1963 born in Glasgow
1992–94 MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
1993 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2018
Ljud i Porten, Konstfrämjandet, Stockholm
2015
Dave Allen; Calder Brown and Near an Open Window, Elastic, Stockholm
2014
Werther Love Buzz, Elastic, Stockholm
2012
The Crowd Waits Outside, Die Raum, Berlin
2011
Calder Brown, Elastic, Malmö
2010
RSTR4, Munich
2009
It Swung Back and Forth, Back and Forth Until Forever. Then it Stopped and it Howled Endlessly.
Allgirls, Berlin
2008
Canon to the Hammer of the Gods, Wiener Secession, Vienna (cat.)
2007
Elastic Gallery, Malmö
Röda Sten, Gothenburg
2006
One Way, Another Way, Then Any Other Way, Letzte Überprüfung/Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
2005
PING-PONG, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Art Metropole, Toronto
2003
The Sun and the Sky, galerie wieland, Berlin
The Mirrored Catalogue d’Oiseaux, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Divine Intervention / New Wave of New Wave, Kunstbank, Berlin
2002
The Mirrored Catalogue d’Oiseaux, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
R.P.F. [For Recorded Instrument], Laura Mars Grp., Berlin
2001
Hee-Haw Cries the Young Komponist Dave Allen, Showroom Gallery, London (cat.)
2000
Galleri Signal, Malmö (with Jonathan Monk)
Gyrostasis, Workweb_Art, Cologne (with Jonathan Monk)
Starship, Berlin (with Dominic Eichler)
1999
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
1997
Classic Line-Up, Reunion, Dave Allen & Ross Sinclair, Containerize/KW, Berlin
1996
Konstakuten, Malmö (with Åsa Andersson)
Sawn-Off, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (cat.)
Nine Till Twelve Rehearsal, Kunst-Werke Berlin
1995
Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin
Mu-Terem Galerie, Budapest (with Martin Boyce)(cat.)
City Racing, London (with Roddy Buchanan)
1993
Live Version, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia and Tramway, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2018
Familienstand, Neumühlen, Hanse-Gate, Hamburg, DE
Bie Bienalle II, Bie, SE
2017
Lokal – Franz Kafka, ReisebueroGlobal, Berlin
På Annan Plats, Ystads Konstmuseum, SE
The Transported Man, Braod Art Museum at Michigan State University, US
Revenge of the Crystal, SADE, Los Angeles
2016
Elastic at Vagnsverkstaden, Varvsstaden, Malmö SE
Bie Bienalle, Bie, SE
Dave Allen and Pol Matthé, Mount Analogue, Stockholm
2015
Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (cat.); Kunsthaus Nuernberg; Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2014
Whole Lotta Love, Publication Studio, Vancouver
Elastic – A Group Show, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm
This is our Art This is our Music, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2013
allgirls editions @ UHU, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz / Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
POPISM – Dave Allen / Candice Breitz / Douglas Gordon, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Monopol, Norrmalmstorg 12, Stockholm
2012
I Wish This Was A Song. Music In Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo (cat.)
Sounds like Silence (Cage – 4’33” – Stille / 1912 – 1952 – 2012), HMKV, Dortmund (cat.)
2011
Backstage Riders, Ehemaliges Tagesspiegel Gelände, Berlin
Wave-Cut Platform, 83 Hill St. Glasgow
2010
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm (cat.)
Collage #2, Flimmern, RSTR4, Munich
2009
This is the Score (Parts I and II), Elastic, Malmö
Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz (cat.)
Richard Prince and the Revolution, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Anzengruber B, Cafe Anzengruber, Vienna
Stage II, The Project Gallery, New York
2008
The Sound I’m Looking For, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Rock My Religion l, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
2007
Presque Rien I, Laure Genillard, London
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Alt.Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Tanzen, Sehen – The Provocation of the Media in the Dialogue of Dance and Fine Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo Sevilla (cat.)
2006
Hysteria Siberiana, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (cat.)
sonambiente 2006, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (cat.)
Where the Wild Things Are, DCA, Dundee
While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, Migros Museum, Zurich (cat.)
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it…, The Showroom, London
Die 90er, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
2005
ADAM, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Stabile Seitenlage, Museum Bochum; Galerie der Künstler, Munich; Kunsthaus Dresden; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen (cat.)
Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening, The Power Plant, Toronto
Club Transmediale 05, Maria, Berlin (cat.)
Murmur, Tent, Rotterdam
2004
None of the Above, Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York
Schöner Wohnen, BE-PART, Waregem, BE (cat.)
Open, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Hit and Run, Platform Garanti, Istanbul (cat.)
Louder This Time, Cityloop, Villa Galvani, Pordenone
Ouroborous, CCA, Glasgow
Galerie Marres, Maastricht
What Did You Expect?, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
2003
Dave Allen – Naomi Ben-Shahar – Bernadette Corporation, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg
Jammed, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
We’ll Meet You in the Lobby, Buyuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul
Zeno Map, Biennale Venedig / Venice Biennial
Display Niedersachsen, Vertretung des Landes Niedersachsen, Berlin
2002
Internationales Netzwerk, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden
Music in Me, GAK, Bremen
Here and Now, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Air Guitar, MKG, Milton Keynes (cat.)
