Selected Exhibitions, Performances, Publications etc. [Full list her]
Solo Exhibitions & Performances
2016 Painting Practise 2, Kunst Clown series. Cabaret Futura, Art Car Boot Fair, London.
2016 London (Exhibition), Arts Omega, London.
2015 My Family & Other Animals (2 man exhibition), Stash Gallery, Vout-O-Reenee’s, London.
2013 Local Landscape (2 man exhibition), Portman Gallery, London
2014 Kunst-Clown: Reading-Action, Fete Worse Than Death (20th Anniversary), Shoreditch, London, film document by Alex Snelling/Slack Alice Films (Factual Nonsense archive, Tate Britain).
2013 Love; Herrick Gallery, London
2011 Homage to Robert Filiou - Transpose Head for Stone [Done Three Times] (perf); Red Gallery, London
2009 Kunst Clown (performance); F-ish Gallery, Hastings
2008 The Dark Times (exhibition); Carter Presents, London
2008 The Dark Times (exhibition); Jürgen Wolfstedter Galerie, Frankfurt
2007 Welcome To The Post-Psychedelic Baroque (solo exhib) with I Hate Fucking Clowns Liget Galeria, Budapest
2007 Dark Times (2 man exhib w Derek Ogbourne), with Clowning Area 53 (action/installation);
Area 53, Vienna
2006 Nevermind: Framebox (installation); Area 53 Galerie, Vienna
2006 Mother Hysteria #1 (performance); Szlimpa-Kert, Budapest
2006 Limit/Limit-Thought [Lecture Action With Helium & Laughing Gas]; Galerie Wildwechsel ;3rd International Performance Festival, Frankfurt
2005 Cry#1 (performance); Platform Raum Für Kunst (now Galerie Dana Charkasi), Vienna
2005 Idiot At Work (72 hour durational installation/performance, with evening performances with Thomas Draschan of Konrad Bayer’s Idiot); Platform Raum Für Kunst, Vienna
2005 Laugh/Cry#2 (performance/video screening & reading); [li:mes]: Festival Of Performance & Experimental Music, Lund, Sweden
Residencies
2014 Bath Spa University, Corsham Hall
2013 Portman Gallery, London
2012 Fondazione Morra, Naples
2010-12 Artist in Residence, Red Gallery, London
2008 Artist in Residence, Climate 4 Change, The Mercedes Benz Dealership
2007 Artist in Residence, Climate of Change, ASC Studios, Union St, London
Awards
2009 May Day: The Editor’s Choice#1
(curation /publication project) ACE/Lottery Funded
1998 Idiot, London Arts Board
1997 Hermann Nitsch (Critical Dialogues) -
ACE/International Initiatives
1995/96 London Arts Board - Curatorial Development grant, Interdisciplinary Practise, 30 Underwood Street Gallery.
Collections
British Council, Tate Britain & in internationally in private collections
Selected Performances
2015 Napoli (Word/Sound Improvisation) with Geraldine Swayne [Faust], Joseph Sakoilsky,
Vout-O-Renee’s, London.
