Richard Sides
Works

Richard Sides
Basic Vision ‘98 (detail), 2022
acrylic and gesso on coated mdf, clamp folder
with laminated mixed media,
artist made aluminum frame
90 × 120 × 6 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

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

Richard Sides
Spring Collection ’96 (detail), 2022
acrylic and gesso on coated mdf, clamp folder with
laminated mixed media, artist made aluminum frame
90 × 120 × 6 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
Yellow box, 2022
wood, acrylic paint, various materials
40 × 40 × 40 cm



Richard Sides
Playboy ‘95 (detail), 2022
UV-print on Gesso on canvas
130 × 160 cm

Richard Sides
Playboy ‘95, 2022
UV-print on Gesso on canvas
130 × 160 cm

Richard Sides
Flat Earths, 2022
UV-print on PVC
195 × 90 cm

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

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

Richard Sides
Trash Atlas, 2021
Card packaging, wood, foam insulation, resin, acrylic paint
75 × 170 × 45 cm

Richard Sides
The Daily Mirror, 2021
Installation with two-channel HD video (58:52min), sound, mirror, carpet, wood
Installation View at Fluentum Collection, Berlin; Photo: Stefan Korte

Richard Sides
The Daily Mirror, 2021
Installation with two-channel HD video (58:52min), sound, mirror, carpet, wood
Installation View at Fluentum Collection, Berlin; Photo: Stefan Korte

Richard Sides
Somewhere out there in the wilderness through the context of your own life, 2020
acrylic, spray paint, paper and C-print on canvas
100 × 100 cm

Richard Sides
Your love feels, 2021
concrete, pigment, 25 × 24 × 4,5 cm

Richard Sides
Stern, 2021
acrylic on canvas, magazine pages
100 × 100 cm

Richard Sides
Diavolo, 2021
cardboard, wood, metal, resin
90 × 85 × 30 cm

Richard Sides
City & Structure, 2021
acrylic, magazine pages, wood
157 × 99 × 5 cm


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

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

Richard Sides
Profit is the logical sequence, 2019
Card, paper, marker, inkjet print, adhesive
25 × 34 cm (framed)
Exhibitions
Richard Sides, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola
Slow Dance (4)
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

