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Stiftung Kunstdepot
Göschenen Switzerland

Artist Residency - June 2025

Immersive Arts UK
'Explore' funding 2025

Immersive Arts is an ambitious three-year programme taking place across the UK, using an artist-led approach to working with immersive technologies.

Label4Future / Ars Electronica
Hand Tools for the Anthropocene

Research Residency 2025
Supported by European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)

A Walk in the Park with James Christie
curated by Mulan Go

Christie’s Amsterdam, Vondelstraat 73
Tanea Hynes, David Rickard, and Müge Yılmaz

28.02 - 28.03.25 

Not What It Seems . . .

From the John Snijders Collection
Platform A, Middlesbrough, UK

21.11 - 19.12.24

FarFarOut

Way Out East Gallery, University of East London
Curated by Sam Zealey

Louise Beer, James Capper, Ecem Ergin, Paul Greenleaf, Jay Ho, Harriet Pozansky, David Rickard, Ilona Sagar, William Waterhouse, Samuel Zealey

Opening 06.11.24  5pm - 8pm

Ars Electronica / HOPE - who will turn the tide

S+T+ARTS / Collaborative Solutions
Linz, Austria

04 - 08.09.24

AETHER / ETERE (la presenza dell'assente)

GMR / Venice, Italy

David Rickard / Mariateresa Sartori
Curated by Riccardo Greco

Opening 19.07.24

CONTROLLED ENCOUNTER / The Constriction of Open Space

Royal College of Art, London
Commissioned by Curating Contemporary Art MA
David Rickard & Rafael Perez Evans

Curators Bingning Meng, Dahee Min, Gianmarco Gronchi, Nancy Whiston, Rachel Morgan, Xinqi Li, Yuci Dai

19.06.24 – 24.06.24

Intension

CØPPERFIELD, London

Larry Achiampong, Becky Beasley, Lucas Dupuy, Elsa James, Sophie Jung, Kristian Kragelund, Ty Locke, Narges Mohammadi, Paula Morison, David Rickard, Rebeca Romero, Alberta Whittle, Gabby R and El Bass of Project Art Works

1 June 2024 - 28 Sept 2024
Opens Saturday 1 June 11am - 6pm.
First hour low light & quiet for heightened sensitivities.


URBAN MINING
Pangaea Sculptors Centre
Coventry University’s Delia Derbyshire Building, Cox St, CV1 5PH

Martin Green, Katrin Hanusch, HelenA Pritchard, David Rickard, Katie Surridge

15.04.24 – 25.04.24
Closing event Thursday 25th April 4 pm – 7 pm.


SEISMIC: Art meets Science
GIANT Gallery, UK

Group exhibition curated by Paul Carey-Kent

27.10.23 – 19.01.24


SISTEMA TEMPO
MoCA Brescia, Italy

Opening 22.11.23


Throwing Dice in the Dark
GMR2 Galleria Michela Rizzo

Via Torre Belfredo 49/C, Mestre (VE), Italy
Opening 18:00, 19th Oct

20.10 - 24.11.23

Press release


Artissima 2023
Galleria Michela Rizzo
Hall Grey / Stand 10

03 - 05.11.23

OPEN AIR!
Climate Art UK
Shortlisted for public commission Euston, London

July 23

Traces of a Cathode 
S1 Artspace, Sheffield

Curated by Joe Cutts

10.03 - 20.05.23

Paulo Arraiano, Diogo da Cruz, Olga Grotova, Gweni Llwyd, Daniel de Paula, David Rickard

Mapping (Body & Space)
Lectures and workshops at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin, Italy

April 17-19

Horizon2020 
Funding for a 16-month experiment with international post; exploring new materials, connections and a digital awakening of the humble envelope.
Collaborating with Plast-farb and And-Tech within the Betterfactory framework.

March 23

Abscene Echoed 
Imperial College London - Uren Hub
permanent commission installed

Nov 22

Landfall
CØPPERFIELD, London
solo exhibition


30.06 - 06.08.22

In the Air
Wellcome Collection, London

Curated by Emily Sargent & George Vasey

19.05 - 16.10.22

(in)visible fields - space as energy
Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
Curated by Elena Forin

20.04 - 02.07.22

Wael Al Awar, Hamish Fulton, Antoni Muntadas, Cesare Pietroiusti, David Rickard, Mariateresa Sartori

Alpensinfonie - Der Berg in der Kunst
Hans Erni Museum, Switzerland
Curated Heinz Stahlhut

17.03 - 19.06.22

UCL London -Institute of Immunity and Transplatation

Permanent sculpture commissioned for the Pears Building, a new world-class research center bringing together leading scientists, academic clinicians, and clinical trials specialists to develop revolutionary treatments and therapies for patients.