2014 Kunst-Clown: Discourse on Method≠3, at Nuance Outcasts, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London.
2013 Sakoilsky’s Portrait Society (live portraits); East Festival; Queen Elizabeth Park, London
2013 Sakoilsky’s Portrait Society (live portraits); Art Carboot Fair; Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane,
London
2013 Love (poetry reading); Cabaret Futura, The Paradise, Willesden Green, London
2012 Dark Times News Stand: Art Does Not Exist (reading of Art Does Not Exist, Micro Lecture on Aesthetics); On the Road, The Hymer Interior mobile project space, Cul de Sac Gallery, London
2012 Dark Times: Car Crash (durational performance/installation); Art Cargo Bay, Lüften Festival
organised by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt
2012 Kunst-Clown [Trade Off]; Screen from Barcelona, Loop Fair, Espacio de Proyectos Sant Pere, Barcelona
2012 Napoli (poetry reading); Cabaret Futura,
The Paradise, Willesden Green, London
2011 Cry#5; Cabaret Futura, The Paradise,
Willesden Green, London
2011 Kunst-Clown [Discourse On Method#1]; Cabaret Futura, New Territories Fest, Arches Theatre,
Glasgow
2011 Kunst-Clown [Discourse On Method#2];
Superhybrid!; The Cube, Leeds
2011 Kunst-Clown: Just Deserts & Napoli (poetry reading); Speculum Celestiale: The Dialectics Of
The Natural,
E-M Arts/ Foundazione Morra, Naples
2011 Kunst-Clown Action: Poor-traits; Art Car Boutique,
Apple Cart Festival, Victoria Park
2011 The Dark Times News Stand: Poor-traits; Fete for the Wicked, Hackney Wicked Festival
2011 Kunst-Clown Action (video works & Kunst Clown action); Barmy Park, Bethnal Green Library
2011 Cry#6; Samon Takahashi’s Le Choix Du Titre Est Un Faux Probleme, CNEAI, Paris
2011 Kunst-Clown: Painting Practise;
East Pop Red; Red Gallery, London
2011 Dark Times Portrait Session; Redaktion, Red Gallery, London
2010 Azazel The Cherub Tall Vs Paul Sakoilsky; Scapegoat Society Show;
Yinki Shonibare Proj. Sp., London
2010 The Dark Times: Newscast [read by Kunsty the Clown]
& The Schlock Kunstlers’ Stall;
Art Car Boot Fair, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane
2010 Cry#4; Felicities, Red Gallery, London
2009 The Dark Times: Press Office#5 [Tipi] (installation/performance); The House Of Fairy Tales;
The Long Weekend, Tate Modern, London
2009 The Dark Times: News Stand#2; Art Car Boot Fair, London
2009 The Dark Times: Reading(Action) with The Dark Times Trio; Britain’s Rubbish, Decima Gallery,
London
2009 Mother Hysteria #2: Dialogue with the Dead (curated by Five Years); James Taylor
Project Gallery, London
2009 The Dark Times: Stall#3; Art Car Boutique/
The Dock, London Design Festival
2009 Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market; The House Of Fairy Tales;
Tate Modern, London
2007 I Hate Fucking Clowns; Angel of Dog;
Mezkalito Gallery, Bethnal Green
2007 Kunst Clown Quiz (performance); Art Carboot Fair;
Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
2006 Piece of Work (tattoo action);The Sun In Uranus;
Las Vegas Tattoo Co, Hackney, London
2005 Bingo-Poetry#2 (performance/language machine);
Vanity Fair, Clerkenwell Literary Festival
2000 Leant Against the Railings (aka Postmen, music/perf); Hackney Arts Club, Hackney Empire
1999 Sheep Shearing Performance; with 30 Underwood St Gallery, The Articultural Show;
South Bank Centre
1997 Idiot (video/live action event); ICA, London
1996 Coccochloris; Transmutations,
International Performance Festival, Brighton
1996 Bullshit Corner (30 Underwood St Gallery); Live Stock Market (curated by Gavin Turk), FN Day;
Shoreditch, London
1996 NerveCell for Bank TV; Viper, Dog Gallery,
34 Underwood St, London; ICA, London
1996 No/On (performance); with 30 Underwood St Gallery,
The Big Breakfast, Channel 4
1995 Idiot (video install/perf), overall concept by Sakoilsky;
Violent Language; 30 Underwood Street Gallery
1994 Living/Room (performance), Bedsit To Loft,
Metropolitan Workshops, London
1994 Bingo Poetry#1 (poetry/lang. machine/perf, w 30 Underwood St Gallery); Fete Worse Than
Death 2, Factual Nonsense
Selected Curation
2011 The Big Society: DDR Kunst Aus Schwedt, with Ernesto Leal, Dimitri Hegemon (Tresor),
Red Gallery
2011 East Pop Red, with Alice Herrick; Red Gallery, London
2010 Object-Culture: Art As Viral-Commodity; Red Gallery, London
2010 East End Promise: A Story Of Cultural Migrants 1985-2000, Ernesto Leal;
Londonewcastle Proj. Sp.
