Goldsmiths - University of London

Lisa Le Feuvre

My curatorial practice operates across the registers of exhibition-making, writing, public speaking and teaching in the University context. Intrinsic to my work and research as a curator is the notion of ‘practice’, a process that interrogates the possibilities of critically engaged curatorial activities.

Selected curatorial and writing projects (to 2000)

2010

Curated exhibition:
British Art Show 7(forthcoming)
Nottingham Contemporary / New Art Exchange / Nottingham Castle Museum; Hayward Gallery, CCA Glasgow / Tramway; Plymouth Arts Consortium
co-curated with Tom Morton

Editor of publication:
Failure (forthcoming)
Whitechapel Art Gallery / MIT Press

2009

Curated exhibitions:
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Water Between
National Maritime Museum, London

Jeremy Millar: Given
National Maritime Museum, London

Joachim Koester: Poison Protocols and Other Histories
Stills, Edinburgh

Publication essays:
44 in Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere, edited by Steven Bode, Film and Video Umbrella; ISBN 9781904270317; no pagination

Steve McQueen: Failures of Representation in Sounds & Visions: Artists Films and Videos from Europe the last Decade, edited by Angela Gioè and Maria Rosa Sossai, Silvana Editorale;  pp120-123

Staging / Object / Film in Sculpture and Film, edited by Ian Christie and Jon Wood, Henry Moore Foundation, ISBN TBC; ppTBC (forthcoming)

Sea Change in Currents of Time: New Work by Zineb Sedira, iniva / Rivington Place, pamphlet

Failures of Fact and Fiction in Anna Lucas: Little White Feather and the Hunter, Commissions East, ISBN 9780954144746, insert

Publication interviews:
Its About Being Uncomfortable Again in Laura White: The Stuff of Images, Manchester: Castlefield Gallery, 2009; ISBN 9780955955716, unpaginated

Journal articles:
53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds in Art Monthly Issue 328, pp25-26

2008

Curated exhibitions:
Simon Patterson: The Undersea World and Other Stories National Maritime Museum, London

Jem Finer: Longplayer Royal Observatory Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, London

Economies of Attention: Leisure, Resistance, Desire and Labour:
Arts Council of England National Office, London
Art & Language, Claire Barclay, Fiona Banner, Patrick Caulfield, Susan Collis, Dan Graham, Gary Hume, Emma Kay, Idris Khan, Michael Landy, Paul Lincoln; Chapter Two: Resistance: Jeremy Dellar, Gregory Green, Mona Hatoum, Richard McConnell, David Noonan, Toby Paterson, John Stzeaker, Keith Tyson and Rebecca Warren (works from the Arts Council Collection)

Publication essays:
Not Failing in Adam Chodzko: Paroxigean Tide; Tate; ISBN 9781854378255; pp 48- 56

Nought to Sixty: Some Paradoxes and Parameters in Nought to Sixty; Issue 1 / May, ICA, London I Would Prefer Not To in Bill Beckley: Ping Pong Dialogues; Chelsea Space; ISBN9781906203191; pp 12-17

Noemi Lakmaier; Camden Arts Centre; ISBN9781900470827

Acconci, Graham, Nauman, Foucault in The Impossible Prison: A Foucault Reader, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; pp 26-27

Journal articles:
Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter/Manual in Foam, The Netherlands; Winter 2007/8; issue 13; pp55-74

Art Failure in Art Monthly, London; February 2008; number 313; pp5-8

Reflecting on Ice Blink in Engage: the international journal of visual and gallery education, London; issue 21, Spring 2008; pp53-56

Dennis Oppenheim: Tooth and Nail in Art Monthly, London; June 2008; number 317; pp36

2007

Curated exhibitions:

Esther Shalev-Gerz: Echoes in Memory National Maritime Museum, London

Lawrence Weiner: Inherent in the Rhumb Line National Maritime Museum, London

Publication essays:

Past Possibilities For a Future Museum: Parts 1-15 in Adam Chodzko; edited by Andrea Villani; MAMBO /Skira, Milan; pp105-120 (English and Italian)

Obsolete and Enduring Functions in Artists’ Studio; edited by Capucine Perrot; Cultureshock Media, London; ISBN 0954699955; pp25-29

Ghostship in Chris Burden; edited by Fred Hoffman; Locus+, Newcastle / Thames and Hudson, London; ISBN 1899377182; pp364-367

Cerith Wyn Evans: Four Avoidances: Describing, Looking, Repeating, Staring in Kunst/Art: Lufthansa Aviation Centre; Revolver, Frankfurt; ISBN 9783865883841; pp140-151

