Richard Sides
Works

Richard Sides, Health & Leisure, 2024
oil on canvas, inkjet print
120 × 160 cm

Richard Sides, Health & Leisure, 2024
Detail

Slow Dance (4), 2023
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Richard Sides
Curated by Luca Beeler & Richard Sides
Installation view

Hunter, 2024, Scherben, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Files, 2024, Backrooms, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
Daniel Dawson, Stefano Faoro, Gritli Faulhaber, Peter Fend, Ada Friedman, Dani Leder, Maggie Lee, Megan Plunkett, Kate Sansom, Jen Shear, Richard Sides, Lise Soskolne, Adelhyd van Bender
Installation view

Installation view from Universal Metabolism, 2023, Atonal, Berlin, DE


Richard Sides, Shoplifting in the Anthropocene, 2023
Laminated mixed media
60 × 9500 cm
Details

Installation View: Richard Sides at Parloir, Tournai with KIN (BE)

Richard Sides, Observer, 2022
Acrylic and gesso on linen
200 × 300 cm

Richard Sides, It‘s a fearful heart that builds a wall, 2022
Card packaging, wood, resin, spray paint
190 × 64 × 50 cm

Richard Sides, Basic Vision ‘98, 2022
acrylic and gesso on coated mdf, clamp folder with laminated mixed media, artist made aluminum frame
90 × 120 × 6 cm
Installation view from Interests, 2023, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE

Richard Sides, disinformation, 2021
Wood, chain, motor
190 × 63 × 63 cm
Detail

Richard Sides, our love feels, 2021
Concrete and pigment
25 × 24 × 4,5 cm


Richard Sides, Yellow box, 2022
wood, acrylic paint, various materials
40 × 40 × 40 cm

Richard Sides, Bounce their music across the grass, 2021, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Solipsistic climax, 2018
Framed collage on paper
60 × 50 × 4 cm

Richard Sides, Dwelling, 2019, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Curated by Raoul Klooker
Installation view

Richard Sides, phone dick (chillax), 2019
mixed media
130 × 100 × 20 cm

You’re human like the rest of them, 2024, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
Richard Sides, Sylvie Fleury, Paul Niedermayer, Padraig Timoney
Curated by Rebecca Ackroyd
Installation view

Richard Sides, Untitled (Cybertruck), 2024
Enamel, mixed media on wood
75 × 280 × 4 cm

Richard Sides, How Trains Changed The World, 2022
UV-print on Gesso on canvas
160 × 120 × 4 cm

Hunter, 2024, Scherben, Berlin, DE
Albrecht Becker, Juliana Halpert, Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, Tarik Kentouche, Anais Morales, Doug Ischar, Richard Sides
Curated by Lorenz Liebig
Installation view

Files, 2024, Backrooms, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
Installation view

Richard Sides, Shark dog, 2023
Cardboard, wood, resin, acrylic
115 × 27 × 60cm

Richard Sides, Shark Atlas, 2023
Cardboard, wood, resin, acrylic
180 × 85 × 45cm
Installation view from Universal Metabolism, 2023, Atonal, Berlin, DE

Universal Metabolism, 2023, Atonal, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, The Human Project, 2023
Cardboard boxes, printed material, acrylic medium
182 × 65 × 46cm

Richard Sides, Basic Vision, 2022
presented by Carlos/Ishikawa
KOW, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Basic Vision ‘98, 2022
Detail

BUFFERS, 2021, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE hosted by Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, DE
Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
Installation view

Richard Sides, The Matrix, 2021, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Somewhere out there in the wilderness through the context of your own life, 2021
Acrylic, spray paint, paper and c-print on canvas
100 × 100 cm

Richard Sides, Spring Collection ’96, 2022
acrylic and gesso on coated mdf, clamp folder with
laminated mixed media, artist made aluminum frame
90 × 120 × 6 cm

Richard Sides, Two people visit the aquarium together, 2021
wood, enamel paint, door handle
105 × 210 × 23.5 cm

Richard Sides, Dwelling, 2019, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Curated by Raoul Klooker
Installation view

Richard Sides, Untitled (Drew Barrymore digital ultraviolence DRUGS City life Keep calm...)’, 2018
laminated mixed media
60 × 42,5 cm

Richard Sides, the trees must have the knoledge of this..., 2021
Paper, newspaper, string, eyelets, tape
Dimensions variable

You’re human like the rest of them, 2024, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
Richard Sides, Sylvie Fleury, Paul Niedermayer, Padraig Timoney
Curated by Rebecca Ackroyd
Installation view

