Helen Marten

Helen Marten (born 1985, Macclesfield, UK) is an artist living in London who works in sculpture, video, and installation art. Her work has been included in the 56th Venice Biennale and the 20th Biennial of Sydney. She has won the 2012 LUMA Award from the (LUMA Foundation) and the Prix Lafayette in 2011.

Writing about year-long touring exhibition, Almost the exact shape of Florida at Kunsthalle Zürich, Plank Salad at Chisenhale Gallery in London (2012) and No borders in a wok that can't be crossed at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College (2013), the curators of the three exhibitions called them "one of the most fertile, and one might say febrile, artistic productions of our time, cannily utilizing the potential of both the analogue and digital to make sculptures, videos, and installations that collapse traditional forms and boundaries of matter, language, and meaning."^[1] Jörg Heiser has written of her work, "Marten treats physical stuff the digital way: she drags and drops, compresses and unpacks, crashes and reboots."^[2]

Marten studied at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, 2005-2008 and Central Saint Martins, 2004.

Marten's work is in the collections of Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway ; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[3]

Marten is represented by Sadie Coles HQ^[4] in London, Greene Naftali^[5] in New York, König Galerie^[6] in Berlin, and t293^[7] in Rome.

Notable solo exhibitions

• Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2016)
• Eucalyptus, Let us in, Greene Naftali, New York (2016)
• Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom, Johann König, Berlin (2014)
• Parrot Problems, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2014)
• Oreo St. James, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2014)
• No borders in a wok that can’t be crossed, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA (2013)
• Plank Salad, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2012)
• Evian Disease, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012)
• ALMOST THE EXACT SHAPE OF FLORIDA, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (2012)
• Dust and Piranhas, Park Night Project, Serpentine Gallery, London (2011)
• Take a stick and make it sharp, Johann König, Berlin (2011)
• All the single ladies, Coltorti, Miami (FL), USA (2010)
• Wicked patterns, T293, Naples, Italy (2010)

Selected group exhibitions

• The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, 20th Biennial of Sydney (2016)
• From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York (2016)
• Suspended Animation, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2016)
• 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor (2015)

Awards

• LUMA Award 2012 (LUMA Foundation), winner
• Prix Lafayette, 2011
• LUMA Award, 2011 (shortlist), selected by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Beatrix Ruf
• The Boise Travel Scholarship, 2009
• The Fitzgerald Prize, Exeter College, Oxford, 2008

Bibliography

• Eccles, Tom, Beatrix Ruf, Polly Staple, eds., Helen Marten, JRP|Ringier, 2013
• Marten, Helen, Parrot Problems, Fidericianum, Kassel, 2016

References

1. Ruf, Beatrix (2013). Helen Marten. JRP Ringier. ISBN 9783037643464. Note: co-edited by Tom Eccles and Polly Staple
2. Heiser, Jörg. "Focus: Helen Marten". Frieze. Frieze. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
3. "Helen Marten bio - Greene Naftali". Greene Naftali. Greene Naftali. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
4. "Helen Marten bio - Sadie Coles". Sadie Coles. Sadie Coles. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
5. "Helen Marten - Greene Naftali". Greene Naftali. Greene Naftali.
6. "Helen Marten - König Galerie". König Galerie. König Galerie. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
7. "Helen Marten - t293". t293. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

External links

• Artist's website
• Marten, Helen. "My Influences," Frieze, May 2013
• Heiser, Jörg, "Focus: Helen Marten," Frieze, November-December 2011