SUDDEN WEALTH with JASON DODGE
Performance of Gemini by Noelle Kokot
Møn, Denmark, Saturday 13th July 2024

Proposed by Chris Evans, Sudden Wealth is a collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Graham Kelly and invited poets and artists who use spoken word as their medium.

Archive of Art School Dissent
PUBLICS, Helsinki
Wednesday 13th March 2024

The Archive of Art School Dissent is convened by Chris Evans and Magnus Quaife hosting an invited panel: David Munoz Alcántara, Sezgin Boynik, Gavin Butt, Luis Guerra, Pauliina Pesonen, Elina Merenmies, Paul O’Neil, H Ooramo, Delphine Paul & Corin Sworn.

The event was the first in a series which plans to bring the discussion to a number of global locations, to consider how trans-geographical entanglements between education, geo-economic circumstances, cultural conditions, and communities have led to dissent in art schools, how alterity has been articulated and how consequences have fed back into predominant or alternate systems of artists pedagogy.


On voice
05/11/2023
Presentations, performances and readings on voice with Angie Keefer, Natasha Soobramanien, Chris Evans, Henry Andersen & Sabrina Seifried. Event at Frans Masareel Centrum prior to the launch and panel discussion for Melissa Gordon's new book: Vital Signs.

SUDDEN WEALTH
Performance at opening of Woonhuis, De Ateliers
31/04/2023

9 Balusters
31/04/2023
For Woonhuis, Amsterdam, 9 new balusters were created for by tutors and former participants of De Ateliers: Nina Canell, Chris Evans, Tild Greene, Philipp Gufler, Frieder Haller, Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Brianna Leatherbury and Marina Pinsky.

De Ateliers 1963–2023. History of an artists’ institute
31/04/2023
Celebrating its 60th birthday, De Ateliers launches a new book on the notorious history of Hollands first post academic art institute. De Ateliers 1963–2023. History of an artists’ institute is written and compiled by art critic, tutor, and former director Dominic van den Boogerd. The book is available in Woonhuis Shop and online.

Second Sundays #38 – Chris Evans
12/03/2023
Q-O2
Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.



LOOK, LIGHTNING HAS STRUCK THE FLOWERS!
Sundy, London
13th May - 7th July 2022
Alice Creischer, Batsheva Ross, Benjamin Husson, Chris Evans, Christiane Blattmann, Emily Pope, Frank Diersch, Isabella Costabile, Jannis Marwitz, Jochen Lempert, Niklas Taleb, Perri MacKenzie
Group show curated by Christiane Blattmann and Jannis Marwitz.

Sudden Wealth with Roy Claire Potter
Proposed by Chris Evans, Sudden Wealth is a collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Graham Kelly and invited poets and artists who use spoken word as their medium. The first iteration, Sudden Wealth was a collaboration with Roy Claire Potter.

Published by Slimvolume, 8th April 2022, and also available on Bandcamp


Carrazone
Group show curated by Chiara Camoni and Arcade
Arcade, Brussels
19th March – 23rd April 2022

Transitive Objects (Coral what)
Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
Eva Berendes, Alice Channer, Chris Evans, Melissa Gordon, Marie Lund, Katja Mater
Opening: Friday 3rd September
3rd September 2021 - 16th October 2021

Salon Hang
Kunstverein Amsterdam
Opening: Friday 18 June
19th April - 28th June 2021

Spatial Bias
Lesage, Brussels
Group exhibition, opening 22nd April, 11.00-19.00
23rd April - 2nd May 2021


A Painter Of Our Time
Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, Denmark
Group exhibition curated by Rhea Dall. Opens 24th October 2020.

The Waiting List
Grand Palais, Bern
Group exhibition curated by Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
October 2020



Rewiew by Adrain Dürrwang for artlog.net

Contemporary Sculpture - Artists' Writings and Interviews
An anthology edited by Jon Wood and Julia Kelly in cooperation with Cragg Foundation (incl. chapter: 'Chris Evans in conversation with Will Bradley')
Published by Hatje Cantz, February 2020

Closing Event A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE
Institut de Carton
Presentation of Open Letter to Morning Star, Chris Evans
4pm, Saturday 7th December, 2019

Village Lawyer
Markus Luettgen, Dusseldorf
Solo exhibition: 7th September–26th October 2019

My Summer Is Your Winter
Grazer Kunstverein
Group exhibition: Fahim Amir, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Laurie Charles, Chris Evans, Dora García, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Veronika Hauer, Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey, Fiston Mwanza Mujila Fahim Amir, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Laurie Charles, Chris Evans, Dora García, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Veronika Hauer, Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey, Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Record release concert: Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen, 14th June 2019, 9pm