Richard Sides, Out of Time, 2022
acrylic and printed matter on mdf on wood, artist-made aluminum frame
60 × 230 cm

Hunter, 2024, Scherben, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Deep Listening, 2024
Installation View at KIN, Brussels, BE

Richard Sides, Non-bureaucratic zone, 2023
3d printed sculpture, mirrorball, motor, wooden plinth with resonator
speaker, carpet, audio, 16:48min
Various dimensions

Richard Sides, Non-bureaucratic zone, 2023
Detail

Universal Metabolism, 2023, Atonal, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Universal Metabolism, 2023, Atonal, Berlin, DE
Detail

Richard Sides, Nowhere, outside, 2022
Acrylic and gesso on board, ring binder with laminated mixed media, aluminium frame
120 × 90 cm

Richard Sides, Nowhere, outside, 2022
Detail


Richard Sides, The conversation in an invisible world, 2021
Wood, wireless speaker, audio file
40,5 × 33 × 90 cm

Richard Sides, The Matrix, 2021, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Spring Collection ’96, 2022
Detail

Richard Sides, The guard is never down with some..., 2021
Acrylic on canvas, wood frame
51 × 72 cm

Richard Sides, Bounce their music across the grass, 2021, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DE
Installation view

Richard Sides, Dwelling, 2019, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Curated by Raoul Klooker
Installation view

Richard Sides, 2 × Bridget Riley-style Op Art & FLAT EARTH, 2022
acrylic and varnish on mdf, clamp folder with laminated
mixed media, artist made aluminum frame
90 × 120 cm
Exhibitions
Richard Sides
Years
KIN, Brussels, BE
January 23 – March 15, 2025

You're human like the rest of them
Sylvie Fleury, Paul Niedermayer, Richard Sides, Padraig Timoney
Curated by Rebecca Ackroyd
Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
December 13, 2024 – January 31, 2025

Modernization
Philippe Daerendinger, Adam Gallagher, Morag Keil, Lawrence Leaman, Kate Mackeson, Sara MacKillop, Marta Riniker-Radich, Richard Sides
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne, CH
October 19 – November 23, 2024

Files
Daniel Dawson, Stefano Faoro, Gritli Faulhaber, Peter Fend, Ada Friedman, Dani Leder, Maggie Lee, Megan Plunkett, Kate Sansom, Jen Shear, Richard Sides, Lise Soskolne, Adelhyd van Bender
Backrooms, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
September 28 – November 24, 2024

Richard Sides
Actress, Ain Bailey, Ana Vaz, Billy Bultheel, Bridget Polk, CTM + Skjold Rambow, Cyprien Gaillard, Deborah Stratman, Frederik Worm + Cæcilie Trier, Fritz Kahn, h.j.huwman, James Richards + Steve Reinke, Laxlan Petras + Yasmin Saleh, Livia Melzi, Malika Ziouech, Marco Fusinato, Mire Lee, Rabon Aibo, Rebecca Salvadori, Richard Sides, Romeo Castellucci, Sonia Boyce, Tot Onyx + Yuko Kaseki, Transistors of Mercy + Pixelflowers, VALIE EXPORT, Véréna Paravel + Lucien Castaing-Taylor.tress
Universal Metabolism
Berlin Atonal at Kraftwerk, Berlin
September 11 – 14, 2023

Richard Sides
Slow Dance (4), Richard Sides & Nicole-Antonia Spagnola
Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
July 8 – September 9, 2023

Richard Sides
Bounce their music across the grass
Kunstverein Hannover
November 27, 2021 – January 16, 2022

Richard Sides
The Matrix
April 30 – June 20, 2021

Richard Sides
Dwelling
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
December 7 – August 16, 2019
Curated by Raoul Klooker

BUG OUT
Stuart Middleton, Richard Sides, Angharad Williams
with 3fragments, Iris Bauer and Theo Burt
August 18 – 31, 2018

Richard Sides, Gili Tal
Reduced to clear
Le Bourgeois, London
March 18 – April 22, 2018

Li(f)e
Quintessa Matranga, Lukas Quietzsch, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Richard Sides, Diamond Stingily, Issy Wood
Conceived by Richard Sides and Lukas Quietzsch Condo London • Queer Thoughts and Schiefe Zähne hosted by Carlos/Ishikawa
January 13 – February 10, 2018

