2019
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Affordable Art Fair Singapore exhibiting with Siger Gallery November 2019
Gallery Na Wei, Fullerton Hotel, Singapore. Finalists exhibition Art Gemini Prize | London’s Global Art Prize, Singapore. Private View, 9th November
God Save the Queen, Fiat Chrysler Motor Village UK Exhibition extended until 1 Dec 2019
Hall of Awa Japanese, Handmade Paper Museum.Tokushima. Wish I could have made it there myself too…Exhibition runs 5th October – 10th November 2019
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Empress Theatre, Vallejo, California, USA. Power Structures by Vanja Karas as part of Moving Silently, silent film art show, Empress Theatre, Vallejo, California, USA. Films accompanied with live music by The Clubfoot Modern Machine Orchestra. Also performing newly restored Metropolis by Fritz Lang. (upcoming July 2019)
251st Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, ‘Flowers for Algernon’, photography
58th Venice Biennale, Miniscule Venice, ‘The Time Machine’, sculpture installation, Fondamenta Sant’Anna
58th Venice Biennale, VOID, ‘Submerged Discourse’ a short experimental film, night outdoors projections, Rialto
58th Venice Biennale, Fit the Slit, ‘Dead Man’s Shoe’, Lido Alberoni Beach
Photo London, Somerset House, works exhibited as part of Egg Installation by Gavin Turk
Cross Lane Projects, Miniscule II, ‘Kenozoik’, sculpture
Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca, MACO, Mexico, Age of Extinction, Empire II, multimedia installations, video projections and photography. ‘Sculpting in Time’, short film, ‘Power Structures’ video / animation, ‘Restitution’, photography.
Q Park, National Portrait Gallery, Chinese Open, The Year of the Pig, photography / mixed, site specific installation.
2018
The Hall of Awa Museum , Tokushima, Japan, “Awakenings’ printed on handmade washi paper.
Barge House, OXO TRIBE 2017 International Art Festival
Jonathan Ross Gallery Christmas exhibition
Harts Lane, Atina exhibition
Mall Galleries, Art for Youth annual exhibition
Palazzo Ducale, Atina, Italy site specific installation
The House of St Barnabas, Emerald Winter Pride Prize finalist. ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, mixed media. So delighted to be selected as one of the finalists of this prestigious award!
Tallinn Art Week, Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, Empire II, photography installations and film screening.
Q Park, China Town, Chinese Open, The year of the Underdog
Royal Bank of Scotland, Auction by Bonhams in aid of Art for Grenfell. My print sold as highest bid for £10 000
Montague Armstrong Gallery, St Leonard’s, Down from London, exhibition
Winns Gallery, London & Kenni Kessler Gallery Penang The Silk Road, The Metamorphosis of Silk , sculpture installation, VR and photography
LA Photo Curator, Global Photography Awards, Awakenings part of Still Life 2.0, selection curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis
Chelsea Arts Club Exhibition and Auction Totems and Taboos
Camberwell College of Arts, Atina Reunion exhibition
2017
C.A.R., Cata Odata, Ubud, Bali
57th Venice Biennale, Age of Anxiety Empire II, short film, ‘Sculpting in Time’ Castello, Riva Dei Sette Martiri
57th Venice Biennale, Fit the Slit, Venice Lido, Alberoni Beach, site specific installation
The Han Collection Gallery, Museum Street, London. The New Dawn curated by Jhy-Yen Lo. In association with PingHub International. ‘Wings of Desire’
Q Park, National Portrait Gallery, Chinese Open, Les Coq Artistes
Barge House, FIX Photography Festival
Remember Her
Fiat Chrysler, Mayfair Gallery, KANOJO
Parco S.Stefano, Atina, Italy,
Cross Lane Projects, Kendall Empire II
Dalston Studios. Short Films by Artists
Lenscratch Earth Day exhibition curated by Aline Smithson. ‘Beachy Head’
Cavendish Square Car Park, Frieze Week, Crash,
Fiat Chrysler, Mayfair Gallery, David Bowie Tribute
2016
Asylum Chapel Gallery, Homunculus, ‘To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful’, Sallust
The Space Gallery, Goa, India, ‘Paper Spirits’ site specific installation
HM 90 – presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, ‘HM Queen, Vanitas’.
BLACK+WHITE presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays
REVOLUTION, presented by Art Society Soho, and Creative Debuts in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays
PHOTOVILLE Festival, Brooklyn Bridge Park, presented by United Photo Industries, New York, special edition of the ‘Curated Fridge’, curated by Aline Smithson, ‘Road Trip’
Chelsea Arts Club, members exhibitions, Collage and Special Materials members show. ‘HM Queen, Vanitas’.