The Berlin Files, De Chiara Gallery, New York
2001
Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Freundschaft, Galerie Kuckei & Kuckei, Berlin
Here & Now, Scottish Art 1990 – Present, DCA, Dundee (cat.)
Wiederaufnahme/Retake, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (cat.)
Circles #4, ZKM, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Songs of Love and Hate, galerie wieland, Berlin
2000
We Want to Believe, Sparwasser, Berlin
For Those About To Rock…, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (cat.)
Can 303s Heal?, The Modern Institute at Kiasma, Helsinki
1999
All Needles on Eleven, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Radio Tuesday, All Horizons Club, Glasgow
Networking the Bible, P-House Gallery, Tokyo
1998
Centerum Censeo, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin
Art Club Berlin, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin
Networking the Bible, Sali-Gia Gallery, London
Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Art Club Berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
A4, Villa Minimo, Hannover
1997
D.I.Y. – Mapping & Instruction, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna (cat.)
Art Club Berlin, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin
Eurovision, 200 Russell St, Melbourne
Networking the Bible, Konstakuten, Stockholm
Wish You Were Here Too, Hill St, Glasgow
1996
Sick Building/Compartments, Transmission at Globe, Copenhagen (cat.)
Index Multiples, Galerie Index, Stockholm
Dave Allen, Jonathan Monk, Flora Neuwirth, Ross Sinclair and Betty Stürmer, allgirls Gallery, Berlin
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, CalArts, CA, USA
Three Day Weekend, Eros Travel Company, Vienna
Notell Hotel, Moathouse Hotel, Glasgow
30 Secs Plus Title, Luxus.cont, Berlin
1995
Karaoke, South London Art Gallery, London
Young British Art, Eigen + Art, Berlin at IAS, London
30 Secs Plus Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994
Some of My Friends, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen
Summer Group Show, Three Day Weekend, 14th St., Los Angeles
My Little Toilet, Jonathan Monk’s Apartment, Glasgow
Couch Potatoes, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1993
30 Secs Plus Title, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Interim, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Left Luggage, Paris, Rome, Geneva, Los Angeles …
Performances (p) / Radio Broadcasts (r) / Film Screenings (f) / Audio Releases
2019
MMM + 1/MMM, Elastic, Stockholm (p)
Inverted and Pursued Ferrari with Jakob Riis, Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow UK (r)
2018
Inverted OhTon, Bie Bienalle, Bie, SE
2015
Near an Open Window, Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK (r)
2014
There Comes a Point When the Score is Thrown Away, performance by the Great Learning Orchestra, Marabouparken Stockholm 22.10.2014
2013
Set Yr Controls for the Heart of Sun House, Dubbelradio/Mobile Radio, Konsthall C, 21.9.2013 (r)
2012
Inverted and Pursued Ferrari, (with Jakob Riis), Klubb YoYo, Malmö (p)
Sounds Like Silence, HMKV Dortmund/Gruenrekorder (cd)
Sounds Like Silence, Deutschland Radio, 24.08.2012 (r)
2011
Konsthall C, Stockholm (p)
Svart Fet Jord, Fylkingen, Stockholm (p)
Improvisations / Collaborations: Dave Allen / Chris Corsano / Zeena Parkins, Serralves Foundation / Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (p)
IASPISH, Hornstull Strand/IASPIS, Stockholm (p)
2010
It Swung Back and Forth, Back and Forth Until Forever. Then it Stopped and it Howled Endlessly, vinyl record, published by Little & Large Editions, Berlin
Inverted Oh-Ton, Café Fortuna/RSTR4, Munich
It Swung Back and Forth, Back and Forth Until Forever. Then it Stopped and it Howled Endlessly, Liste 15 Basel (p) / Elastic Malmö (p)
One and Three and Four, Gothenburg International Film Festival (f)
2009
It Swung Back and Forth, Back and Forth Until Forever. Then it Stopped and it Howled Endlessly, Allgirls, Berlin (p)
Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz (p)
Canon to the Hammer of the Gods, vinyl record, published by Wiener Secession, Vienna
2008
April 1898, Wiener Secession, Vienna (p)
Games For May, Ö1 Kunstradio – Radiokunst, Vienna (r)
Contributor, FREI-Fanzine, Wiener Secession, Vienna
The Sound I’m Looking For, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancounver (p)
2007
Full Pull 07, Malmö (p)
Kino Eye #7, Mukha, Antwerp
2006
amusic, Index/club Ugglan, Stockholm (p)
Audio Relay, Indiana (r)
2005
Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam (r)
Art Metropole, Toronto (p)
Mercersound CD, Venice 2005, Mercer Union, Toronto
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin (p)
2004
Rebootfm, Reboot, Berlin (r)
Platform Garanti, Istanbul (p)
Artist Project, C Magazine #80, Toronto
2003
Inverted Oh-Ton, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg (p)
2002
The Mirrored Catalogue d’Oiseaux, vinyl record, published by Boileau & Narcejac, Frankfurt a. M.