Telling Tales Five Times on Simon Woolham in Simon Woolham: Shreds of Evidence; Parabola, London; ISBN 0954761774; pp10-22

Remembering for Another in The Mother of All Journeys: Dinu Li in Dewi Lewis, London; ISBN 9781904587415; pp87-89

Publication interviews:

A Conversation with Mark Titchner in Vertigo: Mark Titchner and Marcel Duchamp; Chelsea Space, London; ISBN 978-1-906203-009; pp6-25

Charles Danby and Lisa Le Feuvre: Spaces Between Words in The Invention of Solitude Part II; Aston and Horrox, London; ISBN 9780954974816; pp62-69

2006

Curated exhibitions:

Dan Holdsworth: At the Edge of Space Parts 1 - 3 National Maritime Museum, London; Stills, Edinburgh (2007)

Simon Faithfull: Iceblink Stills, Edinburgh; Parkers Box, New York; Cell, London

Dennis Oppenheim: Recall MOT, London

Publication essays:

Event Architecture in Wolfgang Weileder: House-project; Ikon, Birmingham; ISBN 190486418X; pp73-97

A Space of Ambivalent Desire: Yto Barrada’s A Life Full of Holes – the Strait Project in Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2006, edited by Stefanie Braun; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; ISBN 0907879705; pp44-47

Describing the Impossible in Stephen Farthing: Painting the Atlantic; Chelsea Futurespace, London; pamphlet; pp6-8

Aaron Plant; Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; ISBN 0974354139; pp3-6

Gutter Dreams; Texts on 39 artists graduating from the postgraduate art programme; Chelsea School of Arts, London; ISBN 1870504840; pp12-166

Publication interview:

Beth Derbyshire: Message; edited by Louise Hayward; Thames and Hudson, London; ISBN 9780500512944; pp122-129

Editor of publication:

Simon Faithfull: Iceblink; Book Works, London; ISBN 1870699920

Journal articles:

Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth in Foam, The Netherlands; Winter 2006/7; issue 9; pp35-44

Lisa Oppenheim: Profile in Art Monthly, London; November 2006; issue 301; ISSN 01426702; pp32-33

The Institution Within in Art Monthly, London; June 2006; issue 297; ISSN 01426726; pp7-10

On-line journal essay:

Urban Time Travel: Odd-Lots and Floating Islands in Species of Spaces; Diffusion E-books series; Proboscis, London; ISBN 9781901540465; www.diffusion.org.uk

On-line editorial and interview:

Co editor with Jonathan Wood; of Issue 3 of Dialogue on-line journal: Inside the interview: Exploring the workings of the artist interview; Axis, Leeds; ISSN 1749-4990; www.axisweb.org/dlHOME.aspx;

2005

Curated exhibition:

Avalanche 1970-1976 Chelsea space, London

Publication essays:

Flavia Muller Medeiros: It Depends On The Circumstance And The People; Daniel Eatock, London; ISBN 0955119405

Shezad Dawood: Paradise Row; edited by Chris Hammond; MOT, London

Selective Memory: Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; texts on Alex Pollard, Tatham & O'Sullivan and Cathy Wilkes; British Council; newspaper.
Reprinted 2008 in Scotland & Venice, Scottish Arts Council / British Council; ISBN 9781851191642; pp98-101

I Am A Curator; Föreningen Curatorial Mutiny, Stockholm; ISBN 9163151324; pp57-67

Royal College of Art, London; MA Photography catalogue: texts on 22 artists; Royal College of Art, London; pamphlet

Reassurance; text on Yeu-Lai Mo, Susan Pui San Lok, Erika Tan, Mayling To and Jen Wu; SPACE, London and Manchester Chinese Art Centre; pamphlet

Esther Shalev-Gerz: Deadalu(s); Fire Station, Dublin; ISBN 0953805514; pp23-25

Esther Shalev-Gerz; Kunstler: Kritshes Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich; ISSN 09341730

Publication interviews:

Interview with Philip Warnell and Richard Squires in Suture: Artwork without Anaesthetic; Old Operating Theatre, London; pamphlet

Non-Hours and Boredom: an interview with Anthony Shapland in Something of the Night: Thoughts on the Contemporary City; Leeds City Art Gallery; ISBN 0901981702; pp30-3; reprinted in Vitrine 2004-2006, Vitrine Publishing, Leeds; ISBN 1397809550217

Editor of publication:

The Early History of Avalanche: 1968-1972; Chelsea Space, London; ISBN 1870540093

