | Fine Art Barcelona School of Art, Spain |
| 09.09.94 - 10.02.95 | Fine Art Cardiff Institute of Art and Design, Wales |
| Selected Exhibitions | |
| 09.2007 | Zoo Art Fair. London |
| 08.2007 | ‘No End to the Era’. Associates gallery, London |
| 08.2007 | ‘Every Time You Turn Your Back’. Bukovac Gallery, Cavtat, Croatia |
| 05.2007 | ‘Late 40’s, Early Teens’. For ‘Ground Lost’ at Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 04.2007 | ‘The Visit’. Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 04.2007 | ‘Tell Them Something’. Architects Association, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 03.2007 | ‘Oval Areas’. University of Philadelphia, USA. 01.2007 ‘Ground Lost’. Forum Stdatparc, Graz, Austria. |
| 09.2006 | ‘Here and Now, Present but not Concrete’. Installation The museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 06.2006 | ‘Monuments for Nikola Tesla’. Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia. |
| 05.2006 | ‘Spy’s and Subjects’. Installation at Notice Gallery, London. |
| 05.2006 | ‘This is What its Like’. Installation for exhibition ‘Fordham at Netwerk’, Netwerk gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 03.2006 | ‘Score for Complex Scene’. Installation. PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 12.2005 | Untitled. Video / sound installation for ‘C B’. Museum of Modern Art, Maribor, Slovenia |
| 11.2005 | ‘Ok, Picture the Scene’. Video/audio installation. Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 10.2005 | Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Screening of video work |
| 10.2005 | Radio broadcast of recent sound works. Resonance FM, London (Interview with Bob and Roberta Smith) |
| 09.2005 | ‘On Watching and Recording’. Video Installation. For ‘Insert’; Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb |
| 09.2005 | ‘Psychometrics’. Sound/Video installation. Gallery SC, Zagreb |
| 09.2005 | ‘All quiet on this side’. Photograph produced for Video workshop in Baranje, Croatia |
| 09.2005 | ‘Vidimo’. Installation inc. Printed Matter, Video, Basketball court. For ‘Pustjerna’, Dubrovnik |
| 08.2005 | ‘Recordings’. Video installation produced for Video workshop in Momjan, Istria, Croatia. |
| 06.2005 | ‘We See’. Installation inc. poster and vinyl record. For ‘Trunk Show’. The Woman’s Library. London. |
| 05.2005 | Public Art Commission from Zagreb Museum of Modern Art. (sound work produced on 7” vinyl records) |
| 12.2004 | Untitled. Video installation. For ‘Ordinacija’, SC gallery, Zagreb |
| 09.2004 | Da ili Ne. Video installation inc. Framed photograph, spoken text, wall drawing. Shown in Cetinje, Dubrovnik, Mostar |
| 06.2004 | Untitled. Installation for 'Pilot' project. Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, HR |
| 06.2004 | ‘You Saw Nothing’. Installation for exhibition 'Relay', San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| 03.2004 | 'what to see, what to do, where to go'. 'Imagine Limerick', ev+a 2004, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland |
| 02.2004 | 'Third Part'. Stage, actors, script, video, still images. Gliptoteka, zagreb, HR |
| 12.2003 | 'Taking Pictures and Making Scenes'. 12 page contribution to publication 'Fantom Slobode' (pub. Zagreb, Croatia) |
10.2003 |
Untitled. Installation (spoken text, spot light, glass), Palace Milesi, Split, HR |
| 09.2003 | ‘Sirovina, Two Tina’s'. Video installation. Gallery Nova, Zagreb. |
| 08.2003 | Screening of '’They Always Write the Place Names in Two Languages'. Video festival, Momjan, Istria, and Gallery Nova, Zagreb (14.10.2003). HR. ‘They Always Write Place Names in Two Languages’ Also screened at 3rd International Kansk Video Festival, Russia; and at Millenium Film Workshop, NY |
| 07.2003 | 'It Started as a Fiction'. Video installation. 60 min b/w video, wall drawing. Poster (ed. 500), Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik, HR |
| 05.2003 | '80 Years Ago', characters, digital prints, photographs, works of Malevich, Rodchenko, Itten, Gabo. Annely Juda Gallery, UK. |
| 03.2003 | 'Whiteboard Stages', poster / leaflet on issues related to associations between art and business. Funded by English Arts Council, UK |
| 02.2003 | 'If Fiction Was', writing, characters, mirrors. Glass Box Gallery, Manchester, UK |
| 07.2002 | 'Studio Lighting (TV drama)', text, actor, theatre lights. Mediator (temp. space), Dubrovnik, HR |
| 04.2002 | 'Event- Writing', furniture, performance, Fordham Gallery, Whitechapel, London |
| 03.2002 | 'Posters...' installation for book launch.Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL |
| 02.2002 | Bookwork artists book / catalogue pub. GAK, Bremen, Germany |
| 09.2001 | 'Directions for Performers', Project Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| 08.2001 | 'Discussion Room and Presentation Room’ for public art proposal. Belgrade Cultural Centre. Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| 12.2000 | ‘What Does a Waitress do’. Actor, musician, text. With Tina gverovic. Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. |
| 08.2000 | ‘During / in Summer Nights’, seating and posters in ‘Pleasure Garden’, Tilburg, NL. |
| 07.2000 | ‘Lectures on Lectures’. Presentation inc. sound, drawing, portacabin, Hallefurkunst, Lunaberg, Germany |
| 04.2000 | ‘What Happens When Nothing no Longer Happens’. Music, furniture, posters, kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany. |
| 03.2000 | ‘Tale of Two Cities’. Actors, records, books. Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, NL |
| 02.2000 | ‘Recording Stage in’. Stage, collections of music, events. With Jeanne van Heeswijk / Henry Moore Institute. Leeds, UK. |
| 11.1999 | ‘Between Two Ends’. TV, microphones, receptionist, stages, soap opera.34th Zagreb salon, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 10.1999 | Untitled. Bread, seating, drawing curated by Gert Robijns / Franzisca Lesak. N.I.C.C. , Antwerp, Belgium |
| 07.1999 | ‘After the Riot’. Chess club and office of ‘Direct Services’. Centrum Beeledende Kunst, Maastricht, NL |
| 06.1999 | ‘No Mystery at all in Fact’. Command ‘N’ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 04.1999 | Untitled. Huis van Bourgondie, theatre, Maastricht, NL |
| 02.1999 | Untitled. screening of 3min animation. Video festival. Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, NL |
| 07.1997 | Untitled. Architectural model. ‘Transmission’ Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 05.1997 | ‘20/20’, Kingsgate Gallery, London and touring, UK |
| Dates in bold indicate Solo Shows | |
All images included on this site are copyright © the Artist / Man Somerlinck 2007 |