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» 10/05/2024: The Art Gallery of Western Australia is presenting The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, a solo exhibition by Agatha Gothe-Snape and the artist's first exhibition at AGWA, Perth, curated by Robert Cook. The exhibition is situated across three of levels of the museum, focussing on "several key wall works made between 2015 and 2024, a form that represents just one aspect of Gothe-Snape’s output that also includes performance, installation, sculpture and drawing. Nonetheless, these wall paintings each engage with the central concerns of an extended practice that is consistently involved with shaping dynamic occasions to experience how we materially (and immaterially) negotiate pathways through contingent and persistent frameworks of belief, experience and knowledge." 11.05.24 — 06.10.24.
» 22/01/2024: As part of an entrance redevelopment in 2024, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art will temporarily relocate its foyer from James Street to the western façade and its Performance Space. Inaugurating this new entrance will be a major new commission by Agatha Gothe-Snape. "In conceiving the new foyer, Gothe-Snape has used ‘colour as a bridge through time’, gleaning, gathering, rearranging and performing fragmentary remembrances, images, words and impressions from various moments in PICA’s early history." Dates: 09.02.24 — 01.01.25
» 28/07/2023: A work from Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS catalogue is currently on exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of Adam Linder, Hustle Harder. Hustle Harder is a new performance exhibition by acclaimed choreographer Adam Linder. Performed for the duration of the Museum’s opening hours by a rotating cast of nine dancers, including costumes commissioned by Australian designer Dion Lee, Hustle Harder highlights how the format of the exhibition converges with the physical, durational and collaborative dimensions of live performance. Until 20.08.23.
» 19/07/2023: Yesterday, Agatha Gothe-Snape’s integrated public artwork, A Well Being, was launched at the University of New South Wales. A Well Being encompasses 87 words and phrases in the artist’s handwriting taken directly from mind maps the artist drew during conversations with the University’s students and faculty. The texts have been scaled-up and applied, as part of a collaboration with landscape architects TCL around the running track and multicourts of the Wellness Precinct that surrounds the UNSW Village Green. Playful and provocative, A Well Being invites viewers to consider their own understanding of wellness as they move across and encounter the artwork.
» 12/08/2022: AVAILABLE NOW: Eucalyptusdom publication, a major new book accompanying the Eucalyptusdom exhibition, now in its final weeks at Powerhouse, Sydney. Exhibition until 28.08.22. Eucalyptusdom has been developed by Agatha Gothe-Snape as Powerhouse Artistic Associate alongside co-curators Emily McDaniel, Sarah Rees and Nina Earl. The exhibition features a ceramic installation commissioned from Yasmin Smith. The Eucalyptusdom book features a 32-page folio of photographs by Amanda Williams commissioned by the Powerhouse as part of Williams' ongoing Creative Industries Residency. “Eucalyptusdom reckons with Australia’s cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree. This publication expands upon a body of research and creative output generated via the eponymous exhibition at Powerhouse. It showcases the more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse collection. The publication also offers insights from the award-winning exhibition design team and includes a new work of literary non-fiction by acclaimed Australian author Ashley Hay, a 32-page folio of art photography by Amanda Williams, and an oral history shared by D’harawal Elder Aunty Fran Bodkin. Edited by Sally Rose. Design by Studio Ongarato.” Eucalyptusdom book: AUD 99.00. Available at Powerhouse via this link.
» 31/01/2022: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith will be in conversation at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Friday 04/02/22, 1-2pm as part of the exhibition, Eucalyptusdom. "Eucalyptusdom reckons with our cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree, presenting over 400 objects from the Powerhouse Collection alongside 17 newly commissioned works by creative practitioners working across the fields of design, architecture, film, applied arts and performance." Eucalyptusdom has been instigated by Gothe-Snape in her ongoing role as embedded artist at the Powerhouse and developed in collaboration with curators Nina Earl, Emily McDaniel, and Sarah Rees. Smith has been commissioned by the PHM to make a new ceramic installation for the exhibition. The conversation between Gothe-Snape and Smith is the first in a series of monthly artist-led tours of the exhibition. T he tour is free. Bookings can be made via the PHM website via this link.
