The Landis Museum
The Landis Museum is a museum of encounter. It is based on the methodology of Mark Landis, a man who – in late 2010 – became the subject of a number of international newspaper articles that characterised him as an art-world fraud; a forger who’d been fooling museums with fake paintings and drawings for the best part of twenty-five years. But such a characterisation is only one aspect of what was at play in Landis’ activities, and it may obscure what makes his work useful and interesting. For Landis, the motivation appeared to be as much about the interaction with the institution as his work’s inclusion in museum collections. The Landis Museum is a site for exploring the legacies of – or traces left by – moments of encounter, or generating central points through which new moments of encounter can be enacted.
The museum is displayed in a sculptural structure, designed specifically to house the objects, texts and videos. It brings together seven international artists, gathered because they share something in their mode of operation, their starting points, or the manner in which they seek to be read.
Devised by James N. Hutchinson, The Landis Museum was initially shown at Chapter Thirteen as part of Glasgow International, 2018. CCA is presenting a new iteration of the project, adding a local annex to the museum.
The local annex consists of a series of one-day residencies that respond to the travelling exhibition. The residencies are choreographed encounters between the existing works and four Northern Irish artists. The artists in residence are invited to use the gallery as their studio, and to stage a ‘public moment’ that may be, for instance, a lecture, performance, meal, or workshop.
Bianca Baldi
(1985, South Africa. Based in Brussels)
Bianca’s solo exhibitions include Eyes in the Back of Your Head, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg); Pure Breaths, Swimming Pool Projects (Sofia) and Zero Latitude, Goethe Institut (Johannesburg). She has participated in Afrotopia: 11 th African Biennial of Photography (Bamako); 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art (Shanghai); The 8th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); 19th Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil, SESC Pompeia (São Paolo); Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt am Main); Slow Works, Sydney (Sydney); The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal (Antwerp); Poltroneria: Eating Out, with Ani Schulze, Roberta (Frankfurt am Main); Open House, Kunstverein Braunschweig; New Frankfurt Internationals, Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt am Main); and Sightings, KZNSA (Durban).
Irina Gheorghe
(1981, Romania. Based in Berlin and Dublin)
Irina’s performances include Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Foreign Language for Beginners, Research Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, rhiz (Vienna), Atelier 35 (Bucharest) and tete (Berlin); and The Way to Go, eXplore dance Festival, WASP (Bucharest). She has participated in group shows such as Heroism Rises in a Warehouse, Salonul de Proiecte (Bucharest); The Heart Is Deceitful Above all Things, (HOME Manchester); and Parasite and Mimicry, (CAC Vilnius). She also works as part of the artist duo, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research. BMR’s solo shows include Alien Passions, Skolska 28 (Prague); End Pit, DEPO (Istanbul); and The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Galeria Posibilă (Bucharest).
James N. Hutchinson
(1976, UK. Based in Glasgow)
James’ recent projects include Rumours of a New Planet, Collective Gallery (Edinburgh); Archive, Transmission Gallery (Glasgow) and Proposal for a Warehouse or Towards a Museum of Reorganisation, part of How to Turn the World by Hand, Collective Gallery (Edinburgh) and PiST (Istanbul). He was co-founder and co-director of The Salford Restoration Office. SRO made solo exhibitions with Jeremy Deller (Cornerhouse, Manchester), Dan Shipsides (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester) and Artur Zmijewski (Cornerhouse, Manchester and Tramway, Glasgow) and research projects including Centrifuge and The Whitworth Cabinet. He co-curated Jeremy Deller’s exhibition All That is Solid Melts into Air for Hayward Touring, London. He is a founding member of Chapter Thirteen.
Alex Impey
(1981, UK. Based in Glasgow)
Alex has held solo shows at Collective Gallery (Edinburgh), David Dale Gallery (Glasgow), Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and sic! Raum für Kunst (Lucerne, Switzerland). He has participated in group and two-person exhibitions at Transmission Gallery (Glasgow) and Kyenam Community Museum (South Korea), and will be exhibiting at the Hunterian Museum in winter 2018.
