Cally Spooner
b. in 1983, Ascot, United Kingdom
lives and works in Turin, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Deadtime, an anatomy study”, curated by Sarah Herda and Hendrik Folkerts, Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA
2023
“Dancing Still Life on a Single Breath “, curated by Mara Anjoli Vujić, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, SLO
“Duration”, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK
2022
“Two Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy-Four Seconds Wide”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2021
“Solo presentation”, gb agency, Paris, FR
2020
“DEAD TIME”, Parrhesiades, London, UK
2019
“DEAD TIME”, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2018
“SWEAT SHAME ETC.”, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
“Everything Might Spill”, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT
“DRAG DRAG SOLO”, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, CH
“DEAD TIME”, ZERO.., Milan, IT
2017
“Soundtrack For A Troubled Time and Notes On Humiliation”, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2016
“On False Tears and Outsourcing”, New Museum, New York, USA
“And you were wonderful, on stage”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
“He wins every time, on time and under budget”, gb agency, Paris, FR
“Bookclub 2.0”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2015
“On False Tears and Outsourcing”, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
“POST PRODUCTION”, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
“THE ANTI-CLIMAX CLIMAX”, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
“About a Work #2”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2014
“The Overall OOOOH”, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover, DE
“Regardless, it’s still her voice”, gb agency, Paris, FR
2013
“Carol, I think my place in history is assured”, MOTInternational, Brussels, BE
2012
“Collapsing in Parts”, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
“Seven Thirty Till Nine”, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
2011
“It’s 1957, and the press release still isn’t written”, Hermes und der Pfau, Hamburg, DE
2010
“At Five to Ten”, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
LIVE (SOLO)
2022
“On Stagnation” Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2019
“OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK”, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2018
“Failed British Silver”, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, FR
“OFFSHORE IN KINGSTON”, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, JM
2017
“OFFSHORE IN BELGIUM”, Playground Festival, Museum M, Leuven, BE
“OFFSHORE IN BILBAO”, Bulegoa, Bilbao, ES
“United in Stomach Flu”, London Weeps, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
“On False Tears and Outsourcing” (musicians in Iceland audition to become a manufactured band), Sequences Festival, live casting, Mengi, Reykjavik, IS
2016
“On False Tears and Outsourcing (musicians respond to emails and manufacture a pop song, just in time, daily)”, curated by Charles Aubin, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
2014
“And you were wonderful, on stage”, Tate Britain, London, UK
“He’s In A Great Place!”, BMW Live Performance Room commission, Tate Modern, London, UK
“Baby I got better things to be doing with my time”, Frieze Film, London, UK
“IT’S ABOUT YOU”, The High Line, public art commission, New York, USA
2013
“And you were wonderful, on stage”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
“And you were wonderful, on stage”, Performa 13, The National Academy Museum, New York, USA
2012
“A Six Stage Manifesto On Action”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
“AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS, Works from the Enea Righi Collection”, curated by Bart van der Heide, Frida Carazzato, Brita Köhler e Leonie Radine, in collaboration with Lorenzo Paini, MUSEION, Bolzano, IT
2023
“The Cargo Cult and other certainties”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2022
“La Pista 500, a new outdoor art project”, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, IT
2021
“The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance”, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Jadine Collingwood, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
“F is For Frank”, curated by Courtenay Finn, MOCA, Cleveland, USA
2020
“All Criteria This Position Any Moment”, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc with Victor Burgin and Cally Spooner in reference with Yannis Tsarouchis, Haus N, Athens, EL
“Parrhesiades Vol 1”, with Quinn Latimer and Jesper List Thomsen, Radio Athens, Athens, EL
“Lifetime”, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
“The Full Moon Sleeps at Night”, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, FR
“AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand”, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo, Bologna, IT
2019
“Dall’argilla all’algoritmo, Arte e tecnologia”, works from the Castello di Rivoli collection, Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, IT
“A Talk In Three Parts With Painting”, curated by Elodie Evers, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
“Beyond Performance”, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
“Geste”, CNEAI, Paris, FR
“Speculative Possibilities”, curated by Sepake Angiama, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallin, EE
“IMMATERIAL”, curated by Michelangelo Miccolis, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, USA
