Biography:

The first collaboration between Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings resulted in the publication Lost Property published by Chance Books and PADT in 1996. Later that year Errata featured as part of Now/Here exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Contents:Tiensevest 31 is a Cd rom catalogue of the extraordinary house which hosted Gallery Transit in Leuven Belgium, 1997. A slide-show version of Contents was included in Material Culture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. They contributed Browse, a guide available at the British Museum and Selfridges Department Store to Collected, an international exhibition which took place in several museums, shops, and private houses across central London. The exhibition as a whole was curated by Neil Cummings and commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery, London. An exhibition and series of events Pour Les Curieux was at the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva in 1998. The following year they took part in Interarchiv, a project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the University of Luneburg, and Gesichter und Dinge at the Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst in Berlin. In May/June of 2000 Not Hansard;the common wealth, was at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Their work was included in Voila at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, and in October a long term book project The Value of Things was published by August/Birkhauser and launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In December of the same year a series of events Documents marked the culmination of the artists year long residency at the Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton. A recent Serpentine Gallery commission led to a sound installation entitled Use Value as part of Give and Take at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Recent projects include Modern Chairs 1918-1970-2000 part of the Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary exhibition in March 2001. Capital seminars, publication and gift was the inaugural project in the Contemporary Interventions series at Tate Modern, during May/October 2001. Their work is featured in Trade, a major exhibition at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland. Forthcoming in 2002, is participation in an exhibition The Gift organised by ICI New York touring to several American museums and a large scale commission, Free Trade, to coincide with the reopening of the Manchester Art Gallery.


Links:

www.chanceprojects.com


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