CV:
Long Term Projects:
2008- ongoing
Eastside Projects, a new public art space for the city of Birmingham and the world, organised by a founding collective comprising Simon and Tom Bloor, Ruth Claxton, Céline Condorelli, James Langdon, and Gavin Wade (Curator/Director).
2003- 2009
Support Structure: (with Gavin Wade)
phase 1 - in support of Art, ‘I am a Curator’, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2003)
phase 2 - in support of Corporations, The Economist Plaza, London (2004)
phase 3 - in support of Community, Portsmouth Multicultural Centre (2004)
phase 4 - in support of Politics, Greenham common (2004-2005)
phase 5 - in support of Education, Essex University, artist residency, exhibition (2005)
phase 6 - in support of Urban Renewal, Eastside Birmingham (2007)
phase 7 - in support of Shopping, GIL, Guang Zhou, Beijing, Shanghai (2007)
phase 8 - in support of Institutions, Arnolfini, Bristol, ICA, London (2008)
phase 9 - in support of Public, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2008)
phase 10 - in support of Support, Publication, Sternberg Press (2009)
Exhibitions and Projects:
2012
Missing Houses*, Clumber Park & Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Social Fabric, Iniva, London
2011
"There is nothing left”*, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt
Surrounded by the Uninhabitable, SALT Galata, Istanbul.
Living as Form, (Creative Time Project) Manhattan, New York
Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna, Austria
Attempts to get inside the world, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Summer Camp: IDEA, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Department 21, Royal College of Art Show 2011, London
Agora Não (Not Yet), The Barber Shop, Lisbon, Portugal
IF LIBRARY/IF BOOK, DOCVA, Milan, Italy
Public Monument, 'Shadowboxing' Royal College of Art, London
ALIAS, Photomonth, (curated by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) Krakow, Poland
A Reflection on Revolution in Egypt: Trop tôt, trop tard, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London & Lux Online
2010
Session_11, FormContent, London
Fun Palace, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
During Office Hours, Feinkost at VGF Verband Geschlossene Fonds, Berlin, Germany
Speak, Memory, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Serpentine Map Marathon
& Sleep-Over, Serpentine Gallery, London
Manifesta 8, European Biennial, in dialogue with North Africa, Murcia, Spain
IPS Radio, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
For the Birds, SMART project space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
& Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Pre-Specifics, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
& Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
8 Plinths, Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany
Out-Book 5th artist’s book Biennial, Palazzo Mauri, Spoleto,
& Biblioteca ‘Dante Alighieri’ Foligno,
& Collezione archivio Domenico Cialfi Terni,
& Accademia Belle Arti, Catania, Italy.
Revision -part II, Cell Project Space, London
Curtain Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Interference, The Studio at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Miracles, Galerie AllerArt, Bludenz, Austria
Archive of Shared Interests, White Space / Office for Curating / Art / Theory, Zurich
2009
Support Structures, Sternberg Press, Berlin, New York.
(21 x 14.8 cm, 438 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-933128-45-0)
Generosity is the new Political, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, UK
And the Columns held us up, Artist Space, New York, USA
Heaven, Athens Biennial, Greece
Friends of the Divided Mind, Royal College of Arts, London
2008
Nought to Sixty, ICA London
Curating Architecture, the Showroom, London
Liminal Zones, Goethe Institute and Nikosia University, Cyprus
Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Far-West Trading, Arnolfini, Bristol, A Foundation, Liverpool, Turner Galleries, Margate, UK
2007
4'33'', Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria
Hidden Curriculum, CASCO projects, Utrecht, Holland
Get It Louder, special commission, Ghuang Zhou, Shanghai, Beijing
How Can We Support You?, Eastside, Birmingham, UK
In support of Culture, audio piece for South Bank Centre
In support of Knowledge, audio piece for ‘the great learning’, Studio Voltaire, Resonance fm, London
Revisits, Austrian Architecture Forums, Linz, Graz, Vienna
2006
Theatre Pieces, Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, London
Dictionary of War, Staedelschule Frankfurt, Germany
Liquid Architectures, Tate Online.