Kapwani Kiwanga
(1978, Canada. Based in Paris)
Kapwani’s solo shows include Linear, Galerie Tanja Wagner (Berlin); A wall is just a wall, Power Plant (Toronto); Afrogalactica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin); The Sun Never Sets, Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg); Kinjeketile Suite, South London Gallery (London); Flowers for Africa, Or Gallery (Vancouver); Continental Shift, Galerie Jerome Poggi (Paris) and Rumours tha Maji was a lie, Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen). She has also participated in Memories of the Future, Tate Liverpool; Momentum, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sweden; House of Commons, Portikus (Frankfurt am Main); Stories for Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); Horses on Rollerblades, Konsthall C (Hökarängen); Uriel Orlow: Mafavuke’s Trial and Other Plant Stories, The Showroom (London); Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International Biennale (Limerick); Botany under the Influence, ApexArt (New York) and A Century of Centuries, SALT Galata (Istanbul).
Nina Liebenberg
(1981, South Africa. Based in Cape Town)
Nina’s recent exhibitions and curations include Air: Inspiration-Expiration, Standard Bank Gallery (Johnannesburg); About Empty Spaces, Klein Karoo International Arts Festival (Oudtshoorn); Bona fides, Jan Royce Gallery (Cape Town); Death Speaks, Spin Street Gallery (Cape Town); Scintilla: an alchemy show, Commune 1 (Cape Town); Do It, Michaelis Gallery (Cape Town); Where the Wild Things Are, Michaelis Gallery (Cape Town); Post-Colonial Africa, Klein Karoo International Arts Festival (Oudtshoorn); Suspicious Mind: Artists’ Exploration of Mind and Matter, Iziko National Gallery Annexe (Cape Town) and Entre-vues, Camac Art Centre (Marnay-sur- seine).
Sarah Pierce
(1968, USA. Based in Dublin)
Sarah’s solo shows include No Title, CCA Derry~Londonderry; Pathos of Distance, National Gallery of Ireland (Belfast); Lost Illusions, Galerie SBC (Montreal), Mercer Union (Toronto) and Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff); The Artist Talks, The Showroom (London); and Meaning of Greatness Project (Dublin). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at galleries and museums such as Rua Red (Tallaght), CCS Bard Hessel Museum (Annandale-on- Hudson, New York), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), IMMA (Dublin), Biennale de Lyon, Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh); K21+20 (Düsseldorf); MUMOK (Vienna), MuHKA (Antwerp). She represented Ireland at the 51 st Venice Biennale.
Alexandra Sukhareva
(1983, Russia. Based in Moscow and Dubna)
Alexandra has participated in exhibitions such as dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel); Manifesta10 (St.Petersburg); 1 st Triennial of Russian Art, Garage Museum (Moscow); Omnipotence, Marso Gallery (Mexico City), Fusiform Gyrus, Lisson Gallery (London), The Rose has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, A Palazzo (Brescia); Human Commonalities, Vadim Sidur Museum (Moscow) and Counter-Illusions – 3 International Biennale For Young Art, DK ZIL (Moscow). Her investigative project, Witness was published by VAC-press and Mousse Publishing.
Helena Hamilton
(1986, Northern Ireland. Based in Belfast)
Helena Hamilton works both visually and sonically, creating work which crosses the lines between object, sound, digital interaction and action/performance. She received an MA in Sonic Arts (QUB, 2014) and holds a BA Honours degree in Fine Art (University of Ulster, 2009). Helena is represented by The Agency Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Semblance and Event, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, NI/The Agency Gallery, London (2018). Showcases include: Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2017). Recent artist residencies include: Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Goldsmiths University of London, EAVI Group (2015).
Dorothy Hunter
(1988, Magherafelt. Based in Belfast)
Dorothy Hunter is an artist and writer. Recent exhibitions include Dissolving Histories at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Anticipated Fictions; Monumental Configurations at PS Squared, Belfast; and Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International, Limerick. She is a current student of MA Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD.
Phillip McCrilly
(1988, Co. Tyrone. Based in Belfast)
Phillip McCrilly is an artist and curator interested in the transgressive and interdisciplinary possibilities of food and hospitality. Combining research around models of creative labour with modes of sustainable food practice, recent food projects include Dance Food, at Projects Arts Dublin, and Kombucha Bar, at Catalyst Arts Belfast.
Katrina Sheena Smyth
(1985, Northern Ireland. Based in Belfast)
Katrina Sheena Smyth is an artist and researcher, currently completing a PhD at Ulster University, Belfast, where she graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in 2014 and BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2009. Smyth has exhibited work nationally and internationally, been awarded by ACNI numerous times since graduating and is an ex-director of Catalyst Arts. Her current research studies artistic processes and creative agency that resonate onto-epistemological methodologies of research, inspired by Zen practice and New Materialism theory.
The Landis Museum is generously supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Glasgow International, and Culture Ireland. With special thanks to Chapter Thirteen and James N. Hutchinson.