Jan 2022

Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly) 
Cloud Seven
Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels

11 November 2021 - 30 January 2022

Ignasi Aballí, Mathieu Abonnenc, Saâdane Afif, Helena Almeida, Harold Ancart, Alice Anderson, Jacques André, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Claire Andrzejczak, Cory Arcangel, Athanasios Argianas, Kader Attia, Bernard Aubertin, Babi Badalov, Elena Bajo, John Baldessari, Mirosław Bałka, Jill Baroff, Guillaume Barth, Éric Baudelaire, Oliver Beer, Larry Bell, Neïl Beloufa, Walead Beshty, Viktoria Binschtok, Sara Bjarland, Mel Bochner, Katinka Bock, Jean-François Boclé, Alighiero Boetti, Louise Bourgeois, Mohamed Bourouissa, Amélie Bouvier, Aline Bouvy, David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin, Marcel Broodthaers, Marc Buchy, Carlos Bunga,Tom Burr, Rui Calçada Bastos, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Sergio Camargo, Jota Castro, Alejandro Cesarco, Alan Charlton, Julian Charrière, Marieta Chirulescu, David Claerbout, Cameron Clayborn, Clément Cogitore, Anne Collier, Mary Corse, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Attila Csörgo, Céline Cuvelier, Dadamaino, Hanne Darboven, Lieven De Boeck, Berlinde De Bruyckere, herman de vries, Edith Dekyndt, Aleksandra Domanović, Cheryl Donegan, Jürgen Drescher, Leonardo Drew, Jimmie Durham, Lionel Dury, Lionel Estève, Aniceto Exposito Lopez, Sam Falls, Wen Fang, Simone Fattal, Jean Fautrier, Serena Fineschi, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Zachary Formwalt, Fernanda Fragateiro, Michel François, Cyprien Gaillard, Marcius Galan, Flavia Gandolfo, Cristina Garrido, Theaster Gates, Alexis Gautier, Marianne Gilbert, Sophie Giraux, Ferenc Gróf, Nadia Guerroui, Shilpa Gupta, Hong Hoa, Hans Hartung, Jan Henderikse, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Holstad, Roni Horn, Rowena Hughes, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Anne Imhof, Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir, Christian Jankowski, Andreas Johnen, Rolf Julius, Marin Kasimir, Jacob Kassay, Bronwyn Katz, Will Kerr, Anselm Kiefer, Jonna Kina, Kapwani Kiwanga, Yves Klein, Maria Kley, Imi Knoebel, Jannis Kounellis, Nicolas Kozakis,  Gabriel Kuri, Alicja Kwade, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Nicolás Lamas, Elad Lassry, Matthieu Laurette, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Paulo Roberto Leal, Guillaume Leblon, Sonia Leimer, Annette Lemieux, Elizabeth Lennard, Sol LeWitt, Ella Littwitz, Peter Liversidge, Jason Loebs, Richard Long, Ariane Loze, Adolf Luther, Jorge Macchi, Heinz Mack, Alastair Mackie, Luciana Magno, Karel Malich, Édouard Manet, Curtis Mann, Piero Manzoni, Didier Marcel, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Brice Marden, Megan Marrin, Agnes Martin, Rodrigo Matheus, Alexander May, Stefana McClure, Eva Medin, Vincent Meessen, Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Mario Merz, Wobbe Micha, Jonathan Monk, Gareth Moore, François Morellet, Aline Motta, Carlos Motta, Simon Mullan, Dave Muller, Lais Myrrha, Erin Jane Nelson, Shirin Neshat, Olaf Nicolai, Otobong Nkanga, Musa N. Nxumalo, Pat O'Neill, Maud Oakes (after Jeff King), Roman Opalka, Lisa Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Jurgen Ots, Michel Parmentier, Claudio Parmiggiani, Mano Penalva, Henri Ernst Pfeiffer, Otto Piene, Diogo Pimentão, Benoit Platéus, Sascha Pohle, Laure Prouvost, Walid Raad, Jon Rafman, Enrique Ramírez, Robert Rauschenberg, Josué Rauscher, Renaud Regnery, Roger Remacle, Louis-Cyprien Rials, Evariste Richer, David Rickard, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Tim Rollins & KOS, Analia Saban, Benjamin Sabatier, Sebastião Salgado, Fabrice Samyn, Vittorio Santoro, Tomás Saraceno, Jan Schoonhoven, Hugo Scibetta, Peter Scott, Elodie Seguin, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Raja Babu Sharma, Gedi Sibony, Quentin Sietzen, Katrín Sigurdardóttír, Elias Sime, Michael E. Smith, Valérie Snobeck, Société Réaliste, Frances Stark, Sarah Sze, Edouard Taufenbach, Marjan Teeuwen, Alessandro Teoldi, Hank Willis Thomas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, Barthélémy Toguo, Luis Tomasello, Rosemarie Trockel, Francisco Tropa, Oscar Tuazon, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Daniel Turner, Günther Uecker, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Isaac van Nikelen, Laurence Vauthier, Vuk Vidor, Kees Visser, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Marthe Wéry, Letha Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Margo Wolowiec, Otto Wols, Agustina Woodgate, Héctor Zamora, Herbert Zangs, Zao Wou-Ki