Press
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Making Metaphors Useful, Ben Caton on Richard Sides at the Kunstverein Braunschweig; Texte zur Kunst. No. 204
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Richard Sides Dwelling at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Artforum Critics' Pick by Tim Steer
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Good Trash, Richard Sides in conversation with Anna Gritz, published in CURA Magazine No. 16
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Richard Sides at Carlos/Ishikawa, Review by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso published in Frieze, 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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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
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2018
DUO SHOW: 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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2023
Slow Dance (3), curated by Richard Sides and Luca Beeler, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
GROUP SHOW, curated by Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe and Nikhil Vettukattil, Podium, Oslo, Norway
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2022
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
SPRING EQUINOX, Suns Works, Zurich, Switzerland
Minimal Input: Algorithmic Art Gathering, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
The Wig, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
The Wig, Mostyn, Wales, UK -
2021
The 2021 ars viva award (part 2), Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Paradis, Claude Balls Int, La Maison R&C, Marseille, France
Time Without End, Fluentum, Berlin, Germany
Buffers, Schiefe Zähne invited by Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, Germany
Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland -
2020
The 2021 ars viva award (part 1): Rob Crosse, Richard Sides, Sung Tieu, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tokyo Detroit Berlin, Tokyo Arts and Space (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Tokyo, Japan
Bureau de Change, Campoli Presti, London, UK
KASTEN, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland -
2019
Clipping the Din, curated by Daniel Baumann, Matthew Hanson, Kathrin Bentele (as part of curated by 2019 — Circulation), 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 (conceived by Richard Sides and Lukas Quietzsch), Carlos Ishikawa hosting Queer Thoughts & Schiefe Zähne, Condo London, UK -
2017
Death Lolz, Ludlow38, New York, USA
Vegans, China Chalet, New York, USA
Kleingeld, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Scattered Disk, Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Geometry of Now, (curated by Mark Fell), V-A-C foundation, Moscow, Russia
TISCH (with Max Ruf), Kiefholzstr 401, Berlin, Germany -
2016
Up Down Top Bottom Strange and Charm, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Rough House. A Woodmill & The Glue Factory (project conceived by Alastair Frazer), Glasgow – International, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Primo Piano, Paris, France
CONDO Clothes Shop, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK, UK
Plural Melts, Yvon Lambert, Berlin, Germany
Novel Magazine, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Six Memos for the Next Millennium II, A Cave, Mallorca, Spain
The Enthusiasts, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
Le Bourgeois, 3236rls, London, UK -
2015
The boys the girls and the political (curated by Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot), Lisson Gallery, London
The Absolute Outside, Spor Klübü, Berlin, Germany
euro2015 (with Andrew Munks), The Boiler Room
Reality Check, Cafe Oto, London, UK
ITALY, Watch-It Gallery, London, UK
Rumours @ Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany -
2014
The mechanical garden and other long encores (a Woodmill production conceived by Naomi Pearce), The Woodmill, London, UK
World Music (with Steve Bishop), Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
La référence d’objet n’est pas définie à une instance d’objet (with Angharad Williams), Emba – Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, Paris, France
Journal, ICA, London, UK
Painful zombies quickly watch a jinxed graveyard (with Ian Law and Lorenzo Senni, curated by Almanac), Cripta747, Turin, Italy
30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Present Fictions, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK -
2013
Kill the Gibson (enjoy voting conservative just to spite chumbawamba), performance as part of Young London 2013, V22, London, UK
Music made by computers for star systems, Ravenna Planetarium, Italy
Wendel! Open Your Door, The Woodmill @ CGP London, UK
YouScreen IScreen UnScreen Sunscreen, Library+, London, UK
Fortune tellers make a killing nowadays (w/ Angharad Williams), The Lombard Method, Birmingham, UK
BUS #1, Visions Video Bar, London, UK -
2012
That Was Now, Borusan, Istanbul, Turkey
Pluto Dreams, Raum, Bologna, Italy
Kill the Gibson (w/ Mark Fell, Lorenzo Senni, Ben Vida, Simon Werner), Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
General Practice, The Woodmill GP, London, UK
Performance w/ Haroon Mirza, MOMA, Warsaw, Poland
Stop killing my buzz, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Kill the Gibson Veil (w/ Jack Lavender, Stuart Middleton, Simon Werner, Angharad Williams), Gallery Vela, London, UK
Stereopsis, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Show, RCA 2012, London, UK
Soundworks, ICA, London, UK
Kill the Gibson (w/ Sol Archer, Stuart Middleton, Yuri Pattison, Lorenzo Senni), SPACE, London, UK
Sound Spill, Galerie West, Den Haag, The Netherlands -
2011
GS 3, An Echo Button Event, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
LuckyPDF Live Broadcasts, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Truth (online), or-bits.com
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
On Revolutions for the Heavenly Spheres, Supplement Gallery, London, UK
BYOB, London, UK
Elephants at The Woodmill - Nicolas Party, The Woodmill, London, UK
Expanded - Projections by Thorbjorn Andersen, Modtar, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Present Archive (with Thom O’Nions), The Woodmill, London, UK -
2010
Chromatologies, Rotherham, The Netherlands
Enjoy Evol, Enjoy Artspace, Leeds, UK
Initial Points 1, 2 & 3 (Performance), The Woodmill, London, UK
Systematic Studio Performance, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Relatively Prime, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
The Devil’s Necktie, The Woodmill, London, UK
Pale Blue Dot / Mark Fell - Coherence and Proximity, The Woodmill, London, UK
Man in the Dark (with Alastair Frazer, Thom O’Nions, Naomi Pearce), The Woodmill, London, UK
Radical Sound Practices, The Woodmill, London, UK
Reading a Wave (with Thom O’Nions), The Woodmill, London, UK
There is no solution because there is no problem (with Angharad Williams), Art Sheffield Fringe 2010, Sheffield, UK -
2009
Gestalt II, Outlet Gallery, Manchester, UK
Sound Spill, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
A partially joyless carousel of quantics, Supplement Gallery, London, UK