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Angela Bulloch

Born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Exhibition view: Angela Bulloch, Perpendicular Paradigm, Musée d'Arts de Nantes, 2022. Photo © Cécile Clos

Introduction

Angela Bulloch’s work spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns and rules, as well as her preoccupation with the history of shapes and human interaction.

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Selected works

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Angela Bulloch
Heavy Metal Stack of Five: Sky Frame, 2024
Stainless steel, paint
259 x 98 x 98 cm (overall)
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Angela Bulloch
Pentagon Lilac Box, 2024
Stainless steel, paint
156 x 70 x 70 cm (overall)
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Angela Bulloch
Target Slap Happy Bag, 2023
Bean bag with AR target image linked to digital animation
Dimensions variable
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Angela Bulloch
Pentagon Totem: Ruby, 2023

Stainless steel, paint

159 x 60 x 60 cm (overall)
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Angela Bulloch
Pythagoras in a Bean Field, 2023
Stainless steel, paint
186 x 70 x 70 cm (overall)
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Angela Bulloch
Multi Waisted Zero Seoul, 2023

Dimensions variable, number of elements stands in relation to the size of the wall
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Angela Bulloch
Pythagoras Theorem, 2023

The actual work consists of an A4 sheet with the Rules text, accompanied by a certificate. The Rules text can be reproduced in any medium or form by the owner
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Angela Bulloch
Scorpio & Antares, 2022
LED lights, blue felt, aluminum

68 x 68 x 5 cm
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Angela Bulloch
Night Sky: Mercury In Virgo, 2022
LED lights, blue felt, aluminum
202 x 202 x 5 cm
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Angela Bulloch
Heavy Metal Stack of Three: Krypton Griffin, 2021
Stainless steel, paint
159 x 80 x 50 cm (overall)
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Angela Bulloch
Dynamic Stereo Drawing Machine, 2020

Sound-activated drawing machine, ink, metal rails and electronic motor, paper

170 x 300 cm
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Angela Bulloch
Pentagon Pixel: Cardinal, 2014/2021

Pixel box (Corian, LED, wiring), MDF, paint

100 x 50 x 50 cm
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Angela Bulloch
Cosa Nostra, 2011

The work is conceptual and has no pre-defined form. The owner has the right to execute and reproduce the work in any desired form, medium or size, and the execution of the work can be undertaken independently of the artist.

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Angela Bulloch
Night Sky: Venus in Taurus.6, 2010
LED lights, felt, aluminum
135 x 202 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Slapping Pythagoras Angela Bulloch

Slapping Pythagoras

Angela Bulloch
Esther Schipper, Seoul presents Slapping Pythagoras, Angela Bulloch’s first solo exhibition in Korea.
September 5—October 28, 2023
Esther Schipper, Seoul
Special presentation around Jeanne Tremsal's new book 'My father, mon père, mein Vater’ With works by Angela Bulloch, Isa Melsheimer,...

Special presentation around Jeanne Tremsal's new book 'My father, mon père, mein Vater’

With works by Angela Bulloch, Isa Melsheimer, Christopher Roth and Benoît Tremsal
In the bookstore a special presentation around Jeanne Tremsal's new book 'My father, mon père, mein Vater' is on view. The book includes materials surrounding the 2021 exhibition 'My father, my neighbors, my friends and their friends' at the Fahrbereitschaft...
March 3—April 8, 2023
Esther Schipper Bookstore, Berlin
Animal Vegetable Mineral Angela Bulloch

Animal Vegetable Mineral

Angela Bulloch
Exhibition: Angela Bulloch, Animal Vegetable Mineral at Esther Schipper, Berlin. Featuring sculptures, painting and animation.
November 5—December 18, 2021
Esther Schipper, Berlin
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
Heavy Metal Body Angela Bulloch

Heavy Metal Body

Angela Bulloch
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the opening of Heavy Metal Body, new sculptures by Angela Bulloch, which will inaugurate Esther Schipper’s new gallery space at Potsdamer Strasse 81E, in parallel to...
April 28—June 17, 2017
Esther Schipper, Berlin
In Virtual Vitro Angela Bulloch

In Virtual Vitro

Angela Bulloch
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the opening of Angela Bulloch's eleventh exhibition with the gallery. Entitled In Virtual Vitro, the exhibition includes new contributions to key series in the artist's oeuvre,...
January 24—March 1, 2014
ABCDLP 002 – Short Big Drama by George van Dam for Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine by Angela Bulloch Angela...