Not Painting
CØPPERFIELD, London

10.11.21 - 29.01.22

Jo Addison, Gabriele Beveridge, Jane Bustin, Ben Edmunds, Kevin Hunt, Nicola Ellis, Susan Jacobs, Harminder Judge, littlewhitehead, Kristian Kragelund, Alastair and Fleur Mackie, Nika Neelova, David Rickard, Alexandra Searle, Sarah Kate Wilson, Rafal Zajko

Brief Encounters 21
Lustwarande, Holland
curated by Chris Driessen & Steven Vandervelden

04-05.09.2021

Imperial College London

Permanent sculpture commissioned for Uren Hub, a new laboratory and office building for the next generation of biomedical engineering research at the White City campus, London

Sept 2021

PORÖS
LoBe Block, Berlin

Fadi Aljabour, David Edward Allen, Hannes Brunner, Anton Burdakov, Sunah Choi, Christoph Draeger, Kasia Fudakowski, Ingo Gerken, Sujatro Ghosh, Lise Harlev, Marie von Heyl, Daniel Hölzl, Christin Kaiser, Shila Khatami, Anton Roland Laub, Antonia Low, Katharina Ludwig, Paul McDevitt, Ulrike Mohr, Christl Mudrak, Victorine Müller, Florian Neufeldt, Olaf Nicolai, Victoria Pidust, Lucy Powell, David Rickard, Fette Sans, Max Schulze, Aiko Shimotsuma, Tommy Støckel, Halveig Villand, Ella Ziegler, Michaela Zimmer

15.08 – 19.09.21

Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard
Feature article by Kate Neave
OpenLab

David Rickard: Art at the Thresholds
Feature article by Paul Carey-Kent
Seisma Magazine
20.05.21

A circle called zero
No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador (solo)
24.06 - 16.07.21

Reflections / Venice Galleries View

27.03.21 - 29.05.21

Gayle Chong Kwan, Andrew Huston, Jessica Louhglin, Lore Bert, Zohar Elazar, Maurizio Donzelli, Agostino Bergamaschi, David Rickard, Alex Hartley
Venice Galleries View is a network of nine contemporary art galleries in Venice and Mestre, including: Alberta Pane, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery, Caterina Tognon, Dorothea van der Koelen, Ikona Gallery, Marignana Arte, Marina Bastianello Gallery, Michela Rizzo and Victoria Miro

RESET / Instructions to begin in a new present
TACA, Palma, curated Aina Pomar

27.12.20 - 17.01.21

Larry Achiampong, Constanza Alarcón Tennen, Irene de Andrés, Rosana Antolí, Anna Dot, Lara Fluxà, Angel Garau, Marco Godoy, Vibeke Mascini, Josep Maynou, Gabriel Pericàs, Yorgos Petrou, Marina Planas, Guillem Portell, Marijo Ribas, David Rickard, Bartomeu Sastre, Sümer Sayin, Nora Silva, Pep Vidal, Alberta Whittle