» 13/12/2021: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore are exhibiting in 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, a large-scale project of Australian and Korean artists curated by Artspace Sydney and the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), opening at SeMA 14/12/21. "UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA commemorates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and South Korea, amplifying artistic practice representing contemporary issues vital to Australia and invites audiences to examine privilege, dominance and power from several perspectives. The project unpacks the complexities of national histories and the present moment through self-presentation and multiple forms of knowledge and resistance that challenge the standard representations of Australia." Gothe-Snape is presenting a revised version of her performance work, Lion's Honey, while Moore is exhibiting the fourteen original Queensland designs from his larger 2017 United Neytions flag installation. Seoul Museum of Art, Korea. Exhibition dates 14/12/21 - 06/03/22.
» 03/06/2021: As part of her contribution to The National: New Australian Art, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a talk, Rogue monologue, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday 19/06/21 at 2pm about her work, Every Act of Reading Performs the Work, exhibited at Carriageworks and produced with Andrew Burrell. "Agatha Gothe-Snape with Andrew Burrell’s contribution to The National 2021 is a single work comprising three parts: an immersive virtual environment of text fragments, created and engineered by the artists over the past four years; a performance monologue streamed live directly from this virtual space that appears at Carriageworks multiple times throughout their exhibition run; and this single inverted monologue performed by Gothe-Snape once only, at the Art Gallery of NSW. The scheduling of Rogue monologue coincides with the closure of The National 2021 at Carriageworks." Bookings essential through AGNSW website. Link here.
» 25/05/2021: The National Gallery of Australia today announced the artist list for the second chapter of its landmark exhibition, Know My Name. Included are major works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Diena Georgetti and Jude Rae from the permanent collection. Know My Name is "the National Gallery's ongoing gender equity initiative, is a celebration and a commitment to women artists - intending to recast a male-dominated art history and reimagine a more inclusive future at the Gallery and beyond." exhibition dates: 12/06/21 - 26/01/22
» 26/03/2021: A large presentation of Agatha Gothe-Snape's Every Artist Remembered drawings are being exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, in the group exhibition Every Artist. "Art history is too important to be left to art historians. Every Artist is an exhibition of local, national, and international artists who rethink, remap, queer, and even gamify the history of art—often by subverting the tools of art history (maps, charts, diagrams, books, the biopic). This is art history as fodder for art making, not the other way round." Artists include Isiaha Barlow (NZ), The Cool Couple (ITA), Matthew Couper (NZ/US), Agatha Gothe-Snape (AUS), Julia Holden (NZ), Emily Karaka (NZ), Tracey Moffatt (AUS), Kent Monkman (CAN), Ella Sutherland (NZ), Hank Willis Thomas (US), and Johnson Witehira (NZ). Hundreds of others are listed, pictured, invoked, collaborated with, played, or performed. exhibtion: 27/04/21 - 25/07/21.
» 22/03/2021: The culmination of a six-year project, Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting major new work in the biennial exhibition The National 2021: New Australian Art at Carriageworks, Sydney, curated by Abigail Moncrief. Gothe-Snape is the only artist invited to exhibit in the three iterations of The National (2017, 2019 and 2021). exhibition 26/03/21 – 20/06/21.
» 16/11/2020: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape announced yesterday as exhibiting artists in The National 2021: New Australian Art, the third iteration of the biennial event presented across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Carriageworks. Opening 26/03/21.
» 17/10/2020: LIVE WEBINAR Tuesday 20/10/20 8pm AEST: Agatha Gothe-Snape is in conversation with fellow artists Amrita Hepi and Latai Taumoepeau as part of Monash University Museum of Art's 3-part Precarious Movements: Conversations series, moderated by curator, Hannah Mathews. Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum is a research project led by a group of independent artists, curators, conservators, and academics affiliated with UNSW, AGNSW, MUMA, NGV and Tate. Three artists—each working with choreography in distinct ways and regularly invited to work within the space of the gallery—share their experiences of presenting work of a choreographic nature within the white cube. Register for Zoom access via this link.