ABCDLP 002 – Short Big Drama by George van Dam for Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine by Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch
Since 1990, Angela Bulloch has constructed eleven drawing machines, or rather ten machines in eleven incarnations, as the first drawing machine Blue Horizons (1990) was transformed into the second drawing machine Blue...
September 11—October 6, 2012
REDUX Angela Bulloch

REDUX

Angela Bulloch
Esther Schipper is presenting REDUX—an exhibition introducing new works by Angela Bulloch. With 10 works on display, the artist carries out a systematic survey of her own artistic repertoire of forms. REDUX...
March 20—April 17, 2010
Summer Exhibition Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller

Summer Exhibition

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller
For this year’s summer exhibition Esther Schipper shows works by Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch and Christopher Keller. The scientific foundations of these works lay the basis for empirically comparable plans for getting...
July 22—September 12, 2009
Are you coming or going, around? Angela Bulloch

Are you coming or going, around?

Angela Bulloch
Are you coming or going, around? is the title of a new exhibition by Angela Bulloch. In recent years, Bulloch has been mainly experimenting with the possibilities of her so-called Pixel Boxes,...
April 27—June 23, 2007
Z Point Angela Bulloch

Z Point

Angela Bulloch
June 25—July 10, 2004
Macro World: One Hour3 and Canned Angela Bulloch

Macro World: One Hour3 and Canned

Angela Bulloch
The way the pixel module developed by Angela Bulloch is treated in the present installation deals even stronger than before with the connection between the media and everyday life. The trend towards...
June 1—July 6, 2002
BLOW_UP T.V. Angela Bulloch

BLOW_UP T.V.

Angela Bulloch
A pixel is the smallest conceivable picture element, which makes sense in a semantic way only when appearing within a group. When the square of light made by a single pixel is...
September 25—November 18, 2000
Space Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger

Space

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger
November 19, 1999—January 15, 2000
Codes Angela Bulloch

Codes

Angela Bulloch
The exhibition Codes manifests itself with three new works which are a further development of the light works as well as Rules by Angela Bulloch. The light globes ('Belisha Beacons'), which are...
May 27—July 11, 1998
Mud Slinger Angela Bulloch

Mud Slinger

Angela Bulloch
October 6—November 4, 1995
Mixbild Shuji Aryoshi, Angela Bulloch, Inez van Lamsweerde

Mixbild

Shuji Aryoshi, Angela Bulloch, Inez van Lamsweerde
Mixed images, video works, TV works, video magazines, video documentaries, compilations by international artists, artist groups, video labels, video documentaries and media activists. In a room with works by: Shuji Aryoshi, Angela...
September 24—October 30, 1994
Rules Series Angela Bulloch

Rules Series

Angela Bulloch
September 18, 1993
MHLM...MGHMMH! Angela Bulloch

MHLM...MGHMMH!

Angela Bulloch
June 13—July 25, 1992
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Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch
November 16—December 31, 1990
Angela Bulloch, Gary Hume, Michael Landy

Angela Bulloch, Gary Hume, Michael Landy

. . . to the fold On his way he fell upon three places, for want of a better phrase, in succession. One. Another. Another still. Unknown to this weary traveller, his...
October 12—November 11, 1989

External Exhibitions

15th Gwangju Biennale With Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno

15th Gwangju Biennale

With Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno
15th Gwangju Biennale With Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno Various Venues, Gwangju September 7– December 1, 2024
September 7—December 1, 2024
Various Venues, Gwangju
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000 With Angela Bulloch

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000

With Angela Bulloch
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000 With Angela Bulloch Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin Through September 28, 2025 www.smb.museum
November 18, 2023—September 28, 2024
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Architecture Becomes Art With Angela Bulloch

Architecture Becomes Art

With Angela Bulloch
The Cheongju Museum of Art holds a special exhibition entitled Architecture Becomes Art.
August 24—November 19, 2023
Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju
Natasha. 7th Singapore Biennial

Natasha.

7th Singapore Biennial
SB2022 features works from the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell by Angela Bulloch & Imke Wagener, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Richard Phillips, Rirkrit Tiravanija, M/M (Paris), and Philippe Parreno.
October 16, 2022—March 19, 2023
Tanjong Pagar Distripark and various locations, Singapore
Perpendicular Paradigm Angela Bulloch

Perpendicular Paradigm

Angela Bulloch
Under the title Perpendicular Paradigm, Angela Bulloch's major solo exhibition of new and recent work opens at the Musée d’arts de Nantes on May 13, 2022.
May 13—August 30, 2022
Musée d'Arts de Nantes
Color as Program Co-Curator and exhibition architecture by Liam Gillick

Color as Program

Co-Curator and exhibition architecture by Liam Gillick
The exhibition Color as Program addresses color as an artistic medium and its programmatic, political dimension on the basis of art and cultural history exhibits from far more than 100 years.
April 8—August 7, 2022
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Festival! A Project by Esther Schipper and Mehdi Chouakri

Festival!