Artissima Unplugged
Michela Rizzo, Venice

5 - 9 Novemeber 2020

Here Be Dragons
CØPPERFIELD, London

16 September - 31 October 2020
Opening Tuesday 15 September

Regina de Miguel, Newell Harry, David Rickard, Jamilah Sabur, Alberta Whittle


Lucht / Air
Kranenburgh Museum, Netherlands
curated by Colin Huizing

July - Nov 2020

Abramovic & Ulay, Jan Andriesse, Marinus Boezem,  Elspeth Diederix, Zoro Feigl, Roger Hiorns, Chaim van Luit, Jan van Munster, Yoko Ono, David Rickard, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, herman de vries, Marijke van Warmerdam, Ai Weiwei  


Art New Zealand 
Echoes from the Sound Barrier / Ashburton Art Gallery
Reviewed by Jasmine Gallagher

RE-INDEX ​
Michela Rizzo
curated by Elena Forin 

​
17th April 2020 - until the end of isolation

Matthew Attard, Francesco Jodice, Ryts Monet, Antoni Muntadas
​David Rickard, Alessandro Sambini, Maria Teresa Sartori


Foreign Bodies ​(solo)
CØPPERFIELD, London

opening 12th March 6-9pm

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13th March - 18th April 2020

DAMAC TOWER 
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Appointed for public sculpture commission at Damac Tower, London. 
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Jan 2020

TIMELAPSE 
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Permanent commission installed for Kielder Art & Architecture, UK 
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Dec 2019

Radio New Zealand
interview with
Lynn Freeman 
​24th Nov 2019​

Echoes from the sound barrier ​(solo)
Ashburton Art Gallery, NZ 
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27th Nov 2019 - 20th Feb 2020​

Trellis Public Art
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University College London

Residency with Tony Kenyon Professor of Nanoelectronic & Nanophotonic Materials 

​Olympic Park, London 
19th Oct - 27th Oct 2019 ​

Soglie e Limiti 
Michela Rizzo, Venice 
Curated by Elena Forin 

Matthew Attard, Benjamin Bergmann, Federico De Leonardis, Giorgia Fincato, Riccardo Guarneri, Saverio Rampin, David Rickard, Mariateresa Sartori, Roman Signer

21st Sept - 24th Nov 2019​

EXHAUST
A Performance Affair, Brussels
Vanderborght Building

24-hour performance / 5th Sept noon - 6th Sept noon 2019​

Welcome Home 
Elephant West, London  
curated by Becca Pelly-Fry  

Christian Berman and Marisa Adesman, Baum & Leahy, David Rickard, Aideen Barry and Bompas & Parr Studio

6th Sept - 6th Oct 2019
opening: 6th Sept - 6-9pm 

Futuruins / Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
In collaboration with The Hermitage State Museum, St Petersburg

Curated by Daniela Ferretti, Dimitri Ozerkov with Dario Dalla Lana


19th Dec 2018 – 24th March 2019

Light-footed Light-fingered 
Ryder Projects, London UK


Rosana Antolí, Matt Calderwood, Zuza Golinska, Kostas Ioannidis, Jonas Lund, David Rickard and Tim Sandys

8 February – 23 March 2019
opening: 7th Feb 6-9pm

₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥
NOME, Berlin
curated by Lucie Fontaine

Marco Cassani, Paolo Cirio, Goldin+Senneby, Igor Grubić, Michal Helfman, Agnieszka Kurant, Navid Nuur, Pratchaya Phinthong, Ana Prvački, David Rickard, Miri Segal, Slavs and Tatars, and Jan Tichy

opening: 1st March 2019


Interview with Raffaele Gavarro 

Exibart 29th Jan 2019


download English version

Northern School of Art
Middlesbrough, UK

Artist lecture: 6th February 2019


Stiftung Kunstdepot
Switzerland

Artist residency May-June 2019


Bonhams

Public art work commissioned for the London headquarters of Bonhams, at 101 New Bond Street.

In progress during 2019


Manchester City Gallery

Acquires works for the permanent collection courtesy of Thomas F
rangenberg Collection.

November 2018


The End is Where We Start From 
Balzer Projects, Basel in collaboration with NOME Gallery, Berlin

Curated by Pauline Doutreluingne

Marjolijn Dijkman / Brian Duggan / Vera Isler / Anne Duk Hee Jordan / Susanna Hertrich / Monika Niwelińska / David Rickard / Kirsten Stolle.

