Olivia Plender is an artist based in Berlin

Berlin

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Plender was born in London

London

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. Her work comprises video installations, performances, text, as well as drawings and printed matter. She is best known for a project entitled The Masterpiece (2002 onwards), an epic hand-drawn comic book about the life of a fictional artist in 1960s London.

Plender was co-editor of Untitled Magazine from 2002 until it closed in 2008.

Selected exhibitions

2009

"Aadieu, Adieu Apa (Goodbye, Goodbye Father)", Gasworks, London

"Altermodern: Tate Triennial", Tate Britain, London

"The Malady of Writing, MACBA", Barcelona

"Notes from the Living Dead Museum", Living Art Museum, Reikjavik

2008

"Monitor", Art in General, New York

"The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art", Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York, USA

"The Great Transformation", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt;
touring to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain

"Not Quite How I Remember It", The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

"Bending the Word", Matrix Gallery, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, USA

"Moot Points: Exercises in Self-Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

"Disclosures II: The Middles Ages"; Nottingham Castle Museum/ Laxton Village, Nottinghamshire,
curated by Nottingham Contemporary and Gasworks

"TINA", The Drawing Room, London, touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (curatorial project)

2007

"Information, Education, Entertainment", Marabou Parken, Stockholm

"Art Now Live", Tate Britain, London (performance)

"Athens Biennial: How to Endure", Athens, Greece

"Moscow Biennial: Left Pop", Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

"Le Truc", The Project, Dublin

"Mystic Truths", Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

"Cult Fiction", New Art Gallery Walsall, Hayward Touring Show

2006

"The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Turned Upside Down", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

"Tate Triennial", Tate Britain, London

"Busan Biennial", Busan, South Korea

"In Search of the New Republic (or the Tables Turned)", Serpentine Gallery, London (performance)

"2nd International Biennial of Young Artists", Bucharest, Romania

"Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify", conference, Iaspis, Stockholm (commission)

"Becks Futures", ICA, London; touring to Arnolfini, Bristol and CCA, Glasgow

2005

BMW - 1X Baltic Triennale of International Art, CAC, Vilnius

The Medium & Daybreak, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialization, Man in the Holocene, London

2004

Romantic Detachment, PS1/ MoMA, New York

"East End Academy", Whitechapel Gallery, London

External links

• http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/olivia_plender*http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=472
• http://www.marabouparken.se/index.php?lang=eng&year=2007&nav=tidigareutstallningar
• Untitled Magazine
• http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/altermodern/explore.shtm
• 2006 Tate Triennial
• Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Olivia Plender’s graphic novel A Stellar Key to the Summerland
• Emily Davison Day http://www.hercircleezine.com/2010/12/07/daring-to-be-free-britains-honor-suffragist-emily-davison/