Mark Wallinger is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. Ecce Homo (1999-2000) was the first work to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and was later shown at the Venice Biennale in 2001. His work Labyrinth, from 2013, is a major and permanent installation for Art on the Underground, commisoned to celebrate 150 years of the London underground. In 2015, the artist created a series of monumental paintings that reference his own body. His height — or arm span — is the basis of the canvas size, they are exactly this measurement in width and double in height. Created by sweeping black paint-laden hands across the canvas in active, freeform gestures, the id Paintings bear the evidence of their making and of the artist’s performed encounter with the surface.
In 2007, he won the prestigious Turner Prize for his work State Britain, a sprawling installation that meticulously recreated peace campaigner Brian Haw’s Parliament Square protest in Tate Britain. Selected solo exhibitions include Serpentine Gallery, London; Tate Liverpool; Vienna Secession;
Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Palais Des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Museum De Pont, Netherlands; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City. Wallinger’s Ecce Homo (1999-2000) was the first work to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square. Wallinger represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. His work is included in the collections of many leading international museums including Tate, MoMA New York, and Centre Pompidou Paris.
Selected Works
Mark Wallinger
Self Portrait (Freehand 25), 2013
acrylic on canvas
136 × 91 cm
Mark Wallinger
According to Mark, 2010
100 chairs, black marker, white threads
dimensions variable
Mark Wallinger
Still Life (Country Flowers in Cream Vase), 2008
77 × 43 × 43 cm
Mark Wallinger
MARK, 2010
113:14 min
Mark Wallinger
Self (Stencil), 2015
Cast in black resin, coated in etch primer, final spray with satin black
180 × 77,4 cm, unique
Mark Wallinger
The Magic of Things, 2010
digital video on dvd, looped, mute
10:32 min
Mark Wallinger
The End, 2006
35mm film projection
11:56 min
Mark Wallinger
Sleeper, 2004
video of the live broadcasting of the performance at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2:31 hours
Mark Wallinger
Small World (1:58.000.000), 2011
plasticine
22 × 22 × 22 cm
c|g Exhibitions
Standing | Berlin
05.03.–21.04.2022
Mark Wallinger | Madrid
10.06.–17.07.2021
So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? | Madrid
27.02.–01.03.2020
dispositiv (1) fortlaufend | Berlin
11.03.–15.04.2017
Mark Wallinger | Berlin
30.04.–28.05.2016
Mark Wallinger | Berlin
18.01.–01.03.2014
Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass nichts passiert | Berlin
19.01.–02.03.2013
MARK | Berlin
01.11.–03.12.2011
Mark Wallinger | Berlin
01.05.–05.06.2010
The End | Berlin
01.06.–28.07.2007
The Underworld | Berlin
26.10.–18.12.2004
Spacetime | Berlin
20.05.–28.06.2003
Personal Absurdities | Berlin
13.10.–12.12.1997
External Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
Mark Wallinger | Museum Langmatt, Baden
18.09.–11.12.2022
Installation
The World Turned Upside Down | London School of Economics, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London
Permanent Installation
Writ in Water | Runnymede, Surrey
Solo Exhibition
SITE | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
24.06.–31.12.2012
Solo Exhibition
Mark Wallinger | De Pont Museum, Tilburg
08.10.2011–19.02.2012