On-line journal essay:

yes-no-perhaps-maybe; commissioned text for exhibition Richard Forster and Eva Weinmayr; Vane, Newcastle; www.vane.org.uk

2004

Curated exhibitions:

Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices
The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (2005); La Caixa Forum, Barcelona (2006)
Co-curator with Akram Zataari

Pierre Bourdieu: In Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting
The Photographers’ Gallery, London; developed from research by Camera Austria / Franz Schlutheis

Mediterranean: Between Reality and Utopia
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Artists: Edouard-Denis Baldus, Gabriele Basilico, Bleda y Rosa, Christophe Bourguedieu, Martin Cole, Dmitris Constantin, Louis De Clerq, Ad van Denderen, Eric Fischl, Gunter Förg, Julie Ganzin, Eric Kessels, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Rosell Meseguer, Vesna Pavlovic, Mark Räder, Guy Raz, Xavier Ribas, Youssef Safieddine, August Sander, Sebah & Joallier, Efrat Shvily, Joel Sternfeld, Enrico Verzaschi, Seçil Yersel

Donovan Wylie: The Maze The Photographers’ Gallery, London; with Magnum Photographs

Citigroup Photography Prize 2004
The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Artists: Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld

Publication essays:

Not Nothing: text on Miles Thurlow in Workplace; Art Editions North, Newcastle; ISBN 1873757158; pp76-81

The Continuous Present in Anthony McCall: Film Installations; Mead Gallery, Warwick; ISBN 0902683667; pp33-41

Editor of publication: Hashem El Madani; The Photographers’ Gallery, London / Arab Image Foundation, Beirut / Mind The Gap, Beirut; ISBN 9953003238; winner of the John Kobal Photography Book Prize 2005

Citigroup Photography Prize 2004; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; ISBN 0907879675

Journal article:

Avalanche 1970-6: Art on the Page; feature article Art Monthly July-August 2004, Issue 278; ISSN 01426702; pp7-10

On-line journal essays:

Profile: Lis Rhodes; LUX, London;www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/lis_rhodes/essay(1).html

Failure; commissioned project by Sam Ely and Lynn Harris; www.unrealisedprojects.org

2003

Curated exhibitions:

Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Architectural Association, London

i n s u l a t o r
1000000mph Project Space, London
Artist: Edgar Schmitz

Per Hüttner: I Am A Curator
Chisenhale Gallery, London; one of six curators selecting an ‘exhibition in waiting’ for project convened by artist Per Hüttner; re-presented as Exchange at Bankley, Manchester (2006) Artists: Richard Couzins, Sam Ely & Lynn Harris, Kate Grieve, David Osbaldeson, James Porter, Eva Weinmayr and Simon Woolham

Publication essays:

Uta Kögelsberger: Retreat; Café Gallery Projects, London; pamphlet

Jitka Hanzlová in The Citibank Photography Prize 2003; edited by Alex Farquharsen; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; ISBN 0907879659; pp12-27

Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between; edited by James Attlee; Nazraeli Press, Arizona; ISBN 1590050495; pp 6–11 and pp91-111

2002

Editor of publication:

The Dark Continent: photographs by Tom Gleeson; Yoke, New York; ISBN 0954424107

Journal article:

A W-Hole House: Gordon Matta-Clark re-viewed; Art Monthly, April 2002; issue 255; ISSN 01426702; pp12-15

2001

Curated exhibitions:

Close To You
Hoxton Distillery, London
Artists: Tom Gleeson and Claudine Hartzel

The Poster The Show
Hoxton Distillery, London (co-curator with John Hanson and Richard Paul)
Artists: Tonico Lemos Aud, Steven Claydon & Neil Chapman, John Hanson & Richard Paul, Jens Kabbish, Marcelle Price, Yeu Lai Mo and Robert Wilson

Simon Woolham
Hoxton Distillery, London (co-curator with John Hanson and Richard Paul)

Richard Couzins
Hoxton Distillery, London (co-curator with John Hanson and Richard Paul)

Neil Chapman & Steve Claydon
Hoxton Distillery, London (co-curator with John Hanson and Richard Paul)

Publication essay:

Claudine Hartzel: Who’s Playing Dice with the Universe; Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow; pamphlet

2000

Curated exhibitions:

Sodium Blindness
APT Gallery, London; co-curator with Sarah Conway
Artists: Helen Couchman, Sarah Conway, Lyn Marsh, Vicki Wetherill and Shizuka Yokomizo

