Ben Judd’s work examines his relationship to specific individuals and groups; recently the choreographic and the rhythmic has been used as a method of constructing temporary communities. The work explores how the ritualistic activities of marginalised groups and individuals can be extended into an action realised by actors (one that itself hovers on the border between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state), and how, in turn, this action can be interpreted in a moving image work. Positioning himself and the audience as both participant and observer, he engages the grey area between ritual and performance, searching for an unreachable and idealised state of community.
Judd has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including group exhibitions JAM: Tokyo London, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo and The Barbican Centre, London; The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London; Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Seeing is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Whitstable Biennale, UK. His solo exhibitions include fig-2 ICA London; Vilma Gold, London; Michael Janssen, Cologne; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg.
Website
Ben Judd Other works
| Curated Exhibitions | 2016 | Stories in the Dark, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK |
| 2013-14 | Ensemble, Backlit, Nottingham (with Dave Charlesworth) | |
| 2011 | The Edge of Reason, Kino Kino, Sandnes, Norway (with Sidsel Christensen) | |
| 2010 | From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient and Modern, London | |
| 2008 | The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London |
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| 2007 | The Juddykes, John Jones, London (with Howard Dyke) | |
| 2003 | The Queen Mother Show, One in the Other, London (with Howard Dyke) | |
| 1998 | Printemps 2, Deutsche Britisch Freundschaft, London (with Paul Morrison) | |
| 1997 | Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London (with Paul Morrison) |
Other solo exhibitions
| 2015 | Apart, We are Together, fig-2 ICA, London A Deep and Tenebrous Unity, Bloc Projects, Sheffield |
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| 2014 | Vast as the Dark of Night and as the Light of Day, Whitstable Biennale, UK | |
| 2013 | I Am on Top of the World, Swedenborg Society, London | |
| 2012 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK | |
| 2011 | Mysterium, James Taylor Gallery, London | |
| 2010 | The Island of Lost Conceits, La Galleria, New York Concerning the Difference Between the Delights of Pleasure and True Happiness, Swedenborg Society, London |
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| 2009 | Conversations with the Other Side, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (with Sidsel Christensen) Polyrhythm, Union Square, New York Observance, PS Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| 2007 | I Will Heal You, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia | |
| 2005 | The Truth Will Set You Free, Vilma Gold, London Kunstbunker, Nuremberg |
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| 2003 | Vilma Gold, London | |
| 2002 | PS Galerie, Amsterdam Michael Janssen, Cologne |
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| 2001 | Vilma Gold, London | |
| 2000 | Vier de Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam Parking Meters, Cologne |
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| 1999 | The Trade Apartment, London Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, with Thomas Grunfeld PS Gallery, Amsterdam |
Other group exhibitions
| 2015 | Neither Seen Nor Known, Galerie Grand E’Terna, Paris In Search of Paradise, Tafelhalle Theatre, Nuremberg, Germany |
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| 2014 | Onsite, TAP, Southend, UK Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Field Broadcast, Flatford Mill, UK The Second Sex, Les Salaisons, Paris |
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| 2013 | Exile, Les Salaisons, Paris Emergency6, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK Open, Pump House Gallery, London |
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| 2012 | Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Tanto Raggio, Cusio Artists Residency Space, Omegna, Italy Pliny, The Golden Fleece, York, UK |
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| 2011 | The Edge of Reason, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway Superhybrid, Highlight Club, Leeds Love Video 2011, Center of Contemporary Art of Tbilisi, Georgia Stephanie Busson, Jefford Horrigan, Hunt & Darton, Maria Theodoraki, Ben Judd, James Taylor Gallery, London The Spirit is a Radium in Decay, Apiary Projects, London |
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| 2010 | Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg Society, London To Believe, La Galleria, New York Celebration, Uqbar, Berlin Are You Experienced? SPACE, London JT Project 10, James Taylor Gallery, London Gods and Rockers, Sideshow, Nottingham, UK All That Glitters Is Not Institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London Xray, Perseverance, London |