2010 Press; with Red Gallery, London
2009 May Day: The Dark Times [Editor’s Choice#1];
F-Ish Gallery, Hastings.
2008 Climate 4 Change, The Old Mercedes Dealership, London
2007 Climate of Change, Union St, London
2006 The Sun In Uranus (as Offspace Projects); The Las Vegas Tattoo Co, Hackney, London
1995-2001 Curator Live/Interdisciplinary Art,
30 Underwood St Gallery, London
1998 Hermann Nitsch: Orgies Mysteries Theatre;
30 Underwood St Gallery, London
1992-3 Have a Baby: Readings Etc, Arts Theatre Club, Soho
1992 Readings Etc, Troy Club, London
Selected Group
Exhibitions & Auctions
2015 The Fall of the Rebel Angels, curated
by Vanya Balogh Venice Bienelle.
2015 Club Banger 1, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, UK.
2015 Sunday in The Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London.
2014 Nuance Outcasts, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London.
2014 BIG DEAL Marvellous Mix-Ups,
Loud & Western, Fulham, London.
2014 We Could Not Agree, Freeze Week Exhibition,
Q-Park, Cavendish Sq, London.
2014 Fete Worse Than Death (20th Anniversary Exhibition & Fete), Red Gallery, Shoredtich.
2014 Kultuuur 4, Brighton
2014 Vroom (organised by Vanya Balough), Brixton, London
2014 Chinese Open (organised by Vanya Balough & Cedric Christie), Chinatown, London
2014 Le Gun & Friends, Daniel Blau, London
2014 Vitis Vinifera (organised by Vanya Balough &
Cedric Christie), London
2013 The Venice Process, (curated by Mike Watson)
Five Years, Regent Studios, London
2013 Big Deal (organised by Vanya Balough & Cedric Christie),
Q Park, Frieze Week, London
2013 Chinese Open (organised by Vanya Balough &
Cedric Christie), Chinatown, London
2012 The Party Show, The Last Tuesday Society/
Viktor Wynd Fine Art
2012 On The Road, The Hymer Interior, Cul de Sac Gallery, London
2012 Plate, Herrick Gallery, London
2012 Disorient Express London – Prague, The Czech Open,
Czech Cultural Season, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London; Islington Business Design Centre;
Czech Centre, Prague
2012 Home Office of the Fan Fiction Empire,
Residence Gallery, London
2011 The Art Party, Mol’s Place, London
2011 Drei Zähne, Apt Draschan, Vienna
2011 Pop Hits (organized by Manfred Peckl for Autocentre), Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin & touring
2011 East Pop West, West London
2011 East Pop Red, Red Gallery, London
2011 Glitterbug, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
2010 Object-Culture: Art As Viral-Commodity, Red Gallery, London
2010 Press, Red Gallery, London
2010 Televised,The Hare Pub, Cambridge Heath Rd, London
2010 Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London
2010 Sold Out, Elastic Residence, Parfett St, London
2010 The House Of Fairy Tales: Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Art Gallery; Port Elliot Literary Fest;
Millennium Gallery, St. Ives
2010 Felicities, Red Gallery, London
2010 The House Of Fairy Tales, The Art Of Giving;
Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 East End Promise: A Story Of Cultural Migrants
1985-2000, Red Gallery, London
2010 Total Transparency, No:Id Gallery, Commercial Road, London
2009/10 The House Of Fairy Tales: Exquisite Trove,
