Catherine Yass in conversation with Marie Bak Mortensen

18 Nov 2023 3-4pm

Overview

Join Turner Prize-nominated artist, Catherine Yass and Director of Create London, Marie Bak Mortensen in conversation following a screening of the film 'Flood Barrier' (12-3pm).

About Catherine Yass 

Born in London, England in 1963, Catherine Yass lives and works in London.

A retrospective of Yass’ vertiginous filmic oeuvre was presented at Ambika PS in 2021. In 2019 she was commissioned to make a photographic work for the Supreme Court and in 2017, RIBA held a performative screening of the artist’s film, Aeolian Piano, alongside the presentation of archival material from the BBC and the RIBA of the former’s TV Centre in West London. Solo exhibitions include Milton Keynes Gallery (2014); Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012) a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011); The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C. (2011);  Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009) and St Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2009).

Selected to represent Britain at the Indian Triennale at the Museum of Modern Art in Delhi in 2001, Yass was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002 and, in 2005, she took up a British Council Residency in China. Yass has completed major commissions for The Jewish Community Centre, London (2013); Rambert Dance Company, London (2013) and Merce Cunningham, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2003).

Her work can be found in a number of private and public collections including Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig; National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington D.C.; The Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York and Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.

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