A Project by Esther Schipper and Mehdi Chouakri
Angela Bulloch | Gerwald Rockenschaub Isa Melsheimer | N. Dash Anri Sala | Saâdane Afif Ari Benjamin Meyers | Charlotte Posenenske Festival! begins with the friendship of artists and of their two...
June 12—August 6, 2020
Mehdi Chouakri, Mommsenstrasse 4
Exhibition view: Mein Vater, meine Nachbarn, meine Freunde, und deren Freunde, with Angela Bulloch, Isa Melsheimer, and Christopher Roth, haubrok foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, 2020

Mein Vater, meine Nachbarn, meine Freunde und deren Freunde

with Angela Bulloch, Isa Melsheimer, and Christopher Roth
The exhibition Mein Vater, meine Nachbarn, meine Freunde und deren Freunde was curated by Jeanne Tremsal around the work of her father, Benoit. Their father-daughter relationship was always centered on art, and...
March 2—April 4, 2020
haubrok foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
Anima Vectorias Angela Bulloch

Anima Vectorias

Angela Bulloch
Angela Bulloch’s new installation at MAAT activates the Oval Gallery with an extraordinary and immersive multilayered 17 channel soundscape. The project will include a set of new video works, integrating multiple projections,...
October 4, 2019—February 17, 2020
MAAT: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone
June 21—September 3, 2017
New Museum, New York
The Fields Sculpture Park Angela Bulloch

The Fields Sculpture Park

Angela Bulloch
October 8, 2016—December 31, 2018
Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York
Considering Dynamics & the Forms of Chaos Angela Bulloch

Considering Dynamics & the Forms of Chaos

Angela Bulloch
Angela Bulloch's practice can be framed by the notion of entropy. Entropy is commonly understood as a measure of disorder. It is a key term that characterises the movement towards chaos, and...
March 10—May 31, 2016
Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone
October 21, 2015—January 10, 2016
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Blowing In The Wind Angela Bulloch

Blowing In The Wind

Angela Bulloch
Acknowledging the importance of the elements for the former shipyard where FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais is located, Bulloch addressed the cultural significance of the region whose livelyhood was historically largely determined by...
November 16, 2013
AP2, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
SHORT BIG DRAMA Angela Bulloch

SHORT BIG DRAMA

Angela Bulloch
There is more than meets the eye to Angela Bulloch’s work. Her solo exhibition SHORT BIG DRAMA at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art plays with this red herring – the...
January 21—April 9, 2012
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
BODYSPACEMOTIONTHINGS Angela Bulloch

BODYSPACEMOTIONTHINGS

Angela Bulloch
During Angela Bulloch’s solo exhibition SHORT BIG DRAMA at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, her wall painting BODYSPACEMOTIONTHINGS was on view at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
January 20—April 9, 2012
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Information, Manifesto, Rules and Other Leaks... Angela Bulloch

Information, Manifesto, Rules and Other Leaks...

Angela Bulloch
In her works, Angela Bulloch studies the complex operation of rule systems in society. For the exhibition at Berlinische Galerie, she continues the concept of her Rule Series in several works, some...
April 29—August 29, 2011
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Time & Line Angela Bulloch

Time & Line

Angela Bulloch
In her Wolfsburg exhibition, Bulloch will return to her early Drawing Machines series by presenting two early pieces from this series and a new one that she has especially developed for the...
April 3—September 18, 2011
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
Night Sky: Mercury & Venus Angela Bulloch

Night Sky: Mercury & Venus

Angela Bulloch
June 17—19, 2010
Art Basel 41 Art Parcours, Basel Münster
Moby Dick with Angela Bulloch

Moby Dick

with Angela Bulloch
Moby Dick is the second show in a trilogy of Wattis Institute exhibitions that are based on canonical American novels. The first, The Wizard of Oz, was presented in fall 2008; the...
September 22—December 12, 2009
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Universal Code: Art and Cosmology in the Information Age with Angela Bulloch and Ann Veronica Janssens

Universal Code: Art and Cosmology in the Information Age

with Angela Bulloch and Ann Veronica Janssens
June 12—August 30, 2009
The Power Plant, Toronto
theanyspacewhatever with Angela Bulloch and Liam Gillick

theanyspacewhatever

with Angela Bulloch and Liam Gillick
October 24, 2008—January 7, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Space That Time Forgot Angela Bulloch

The Space That Time Forgot

Angela Bulloch
The exhibition The Space That Time Forgot is Angela Bulloch’s first solo exhibition in Munich. The artist offers a constitution creating a multiplicity of spaces by using different mediums – at the...
February 16—May 18, 2008
Kunstbau, Munich
Theatre of Vision and Access Angela Bulloch