Subcontingency, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin, 2006, Turin
Architecture Biennial, London
2005
Common Use, Greenham Common, UK
Walking & Talking, Essex University Gallery, Colchester, UK
Simons Not in the Show, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Public Structures, 2nd GuangZhou Triennial, China
PEAM, Pescara, Italy
& Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy
Future Wireless, Dana Centre, London
V2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Support Structure, The Economist Plaza, London
Support Structure, Portsmouth Multicultural Centre
Alterity Display, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London
PILOT:1 International Art Forum, London.
Œ24620 travelling exhibition, UK
2003
I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2002
Walking One to Ten, Salon 3, London.
(+ Head in the clouds, film as part of the walking one to ten exhibition)
1995-2000
Higgledy Piggledy, Hoxton Hall, London.
Millennial minutes, Scottish Touring Exhibitions Consortium.
Essential Things, Robert Prime gallery, London
Sarajevo, The Loss of the Horizon, Premiere Rue architecture centre, Briey (France), Nordico National Museum, Linz (Austria), University Hamburg-Harburg, (Germany).
Plug-In, Salon 3, London, curated by Maria Lind and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Nightwaves, BBC3
Architecture, Design, Display:
2009-ongoing
Eastside Projects, evolving architecture, interior, Birmingham, UK
2008
House, furniture and landscaping, Hackney, London
2005
Display, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Exhibition space, Herald st gallery, London
Exhibition space, Hotel Gallery, London
2004
Flat, Clerkenwell, london.
Book cover, Libro Italiano Editori, Italy
Research, General Public Agency
2003
Writer, Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture
Cottage, Seer Green, UK
1995-2002
Flat, Shoreditch, London
Consultancy, Space Syntax Laboratory, London
Project Managing, Architectural Guiding, Architectural Dialogue and London Open House
Pilot project for Tower Hamlets Council, in collaboration with CHORA, London
Winning competition entry, with Lerman architects, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Designer, Architectural Studio, London
Designer, 51% studios, london
Assistant, Michael Sorkin studio, New York
Assistant, Diller + Scofidio studio, New York
Teaching and Lecturing:
Teaching positions:
2012 - ongoing
Professor, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milan
2011
Accreditation/Validation Expert, Visual Arts Masters, (ECAL, HEAD, ECAV), Organisation of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Switzerland
2010
Guest Professor, Nuremberg Art Academy, Germany.
2003-2009
Senior Lecturer, events curator, studio tutor and year coordinator,
London Metropolitan University School of Architecture and Spatial Design
2000-2003
Senior Lecturer, unit master, diploma and first year,
University of East London School of Architecture
Seminars, conferences, workshops:
2008
‘Initiative & Institution’ organizer: exhibition, conference, symposium, publication,
London Metropolitan University School of Architecture and Spatial Design
‘Curating Architecture’ seminar series, Goldsmith Gollege, London
2007
‘Architecture as Initiative’, Conference organizer, Architectural Association, Co-organiser
2000
Workshop ‘denCity’, Monaco, for KTH Stockholm
1997
‘Work-space’ workshop co-organiser, Autertal valley, Austria
Visiting lecturer, critic, and external reviewer:
1999-2010
Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Goldsmith College, Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Arts, Greenwich school of Architecture, London Metropolitan University, London, Portsmouth University, University of Central England, University of Edinburgh, UK, Nuova Academia delle Belle Arti (NABA) Italy, Academy Van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Stockholm KTH, Sweden, Bauhaus Weimar, Germany, Vienna University of Technology, Linz Art Academy, Austria, Berlin Technical University, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany, Mumbai Shrishti school of Art and Design, Bangalore school of Art and Design, India, Jerusalem School of Architecture, Israel, Kultur University, Istanbul, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland, Ghent University, Belgium, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, Art Academy, Oslo, Penn School of Design, Philadelphia, USA, a/o.
Artist Talks and lectures at various venues including:
Serpentine Gallery, ICA, Tate Modern, The Showroom, London, Spyke Island Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, UK; Fondazione Ratti, Random / Default, Italy, IASPIS, Architecture Museum, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, Architecture forum, Linz, Graz, Austria, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, a/o.