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2009 May Day - The Dark Times [Editor’s Choice#1],
F-ish Gallery, Hastings
2009 Psychopomp, Artwars Project Space, Redchurch St London
2009 Free Association (curated by Five Years),
Area 53 Galerie, Vienna
2009 House of Fairy Tales, The Long Weekend,
Tate Modern, London
2009 V22 Sculpture Show: Oysters Ain’t, V22 Gallery,
The Biscuit Factory, London
2009 Meltdown, Flowers East Gallery, London
2009 Reg Perfect & The Squeegees, Portman Gallery, London
2009 Print Matters, Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, Australia
2009 Big Deal No.2, Druid Street, London; Big Deal:
Botoxed 69, C22 Pop Up Shop, Camden
2009 Britain’s Rubbish, Decima International Projects, Berlin
2009 Barfs, Draschan, Torff, Sakoilsky,
Galerie Wildwechsel, Frankfurt
2009 The Dissolving Cube, Portman Gallery, London
2009 Paper Rules; Apt. Draschan, Vienna
2009 The Horn Of Plenty, The House Of Fairy Tales,
Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
2008/9 Paradiso Terrestre, Bonellilab,
Bonelliarte Contemporanea, Italy
2008 Climate 4 Change, The Mercedes Benz Dealership, London
2008 New Dark Age, Hats Plus, King’s Cross, London
2008 Land-Island-Dreamland, Area 53, Vienna;
European Month of Photography & Vienna Art Week
2008 The Art Car Boot Fair, London
2007 Angel of Dog, Mezkalito Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
2007 Künstler auf Landpartie 2, org. by AREA 53 Galerie &
Thomas Krösbacher, Niederösterreich
2007 Documenta Bootleg, curated by Marc Spiegler, Kassel
2007 Peer Esteem, Five Years, Regent Studios
2007 Climate of Change, ASC Studios, Union St, London
2006 The Sun In Uranus, The Las Vegas Tattoo Co,
Hackney, London
2006 Carter Presents, curated by Carter Presents;
Apt. Draschen, Vienna
2006 Ich Sehe Land, Waldviertel Viertelfestival,
Niederösterriech, Austria
2005 Pencil; Carter Presents, London
2005 Prussian Blue [Synthetic Seduction]; Carter Presents, London
Selected Publications
& Recordings
2015 Dark Times: Radio (reading and interview),
The News Agents, Resonance 104FM
2015 If Our Cards Were On The Table (poem and image), International Times
2014 Further – for my father (poem), International Times
2013 Contemporaneous People Flux (poem), International Times.
2012 Today (Summation) Monday 19 March 2012 (poem),
Bare Bones Newspaper, London
2012 A New Years Natter with Paul Sakoilsky from ‘London’s only true independent newspaper’ – the dark times (interview);
La Bouche Zine, London
2011 Napoli (poem); Speculum Celestiale: Dialettiche del Naturale cat.;
E-M Arts/Foundazione Morra, Naples
2010 Breaking Out Of The Reality Asylum: Hermann Nitsch And
The Orgies Mysteries Theatre; Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill/Maniliart Art Fair
2010 3 Randomly Chosen Objects From The Studio (essay); published by HYPERLINK
“http://www.indieoma.com”
www.indieoma.com
2010 Object-Culture: Art As Viral-Commodity: A Dialogue Between Paul Sakoilsky & Mike Watson
(pamphlet to accompany the Exhibition Object-Culture); OurHistory
2009 It’s Christmas Time (poem); HYPERLINK “http://www.indieoma.com”www.indieoma.com
2009 Manntitz – An Anglo-Austrian Tale In 6 Parts HYPERLINK
http://www.indieoma.com
2009 The Dark Times: Newspaper#1 (edited by Paul Sakoilsky);