2000
Before Tomorrow Comes, CD#3, Kyra Stratmann (ed.), Cologne
For Those About To Rock, vinyl record, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt a. M.
Selected Bibliography
Jan Tumlir, The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2015
Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2015
Time Pieces, Video Art Since 1963, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2014
Jonas Ekeberg, Kunstkritikk mag online, 2013 www.kunstkritikk.se/kommentar/det-delte-kunstfeltet/
Ich Möchte Teil einer Jugendstilbewegung Sein, Der Beethovenfries Wiener Secession, Vienna, 2013
Frieze Art Fair London Catalogue 2012-3, Frieze, London, 2012 (cat)
I Wish This Was A Song. Music in Contemporary Art, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, 2012 (cat)
Sounds Like Silence, HMKV Dortmund/Spector Books, 2012 (cat)
Lars Hermansson, Dave Allen Calder Brown at Elastic, gallery notes, http://www.elasticgallery.com/exhibition/1276
Rui Eduardo Paes, Dave Allen’s Silence in Dave Allen/Chris Corsano/Zeena Parkins Improvisations/Collaborations, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal, 2011
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm, 2010 (cat.)
Between Zones/Zwischenzonen, Migros Museum fuer Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, 2010 (cat.)
Palais De Tokyo Vol. 3, Paris, 2010
Palais De Tokyo Magazine 10, Paris, 2009
Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, 2009 (cat.)
Andreas Schlaegel, Dave Allen, in: Flash Art No. 261 July – September 2008, Milan, 2008
Raimar Stange, Cover Me, in: Dave Allen, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 2008 (cat.)
Stefanie Scheit, Der Tanz als kultureller Körper, in: Tanzen, Sehen, Siegen and Sevilla, 2007
Raimar Stange, crossOVER, in: sonambiente, Berlin, 2006 (cat.)
Christiane Mennicke, The Presence of Absence, in: Stabile Seitenlage, Frankfurt a. M., 2005 (cat.)
Emily Hall, None of the Above, in: Artforum, March, 2005
QSL, Middlesborough Museum of Modern Art, 2004 (CD)
Elena Filipovic, What Did You Expect?, in: frieze, 86, 10/2004
Notes on the Song Drawings & Other Musical Manuscripts, in: D Magazine, Pilot Issue, June 2004
Raimar Stange, Zurück in die Kunst, Hamburg, 2003
April Lamm, Dave Allen at Laura Mars Grp. Berlin, in: tema celeste, 94, 11/12 2002
Jan Verwoert, Dave Allen, in: frieze, 69, 9/2002
Circles – Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,
ZKM Karlsruhe, Frankfurt a. M., 2002 (cat.)
Raimar Stange, Dave Allen, in: Artist Magazine, 25, 2002
Raimar Stange, Sur.Faces, Interviews 2001/2002, Frankfurt a. M., 2002
Air Guitar – Art Reconsidering Rock Music, MKG, Milton Keynes, 2002 (cat.)
Harald Fricke, Mysterien der Aufnahmetechnik, Dave Allens „Recording“-Arbeiten, in: Wiederaufnahme,
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2001 (cat.)
Will Bradley, Rebellious Jukebox, in: Dave Allen, The Showroom, London, 2001 (cat.)
Gregor Jansen, Musik im neuen Kunstverein, in: Kunst-Bulletin, 11/2001
Harald Fricke, Songs of Love and Hate, in: Artforum, October 2001
Martin Herbert, Dave Allen, in: Time Out, 24.10.2001
Helen Sumpter, Can You Hear What It is Yet?, in: The Big Issue, 458, 2001
Daniel Boese, Befreite Sounddateien, in: TAZ, 7.6.2001
John Miller, The Use Value of Rock, in: For Those About To Rock…, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, 2000 (cat. and LP)
Sabine B. Vogel, For Those About To Rock…, in: Kunst-Bulletin, 4/2000
Raimar Stange, Das Klischee als Zeichen des Begehrens, in: Neue Bildende Kunst, 5/1998
Maria Lind, Männlicher Masochismus und Feel-Good-Stimmung: Zwei Leitmotive in Videos der 90er Jahre, in: Make It Funky, Jahresring 45, Köln, 1998
Harald Fricke, Happiness is a Warm Rehearsal Room, in: Sawn-Off, Stockholm, 1996 (cat.)
Katrina Brown, Sawn-Off, in: Art Monthly, 196, 1996
Ross Sinclair, Nietzsche, the Beastie Boys and Masturbating as an Art Form, in: New Art in
Scotland, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, 1994 (cat.)
Ross Sinclair, Getting Closer to Failure, in: BE Magazine, 2, 1994