Selected articles and publications:
Selected Texts/Printed Matter by Céline Condorelli:
‘Friendship’, Reprint, Mousse 32 (2012)
‘Two to Tango’, David Lamelas, Drawing Room Confessions, with Mousse Magazine (2011)
‘Functional Configurations’, in Manifesta Journal: issue 10 (Nov 2010)
‘Support Structures’, in IN BOOK/OUT BOOK, ed. Emanuele De Donno, Viaindustriae & A+M (Winter 2010)
‘Common Talking’, with Public Works, in Translocal Acts, AAA, Paris (2010)
‘Special Like That’, with Vasif Kortun, in Hazavuzu, FRAC (2010)
‘Support Structures: Interview with Mark Cousins’, Céline Condorelli, in
Afterall: issue 24 (summer 2010)
‘Life Always Escapes -II’, in Common, ed. Fiona Woods (April 2010)
‘Instance’, in London +10, Ed. Carlos Villanueva Brand,
Architectural Association (2010)
‘Talks on Public Art -Three Support Structures’, dérive
-Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung: issue 39 (2010)
Support Structures, Sternberg Press (2009) (21 x 14.8 cm, 438 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-933128-45-0)
‘Life Always Escapes’, e-flux journal: issue 10, (Nov 2009)
Strati, Hopfl, Monthoux and the Seventeenth Plan, with Henrik Schrat, One-Day-Comic EP9, Birmingham/Berlin (2008)
‘You have a Future in Common Use’, in STATIC, issue 4, (Nov 2006)
‘Taxi_onomy’, in Did someone say participate? ed. Shumon Bazar and
Markus Miessen, MIT press (2006)
‘Support, participation, and relationships to equity’, with Eyal Weizman, in The Violence of Participation, ed. Markus Miessen, Sternberg press (2007)
‘Walking in Silence’, in Between the Vanguard and the Peripheral, ed. Paula Orrel, Plymouth Art Centre (2009)
Support Structures, Temporary Urban Structures, Forlaget * (2009)
In Support, /Seconds, ed. Peter Lewis, issue number 06 (2007)
Negociation Piece, /Seconds, ed. Peter Lewis, issue number 05 (2007)
Pilot:1 & 2 catalogue and publication (2004 & 2005)
West-European Section, Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, Phaidon (2004)
'La Perte de Temps', Sexy Machinery (March 2002)
Landscape Politics, University of Edinburgh (Summer 2001)
Selected Texts on Céline Condorelli:
‘Life Always Escapes’, Urban Miracles, catalogue, ed. Transparadiso, Remise Bludenz (2010)
‘Support Structure’, Nought to Sixty, Catalogue, ICA (2009)
‘Building Democracy’, by Andrea Phillips, in Reader for Sommerakademie 2009, Bern
‘Show & Tell’, in Hidden Curriculum, Casco Projects (2008)
‘I am a Curator’, interview with Per Huttner and Gavin Wade, in Curating Critique, ed. Eigenheer, Richter & Drabble, Revolver (2007)
‘Theatre Pieces’, by Catherine Wood, in Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Editions (2006)
‘Support Structure: Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade’, in Two minds: Art for Architecture, ed. Jes Fernie, Black Dog Publishing (2006)
‘Support Structure’, in I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery (2005)
Selected Reviews/Press on Céline Condorelli:
On Support Structures:
In The Last Magazine: New York, Fall Issue (August 2010)
‘Céline Condorelli’ by Markus Miessen, in Kaleidoscope: The Italian Issue, (Summer 2010)
‘Summer Readings: On Failure’, by Manuel Segade, in CA2M: Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2010)
In Grafik design awards: Issue 186, The Winners, Support Structures (June 2010)
In Frieze, Issue 131 (May 2010)
‘Celine Condorelli, Support Structures’ by Gaétane Lamarche-Vadel in La Critique (April 2010, in French)
In Icon, by Justin McGuirk, Issue 082 (April 2010)
‘The Good Samaritan’, by Shumon Bazar, TANK magazine (March 2010)
In Grafik Magazine: Issue 184 (March 2010)
In Bidoun: #20, Bazaar, (Spring 2010)
‘Support Structures, Céline Condorelli’, by Francis McKee, in MAP-journeys in Contemporary Art, issue 21 (Spring 2010)
‘Celine Condorelli, Support Structures’ by Pelin Tan in Betonart: Spring issue (2010, in Turkish)
‘Top 10’, by Jesko Fezer, Art Forum (Feb 2010)
‘On Support Structures’ by Nazli Gurlek, in RES Art World / World Art (winter 2009-2010 )