6th  June – 21th July 2018
Opening: June 5, 18-20h


Illuminations - book launch & performance
Austrian Cultural Forum, London

Edited and curated by S.J. Fowler

10th May 7pm - 9pm

Kielder Art & Architecture

Time-lapse, a large new work combining
dendrochronology and Time Dilation Theory selected for 2019 commission

May 2018

Artissima 2017
Michela Rizzo, Venice

Roman Opalka, David Rickard, Martino Genchi


2nd - 5th November

DIMINISHING RETURNS
CØPPERFIELD, London​

Open performance, 6 - 8pm, Friday 6 October 2017

13 -19 Herald St, E2 6JT

AND A 123
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
curated by Matthew Pendergast


22.09.17 - 05.11.17

Nina Chua / Noel Clueit / Russell Hill / Maeve Rendle / David Rickard / Oliver Tirré / Lisa Watts​

Het Zalig Nietsdoen
​
Museum Kranenburgh, Holland
curated by Eelco Van Der Lingen


​18.06.17 - 24.09.17

Feiko Beckers / Rineke Dijkstra / Pauline Eecen / Jeroen Eisinga / Ed Van Der Elsken / Tom Friedman / Ryan Gander / Diederik Gerlach / Claire Harvey / Harrie Kuyten / Jonas Lund / Inge Meijer / Henry Moore / Matthijs Munnik / Bruce Nauman / Kasper Niehaus / Navid Nur / Erwin Olaf / David Rickard / Tanja Ritterbex / Alain Séchas / Roman Signer / Natalia Toret / Marijke Van Warmerdam / Erwin Wurm / Heinrich Zille

Illuminations I : Elfriede Jelinek
​
Austrian Cultural Forum, London
curated by SJ Fowler


26.04.2017

Free entry booking required

REPÈRES - group exhibition
LUCA, Luxembourg


17.02 - 15.04.2017​

We are all Astronauts - solo exhibition
OTTO ZOO, Milan


02.02 - 18.03.2017​

MOVING SPACE
KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany
curated by Lavinia Diniz Freitas

​21.01 - 12.11.2017

Jeongmoon Choi, Ivana Franke, Karolina Halatek, LAB212, Guillaume Lachapelle, David Rickard, Holger Schulze, Lef Spincemaille, Ben Tyers, Wisp Kollektiv

YOUR FACE HAS NO FUNCTION FOR ME 
Division of Labour, London

​24.11 - 17.12.2016

David Blamey, Céline Berger, Matthew Cornford, Chto Delat, Mark Essen, Joe Fletcher Orr, John Kilduff, Saulius Leonavičius, Mark McGowan, Flore Nove-Josserand, Yelena Popova, David Rickard, Gavin Wade


Rebecca Beinart, David Rickard and David Turley in conversation with Tom Overton
Jerwood Space, London
​

14.11.2016, 6.30-8pm

Beinart, Turley and Rickard discuss their proposals for the £30,000 Jerwood Open Forest commission and their shared interests in history, memory and language, with writer and editor, Tom Overton.​

A bag of Atoms - solo exhibition
Balzer Projects, Basel


13.10 - 11.11.2016​

O - solo exhibition
CØPPERFIELD, London​

20.09 - 19.11.2016​


Borderlines

24.07.2016


Permanent installation in private collection, Courmayeur, Italy 

YIELD
curated by Delcroix Pinsky

02.07.2016 opens to the public


PAE, Belval, Luxembourg


MYRIAD

04.06.2016 opens to the public 

New permanent work at Snape Maltings, UK. In collaboration with Germano Di Chello. 

Not Really Really
​The Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection

Quai Du Commerce, Brussels 1000, Belgium

22.04 - 22.04 2016 ​noon-6pm
by appointment until 25.05.16
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​Jerwood Open Forest
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6th April 2016

shortlisted artists: Rebecca Binary, Magz Hall, Keith Harrison, David Rickard, David Turley
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The Dream of Modern Living?
​Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Oct 2015 – 14 Nov 2015​

Curated by Paul Carey–Kent for NORTH, this exhibition examines artists’ reactions to IKEA as a business, lifestyle and aesthetic. The artists include Guy Ben-Ner, Ryan Gander, Clay Ketter, Marie Karlberg, Joe Scanlan, Artists Anonymous, Michael Samuels, Sara McKillop, Frédéric Pradeau, David Rickard, Mary Griffiths, Stuart Hartley and Domanic Beattie.


WHICH ONE OF THESE IS THE NON-SMOKING LIFEBOAT?
Pangea Sculptors Centre, London

London Fields | 19.11.15 - 9.12.15

Byzantia Harlow, David Rickard, Emily Motto, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. 

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