John Gerrard
Donation to mumok, Vienna
Together with the Manifesta Phileas co-commissioned the artist John Gerrard in 2018, to produce a new artwork for the 12th biennale edition in Palermo and in accordance with its theme: The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence. In the resulting work, Gerrard created a detailed virtual reconstruction of a location where a truck had been abandoned on 27th August 2015. The truck had been found to contain the corpses of seventy-one hidden migrants from Iran, Iraq and Syria who had been smothered in the vehicle two days before Gerrard started recording the location. After Manifesta 12, Phileas extended this collaboration to the acquisition of the work for the collection of mumok, Vienna.
John Gerrard (b. 1974) is based in Dublin and Vienna. Past exhibitions include Somerset House, London; Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Darmstadt Kunsthalle; Modern Art Oxford and MiMA, Middlesbrough. His work was included in the 11th Shanghai Biennale, the 53rd Venice Biennale and the 3rd Liverpool Biennial, as well as in a number of group shows at institutions such as Salzburger Kunstverein; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Britain, London; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In 2020, Phileas will co-produce a new presentation by John Gerrard for the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
DONATED ARTWORK
Untitled (near Parndorf, Austria), 2018
Videosimulation
Duration: one year