‘Book looks into practice of support’, in Today's Zaman Newspaper (11 December 2009, Turkey)
In Archiver, review by Benoit Santiard (December 2009, in French)
‘A social philosophy of buttresses’, in BLDGBLOG ("BUILDING BLOG") (November 2009)
In Where We Are Now: Speculating on Change, Issue 2 (Autumn 2009)
All other projects:
'Cultural Memory', in Jakarta Post, Friday, (21st Jan 2011)
'Underground challenge to history', The National (2nd Jan 2011)
'Lezioni di futuro alla biennale Manifesta', Il Sole 24 Ore, (10th Dec 2010)
'Manifesta 8', Tableau Fine Art Magazine, (Dec 2010)
'Speak, Memory', in C-ARTS volume 17, (Dec 2010)
‘Manifesta 8’, by Maurizio Bortolotti, in Domus (November 2010)
‘Remember the Time’, by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in Art Monthly (November 2010)
‘In Spain, Bifurcation at the Biennale’, in The New York Times (22nd Oct 2010)
‘For the Birds’, by Carole Baugh in a-n magazine (October 2010)
‘Curtain Show’, by Sam Thorne, in Frieze, issue 132 (Summer 2010)
‘Curtain Show’, in The Guardian Guide (20-26 March 2010)
‘Generosity is the new Political’, by Andrew Hunt in Frieze, issue 125 (September 2009)
‘Generosity is the new Political’, by Olga Smith in a-n magazine (November 2009)
‘Turkey, US collaborate in NY art field’, Hurriyet Daily News (10 July 2009)
‘This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things’, by Stuart Tait in a-n magazine (November 2008)
‘On Support, Céline Condorelli’ Paletten Magazine, Sweden, (Dec 2008)
‘Music For Shopping Malls’, by Dan Fox in Frieze, Issue 113 (March 2008)
‘If the Route’, by Dan Fox in Frieze, Issue 109 (September 2007)
‘Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice’ by Dominic Eichler, in Frieze issue 102 (October 2006)
‘Tate Triennial’, by Dan Fox in Frieze, issue 99 (May 2006)
‘Alterity Display’ in Display, recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues, edited by Pablo Lafuente, Rachmaninoff’s (2005)
‘Walking & Talking’, review in Untitled, (june 2005)
‘Support Structure’, in TANK magazine, (June 2004)
‘Support Structure’, in Contemporary (April 2004)
‘I am a Curator’, in Contemporary (March 2004)
‘I am a Curator’, in Art Monthly (March 2004)
‘Walking One to Ten’, in The Guardian Guide (saturday 1st April 2000)
‘Walking One to Ten’, in Time Out Art section (March 29th 2000)
‘Walking One to Ten’, in The Evening Standard (28th March 2000)
‘Just A Minute’ in The Architect's Journal (21st October 1999)
Grants, Residencies & Awards:
2011
National Trust Residency, Clumber, UK
IASPIS residency, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Pro-Helvetia Artist Grant
Artist-to-Artist International scheme
Grizedale Arts residency
2009
Publication Grant, Henry Moore Foundation
Residency, Platform Garanti Istanbul
Production grant, Platform Garanti Istanbul
2008
British Council project grant
2007
British Council production and travelling grant
2006
NAN bursary -with O+I and Public Works
London Metropolitan University University Projects Office Research Grant
2005
V2 residency and development award, june to august 2005
British Council Research and Travelling grant
2004
Arts Council England Research & Development grant
Arts Council England National Touring Programme
2003
RSA Art for Architecture award
University of East London academic research grant
1997-99
Architectural Association scholarship
Education:
2005 - ongoing
PhD candidate, Research Architecture, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmith College, London.
2000
MA History and Theory of Architecture, University of East London.
1999
RIBA part 2 and diploma, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.
1996-97
University of East London.
1992-1995
RIBA part 1 and degree, Architectural Association School of Architecture.
1994-2004
workshops and residencies in Bosnia, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa, UK.
1978-92
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Florence, and Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve