Jim Lambie

69 South Audley Street, London W1
For one month Sadie Coles HQ will be filled with FILMS. The exhibition presents an expanded notion of film and is a celebration of this exceptionally diverse and detailed medium, beloved of artists, now being superseded by new digital technologies.

Works will be shown on a variety of formats, specifically 35mm slides, video, 8mm and
16mm film. Each week will showcase work by a different artist:

Sarah Lucas
Sausage Film, 1990, Betacam SP
The first and only film by Lucas is the epitome of her confrontational style: the artist saucily skins, slices and eats a sausage and a banana.
Thursday 17 – Saturday 19 January

TJ Wilcox
The Death and Burial of the First Emperor of China, 1997, 16mm
‘It was in the ‘70s that they found this tomb. It was guarded by these terracotta warriors and now they have found ten thousand of them...’
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 January

Jim Lambie
Ultralow, 1998, Beta SP Video
A metronome for our darker hours…
Tuesday 29 January – Saturday 02 February

Wilhelm Sasnal
Kodachrome, 2006, Super-8 film
Europa, 2007, 16mm film
These two films by Sasnal focus on the medium itself, one using just text and soundtrack to describe a classic movie scene, the other a homage to Kodachrome and its place in 20th century history.
Tuesday 05 – Saturday 09 February

Hilary Lloyd
Princess Julia Slide Projection, 1997, 35mm slides
Lloyd’s first slide projection shows Princess Julia journeying to and from work.
Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 February

N.B. Opening hours Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

For his third exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Jim Lambie continues to reinvest the ephemera of popular culture with new life. Habitually employing records, record players, speakers, clothing, haberdashery, accessories, mirrors or doors Lambie energetically reconfigures these items to become the compositional elements of new sculptural forms. The plasticity of the materials themselves is rediscovered, while the recognizability of the original objects offers an inroad into a metaphorical interpretation of their new incarnation. From here Lambie’s titles add another texture of further associations. 

Using found materials such as discarded speakers, rock t-shirts, leather jackets and gloves, Jim Lambie’s sculptures obliquely harness the ability of music to transform mood and open up the mind, “getting rid of the edges” as he puts it.  Lambie’s works have a freshness of form – partly to do with the fact that they look fun to make – that make the viewer feel that things are looking up: this is the hippest party in town.  His surprising combinations of familiar objects are unpretentiously transformed by a psychedelic palate and energised with his economic efficiency.  From bed-sit trash into talismans that alter physical and cerebral space, the works act like a favourite song - the sculptures lead and the audience follows.  The objects become fetishistic artefacts by appearing to have, even for a moment, a significant force not quite their own, like the discarded tools of a shaman or magician. 

Jim Lambie’s second exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ continues his association with music, atmosphere and social environments, a reminder that Scottish artist Lambie worked in the music industry before studying at Glasgow School of Art.  Lambie has recently been included in major international group shows such as Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Centre, 2001, Here and Now – Scottish Contemporary Art at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee and currently in Early One Morning at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.  Last year, Lambie was one of the winners of the Paul Hamlyn Art Awards.

1964 Born in Scotland
1990-94 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Solo Exhibitions
2007 The Prismatics, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006 Directions, Hirschhorn Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
P.I.L, Mitzuma Gallery, Tokyo
Adidas Originals Store, London
2005 The Kinks, Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (TX)
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2004 My Boyfriend’s Back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mars Hotel, Galleria Franco Noero / Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino, Italy
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern, New York
Grand Funk, OPA, Mexico
2003 Jim Lambie: Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (cat.)
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2002 Hot Butter, Anton Kern, New York
Acid Trails??Statements, Miami Basel, Miami (FL)
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Breeder Projects, Athens, Greece
2001 Jim Lambie, Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco (CA)
2000 Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy (cat.)
Triangle, Paris
Black Gloss, Anton Kern, New York
1999 Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.)
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London
1998 Ultralow, The Modern Institute Video Screening Carnival, London

Group Exhibitions
2007 Melting Point, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

Reconstruction 2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MA)
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Echo Room, Alcalá 31, Madrid
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Off the Wall, Scottish National Galler of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006 This is Not For You : Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London
Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (MA)
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO)
JaGGy-edge, The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland
Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York
IMPLOSION, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden / Total Damage, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London
Abstract art now – strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
2005 Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Omaggio al Quadrato, Franco Noero, Turin, italy
Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Prisms & Shadows (curated by Toby Paterson), Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2004 Works from the Boros Collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (cat.)
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (PA)
From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Brand New and Retro, Up Empire, London
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut CT
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City and Museo de Arte Contemporaro de Monterrey
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow
last winter spring never came, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Genesis Sculpture – Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, France
2003 Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future, MCA Chicago
Scottish Pavillon (with Simon Starling and Clare Barclay), 50th International Biennale of Arts, Venice (cat.)
Days Like These - Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (cat.)
The Fourth Sex, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Painting Not Painting, Tate St. Ives, St Ives, England (cat.)
Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell’arte Contemporanea (The tale of the other thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contemporary Art), MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
The Moderns, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
OUTLOOK, Athens, Greece
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Plunder, Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection, touring exhibition: Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberrystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England; Tullie House, Carlisle, England
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
2002 VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (cat.)
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Greyscale/ CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (curated by NIFCA, Helsinki) (cat.)
New – Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh (cat.)
Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Francis and Sol, Stedelijk Museum Bureau,
Amsterdam
Roma Roma Roma, Rome
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat.)
Early One Morning – Five Young British Sculptors, presentation at Tate Britain, London
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenberg Museum, Copenhagen (cat.)
Hello, My Name Is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA) (cat.)
Superlounge, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London
Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Life Is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
2001 Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MI) (cat.)
SchattenRisse/Shadows, Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (cat.)
Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (cat.)
Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (cat.)
Tailsliding, British Council touring exhibition (cat.)
2000Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London
British Art Show 5, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (Hayward touring exhibition) (cat.)
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, Mapin Gallery Sheffield, Camden Arts Centre London(cat.)
Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Off the record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg (PA)
Raumkörper, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Black Gloss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles (CA)
1999 Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
To be continued…, Walsall, England (public projects) (cat.)
Dots and Loops, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
Silk purse, Waygood gallery, Newcastle, England
Mathew Higgs @Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
1998 Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England (cat.)
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery Triangle, Marseille, France
Slant6, Jacob Javit’s Center, New York
Ultralow, (solo video screening), Carnival Cinema, Soho, London
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London
Host, Tramway, Glasgow (cat.)
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1997 This is…These are, Kirsty Ogg, Norwich, England
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, Scotland
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Valencia (CA)
Girls High, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (cat.)
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt Street, London
Sick building, Globe Gallery, Copenhagen
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France
1995 In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland

Residencies

2000 Triangle, New York
1998 Triangle, Marseille, France

Commissions and Awards

2003 BBC Underground 2003 Award
2000 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, London
1998 British Council award for residency at Triangle, Marseille, France
‘Ultralow’ commission for the Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

Collections

British Council Collection, London
Arts Council Collection, London
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, (PA)