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David Keating is an Australian contemporary artist, his multidisciplinary practice engages installation, video, performance, and public sculpture, with a focus on expanded and experimental forms of drawing. Based in Germany, 2004 – 2020 he produced installations that examined the relationship between architecture, institutions, design and the body. These works cross over between a rich materiality and conceptual concerns with the agency of the artwork and artistic gestures. More recently, through works on paper and videos characterised with subversive humour he has developed an idiosyncratic personal iconography that explores contemporary cultural vocabularies and the limits of language.

Solo exhibitions include ‘Endless Nameless’, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, ‘Passage’ RaebervonStenglin, Zurich and ‘Habitual Despair’ at Conners Conners, Melbourne. He has participated in significant international group exhibitions such as The Brussels Biennial 1, Belgium and at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, and produced public art commissions for the Bass Museum of Art, Miami and Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Zurich.

He has been awarded the Australia Council Studio Residency, Los Angeles, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Scholarship. He holds a BFA from The Victorian College of the Arts and is currently undertaking a PhD. at La Trobe University, the topic of his research is; ‘Against Fixation – The Line as Radical Entity in Contemporary Art.’

 
 

 David Keating 

*1977 Melbourne Australia

Contact: mail@davidkeating.net
instagram: davidmkeating

EDUCATION

1995-1998 Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
The Containers, Chauffeur, Sydney-link
habitual despair, Conners Conners, Melbourne -link

2019
A sun in his head, COMA / Chauffeur, Sydney -link1-link2

2014
Endless Nameless, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland -link
Interview with Curator Ines Goldbach -link

2012
Passage, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland -link

2010
Sequence and descending, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland -link
I like for you to be still, The Taut and Tame, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery – link
Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery – link
Omnibus, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin – link

2021
Conners Conners Fundraiser -link
HELL ‘N’ BACK Again CAVES Fundraiser 2021 -link
Auckland Art fair, Chauffeur, Auckland, New Zealand

2019
Release and Clutch, 
Latrobe Art Institute, Bendigo -link

2018
Constructing desire #4 I’m so fucky* -link
Rhythm & Blues,
Chauffeur, Sydney -link

2017
The Intimate Edge,
 Grand Army Collective Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA -link

2016
Stoneroses#5, Riverside, Worblaufen, Switzerland -link
Other People’s Poetry, 10th floor Wilhelmstrasse 3, Berlin, Germany

2015
AAA – Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Zurich, Switzerland link

2014
SMALL Rome, Frutta, Rome, Italy-link

Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt, Germany-link
When I paint my masterpiece, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand -link

2012
Als Moriandi mit der Kinematographie liebäugelte, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany -link

The Hysterical Sublime, Spazio Cabinet, Milan -link

2011
DROP HANDKERCHIEF BACKDROP, 1857, Oslo, Norway -link
Hysterical Sublime, David Keating & Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Spazio Cabinet, Milan, Italy -link
CHUTZPAH, David Keating & Dan Rees, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, Germany-link

2009
Warm Summer Days Indoors, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany -link

2008

The Objects, 18th Street Studio, Los Angeles, USA –link

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, 
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels, Belgium -link 

2007
Tales from the Travel Journal Vol. 1, curated by Catherine Hemelryk, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania -link

2002
Obviously a Museum, (in collaboration with Benjamin Cittadini), Melbourne Museum, Australia

Collections

Auckland Art Gallery -link

All images are property of the artist.

© David Keating, 2022