» 01/07/2020: Kaldor Public Art Projects have released Agatha Gothe-Snape's Lion's Honey: A Reader, as the culmination of Gothe-Snape's "durational performance commissioned for the exhibition Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects at the Art Gallery of NSW. From 7 September 2019 to 16 February 2020, Gothe-Snape and a roster of readers occupied the space of the exhibition, reading to themselves each day while curious visitors looked on. Lion’s Honey: A Reader documents the performance from the perspective of the artist and readers, beginning with a list of every book read throughout the performance. The publication includes a poem by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, an essay by Stella Maynard and a personal reflection by Agatha Gothe-Snape. Lion’s Honey: A Reader is a downloadable pdf, designed to be read on a screen or printed out double-sided on A3 paper."
» 01/06/2020: Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae will be live in conversation online on Zoom as part of Melbourne Art Fair, Saturday 06/06/20 at 12.30pm. The talk is around the presentation of the three artists' work in The Commercial's Melbourne Art Fair viewing room, hosted by Ocula. VIP Preview 01-02/06/20. Public dates 03-07/06/20. Register here.
» 22/05/2020: The Commercial is looking forward to presenting an online viewing room for Melbourne Art Fair from 1-7 June 2020, hosted by ocula.com, with works by Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae. The presentation on Ocula is taking place in lieu of the physical fair which has been postponed until 4-7 February 2021. Follow this link to register for early VIP access for the first two days of the online fair and contact us by email to receive an advance preview of works.
» 05/05/2020: Join the National Gallery of Victoria's Curator, Contemporary Art, Pip Wallis, for a live 20-minute interview on the NGV's Instagram with Agatha Gothe-Snape about her works in the NGV collection. 6pm AEST, Wednesday 06/05/20.
» 30/04/2020: Monash University Museum of Art have published an online sound encounter with Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo survey exhibition The Outcome is Certain on Soundcloud. Join the artist via this link for an unrehearsed 30-minute talkthrough of her exhibition as she traces with her voice a path through her works as installed in the Museum's spaces. Visual documentation of the exhibition is on The Commercial website here.
» 04/03/2020: BOOK LAUNCH: Sydney launch of Agatha Gothe-Snape – The Outcome Is Certain, Perimeter Editions co-published with the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Join Agatha Gothe-Snape, designer Ella Sutherland and special guests, with talks beginning at 7pm. Tuesday March 10, 5.30-8pm, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, NSW. Agatha Gothe-Snape – The Outcome Is Certain is available for purchase from The Commercial - $50 book + $20 express post (within Australia).
» 29/02/2020: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's survey exhibition, The Outcome is Certain, at Monash University Museum of Art, by Anador Walsh in The Saturday Paper.
» 11/02/2020: "We have come to bring you metaphors." Robert Nelson reviews Agatha Gothe-Snape’s survey exhibition, The Outcome is Certain in today’s The Age. “There are many conundrums devised by this cerebral artist but the paradoxes are evocative.” Exhibition until 09/04/20
» 27/01/2020: Monash University Museum of Art is presenting a solo survey exhibition of the work of Agatha Gothe-Snape, The Outcome is Certain, curated by Senior Curator, Hannah Mathews. The Outcome Is Certain brings together key works from Gothe-Snape’s oeuvre from 2008 to the present borrowed from public and private collections. Alongside performance, wall drawings, PowerPoint presentations, sculpture, works on paper and collaborations with her close circle of artist-peers, the exhibition will feature two major new artworks, with one drawing on Gothe-Snape’s recent experimentation with virtual and augmented participatory environments. The exhibition opens Saturday 08/02/20, 3-5pm. Exhibition dates: 08/02/20 - 09/04/20.
» 11/12/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore are exhibiting in AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORIES curated by Eugenio Viola at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan. The exhibition includes work by 32 artists and is the largest representation of contemporary Australian art presented to date in Italy. exhibition 16.12.19 - 09.02.20
» 27/09/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is featured in the current issue of Artlink magazine. In an interview with Eve Sullivan, Agatha Gothe-Snape discusses the Kaldor Public Art Projects Symposium on Art Education, UNSW Art & Design, 2018.