12” vinyl LP in 6 signed editions of 25 copies each, with a series of silkscreened covers.
Available from Grazerkunstverein.Bandcamp

Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
Curated by Freya Chao
1st June 2019

Errors hit Orient
Record launches:
Pogo Bar, KW Berlin, 10:30piday 8th February
Wiels, Brussels, 6th March 2019


Chris Evans (with Will Holder). Two takes recorded by Andy Miller
33rpm 12" on 180gm vinyl, silkscreened sleeve, signed edition of 200

20 euros + shipping. For countries not listed please email

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You Never Know The Whole Story
Kunstmuseum Bern
14th December 2018 – 31st March 2019

Roots on Wheels
Root Canal, Amsterdam
23rd – 25th November 2018

Village Lawyer
Solo exhibition at CAN / Centre d'art, Neuchâtel
25th May – 20th July 2018
Performance by Concert on opening night


Bureau of Unspecified Services
SALT Galata, Istanbul
April 12 – July 15, 2018
Group exhibition. Corridor Project Space, David Bernstein, Fiona Connor, Chris Evans, Aaron Flint Jamison, JUNZIOUI, Rosa Sijben, ŠKART, John Ziqiang Wu, Danna Vajda
Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi

Job Interviews
Publication edited and illustrated by Chris Evans
Designed by Will Holder and published by Para Site, Hong Kong and uh books.

The ritual of the 'job interview’ can be considered as a courtship that’s conditioned by protocols that ask for a quite particular display: with social relations as material, a dance of conformity, the attempted imagining and echoing of expectations. The anthology of commissioned writing includes contributions by Nadim Abbas, Howie Chen, Heman Chong, Matthew Dickman, Jason Dodge, Holly Pester, Angie Keefer, Natasha Soobramanien, Marina Vishmidt, and Jonas Žakaitis.


Available from Uh Books



Book Launches:

Friday 26th January 2018, 18:00-20:00,
Kunstverein Amsterdam
Readings by Freya Chou, Chris Evans, Will Holder and Danae Papazymouri

Saturday 27th January 2018, 20:00–22:00
Ateliers Evans & Gordon, Brussels
Readings by Freya Chou, Chris Evans, Will Holder and Natasha Soobramanien

Monday 29th January 2018, 19:30-21:30
Spike Art Quarterly, Berlin
Readings by Freya Chou, Jason Dodge, Chris Evans, Will Holde & Bitsy Knox

Merry-go-round
Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
Opens 20th January 2018
Nathan Azhderian, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Lisa Oppenheim and Chris Evans

Winter Season: Kunstverein Graz
Sound work with Morten Norbye Halvorsen
From December 2017

The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art
Kunsthall Oslo
18th November 2017 – 21st January 2018
Kunsthall  Oslo, Rostockgata 2-4

Mophradat presents "What's Your Favorite Tool?" Bureau des Réalités, Brussels
Wednesday October 4th, 7pm
An evening with Mirene Arsanios, Chris Evans, Jasmina Metwaly, Sophie Nys, Marnie Slater, Nile Sunset Annex

Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions
Para-Site, Hong Kong
September 23 - December 3, 2017
Opening talk: September 22, 6:30–7pm 
Opening reception: September 22, 7–9pm
Curated by Freya Chao
 

Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive an truthful attempts in two exhibitions
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida
6 May – 01 October 2017
Curated by Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira

Summer Season: Kunstverein Graz
Sound work with Morten Norbye Halvorsen
From June 2017

I ikigai
Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
8 April - 13 May 2017
Jacob Dwyer, Chris Evans, Xue Mu, Bert Scholten and Ran Zhang


Spring Season: Kunstverein Graz
From March 2017

I call it Lüttgen
Markus Luettgen
June 4th to July 30th 2016
Artun Alaska Arasli / Erica Baum / James Beckett / Anna Betbeze / Armin Boehm / Matt Connors / Ger van Elk / Chris Evans / Philipp Gufler / Stefan Hablützel / David Jablonowski / Ryan McLaughlin / Viola Relle - Raphael Weilguni/ George Rippon / Matthew Ronay / Tristan Wilczek / and others (to be announced).

Bryan Robertson Trust
Recipient of Bryan Robertson Trust Award, 2016

Lab'Bel Collection
Musee des Beaux Arts de Dole
18 March - 22 May 2016
James Clarkson, Chris Evans, Jef Geys, Gabriel Kuri, Benoît Maire, Jonathan Monk, Jorge Pedro Nuñez, Roman Ondák, Karin Sander, John Stezaker, Slaven Tolj

At Home
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
19th March - 3rd July 2016
Curated from the Arts Council Collection by Yorkshire Sculpture Park including works by Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sophie Calle, Fiona Banner, Chris Evans, Arman, Dan Graham, Paul Rooney, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Hepworth, Jordan Baseman, Robert Filliou, Bill Brandt, Jenny Holzer and Mark Wallinger.