“Collection as an Automaton”, The American College of Greece, Athens, EL
“Survivre ne suffit pas”, Frac Franche-Comté, Besancon, FR
2018
“Strange Days—Memories of the Future”, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Strand, London, UK
“General Rehearsal”, curated by Francesco Manacorda, V- A-C / Kadist / MMOMA, Moscow, RU
“FRONT”, Cleveland Triennial, Cleveland, USA
“Stagings, Soundings, Readings—Free Jazz II”, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore, SG
“Scripts”, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
“Performance TV”, curated by Mathilde Roman, MABA, Nogent-sur-Marne, FR
“Making Oddkin – for joy, for trouble, for volcano love”, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Nisyros, EL
2017
“Speak”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
“Action!”, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, CH
“Better Self”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
“The Critic as Artist”, curated by Michael Bracewell and Andrew Hunt, Reading International, Reading, UK
“The Forecast”, curated by Laura McLean-Ferris, Croy Nielsen, Wien, AT
“A Rehearsal for What?”, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, USA
“Parcours”, Art Basel, Basel, CH
“IMMATERIAL”, curated by Michelangelo Miccolis, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
“On The Wall In Chalk Is Written”, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, DE
“From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken”, Centre for Contemporary Art Geneva, Geneva, CH
“On Affection”, Cally Spooner and Bruce Nauman, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, ES
“The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2016
“Biennale of Moving Image”, Centre for Contemporary Art Geneva, Geneva, CH
“British Art Show 8”, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, GB-SCT
“Joining Forces with the Unknown”, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
“And she will say: hi her, ailleurs, to higher grounds…”, curated by Laure Prouvost, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, CH
“Middle Grays”, Color Bars, and the comma in between, curated by Public Fiction, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA
“Susy Culinski & Friends”, curated by Beatriz Marchi, Fanta Spazio, Milan, IT
Art Basel Film, Art Basel, Basel, CH
“Time-Lines”, Independent Régence, Brussels, BE
“Alfred Jarry Archipelago”, La Ferme du Buisson, Centre for Contemporary Art, Noisiel, FR
“Night Transmissions: Electronic Intimacies”, curated by Margot Norton, aired Icelandic National Television, IS
2015
“A Fragile But Marvelous Life”, curated by Courtenay Finn, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
“Hotel Theory”, curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage”, curated by Grantchester Pottery, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK
“British Art Show 8”, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
“Till the Stars Turn Cold”, curated by Laura Mclean Ferris and Kyla McDonald, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, GB-SCT
“The boys the girls and the political”, curated by Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2014
“La Voix Humaine”, curated by Saim Demircan, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, DE
“Significant Others (I am small, it’s the pictures that got big)”, High Art, Paris, FR
“Frieze Film”, curated by Nicola Lees, Frieze Projects, London, UK
“Frieze Sounds”, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Frieze Projects, New York, USA
“The Preparation of the Novel”, Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contermporain de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
“Pool”, Kestnergesellschaft Museum Hannover, Hannover, DE
“Till the Stars Turn Cold”, S1 Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
“The Influence of Furniture on Love”, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, UK
“Till youth and genial years are flown”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2013
“Performa 13”, The National Academy, New York, USA
“POST show”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Relaunch, KW Institute, Berlin, DE
“A Spoken Word Exhibition”, curated by Mathieu Copeland, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
“Provisional Information”, Camberwell Space, London, UK
2012
“Memory Marathon”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
“And Yet There They Still Are”, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen, LUX, London, UK
“I Proclaim You Proclaim We Proclaim”, curated by Capucine Perrot Stroom, The Hague, NL
“In the Belly of the Whale (Act II)”, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2011
“Outrageous Fortune”, curated by Andrew Hunt, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
“Summer Fair”, with Am Nuden Da, Outpost, Norwich, UK
“The Department of Wrong Answers”, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
“Summer Show”, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
2010
“Une Exposition (du) Sensible”, Synagogue de Delme, Delme, FR
“Perform A Lecture!”, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Dieter Roelstraete, The Office, Berlin, DE
“Session_10_Untitled + Words”, curated by Am Nuden Da, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, DK
“With Words Like Smoke”, Chelsea Space and Resonance FM, London, UK
“Cally Spooner + Seth Pick”, MOT International, London, UK
2009
“Session_7_Words”, Am Nuden Da, London, UK
“Session_6_Lecture”, Am Nuden Da, London, UK
2008
“Two Lectures”, Neue Alte Brücke Gallery, Frankfurt, DE