Espacio Gallery 28th Annual London Independent Photography exhibition
Jonathan Ross 286 Gallery Annual Exhibition
2015
Permanent installation of Tokyo Geisha, Kokoro W2
Chelsea Arts Club, Hat Auction, including Stephen Jones, Philip Tracy, Jane Taylor and Patrick Hughes
London Festival Of Architecture, Forman’s Fish Island Riviera, Den-City, ‘Who Killed the Goose’, installation
House of Illustration, exhibition and silent auction in aid of Nepalese earthquake
Turner Contemporary, Margate, the Art Car Boot Fair with Art Society Soho.
Art Society Soho, Car Boot Art Fair, Brick Lane, ‘Peeping Tom’, mixed media
56th Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Disquiet, ‘An Experimental Journey Undertaken Involuntarily’ sculpture installation and printed edition.
56th Venice Biennale, Fit the Slit, Venice Lido, Alberoni Beach, ‘Say it with Fire’, site specific installation
Chelsea Arts Club, London, members’ exhibition, Peeping Tom, photography
Q Park, Chinatown Soho, London, Chinese Open, Year of the Sheep
2014
Let Art Work Gallery, Pune, India, GOD,
Chelsea Arts Club, Members’ exhibition, London
Office Sessions III
Royal College of Art, Kensington, 27th Annual Art for Youth exhibition, Ensō – The Lightness Of Impermanence And Tokyo Geisha, Masks Of Seduction
Embassy Tea Gallery, 27th London Independent Annual Exhibition
Office SessionsS II, East India Docks, London, ‘Ensō: The Lightness Of Impermanence’
EPIC, LONDON, ‘KUBRICK’S LIFT’, TRANSITION COLLECTIVE
NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE, NEW ORLEANS, USA, ‘MASQUERADE’ MARDI GRAS 2014, Curated by Aline Smithson, photography
WINTER PRIDE ART AWARD FINALISTS EXHIBITION, OFFICE SESSIONS, EAST INDIA DOCKS, LONDON
TOBACCO DOCKS, LONDON, WINTER PRIDE ART AWARD FINALISTS EXHIBITION AND AWARDS CEREMONY
CHART GALLERY, CHELSEA, WINTER PRIDE ART AWARD FINALISTS EXHIBITION PINA BAUSCH, KONTAKTHOF, POSTHUMOUS
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, THE LATE SHIFT, ‘THE CURATED EGO : ME + SELF-PORTRAIT-AS-YOU AND ME’
2013
QUEENS PARADE, LONDON WINTER CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, ‘CHRYSALIS’ AND ‘POSTHUMOUS’
‘CONNECTING THE DOTS‘, INTERNATIONAL AUDIO VISUAL ART COLLABORATION, CURATED BY HAMBURG BASED ARTISTS FRAUKE HÄNKE AND CLAUS KIENLE
GALLERY AND LAB, QUEEN’S PARADE, LONDON, ‘TOKYO GEISHA MASKS OF SEDUCTION’
TOKYO GEISHA, MASKS OF SEDUCTION © VANJA KARAS
STRAND GALLERY (PROUD CENTRAL), LONDON, 25TH LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL EXHIBITION ‘TOKYO GEISHA MASKS OF SEDUCTION’
TOKYO GEISHA, MASKS OF SEDUCTION © VANJA KARAS
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, BATTERSEA, LONDON, ‘YEAR OF THE DRAGON’, AUCTIONED BY CHRISTIE’S IN AID OF GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL, CATALOGUE BY CHRISTIE’S
ELECTRIC HOUSE, LONDON, ‘CHRYSALIS’
CHELSEA ARTS CLUB, LONDON, members’ exhibition, ‘HEROES AND VILLAINS’
CHINA HOUSE, GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, ‘PINA BAUSCH, KONTAKTHOF, POSTHUMOUS’ ALONGSIDE ‘AN EYE FOR AN EAR’ PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON // SOUTH EAST ASIA
‘AN EYE FOR AN EAR’ PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON // SOUTH EAST ASIA, CHINA HOUSE INSTALLATIONS CURATED BY VANJA KARAS
CHINA HOUSE, GEORGE TOWN, PENANG MALAYSIA, ‘YEAR OF THE DRAGON’, ALONGSIDE ‘AN EYE FOR AN EAR’ PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON // SOUTH EAST ASIA
2012
STRAND GALLERY, 24TH LONDON PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL EXHIBITION, LONDON, ‘YEAR OF THE DRAGON’
2012
STRAND GALLERY, LONDON, ‘SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT’, photography
GALERIE HUIT, ARLES, FRANCE ‘PINA BAUSCH, KONTAKTHOF, POSTHUMOUS’ LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES 2012
GALERIE HUIT ARLES, INSTALLATIONS CURATED BY VANJA KARAS
Pina Bausch, Kontakthof, Posthumous, Galerie Huit, alongside Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, 2012 Monocle TV, video report on Arles Photography Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles 2012 featuring installations ‘An Eye for an Ear‘, Photography Open Salon 2012 curated by Vanja Karas http://www.photographyopensalon.com and of ‘‘Pina Bausch, Posthumous, Kontakthof‘ by Vanja Karas in Galerie Huit. If you don’t have time to watch the whole 10 minute video jump start to 2m 30sec and the introduction about the festival by Marta Weiss, Curator of the Word and Image Department at Victoria and Albert Museum. http://monocle.com/film/culture/arles-photography-festival
