Ryan Gander

Born 1976 in Chester, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London and Suffolk.

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Exhibition view: Ryan Gander, The Markers of Our Time, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2022. © The artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo © Tomoki Imai

Introduction

Ryan Gander has established an international reputation through artworks that materialize in many different forms from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance, among them.

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Gallery Exhibitions

External Exhibitions

Ryan Gander, Centred on the periphery, 2023. Photo © Ryan Gander

Chester Contemporary

Curated by Ryan Gander

Chester Contemporary is a major new visual arts event with a core program curated by Chester-born artist Ryan Gander OBE RA.

September 22—December 1, 2023

Various locations, Chester

I’M JUST RESTING MY EYES

Ryan Gander

Fukuoka Shoyu Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Ryan Gander entitled IʼM JUST RESTING MY EYES. The exhibition will showcase Gander’s latest works, as well as works that have yet to be...

July 15—November 26, 2023

Fukuoka Shoyu Gallery, Okayama

Manchester International Festival

With Ryan Gander and Tino Sehgal

Manchester International Festival (MIF) 2023 takes place June 29 – July 16, 2023. Since 2007 the festival has invited some of the greatest artists on the planet to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes...

June 29—July 16, 2023

Various locations, Manchester

Transformers

With Ryan Gander

This exhibition transforms the museum into a place where visitors can meet avatars, human machines that are able to move, talk, and learn; observe the richness of the movements, language, and responses of these transformed beings; witness how an animatronic...

December 10, 2022—April 30, 2023

Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

The Markers of Our Time

Ryan Gander

For The Markers of Our Time at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Ryan Gander has combined a variety of new and older works to turn an expansive gallery into a single work.

July 16 – September 19, 2022

Tokyo Opera City Gallery

Une seconde d’éternité

With Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal

The exhibition Une seconde d'éternité is gradually taking over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. It brings together the works of some twenty artists including Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino...

June 22, 2022—January 9, 2023

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

The 500 Million Year Collaboration

Ryan Gander

Many of the works shown in The 500 Million Year Collaboration, Ryan Gander’s most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date, focus on notions of time and the perception of the self. The title...

October 19—December 8, 2019

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Museum

with Ryan Gander

In a time of constant change and the attending sense of powerlessness, the exhibition Museum seeks to open up and occupy new spaces. Rather than critically questioning the institution, the focus is...

August 16, 2019—February 16, 2020

MMK–Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main

Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection

with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, 2019, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private...

June 29—September 29, 2019

MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier

Hate Speech, Aggression and Intimacy

with Ryan Gander

Against the backdrop of current developments in politics and the media, the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, in Graz is focusing on freedom of speech, its use and its abuse. Hate...

February 2—April 18, 2019

Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft

with Ryan Gander

ICA Milan inaugurates its exhibition activity with the show Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft, curated by Alberto Salvadori and Luigi Fassi. Presented for the first time, the project communicates dynamically...

January 24—March 15, 2019

ICA Milano, Milan

The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy

Ryan Gander

In September 2017, The Contemporary Austin presents The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy, three newly commissioned, site-specific outdoor sculptures by Ryan Gander. Taking the form of a ballet...

September 23, 2017

The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas

These wings aren't for flying

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander's solo exhibition These wings aren't for flying will present approximately 60 new works at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. At the same time, Gander will curate an exhibit made...

April 29—July 2, 2017

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Heterotopias. Avant-gardes in Contemporary Art

with Ryan Gander

December 10, 2016—April 30, 2017

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Aubette 1928, Strasbourg

Make every show like it’s your last

Ryan Gander

March 3—May 22, 2016

Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal

To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows

Ryan Gander

To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows is the first overview exhibition in Belgium of the work of British artist Ryan Gander (born 1976). In this exhibition, the...

January 31—March 27, 2016

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

Make every show like it's your last

Ryan Gander

November 20, 2015—February 7, 2016

Aspen Art Museum

Make every show like it's your last

Ryan Gander

September 11—November 1, 2015

Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

Read Only

Ryan Gander

Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Ryan Gander’s works involve a questioning of language and knowledge, and a reinvention of the modes...

June 4—August 2, 2015

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Documenta 13

with Ryan Gander

June 9—September 16, 2012

Documenta 13, Kassel

Icarus Falling – An Exhibition Lost

with Ryan Gander

British artist Ryan Gander was invited to create a new work for the Forum’s 10th birthday celebrations. The intriguing installation revisits the history of Western art, the memory of the Forum itself...

November 3, 2011—January 29, 2012

Le Forum, Tokyo

Locked Room Scenario

Ryan Gander

A group show in a warehouse in Hoxton. A number of artists and a range of work: sculptures, paintings, photographs, performance and video. You’d made an appointment to see the show. When...