pub with F-Ish Gallery, funded by ACE
2009 Are We Living In The Dark Times: Or Is It Just The Persistent Culture Of Apocalypse? (dialogue
with Mike Watson, also pub. in The Dark Times: Newspaper#1)
2009 Featured in HN: Hermann Nitsch (documentary); Verdeoro, Roma & Pierino Ambrosoli
Foundation, Zürich
2008 Musings On Optograms, the Ideal Death, the Ideal Work Of Art, and the Museum Of Optography
(text/interview);
The Encyclopaedia Of Optography, ed. Derek Ogbourne, Muswell Press
2008 the dark times: Press Office (photographs);
http://www.slashseconds.org
www.slashseconds.org
2007 Lost Flight (flicker movie); Seconds, Issue 6
2007 No-Body-Poem (poem); The Political Almanac,
Reunion Projects, London
2007 Some Scattered/Hungover Notes From/On Vienna;
Seconds Issue#3
2007 Nobody Escapes, Nobody’s An Artist: And/Or Nobody’s An Artist And Nobody Escapes
(essay/dialogue); Somebody (poem); Welcome To The Post-Psychedelic Baroque;
Seconds Issue#4
2007 Some Thoughts On The Travelling Artist, Tourism and Mayo Yonesho’s Film ‘Wiener Wuast’;
Seconds Issue No.6
2006 Mother Hysteria Action, Budapest 2005; Ich Sehe Land (cat.), Sensationsverlag, Austria
2006 The 2-Day Play 2004; Idiot &The Making Of Idiot 1995 (stills); Collect Journal
2006 Feature/Interview On Sakoilsky & Mother Hysteria performance; Balkon, No. 2006
2006 Cry, Mindcontrolradio, Textwork#5, Epsilonia Radio Festival, Paris (and various international
venues/stations)
2005 Laugh/Cry2 (at Limes: Performance & Experimental Music); Heterogenesis 52/53, Arte Con
Carne 4/Arte Performático Sueco Svensk Performancekonst, Sweden, December
2005 Poetico-Philosophical Lines Written At Prinzendorf Castle:
At The End You Always Have Being (6-Day Play Interview With Hermann Nitsch, 1998);
It Does Go Crazy: Paul Sakoilsky & Thomas Draschan In Conversation (2004);The Living And The Dead (poem); Cry#1 (photos); Heterogenesis Magazine, Arte Con Carne, No. 50/51, Lund
2005 Hermann Nitsch & The 2 Day-Play [120th Aktion]; Crudelia Magazine, No. 20, Bibliotek, Rome
2005 Mindcontrolradio (40 min radio show, w Samon Takahashi); Radiodays, Art Radio Festival,
Amsterdam
2004 The School Of Being: Hermann Nitsch & Paul Sakoilsky In Conversation; Resonance 104.4 FM
2002 The PostMen: Lay Down On Your Side And Dream Another
You Into Existence, UnderwoodAudio CD2
2002 Organiser & project curator Underwoodaudio CD2
(4 CD book set)
2000 Painting As De-Smutification: Mark Jones & Paul Sakoilsky
In Conversation, UnderwoodAudio CD
1999 Breaking out of the Reality Asylum, 6 Day Play - Hermann Nitsch interviewed by Paul Sakoilsky;
Torture Garden:
Body Probe; Creation Books
1999 Becoming-Dog-Becoming-Human-Becoming (essay); Everything Magazine, Issue 3.2, London
1998 Co-edited Hermann Nitsch: Orgies Mysteries Theatre (catalogue), 30 Underwood St Gallery
1997 4 Acronyms; Untitled 1 & 2; (poems); The Ditch, London
1996 Pull To Ear: Tatsumi Orimoto (catalogue essay),
30 Underwood St Gallery
1996 Love Poem; Artists Aim At Austerity; And So... ;
Absea Magazine, Issue E, London
1992 4 Minutes For George Barker: Memoir for the First Anniversary, organized by PEN; PEN Archive
1991-92 4 Poems; Rialto Magazine, 3 Issues
1987 And So.. (edition of 119 handset A5 card-poems);
published by Paul Conran, London