REVITAL COHEN & TUUR VAN BALEN

1981 Revital Cohen: born in Jerusalem, Israel Tuur Van Balen: born in Leuven, Belgium

2008 MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 Mass, Pearl Lam Galleries SOHO, Hong Kong, China 2015 assemble | standard | minimal, Berlin, Germany Frames (performance), Sadler’s Wells, London, UK The Quiet, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK 2012 Butterflies Flying in Formation, Radar, LU Arts, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK 2011 The Unnatural Animal, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium The Immortal, AND Festival, Liverpool, UK 2010 Further Instructions, The Arts Catalyst, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Deep Inside, International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia The New, Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany Our Work, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden Human Possibility, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany 2015 Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Beastly/Tierisch, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland Time & Motion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Earth Machines, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA INFRA_SPECTION: Staying with the Trouble, SPACE, The White Building, London, UK 20/20 Vision, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2014 Hypothèse de l'impact géant (Hypothesis of a giant impact), Le Carreau, Cergy, France An Opera of Labour and Revolution, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey Open Space, Intercommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan Thingworld—International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China The Progress Trap, The New Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Labour of the Day, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Urban Choreography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2013 Transformism: Melanie Jackson & Revital Cohen, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Dear Diary: Update All, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Bunny Smash, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Transitio_MX, Electronic Arts and Video Festival, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico Radical Fictions, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil SA2013, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia Future Perfect, Electricity Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Artefact, STUK, Leuven, Belgium 2012 Speculative Realities, Roodkapje Rotterdam, the Netherlands

   

Superhuman, Wellcome Collection, London, UK 2011 What If?, National Museum of China, Beijing, China Talk to Me, MoMA, New York, New York, USA

Public Collections

MoMA, New York, New York, USA M+, Hong Kong, China Royal College of Art, London, UK KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Science Museum, London, UK

Residencies 2016 Container Artist Residency 01, New York, New York, USA 2015 Pangaea Sculptors Centre, London, UK SPACE, The White Building, London, UK 2014 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, USA 2011 Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium

Selected Grants and Awards

2016 Artist Development Grant, Agency for Arts Flanders, Belgium International Development Fund, British Council & Arts Council England, UK 2014 JMO, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK 2013 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, UK RGB Experimental Prize, Tokyo TDC Awards, Tokyo, Japan 2012 Wellcome Trust Arts Award, London, UK First prize, VIDA 14.0 Art and Artificial Life, Madrid, Spain 2010 Award of Distinction, Hybrid Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2009 Science Museum Emerging Artist Commission, London, UK

Selected Talks

2016 Are We Human?, Architectural Association, London, UK 2015 Congo International Film Festival, Goma, DR Congo MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Basic Motion Elements, ICA, London, UK Made to Measure, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany 2014 The Alchemical Paradigm, TBA21 Seminar, Lopud, Croatia Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2013 Current Values, TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Gravity Lecture Series, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Working Title Platform, Brussels, Belgium Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany The Bartlett, London, UK Real Fiction, Die Angewandte, Vienna, Austria 2012 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan Red Tape, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2011 Talk to Me, MoMA, New York, New York, USA Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 2009 Eye of the Storm, Tate Britain, London, UK

   

Selected Bibliography

2016 “Take A Good Lamp”, artist text, Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, NC, USA 2015 Scrimgeour, Alexander, “Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen” Review, Artforum, Summer 2015, New York, USA “Mine”, artist text, Rare Earth catalogue, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany Moss, Ceci, Earth Machines, Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, USA Forbes, Duncan, “If A Lion Could Photograph”, Beastly/Tierisch catalogue, Spektor Books, Leipzig, Germany Forbes, Duncan, “Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen”, 20/20 Visions catalogue, Christophe Guye Galerie, Sturm & Drang, Zurich, Switzerland Berentsen, Mirthe Maria, “Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen” Review, Modern Painters, June 2015, New York, USA Scheller, Jörg, “Think Tank”, Frieze d/e, Issue 19, Berlin, Germany Jeppesen, Travis, “Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen” Critics Pick, Artforum, May 2015 (web) Feigelfeld, Paul, “Media Archeology out of Nature”, e-flux Journal 62, New York, USA Goldberg, Keren, “The Invisible Aesthetics of Perception”, FACT, Liverpool, UK 2014 Parikka, Jussi, “21st Century Theory—A New Yesterday”, Spike Art Quarterly No.41, Berlin, Germany / Vienna, Austria Hertz, Betti-Sue, “Rapid Flux”, Dissident Futures catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Vis, Dirk, “Ik wil een nieuw ding”, De Gids, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Schwendener, Martha, “From Private Repository to Public Forum”, A Review of Dear Diary: Update All, New York Times, February 2014, New York, USA 2013 Harbison, Isobel, “Techne & Poesis”, Transformism catalogue, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK Dunne, Anthony, Speculative Everything, MIT Press, Boston, USA Aue, Stefan (ed.), ArteFakte. Wissen ist Kunst - Kunst ist Wissen (Artifacts. Art Is Knowledge—Knowledge Is Art), BBAW, Berlin, Germany Hasegawa, Yuko, Bunny Smash catalogue, Film Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan