dennis del favero
1953 born in Sydney.
Dennis Del Favero's photography, video and new media artwork has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries such as Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Viafarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz and included in major exhibitions such as Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1996, Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), 1996, Future Cinema, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2003, Cinemas du futur, European Cultural Capital, Lille, 2004, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005, Artescienza: Spazio deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006 and Biennial of Seville, Seville, 2008. He has held numerous Artist-in-Residencies including at Neue Galerie, Graz. He is currently ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Director of the iCinema Research Centre and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Professorial Fellow at ZKM, Germany, Visiting Professor at IUAV University of Venice, Visiting Associate Professor at City University Hong Kong and editor of the Digital Arts Edition series published by Hatje Cantz. He is a member of the Australia Council's Visual Arts and Crafts Board and the Australian Research Council's ERA HCA Research Evaluation Committee.
The artist lives and works in Sydney.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 »Magnesium Light«, Marion Scharmann, Cologne
»Forgetful Sky«, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006 Scienta, UNSW, Sydney (C)
»Apparitions«, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann, Cologne
2005 »Fantasmi«, interactive video installations, Sprengel Museum,
Hannover
2004 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (C)
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (C)
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (C)
ZKM, Karlsruhe
Mori Gallery, Sydney
»Ombelico«, ImplantArt. Temporärer Kunstraum für
zeitgenössische Fotografie, Bonn
2003 Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne (C)
2002 Mori Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C)
2001 Kunstverein Pforzheim, Pforzheim
Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2000 Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim
John Curtin Gallery, Perth (C)
1999 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
ZKM, Karlsruhe (C)
Mori Gallery, Sydney
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Landeszeughaus, Graz (C)
Neu Galerie, Graz
1998 Viafarini, Milan (C)
Mori Gallery, Sydney
1997 Kunstverein auf dem Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (C)
1996 Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1995 Mori Gallery, Sydney (C)
1993 Mori Gallery, Sydney (C)
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
1991 Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
1990 Mori Gallery, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C)
1987 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C)
University of Tasmania, School of Art Gallery, Hobart
1984 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (C)
University of Tasmania, School of Art Gallery, Hobart
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2015 »The GLOBAL Exhibition«, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Marion Scharmann, Cologne
2009/10 »YOU_niverse«, Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe (C)
»Imaging Media Produced@ZKM«, Media Museum, ZKM,
Karlsruhe (C)
2009 »Seconde Nature«, Espace Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
»Un Volcan Numerique«, Le Volcan Scene Nationale du Havre,
Le Havre
»International Film Festival«, Amsterdam (C)
»SomaSex«, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney
»Curating the COFA Collection«, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art & Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts,
Adelaide
E-Arts Festival, Shanghai
Sydney Festival, Sydney
»Un-Imaginable«, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2007 »Kava Kava. Facetten der Angst«, Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der
Ruhr (C)
2006 »Artescienza: Spazio deformato«, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome
2005 Videonale 10, Bonn
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
»Points of View. Australian Photography 1985-95«, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
2004 European Cultural Capital Lille, Lille, (C)
2003 »Global Priority«, Jamaica Center, New York
»Audioteque«, Opera House, Sydney
»Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film«, ZKM,
Karlsruhe (C), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, ICC (InterCommunications Centre), Tokyo
»Global Priority«, Pier 2, Kaichsiung
»Reverberation: remembrance and the moving image«,
ACMI, Melbourne (C)
2001 »(dis)LOCATIONS«, ACMI, Melbourne (C)
»Morphologies», Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (C)
»CLICK«, Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Latrobe
Regional Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Swan Hill
Regional Art Gallery
2000 »Journeys into Dreamland«, Fotogallery, Cardiff (C)
»Electronic/Digital«, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg
1999 »Steirischer Herbst«, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum
Joanneum, Graz (C)
»Der anagrammatische Körper«, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag,
Mürzzuschlag/ZKM, Karlsruhe
1998 »Mirages: From post-photography to cyberspace«, Fundacio
La Caixa, Barcelona
1997 »Sarajevo«, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (C)
Berlin Art Forum, Berlin (C)
1996 »Sex and Crime«, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, (C)
»Kriegszustand«, with Jenny Holzer, Völkerschlachtendenkmal,
Leipzig (C)
»Remote Connections«, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum
Joanneum, Graz (C)
Waino Aaltosen Museum, Turku, Teddy Kolleck Sports
Stadium, Jerusalem (C)
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Kopenhagen
ART Basel, Basel (C)
ART Frankfurt, Frankfurt
1994 Biennale of Australian Art , Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide (C)
1993 »Working in Public« (mit scenario URBANO), Artspace,
Sydney (C)
»Dante«, Chiostri di San Francesco, Ravenna (C)
»Australian Made«, College of Applied Arts, Prag
1990 »Fragmentations and Fabrications: Recent Australian
Photography«, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (C)
1989 »Aurora Australis«, Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver (C)
1988 »Australian Photography 1888-1988«, Australian National
Gallery, Canberra (C)
1987 Australian Video Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney (C)
1985 »Perspecta«, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C)
MULTI-MEDIA PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
2005 Un_imaginable, iCinema Digital Arts Edition #1
2004 Deep Sleep, iCinema Digital Monographs #1
2001 (dis)LOCATIONS, ZKM, Digital Arts Edition #5
1999 Cross Currents, ZKM, Digital Arts Edition #2
APPOINTMENTS
2009 »International Design Excellence Award 2009«
ARC Queen Elisabeth II Fellow
Visiting Professorial Fellow, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Visiting Associate Professor, City University Hong Kong
Visiting Professor, IUAV University of Venice
Member of Australian Research Council ERA Humanities and Creative Arts Committee
(C) = Catalogue
Dennis Del Favero is presented in cooperation with Gallery Andreas Binder, Munich.