» 06/09/2019: Kaldor Public Art Projects have commissioned Agatha Gothe-Snape to make a new performance work, Lion's Honey, to be presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of KPAP's five-month long 50th Anniversary celebrations. "During the course of Making art public, a performer will occupy space within the exhibition to read. Starting with David Grossman’s Lion’s honey, a gift to the artist from John Kaldor, the performers will accumulate a collection of books which will be displayed in the gallery." Saturday 7 September 2019 – 16 February 2020, 11am–4pm, Art Gallery of NSW, Lower level 2.
» 19/07/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a solo exhibition, Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth. The exhibition is the outcome of a period of research and site-specific responses to works held in the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Australia’s only public collection of women’s art, gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. With works and contributions from: Elise Blumann, Penny Bovell, Angela Brennan, Susanna Castleden, Penny Coss, Janet Dawson, Helen Eager, Rosalie Gascoigne, Helen Grace, Giles Hohnen, Narelle Jubelin, Eveline Kotai, Maria Kozic, Mei Swan Lim, Lily Napanangka and Peter Jupurrula, Elizabeth Newman, Ann Newmarch, Michelle Nikou, Miriam Stannage. exhibition 27/07/19 - 06/10/19. Opening 6.30-8.30pm Friday 26/07/19.
» 17/07/2019: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape and Wrong Solo Certain Situations at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, on Art Agenda, by Tara McDowell.
» 24/06/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a solo exhibition, Certain Situtations, including collaborative works with Brian Fuata as Wrong Solo, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The four-gallery exhibition features new and newly reimagined artworks spanning video, binaural sound, sculpture, poetry, performance, drawing, and installation. Opening Saturday 29/06/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 29/06/19 - 31/08/19.
» 15/05/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Bonita Bub are exhibiting works in the group exhibition In-Formalism at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. “In-Formalism witnesses the evolution of abstract non-objective art in Australia from 1968. The exhibition surveys the key generations of artists who have contributed to the ongoing language of abstract art. The exhibition presents these works alongside a wide range of artefacts in design, textiles, advertising, architecture, urban design, film and performance.” Exhibition dates: 18/05/19 – 30/06/19.
» 01/05/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape has contributed to Absorption, a major new work by New York-based artist, Asad Raza, Kaldor Public Art Projects’ latest commission at Carriageworks, Sydney. Raza’s “Absorption brings the ground beneath us into the foreground, drawing our attention to the living and changing nature of soil. The work constitutes almost 300 tonnes of organic and inorganic material, including sand, silt, clay, phosphates, lime, spent grain, cuttlebone, legumes, coffee and green waste, combined into a new soil mixture or neosoil.” Gothe-Snape has created high viz vests for the cultivators within Raza’s work to wear for the duration of Absorption. The garments are lined with fragments of vintage fabrics from Kaldor’s fabric-making enterprise. Exhibition dates: 3 – 19 May 2019, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney, 10am – 6pm
» 29/03/2019: For the second iteration of The National: New Australian Art, opening this week in Sydney, at the Art Gallery of NSW, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art, Agatha Gothe-Snape will be presenting a four-minute trailer for her monumental, six-year project which will be exhibited in its final form in the 2021 chapter of The National. Still in-progress, Gothe-Snape's EVERY ACT OF READING PERFORMS THE WORK (2017 - 21) is a monolithic virtual reality sculpture that is the repository of accumulated inquiries into The National and its cultural, interpersonal and historical ambiences. The promotional trailer for work to be presented in the 2021 chapter can now be viewed on The National's website at this link.
» 01/12/2018: Listen to Tai Snaith interview Agatha Gothe-Snape as part of the podcast series A World of One's Own - Season Two - on ACCA Soundcloud.
» 24/10/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is participating in Kaldor Public Art Projects and UNSW Art & Design art education symposium, 'All Schools Should be Art Schools' today. The symposium is being streamed live online. Keynote address by Sir Nicholas Serota CH, former Director of Tate and current Chair of Arts Council England, as well as two panel discussions by leading education advocates, practising educators, researchers and artists, including National Gallery of Australia Director Nick Mitzevich and artist Tony Albert. Gothe-Snape will respond to the discussion through a text-based drawing made throughout the morning. Watch the live stream and join the online Q&A to be part of the conversation. Wednesday 24/10/18, 9am - 1pm. Nicholas Serota keynote starts at 9.20am.
