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Current
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Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot
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24 September – 25 October
Claridge's ArtSpace, Brooks Mews, London W1K 4HR​
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Live Performances
Friday, 11. October, 7.15pm
Thursday, 17. October, 7.15pm
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RSVP: artspace@claridges.co.uk
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Her first UK solo exhibition, Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, transforms Claridge’s ArtSpace with an enveloping audiovisual installation, drawing on Blum’s research into muscle memory, institutional power and degradation as they relate to dance, architecture, and intergenerational female relationships.
The exhibition centres around a three-channel video piece which follows a fictional character through deserted rooms and corridors of a declining 1970’s office building. The protagonist comes across a series of choreographies and gestures she picks up from various sources: black and white portraits of Blum’s late grandmother, the Ukrainian ballerina Daria Nyzankiwska, archival recordings of dance rehearsals, and footage of a 2022 performance by Blum herself.
Through a series of live performances, Blum investigates the gesture of the pointed finger, using it as a tool through which to claim attention, blame, criticise, and cast a spell.
The exhibition was made possible through the 2023 Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize, awarded to Blum by judges Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA and Eva Rothschild RA.
www.claridges.co.uk/claridges-artspace/
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Info
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From Lucerne, CH. Lives and works in London, UK.
dariablum[at]gmail[dot]com
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Education
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2019-23
Royal Academy Schools, London
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2014-17
Central Saint Martins, London
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Performances, Solos, Duos
2024
On Pointing On, Festival Académie des Mutantes, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux
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2023
You Say Vol. 2, Roskilde Festival, Denmark
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2022
Circumbendibus Vol. 2 at Ohh... Youth! (/w Guendalina Cerruti), V.O. Curations, London
Circumbendibus Vol. 1, Royal Academy of Arts, London
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2021
Daria Blum at the Averard, The Averard Hotel, London
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2020
I'll Be Here If You Need Me (/w Julian Blum), Ahoi, Luzern
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2019
Utting Orners (/w Yohei Chimura), Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
QUAGGA (/w Julian Blum), Neustadtstrasse 24a, Luzern
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2018
That Would Be Me, Il Colorificio, Milano
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Selected Group Shows
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2024
With Urgency (/w Guendalina Cerruti and Mary Stephenson), Ilenia, London
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2023
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
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2022
Who Are You Wearing?, Kupfer, London
CIRCA Class of 2022, Piccadilly Circus, London
Premiums Interim 3, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Daria In Semper Aeternum @ Louis Morlæ – Machinochrome Dreams, Moarain House, London
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2021
Endless Bazaar, Klub Kegelbahn, Luzern
DISCO, Fitzrovia Chapel, London
Com’è bello far l’amore da Trieste in giù, CANALE MILVA x Lumpenstation, Online
Ai Mi Tagai Lottery Exhibition, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
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2020
You're in a computer game, Max!, Skelf.org.uk, Online
Marigolds, Harlesden High Street, London
Hold On, The Koppel Project Central, London
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2019
Flashing and Flashing!, MAXXI Museum x Il Colorificio, Rome
Euro Femmes, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
Art Night London x Hervisions – Fast Line, Walthamstow, London
Look what the cat dragged in, De Pimlico Project, London
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2018
CACOTOPIA 03, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
TBCTV, Somerset House, London
What Unites Us, Club Alpbach x Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Embassy, London
Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery, London
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2017
Jahresausstellung, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Intersections in Dance, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
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Residencies and Awards
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2024
Fluxus Magnetic Residency, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux
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2019
Youkobo Art Space Tokyo, LTYE Programme, Artist in Residence
Acme/CSM Associate Studio Programme, Associate Artist
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