August 30—October 23, 2011

Artangel, London

Intervals: Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander

October 1, 2010—January 9, 2011

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Die Is Cast

Ryan Gander

June 26—October 18, 2009

Villa Arson, Nice

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Berliner Galerie Schipper: Der außergewöhnliche Brite Ryan Gander mit „This is feeling all of it“

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Ryan Gander: “We all need to slow the fuck down”

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Ein Kinderspiel – Ryan Gander bei Esther Schipper

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On Chester Contemporary curated by Ryan Gander

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The Best Shows to See at Manchester International Festival

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Ryan Gander's coin hunt brings out competitive edge at Manchester International Festival

The Art Newspaper

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You're about to start coming across strange coins all around the city; this is why, and this is what they mean

Manchester Evening News

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Ryan Gander: ‘Going to a gallery is like taking your imagination to the gym’

The Guardian, UK

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Tokyo Opera City Gallery

Ryan Gander, The Markers of Our Time

Ryan Gander The Markers of Our Time Tokyo Opera City Gallery 3 Chome-20-2 Nishishinjuku 163-1403 Tokyo July 16 – September 19, 2022 www.operacity.jpFor The Markers of Our Time at Tokyo Opera City...

July 16 – September 19, 2022

various locations, Kortrijk

Paradise Kortrijk

From June 26 to October 24, 2021 the second Kortrijk Triennial will take place. Titled Paradise Kortrijk 2021, it includes works by Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone. Paradise Kortrijk 2021 invites contemporary artists to participate and...

June 26 – October 24, 2021

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Spotligt: Ryan Gander

This week for our Spotlight we present Ryan Gander's Y gêm (My neotonic contribution to Modernism), 2017.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Y gêm (My neotonic contribution to Modernism) takes as point of departure a 1918 abstract...

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Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander

Live Tour and Zoom Conversation with Ryan Gander and Princeton Program in Visual Arts faculty member David Reinfurt February 9, 2021, 12 pm (EST), 6pm (CET) Pre-registration is required Register for the...

February 9, 2021, 12 pm (EST), 6pm (CET)

Online Exhibition

Ryan Gander at SOLID HAUS

Natural and Conventional Signs is an exhibition in which Ryan Gander presents a selection of new works directly guided by his research at Princeton undertaken during his time as a Hodder Fellow (2019-2020)...

A recorded tour of the exhibition will be available to view on-demand from February 5–26, 2021

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Art in 2020⁠ - Live Broadcast⁠ by Art Basel with Simon Fujiwara and Ryan Gander

OVR:2020, which opens on September 23, is dedicated to art made in 2020. On the eve of its launch, Art Basel and the Financial Times invite leading artists to discuss their new...

Tuesday, September 22, 2020,⁠ 10 AM ET / 4PM CET / 10HKT⁠

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Ryan Gander at Kunsthalle Bern

The title Ryan Gander has chosen for his exhibition asserts an inconceivable temporal dimension. A collaboration over 500 million years? Between man and earth? Is it a look into the past or...

October 19 – December 8, 2019

Merrivale Model Village, Great Yarmuth

Artist Talk with Ryan Gander

A discussion between Ryan Gander and Will Self about Ryan's 1:12 scale commission for Merrivale Model Village one-twelfth is a series of 12 annual 1:12 scale public art commissions organised by originalprojects;....

July 10, 2019, 5.30-7.30 pm

MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel de Collections, Montpellier

Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private collection...

June 29 – September 29, 2019

Armory Live Theater on Pier 94

Artist Talk with Ryan Gander

On Saturday March 9 at 1pm, Ryan Gander will join the panel discussion Biennials Then and Now during The Armory Show together with Liverpool Biennial director, Sally Tallant, to discuss the relevancy of biennials today. Read more

March 9, 2019, 1:00pm

ICA Milano

Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft with Ryan Gander

Works by Ryan Gander will be on view until March 15, 2019, in the group exhibition 'Apologia della storia - The Historian's Craft' at the ICA Milano. Read more

January 24 – March 15, 2019

Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin

Conversation with Ryan Gander

September 23, 2017 at 12pm

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying

Ryan Gander's solo exhibition These wings aren't for flying (April 29 – July 2, 2017) will present approximately 60 new works at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. At the same time, Gander will...

April 29–July 2, 2017

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Ryan Gander: These wings aren't for flying

April 29 – July 2, 2017

Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

The Transported Man, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone

April 29 – October 22, 2017

Films

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Ryan Waiting

Ryan Gander

The work is co-commissioned and presented by VIVE Arts, in partnership with Esther Schipper and organised with Olivier Renaud-Clément.

Ryan Waiting, 2024 is Gander’s first artificial intelligence virtual reality artwork. The work which exists as both a VR experience and a wrap-around environment of monitors for visitors to walk into renders Gander as cartoony avatar. At the same time, the rendered figure has an uncanny life-likeness due to motion capture which retains characteristic gestures of the artists and his body language.