Theatre of Vision and Access

Angela Bulloch
January 1—December 31, 2008
Zhang Jiang Public Art Project, Shanghai

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Spotlight: Angela Bulloch Taps Into the Pythagorean Theorem’s Unexpected Aesthetic Applications in a New Seoul Exhibition

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Angela Bulloch introducing 'Heavy Metal Hercules', ABCDLP 006, Side A Mute/Unmute Podcast
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Angela Bulloch, Perpendicular Paradigm
Musée d'Arts de Nantes

Angela Bulloch, Perpendicular Paradigm

Under the title Perpendicular Paradigm, Angela Bulloch's major solo exhibition of new and recent work opens at the Musée d’arts de Nantes on May 13, 2022. Reconstructing the constellations in the starry...
May 13 – August 30, 2022
Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch – Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction
Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch – Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction

Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction With Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Hohe Bleichen 18 20354 Hamburg www.kulturstiftung-hh.de Read more
Live auction: November 15, 2021 Online auction: November 2 – 16, 2021
Angela Bulloch – Opening Friday November 5
Esther Schipper

Angela Bulloch – Opening Friday November 5

Angela Bulloch Animal Vegetable Mineral November 5 – December 18, 2021 Opening Friday November 5, 2 – 8 pm www.estherschipper.com Esther Schipper is pleased to present Angela Bulloch's Animal Vegetable Mineral, the artist’s 13th...
November 5, 2021
Spotlight: Angela Bulloch
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Spotlight: Angela Bulloch

All Access
haubrok foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin

All Access

All Access is a new series of online visits to exhibitions that are currently closed to the public. As museums and galleries around the world remain closed, the series takes us into...
Angela Bulloch at Museum Art. Plus
Museum Art. Plus, Donaueschingen

Angela Bulloch at Museum Art. Plus

Complementing the Donaueschingen Music Festival, Museum Art.Plus is showing works by Angela Bulloch in the 2-Raum. Bulloch will present a number of sound-activated drawing machines that respond to the sound of music....
October 17, 2019 – November 17, 2019
Book Launch and Artist Talk with Angela Bulloch
Esther Schipper Bookstore, Berlin

Book Launch and Artist Talk with Angela Bulloch

Book Launch Angela Bulloch Euclid in Europe Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2019 Thursday May 16, 2019, 5 – 7 pm Artist Talk Angela Bulloch in conversation with Dr. Isabelle Moffat Esther...
May 16, 2019, 5 – 7 pm
Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin

Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander

Music for Future Images Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin April 28, 2019, 7 pm Free admission
April 28, 2019, 7 pm
BPA // Berlin Program for Artists mentored by Angela Bulloch
ITALIC, Beach Office and FRAGILE, Berlin

BPA // Berlin Program for Artists mentored by Angela Bulloch

BPA facilitates exchange between emerging and experienced Berlin-based artists, through coordinated studio visits and meetings. Read more
Through March 11, 2019
Myth, Music & Electricity
Herkulessaal, Residenstraße 1, 80333 Munich

Myth, Music & Electricity

artgenève presents, Myth, Music and Electricity, part of “contemporary art as concert”, a series of events focused on musical and ephemeral works by artists invited by Augustin Maurs. This event will take place...
November 29, 8pm
Angela Bulloch & David Grubbs: The Wired Salutation
Museu Serralves, Serralves Auditorium, Porto

Angela Bulloch & David Grubbs: The Wired Salutation

The Wired Salutation results from a collaboration between Angela Bulloch and composer and musician David Grubbs. Bulloch sets into motion the process by which images and ideas degrade–decline, simplify–while expanding to encompass video,...
October 26, 2017, 10pm–11:30pm
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Duet With Artists: with Angela Bulloch, Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, and Tino Sehgal

Through August 27, 2017

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Animal Vegetable Mineral Angela Bulloch

Animal Vegetable Mineral

Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch's Animal Vegetable Mineral, was the artist’s 13th exhibition with the gallery. On view were all new works, further developing the artist's iconic series and her sculptures assembled from modular geometric elements, as well as a monumental wall painting and a projected digital animation.⁠
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The exhibition was kindly supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR program.⁠


Publications

Angela Bulloch Euclid in Europe

Angela Bulloch

Euclid in Europe
'The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns and rules, as well as her preoccupation with the history...
2019
Angela Bulloch, Maria Zerres Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos

Angela Bulloch, Maria Zerres

Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos
This volume accompanied the eponymous exhibition at the Sharjah Art Museum—two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres brought together under one title, framed by the notion of entropy. Likewise,...
2016
Angela Bulloch Perpendicular Paradigm

Angela Bulloch

Perpendicular Paradigm
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée d'arts de Nantes, from 18 May to 30 August 2022. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Angela Bulloch has developed a practice that aims to...
2022