Thomas Dahl: Never sleep

A survey and a transformation of my dad's coffee machine.

Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at Gallery Rotor (Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg) february 2008.

Article about the exhibition: http://www.ueforum.se/essa.php

photo: Göran Boardy

Presentation

Thomas Dahl's oeuvre revolves mainly around long and complex material processes that often have a linguistic and conceptual side. Central to his creative process is a rigorous method that he designs for each process. His works are often cycles with openings to philosophical and psychological aspects, in which chance and sudden impulses sometimes break his established rules.

In Thomas Dahl's performance is the language and its expressions the material under investigation. Here are questions of linguistic hierarchies and language as instrument of force in focus, but also a play on prejudices and languages charge.

Since 2007, Thomas Dahl worked with performance art in the form of a series of speeches held in the public space. He offers people of different backgrounds to write a speech in their language about something they consider important. Then he learns the speeches by heart, and performs them in public places.

Thomas Dahl

Bor och arbetar i Göteborg

Utbildningar i urval
Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg 2003-2008
Göteborgs Konstskola, Göteborg – måleri och idégestaltning, 2001-2003
Hovedskous Målarskola, Göteborg – måleri, 1999-2000

Egna utställningar i urval

Galleri Gerlesborg, Gerlesborg, En cykelresa i mig själv, januari 2012

Galleri 54, Göteborg, Pennvässblomma, november 2010

Galleri Morsmössa, Göteborg, 511H, oktober 2008

Galleri Rotor, Göteborg, examensutställning Never sleep, Konsthögskolan Valand, februari 2008

Abandoned gallery, Malmö, Stolen, mars 2008

Curaterade utställningar

Galleri Rotor, Göteborg, An experience of exchange, augusti 2010, curator tillsammans med Erik Berglin och Christian Hansen

Grupputställningar i urval

Sjöfartsmuseet, Göteborg, Älvsnabben: Drömmen om ett annat Göteborg, sept 2011

Hux Flux, Göteborg, Aktör och Vänner, 7 maj 2011

Fjärde chansen, Göteborg, Levande Musik, 6 maj 2011
Vänersborgs konsthall, tillsammans med Stefan Karlsson och Dan Perrin, juni 2010
Tombola Parksalong, Göteborg, 5 juni 2010
Hus 10 Konstepidemin, Göteborg, grupputställning Choosers cant't be beggars, juni 2010
Invigning Borås internationella skulpturfestival 2010, Performance, maj 2010
Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg, See, they return; Ah, seethe tentative movements, mars 2010.

Performancefestival, Inf'raction, Sète, Montpellier: september 2009
Världskulturmuseet, Live Action, Göteborg, maj 2009
Live Action+, Vara, Lidköping, maj 2009
Svenska Institutet, Paris, Inf'raction, maj 2009

Krets filmfestival, Malmö, januari 2009
BellmanLarsson LindströmNord kalender, Göteborg, lucka 22, december 2008
Spot city, Göteborg, oktober 2008
Konsthall Trä, Gullspång, juni 2008
Konsthall C, Stockholm, juni 2008
Konsthallen, Göteborg, maj 2008
Galleri Bäckalyckan, Jönköping, oktober 2007
Galleri Rotor, Göteborg, Reworking Dissent, augusti 2007
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Bara färg, september 2006
Glashuset Valand, Göteborg, Great Expectations, augusti 2006
Konsthallen, Göteborg, Nordic Live, september 2003

Stipendier
Eric Ericsons stiftelse, 2008
Göteborgs Konstskola stipendie, 2003

Representerad
Göteborgs stad

Thomas Dahl

Saturday 26 January 2008

Never sleep

Thomas Dahl

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