Artists' Ideals and the Ideal Curator
Witte de With Colloquy

Friday 12 February 2016, 12 – 4 pm
Speakers: Rhea Dall & Kristine Siegel (PRAXES) with Chris Evans and Grégory Castéra (Council) with Kobe Matthys (artist/curator), Adam Sutherland (Grizedale Arts) with Laure Prouvost and Emily Pethick (Showroom, London) with Wendelien van Oldenborgh


Sculpture & the British Art Show: Seminar
Henry Moore Institute/Leeds Art Gallery

11th November 2015
Leeds Art Gallery Lecture Theatre, 2-4.30pm

On 10 October British Art Show 8, a five-yearly survey of art made in Britain, opens at Leeds Art Gallery. This seminar looks back at the changing concept of sculpture through the lens of the previous seven British Art Shows.

Chaired by Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute), speakers include Lisa Le Feuvre (Henry Moore Institute and co-curator of BAS7, 2010-11, with Tom Morton) and Natalie Rudd (Arts Council Collection, Longside), artists Bill Packer (selector of BAS1, 1979), Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton (AICA International), Chris Evans (artist BAS6, 2005) and Keith Wilson (artist BAS7, 2010-11).

Concert
FIAC, Paris



All The Instruments Agree
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
September 26th–27th, 2015
Two day program of live performances by local, national, and international sound artists, art bands, music collectives, and visual artists whose practices extend into the production of sound.


Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions
CRAC Alsace
Joana Bastos, Simon Boudvin, Chris Evans, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, David Horvitz, Jarbas Lopes, Nicolàs Paris, Marinella Senatore, Praneet Soi.

Curated by Filipa Oliveira et Elfi Turpin.


Neither here nor there, neither fish nor fowl
Schloss Ringenberg
1 June – 12 July 2015
Exhibition 1: Simone Forti, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman
Exhibition 2: Olivia Dunbar, Chris Evans, Karin Hasselberg, Will Holder, Ingrid Hora, Kitty Kraus, Christoph Westermeier
Curators: Angela Jerardi and Antonia Lotz

 

Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform
Praxes Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Cycle 4: Chris Evans I Rimini Protokoll

31st January–13th June 2015
Following three six-month Cycles with Gerard Byrne and Jutta Koether; Judith Hopf and Falke Pisano; and Christina Mackie and Matt Mullican; the fourth Cycle a Praxes, Berlin, is dedicated to the practices of CHRIS EVANS (London) and RIMINI PROTOKOLL (Berlin).
Review: Metropolism M

 

Praxes Center for Contemporary Art

 

 

Tour of Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform by Marina Vishmidt

10th May 2015, 17:00hrs

 

 

 

Hat + Single File
Sunday 10th May, 17:00hrs Performed by Concert (Chris Evans, Morten Norbye Halvorsen & Benjamin Seror)
Thursday 23rd April, 20:00hrs

Curse
Performed by Jason Dodge, Chris Evans and Morten Norbye Halvorsen.
+
A reading by the poet Matthew Dickman.
Wednesday 25th March, 20:00hrs

 

 

Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) / A Needle Walks into a Haystack
Markus Luettgen, Cologne
Solo exhibition
Opening 30th January 2015

Page ages page ages page ages
Politics of the multiple
Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti, Tiziano Manca, Concert (Chris Evans, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Benjamin Seror)
Opening performance: February 4th 2015

The Serving Library
Tate Liverpool
7th November 2014 – 8th February 2015

Errors Hit Orient
Chris Evans & Will Holder
Kunstverein Munchen
29th January 2015

Clerk of Mind
Solo exhibition at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
05 November 2014-17 January 2015
Review by Joanna Laws, frieze, Issue 168. January 2015

 

Clerk of Mind

Coptalk – Art Academy of Nurnberg

8th January 2015


Coptalk – Dublin
9th December 2014
A recruitment talk by an Gardas Ochana, Dublin to art students at:
Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, 4th Year Studio, 11:00hrs,
National College of Art & Design, Dublin Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, 13:00hrs
Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangemorgan, 15:30hrs


Untitled (Drippy Etiquette)
Solo exhibition at Piper Keys
18th October to 23rd November 2014


Untitled (Drippy Etiquette) Chris Evans - Piper Keys

CLODS, Diplomatic Letters
Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius
Permanent public work, opening 24th October 2014