GALERIE HUIT, ARLES, FRANCE, ‘SOLITARY’, ARLES CONTEMPORARY/ARLES CONTEMPORAIN
GROUND FLOOR LEFT, LONDON ‘MOVING PICTURES, CASINO TITLE SEQUENCE’, AUCTION, (ALONGSIDE RICHARD WILSON AND GAVIN TURK)
CHINA HOUSE, PENANG, MALAYSIA, ‘SOLITARY’, ALONGSIDE ‘TRANSIENCE’ PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON // SOUTH EAST ASIA
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, PENANG, MALAYSIA, ‘SOLITARY’, ALONGSIDE ‘TRANSIENCE’ PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON // SOUTH EAST ASIA
2011
PROUD CENTRAL PHOTOMONTH, LONDON, PINA BAUSCH, KONTAKTHOF, POSTHUMOUS, 23RD LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL EXHIBITION
GALERIE HUIT, ARLES, FRANCE, ‘SOLITARY’, ALONGSIDE LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES 2011
WPO, WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2011, SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON, ‘THE ROYAL WEDDING’, PORTRAIT & DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITION
2010
22ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY, PROUD CENTRAL (THE STRAND GALLERY), LONDON
’24 HOURS OF ART’, INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL, BELGRADE, Solitary
BRENT ARTISTS GALLERY, LONDON, ‘STOP MOTION’
CHELSEA ARTS CLUB, LONDON, ‘THE UGLY BUGS BALL’
2010
‘GOING POSTAL’
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ICA
ARTWORK AUCTIONED BY BONHAMS, LONDON
2010
PERMANENT INSTALLATION
SWISS RE BUILDING, THE GHERKIN, LONDON
2010
‘OPEN SALON’
VIEWFINDER GALLERY, LONDON
2009
INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL, SIDDHARTHA ART GALLERY, KATHMANDU, NEPAL, ‘SEPARATING MYTH FROM REALITY’
CHELSEA ARTS CLUB, LONDON, ‘EXQUISITE CORPSE’,
‘MOVING PICTURES, PERSISTENCE OF VISION’, PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON
QUEEN’S ELM GALLERY, LONDON, QUEEN’S ELM ARTISTS EXHIBITION
INSTALLATION QUEEN’S ELM ARTISTS EXHIBITION AT QUEEN’S ELM GALLERY 2009
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON, SUMMER EXHIBITION, MAKING SPACE
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, SUMMER EXHIBITION, LONDON, 2009
BRENT ARTISTS RESOURCE GALLERY, LONDON, ’50X50′
Brent Artists’ Art Gallery, London, ‘SPRING EXHIBITION’
2009
‘FOOD FOR THOUGHT’
BAR ART GALLERY, LONDON
2009
THE QUEENS ELM GALLERY, LONDON
BAR ART GALLERY, LONDON,
‘IN PRINT’
2009
‘OPEN SALON’
VIEWFINDER GALLERY, GREENWICH
2008
‘KATHMANDU’, PERMANENT INSTALLATION
ST MARY’S HOSPITAL
2008
‘KHULA DHOKA / OPEN DOOR’
ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE, LONDON
KHULA DHOKA / OPEN DOOR, ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE INSTALLATION, LONDON,
2008
‘LOST AND FOUND’
ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH GALLERY, LONDON
2008
PERMANENT INSTALLATION
1 WESTFERRY CIRCUS, CANARY WHARF, LONDON
2007
‘RED DOT’
ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, LONDON
2007
‘WHAT HAUNTS YOU’
PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, LONDON
2007
‘HOME’, WILLESDEN ART GALLERY, LONDON
2007
‘NOW AND THEN’
BRENT MUSEUM, LONDON, PART OF MUSEUM’S PERMANENT COLLECTION
2007
‘PORTFOLIO’
ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, LONDON
INSTALLATION AT THE ASSOCIATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY 2007
2006
18TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION, LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY
COTTONS ATRIUM, LONDON
‘DECISIVE MOVEMENT’
BRENT ARTIST’S GALLERY GALLERY, LONDON
2005
LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL EXHIBITION
SMETHWICK PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, SMETHWICK
2005
17TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION, LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY
COTTONS ATRIUM, LONDON
2005
DISSENTERS GALLERY, LONDON, ‘EASTERN CAMEOS’, SOLO EXHIBITION
EASTERN CAMEOS, INSTALLATION AT THE, DISSENTERS GALLERY, LONDON, 2005
DISSENTERS GALLERY, LONDON, ‘AROUND A MILE’