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| 2009 | Hunter, Guest Projects, London For Your Eyes Only, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris Concerning Dual Transmissions, Royal College of Art, London The Object of the Attack, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London City Beats, Dorsky Gallery, New York PS 1999-2009, PS Galerie, Amsterdam Errant Ways, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada |
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| 2008 | The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg The Smallest Cinema, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, UK Out of Place, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam City Beats, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai Stationed, Winchester House, London |
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| 2007 | Seeing is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London Co-curated By, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London The Juddykes, John Jones, London Odoo / Current, Mongolian National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar Abandoned Protocol, Ritter/Zamet, London |
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| 2006 | Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti, Istanbul Point of View, Jardin des Sculptures, Dunkirk, France Rotterdam International Filmfestival, Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam Evolution, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK Sweetex, Standpoint Gallery, London Projektor, Café Gallery Projects, London |
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| 2005 | Portrait, Galeria Leme, Sau Paulo As If By Proxy, Redux, London Offpop Vision, Glashaus, Berlin Courtisane, Gent, Belgium Ben Judd, Julian Dashper, Kyle Jenkins, CCNOA, Brussels Avecom, Filmhuis, Arnhem, The Netherlands Space Open, The Triangle, London The London Connection, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria Filmguest, Filmhuis Leeuwardene, Groningen, The Netherlands |
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| 2004 | Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Trackers, Pitzhangar Museum, London The Futurians, Taro Nasu, Tokyo Lost and Found, Bernal’s, Los Angeles, and Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam Tape, 291 Gallery, London Island Art Film and Video Festival 2004, Prenelle Gallery, London Rooie Oogjes, Showroom Mama, Rotterdam Stuft, Red Gallery, Hull, UK Wanting, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottowa, Canada Contemporary Belém Art Flux, Belém, Brazil Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| 2003 | PS 1999-2003, Raid Projects, Los Angeles Space Open, The Triangle, London Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York Red Light District 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam Ponce, The Ship, London Someone To Share My Life With, The Approach, London, The Queen Mother Show, One in the Other, London Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London |
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| 2002 | The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London Die First, One In the Other, London Naturellement, Espace Fauriel, St Etienne, France Red Light District 2, Winston Hotel, Amsterdam JAM: Tokyo-London, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo |
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| 2001 | Unheard Of, Cuchifrutos, New York Just History, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Albanian Biennale, UK Section, Tirana, Albania New Releases, Gallery 4a and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia JAM: Tokyo-London, Barbican, London Desert Rose, Victoria House, London Dogleg, Guildhall Road, Northampton Me and Them, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam Insider Trading, Mandeville Hotel, London |
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| 2000 | Cover Versions, The Trade Apartment, London Include Me Out, 48 Provost Street, London A Very Nice Film Club, Vilma Gold, London The Songs I Like, Michael Janssen, Cologne My Living Doll, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA I’m Really Really Sorry, Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy PS1999, Archipel Gallery, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Same Player Shoots Again, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam These Epic Islands, Vilma Gold, London |
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| 1999 | Festival Atlântico, Lisbon Cave, Sali Gia, London Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London |
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| 1998 | Post Neo-Amateurism, Chisenhale, London The Powder Room, The Powder Room, Rotterdam, Netherlands Printemps 2, DBF, London Red Light District, Galerie Y-Burg, Amsterdam Humdrum Red, The Trade Apartment, London |
Awards, collections
2016 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Stories in the Dark, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK
2015 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Apart, We are Together, fig-2, ICA, London, UK
2014 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for residency at Skaftfell Centre of Visual Art, Iceland
Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for The Conventicle, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for A Deep and Tenebrous Unity, Whitstable, UK
2013 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for I Am on Top of the World, London
2012 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Vast as the Dark of Night and as the Light of Day, Whitstable Biennale
2011 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Mysterium, James Taylor Gallery, London
2010 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Concerning the Difference Between the Delights of Pleasure and True Happiiness, Swedenborg Society, London
2009 Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Observance, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for residency at Banff Centre, Canada
2007 Arts Council England / Triangle Arts / Gasworks award for residency at Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
2004 British Council award for residency at Contemporary Belém Art Flux, Belém, Brazil
| 2016 | Anonymous, Pick of the Week (Stories in the Dark, The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury), The Guardian, April | |
| 2015 | Anonymous, Best New Art in London (Apart, We are Together, ICA, London), Time Out, June | |
| 2014 | Anonymous, The 7th Whitstable Biennale 2014, www.publicartonline.org.uk Suz Elvey, Ben Judd, Whistable Gazette, June |
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| 2013 | Jennifer Gleadell, Ensemble, Nottingham Visual Arts, May Sarah Gill, Ensemble, Nottingham Post, March |
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| 2012 | In the Studio, EXIT, May Merce Santos Mir, Ben Judd – Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Leftlion, March Anonymous, Ben Judd – Songs of Innocence and of Experience, woodenwalrus.wordpress.com, April |
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| 2010 | Dan Smith, Concerning the Spiritual, Art Monthly, July/August | |
| 2009 | Emma Cocker, Still Unresolved: Inconsistency as Strategy, Intersections (35th Association of Art Historians Conference), April | |
| 2008 | Peter Lewis, Ben Judd, www.slashseconds.org, no. 8 Alia Pathan, Persona Non Grata, www.a-n.co.uk, March & www.slashseconds.org, no.8 Katharina Erlenwein, The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Donnerstag, 17 April Stephanie Siebert, Was führt die Bruderschaft im Schilde?, Nurnberger Zeitung, 17 April Georg Kasch, Bruderschaft aus Pappmaché, Abendzeitung, 18 April Beth Greenacre, Abandoned Protocol, ArtRabbit, 18 September |
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| 2007 | Charlie Danby, Ben Judd, Miser and Now, Summer | |
| 2006 | Charlie Danby, Surveillance, Wonderland, September/October | |
| 2004 | Usuki Naoko, The Futurians, Artit, Summer / Autumn Melissa Nix, The Futurians, The Daily Yomiuri, 29 July Michael Stoeber, Soziale Kreaturen, Kunstforum, May / June Nina Madden, Trackers, a-n Magazine, July Helen Sumpter, Trackers, Time Out, June 16 – 23 Anon, Trackers, Ealing Gazette, May 14 Kerstin Stremmel, Soziale Kreaturen, Neue Zuricher, 16 April Enno Kaulhold, Soziale Kreaturen, Photonews, Issue 16 Christina Tilmann, Soziale Kreaturen, Er Tagesspiegel, 11 April Anon, Trackers, Absolute Arts, April |
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| 2003 | Jen Ogilivie, Space Open 2003, Time Out, November 26 – December 3 Asher Penn, Looking at ‘Strangers’, Workflow, Vol 1, Issue 1 David Levi Strauss, Strangers: International Center of Photography, New York, Art Forum, November Jamie Lau, The Queen Mother Show, Contemporary, August / September Anon, The Queen Mother Show, Kultureflash, April Martin Coomer, Someone To Share My Life With, Time Out, April 23-30 Anna Honigman, Someone To Share My Life With, Zing Magazine, issue 19 Roos Gortzak, Ben Judd, I Miss, Tubelight, February |
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| 2002 | Dan Smith, Die First, Art Monthly, October Ned Denny, Doing the Rounds, New Statesman, September 23 Helen Sumpter, Die First, Evening Standard, September 13 Martin Herbert, Die First, Time Out, September 11-18 Jessica Lack, Die First, The Guardian, August 17 |
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| 2001 | Martin Coomer, JAM, Time Out, May | |
| 2000 | Patricia Ellis, I’m Really Really Sorry, Flash Art Italia, June Sally O’Reilly, These Epic Islands, London Art, February Paul O’Kane, Ben Judd, Contemporary Visual Art, February Sally O’Reilly, Ben Judd, London Art, January |
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| 1999 | Jan van der Ploeg, Utopia II – Same Player Shoots Again, De Nieuwe Maatschappij, 6/3 Jacques Meijer, Fotografie in Kunstgaleries, P/F, September Erik Hagoot, de Volkskrant, September |
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| 1998 | Front and back covers, Creative Camera, October / November Tank, September Olivier Gunning, High Anxiety, ID, July John Slyce, Ben Judd, Flash Art, May / June |
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| 1996 | John Stathatos, Angels, Untitled, Spring Peter Owen, Is That a Fact?, Creative Camera, March / April David Brittain, New Typologies, Creative Camera, May/June |