Regenerate Art
Kunstverein München
Group exhibition
10th October - 30th November 2014

regenerate Art

Les Mots Bleus
Biennale de Belleville 3
Event – 11th October 2014


Les Mots leus

A Needle Walks into a Haystack
Liverpool Biennial 2014
Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman. 
5th July – 26th October 2014

Review: frieze, Issue 165


Clods, Diplomatic Letters
The Gardens, Vilnius
30th August – 1st October 2014

The Companion (Liverpool Biennial)
Performance weekend, 19th - 21st September 2014

Errors Hit Orient
Bloomberg Space
Chris Evans & Will Holder
Event as part of Does the It Stick, Joanne Tatham & Tom O Sullivan
Friday 30th May – 18:30pm

CONCERT*
Bob's Your Uncle, Kunstverein Amsterdam
May 9th 2014

*CONCERT is Chris Evans, Morten Norbye Halvorsen and Benjamin Seror

Rough Trade to re-issue Life Without Buildings
Release Date – April 19th 2014
Format – Vinyl LP + 7” vinyl ‘The Leanover’ c/w ‘New Town’
Cat.No. – TUGLP023X

Rough Trade: News

Life Without Buildings

The Serving Library presents POLYESTER 86% NYLON 14%
MOMA PS1
Sunday, March 2, 2014, 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Bulletins of the Serving Library


Portrait as a Recipient as a Door Handle, After a Drawing by an Anonymous Philanthropist
Sculpture International Rotterdam
Tuesday 4th February 2014
Presentation of new work by Chris Evans at the RABO-bank entrance.
Symposium at Witte de With, Rotterdam

Introduction by Lisette Smits (curator and advisor SIR) and talks about Chris Evans' work by Tirdad Zolghadr (writer and curator) and Marina Vishmidt (writer and researcher).
Followed by a (public) discussion with Tirdad Zolghadr, Marina Vishmidt, Lisette Smits and Chris Evans.
Moderator: Mai Abu ElDahab.


Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle, After a Drawing by an Anonymous Philanthropist


Symposium: Radical Conservatism
Castlefield Gallery
1st February 2014

Errors hit Orient
(Chris Evans & Will Holder)
As part of an
X marks the Bökship event at Wysing Arts Centre
Saturday 14th December, 3 - 5pm
Filmed and streamed on This is Tomorrow

Errors hit Orient
(Chris Evans & Will Holder)

The Northern Charter

Friday 29th November
Open 6.30-8.30 (Live event starts 7.30 promptly)

Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group, and other exercises in public presentation
Event as part of Does The It Fit, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, CIRCA Projects, Newcastle

Radical Conservatism
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
30th November 2013 – 2nd February 2014
Works by Chris Evans (London); IRWIN group, founded in Ljubljana (Slovenia); Joseph Lewis (London); Patrick Moran editor of the metal fanzine Buried (London); Oscar Nemon (b. 1906 Osijek, Croatia d. 1985 Oxford, UK); Pil and Galia Kollectiv (London) and Public Movement (Israel).

 


I Don't Know If I've Explained Myself

Liverpool Biennial: Thinking Cities

Event hosted as part of the series Thinking Cities by Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial & LJMU.
12th November, 2013

I don't know if I've explained myself

THE NARRATORS
Walker Art Gallery & The Royal Standard, Liverpool
11th October 2013 – 16th March 2014


Morning Star Rebranded

The Showroom

2nd–6th September 2013
Chris Evans with Dexter Sinister, Massimiliano Mollona, Marina Vishmidt
Event at The Showroom, 5th September 2013 -CANCELLED.

CONCERT on tour
22nd–30th June, 2013
Kadist, San Francisco
Aspen Art Museum
Redcat, L.A.
Artist's Space, New York

 

Concert - Speed of Night

Errors hit Orient
(Chris Evans & Will Holder)
The Institute of Jamais Vu

CLODS, Diplomatic Letters
Frieze Focus
Solo booth, Juliette Jongma at Frieze New York, 10th–13th May 2013

Bourgeois Leftovers
De Appel, Amsterdam
20th April—16th June 2013
De Appel, Amsterdam

Behave Like An Audience
Record and performance by Concert (Chris Evans, Morton Norbye Halvorsen, Benjamin Seror) hosted by Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Saturday 9th March 2013
10" vinyl published by
Sternberg

Concert

Concert

Specific Collisions II
Group exhibition at Marianne Boesky Uptown, New York, curated by Melissa Gordon
January 26 - February 23, 2013


Specific Collisions

Surplus Authors
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Group exhibition
6th September—6th January 2013

FURTHER BACK

Please see CV