Turner Prize 2008 at Tate Britain on artrepublic.com
Exhibition running from Sep 30 2008
until Jan 18 2009
Mark Leckey was awarded the 2008 Turner Prize during a live broadcast of the award ceremony on Channel 4. You can still go and see all the nominees work at Tate Britain until the 18th of January. The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain after it launched Liverpool's Capital of Culture at Tate Liverpool in 2007. This years four shortlisted artists are Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes. Mark Leckey has been nominated for his solo exhibitions Industrial Light & Magic at Le Consortium, Dijon, and Resident at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, which combine sculpture, film, sound and performance. With wit and originality, Leckey continues to find new genres through which to communicate his fascination with contemporary culture. Runa Islam: For her solo exhibition Centre of Gravity at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and NationalMuseum of Art, Oslo and the presentation of her work at Venice Biennale 2007 for the continuing development of a unique visual language in her films. Islam creates closely choreographed films with open ended narratives that are analytical and emotionally charged. Goshka Macuga: For her solo exhibition Objects in Relation, Art Now at Tate Britain and her contribution to the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art for her carefully staged, mixed-media installations in which she draws on the conventions of the historical archive and exhibition making. Enacting a form of cultural archaeology, Macuga enlists the collaboration of artists past and present in dramatic environments that suggest new narratives and associations. Cathy Wilkes: For her solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery, that showed her personal approach to figurative sculpture. Through rigorous, highly charged arrangements of commonplace objects and materials, Wilkes has developed an articulate and eloquent vocabulary that touches on issues of femininity and sexuality. The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 6 May 2008. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe. OPENING HOURS: Daily: 10.00 - 17.40 Image Credits: Image 1: Runa Islam, Time Lines 2005, Courtesy Jay Jopling (London) © the artist Image 2: Mark Leckey, Resident Poster, © Mark Leckey Image 3: Goshka Macuga, Haus der Frau 2 (Installation view of the 5th Berlin Biennial) 2008, Kate MacGarry, London and Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich © The artist and Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Glass, steel, fabrics designed by Eva Berendes, Bernd Ribbeck, Klaus Weber700 x 120 x 100 cm Image 4: Cathy Wilkes, Installation view: Selective Memory: Scotland and Venice, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2005. 2005, Courtesy of the Artist, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. © Cathy Wilkes. Photo: Ruth Clark Photography  |