Selected Press
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Making Metaphors Useful, Ben Caton on Richard Sides at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Texte zur Kunst No. 117, 2020
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Critics' Pick: Dwelling at Kunstverein Braunschweig, by Tim Steer, Artforum, 2020
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Good Trash, Richard Sides in conversation with Anna Gritz, published in CURA Magazine No. 16, 2014
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Richard Sides at Carlos/Ishikawa, by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Frieze Magazine, 2014
Richard Sides
born 1985, UK
lives and works in Berlin
Education
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2008
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam, UK
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2012
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
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2025
Psychology, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Years, KIN, Brussels, BE -
2024
Parloir, solo-presentation with KIN, Tournai, BE
Elections, Shore Gallery, Vienna, AT
Deep Listening, KIN, Brussels, BE -
2023
Slow Dance (4), with Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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2022
Basic Vision, Carlos /Ishikawa hosted by KOW, Berlin, Germany
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2021
The Matrix, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
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2019
Dwelling, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
FOAF Warsaw 2019, Schiefe Zähne hosted by WSCHÓD, Warsaw, PL -
2018
Reduced to Clear (with Gili Tal), 3236RLS, London, UK
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2017
PURE HATE, Liszt, Berlin, Germany
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2016
INVISIBLE WORLD, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Owned by No One, Caro Sposo, Paris, France -
2014
Don’t Blow it in the Vector, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
happiness happening hunting, tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt, Germany
Frame, Frieze New York, USA -
2013
the omega point just ate his brains…, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
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2012
Stop Killing my Buzz, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
He tried to be a nice guy, but it just didn’t work out..., RCA, London, UK
Groups Exhibitions / Curatorial Projects
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2024
You’re human like the rest of them, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
kinship, KIN, Brussels, BE
What are we in now??, The Wig, Berlin, DE
Modernization, CIRCUIT Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne, CH
Files, Backrooms, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, CH
Hunter, Scherben, Berlin, Germany
Hunter, Lore Deutz, Cologne, Germany -
2023
Universal Metabolism, Atonal, Berlin, Germany
Interests, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
Slow Dance (1-4), Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
GROUP SHOW, Podium, Oslo, Norway -
2022
Triest, New York, US
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
SPRING EQUINOX, Suns Works, Zurich, Switzerland
Minimal Input, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
The Wig, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
The Wig, Mostyn, Wales, UK -
2021
The 2021 ars viva award, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Paradis, La Maison R&C, Marseille, France
Time Without End, Fluentum, Berlin, Germany
Buffers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland -
2020
The 2021 ars viva award, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tokyo Detroit Berlin, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan
Bureau de Change, Campoli Presti, London, UK
KASTEN, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland -
2019
Clipping the Din, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Emotion is an Unlimited Resource, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland -
2018
As much about forgetting, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark
BUG OUT, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
READYMADES BELONG TO EVERYONE, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
EURO, Haus zur Liebe, Berlin, Germany
Hack, Kiefholzstr 402, Berlin, Germany
li(f)e, Carlos Ishikawa, Condo London, UK -
2017
Death Lolz, Ludlow38, New York, USA
Scattered Disk, Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Geometry of Now, V-A-C foundation, Moscow, Russia
TISCH, Kiefholzstr 401, Berlin, Germany -
2016
Up Down Top Bottom Strange and Charm, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Rough House, Glasgow International, UK
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Primo Piano, Paris, France
Novel Magazine, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
The Enthusiasts, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand -
2015
The boys the girls and the political, Lisson Gallery, London
euro2015, The Boiler Room -
2014
The mechanical garden and other long encores, Dilston Grove, London, UK
World Music, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Journal, ICA, London, UK
Painful zombies quickly watch a jinxed graveyard, Cripta747, Turin, Italy
30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany -
2013
Kill the Gibson (enjoy voting conservative just to spite chumbawamba), V22, London, UK
Music made by computers for star systems, Ravenna Planetarium, Italy -
2012
That Was Now, Borusan, Istanbul, Turkey
Pluto Dreams, Raum, Bologna, Italy
Performance, MOMA, Warsaw, Poland
Stop killing my buzz, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Stereopsis, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Soundworks, ICA, London, UK
Kill the Gibson, SPACE, London, UK
Sound Spill, Galerie West, Den Haag, The Netherlands -
2011
GS 3, An Echo Button Event, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Gewaltopia and Other Places, Flat Time House, London, UK
(In the days of the) ROID, Crate Project Space, Margate, UK
The Joyful System... , SPACE, London, UK -
2010
Chromatologies, Rotherham, The Netherlands
Enjoy Evol, Enjoy Artspace, Leeds, UK
Initial Points 1, 2 & 3, The Woodmill, London, UK
Relatively Prime, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Radical Sound Practices, The Woodmill, London, UK
Reading a Wave, The Woodmill, London, UK
There is no solution because there is no problem, Art Sheffield Fringe 2010, Sheffield, UK