Photocine
Curzon Soho, London; Clapham Picture House, London; Stratford East Picture House, London; Duke of York’s Picture House, Brighton; Exeter Picture House; Cambridge Picture House; Pheonix Picture House, Oxford
Artists: David Shrigley and Gregory Crewdson

The Reflective Surface / Where Did You Find Me?
Cable Factory, Helsinki; Fargfabriken, Stockholm; Fotogalerie, Vienna; Incubator, London; James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
Artists: Anna Brag, Per Huttner, Bengt Olof Johansson, Clifton Steinberg, Martyn Simpson and Shizuka Yokomizo

Publication essays:

Ed Whittaker: The Contingent Landscape; Artworth, London; ISBN 0951302396; pp 2-3

Photographs that Changed the World; Series of essays, edited by Dr Peter Stephan; Prestel Verlag, London / Munich; ISBN 3791323954; pp 38, 68, 84, 100,114, 116,

Where Did You Find Me?; Incubator Gallery, London; pamphlet

Academic qualifications

1994-6 MA Visual Culture; Middlesex University

1993 Diploma in Arts Administration and Management; Roehampton Institute

1989-92 BA Architecture; University of Westminster

1988-89 Foundation year BA Social Science; University of Westminster

Teaching

Employment teaching

2004 – current
Lecturer MFA Curating; 0.5 post
Goldsmiths College, London

2007 – 2008
Lecturer MA Contemporary Art; 0.2 post
Sotheby’s Institute, London

2004 – 2007
Lecturer BA Arts Management; 0.2 post
South Bank University, London

2001 – 2004
Artist Professional Development Trainer
Space Place, London

1998 – 2004
MA Arts Policy and Management Lecturer and Course Director Year One; 0.5 post Birkbeck College, University of London

2002 - 2003
Lecturer Foundation in Art and Design
Chelsea School of Art and Design

Ongoing

Arts Council England Inspire Programme; Bartlett School of Architecture; Bath Spa University; Camberwell School of Arts; Central Saint Martins School of Art; Chelsea School of Art and Design; Christies Education; London College of Communication; Glasgow School of Art; Newcastle University; Nottingham Trent University, Roehampton Institute; Royal College of Art; San Francisco Art Institute; Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main; Slade School of Art; St Martins School of Art; University of Salford; Wimbledon School of Art

Employment and consultancy: museums and galleries

2005 - 2009
Curator of Contemporary Art
National Maritime Museum, London

2003 - 2004
Exhibition Curator (one year visiting curatorial post)
The Photographers’ Gallery, London

2004 – current
Co-director (with Edgar Schmitz)
A Conversation in Many Parts; series of international public seminars

2002 - 2003
Curator of Public Programmes (one year visiting post) Tate Britain, London

2003 – 2005
Parknights Co-ordinator
Serpentine Gallery, London

1997 - 2002
Programme Organiser: Talks and Events
The Photographers’ Gallery, London

2000 - 2001
Founding Director Hoxton Distillery, London

Selected publications

Magazine and journal contributions, including:

Art Forum, New York; Artists’ Newsletter, Newcastle; Art Monthly, London; D<Tour, London; Ditched, London; Engage, London; Galleries; London; Index; Stockholm; KATALOG photography film video, Copenhagen; Lux on-line, London; Make, London; Map, Glasgow; Next Level, London; Parachute, Montreal; Tema Celeste, Milan; Time Out; London; The East newspaper, London; Tank, London; Themepark, London

Talks and discussions at various venues, including:

Arnolfini, Bristol; Aspex, Portsmouth; Barbican Art Gallery, London; British Council ‘In Country’ programme, Beijing, China; Camden Arts Centre, London; Cell Project Space, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; ICA, London; Flat Time House, London; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Kingsgate Gallery, London; Manchester Chinese Arts Centre; Modern Art Oxford; Museums Association conference, Liverpool; Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź , Poland; New Art Gallery, Wallsall; Nottingham Contemporary; Rational Rec, London; Royal Academy of Arts; Serpentine Gallery, London; The Showroom, London; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; South London Gallery; Stroud Valley Arts; Sprueth Magers Gallery, London;  Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire; Tate Britain, London; Tate Modern, London; University College Dublin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; White Space Gallery, London

Advisory boards

2009 – current    Pavilion, Leeds
2007 – current    Cell Project Space , London
2006 – current    External Examiner: Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2006 – 2008       Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths College
2005 – 2007       no.w.here Arts, London
2005 – 2007       Wellcome Trust SciArt Panel, London
2005 – 2007       Axis Artists’ Network, Leeds