Emily Wardill’s works are best known for their sensual and psychologically charged refracted narratives. Wardill’s films, photographic works, drawings, and props investigate the complexities of communication and representation, the limitations and imprecision of language, and the point at which the immaterial adopts the material through insinuation.
Her film Night for Day was recently awarded the European Media Art Festival prize. Wardill has had solo exhibitions at KW, Berlin; Casa Sao Roque, Porto; Secession, Vienna; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; La Loge, Brussels; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; The Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; the Serpentine Gallery, London; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; De Appel, Amsterdam; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Group exhibitions include the 19th Biennale of Sydney; Tate Britain, London; Tate Modern, London; MUMOK, Vienna; The Venice Biennale; MOCA, Miami; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunstverein Stuttgart; ICA, London; OCA, Oslo and the Witte de With, Rotterdam. Wardill’s work has been included in numerous publications including Afterall, Art in America, Art Review, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, and The New York Times. She was appointed Professor of Art and Fil at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Selected Works
Emily Wardill
Basking in what feels like ‘an ocean of grace’, I soon realise that I’m not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognising myself, 2006
16mm, installation with stereo sound
8 min
Emily Wardill
When you fall into a trance, 2014
Video projection with sound
72 min
Emily Wardill
Ben, 2006
16mm, installation with stereo sound
10 min
Emily Wardill
SEA OAK, 2008
16mm, installation
51 min
Emily Wardill
House, 2016
resin cast relief
100 × 100 cm
Emily Wardill
Gorky’s Fire, 2015
from the series Fire Shakes Itself in the Air
marbling on paper
108 × 87 × 4 cm
unique
Emily Wardill
Game Keepers without Game, 2009
Video projection with 5.1 sound
72 min
Emily Wardill
The Palace, 2014
16 mm, b/w film, optical sound
7.22 min
Emily Wardill
The Pips, 2011
16 mm film transferred to DVD
4 min
Emily Wardill
The Third Person, 2012
digital HD double screen projection
43.50 min
Emily Wardill
found himself in a walled garden on the top of a high mountain, and in the middle of it a tree with great birds on the branches, and fruit out of which, if you held a fruit to your ear, came the sound of fighting, 2012
Video projection with sound
36 min
Emily Wardill
An Easy Swan, 2016
resin cast relief
100 × 100 cm
Emily Wardill
Black and White Blaze, 2015
from the series “Fire Shakes Itself in the Air”
marbling on paper, 114 × 90 × 4 cm
unique
Emily Wardill
Credits 7, 2013
Rayograph
170 × 96 cm
unique
c|g Exhibitions
Sleep Patterns and Musical Chairs | Madrid
02.12.2023–20.01.2024
Soft Spot | Berlin
22.05.–10.07.2021
dispositiv (1) fortlaufend | Berlin
11.03.–15.04.2017
When You Fall Into a Trance | Berlin
31.01.–14.03.2015
I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me | Berlin
31.01.–14.03.2015
Memory Palaces | Berlin
03.05.–07.06.2014
The Third Person | Berlin
09.03.–13.04.2013
External Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
Identical | KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
11.06.–20.08.2023
Solo Exhibition
Hourless and at large | Casa São Roque, Porto
19.02.–30.09.2023
Solo Exhibition
Night for Day | Secession, Vienna
18.09.–08.11.2020
Solo Exhibition
Bi | Kohta. Helsinki
14.11.–21.12.2019
Solo Exhibition
Matt Black and Rat | Gulbenkian Project Spaces, Lisbon
02.06.–28.08.2017
Solo Exhibition
Matt black and Rat | Bergen Kunsthall
20.01.–26.03.2017