» 06/09/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is a participating artist in the 12th Gwangju Biennale 'Imagined Borders', opening in South Korea next month. The Biennale will showcase the works of 153 artists from 41 countries, divided into seven independently curated exhibitions, addressing issues ranging from migration to technology. Agatha Gothe-Snape was selected by curator David Teh. Biennale dates: 07/09/18 - 11/11/18
» 25/08/2018: Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape have works included in 'The Horse', a group exhibition of works on paper curated by Noel McKenna at Darren Knight Gallery. Exhibition dates: 25 August - 22 September
» 03/08/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has work featured in the TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form, currently taking place at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. Curated by Emily Cormack. Exhibition dates: 03/08/18 - 06/11/18
» 07/07/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has artwork included in 'From Here to There: Australian Art and Walking' at Lismore Regional Gallery, curated by Sharne Wolff and Jane Denison. The exhibition presents the work of leading Australian artists who use the everyday act of walking in their practice. Exhibition dates: 07/07/18 - 26/08/18
» 09/06/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Mitch Cairns have works exhibited in 'Bowerbird: Clinton Bradley and the Art of Collecting' at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, curated by Kent Buchanan. 'For Clinton Bradley collecting is more than just amassing works, it is a creative dialogue with the artist, dealer, and audience. Bradley has been collecting art since 2007 and now has a collection of works by some of Australia's most sought-after artists; spanning sculpture, digital and conceptual art.' Exhibition dates: 09/06/18 - 26/08/18
» 04/04/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been announced as a participating artist in the 12th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. The Biennale 'Imagined Borders' will showcase the works of 153 artists from 41 countries, divided into seven independently curated exhibitions, addressing issues ranging from migration to technology. Biennale dates: 07/09/18 - 11/11/18
» 15/03/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is taking part in the 2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize this year at the National Art School Gallery. The unique, acquisitive, artist-led prize involves both established and emerging artists exhibited side by side. Agatha Gothe-Snape, selected by curator Nike Savvas this year as one of the established artists, has brought in emerging artist Aodhan Madden. Winning works of both established and emerging artists are acquired into the Redlands collection, all other exhibited artworks are available for purchase. The prize winners will be announced at the NAS Gallery the evening of 21/03/18. Exhibition continues until 12/05/18.
» 08/02/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Infrastructuralism, a group show curated by Kent Wilson at the La Trobe Art Institute. ‘In Infrastructuralism, five artists produce and deliver work that ingratiates itself inside the physical system of the gallery. The exhibition exposes the hidden, neglected or secretive support structures that serve as platforms for the presentation of art objects. Presented across all spaces at La Trobe Art Institute, the artworks marry humour with material awareness in a playful incursion into the nature of our cultural organisations. All the various facets that go into making up architecture, display, function and administration are brought into play’. Artists include Agatha Gothe- Snape, Carolyn Eskdale, Helen Grogan, Jessie Bullivant, and Shannon Lyons. Exhibition dates: 08/02/18 – 17/03/18
» 22/01/2018: In the current Jan / Feb 2018 edition of LOOK Magazine, Agatha Gothe-Snape discusses artworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection that have influenced her outlook and ongoing art practice. Gothe-Snape mentions artists Len Lye, Margaret Worth, Lawrence Weiner and David Aspden.
» 01/11/2017: "Painting works for me because the brief is very simple: I just have to fill in the frame." Mitch Cairns in video interview with Agatha Gothe-Snape, subject of winning Archibald Prize portrait, on the Art Gallery of New South Wales' YouTube channel.
» 21/10/2017: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus at Carriageworks by Ben Neutze on Daily Review.
» 16/10/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus as part of Liveworks program at Performance Space, Sydney, co-presented by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Commissioned for PERFORMA, New York, in 2015, Rhetorical Chorus is Agatha Gothe-Snape’s largest and most ambitious performance work to date. Inspired by a chance encounter with the legendary American conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, Rhetorical Chorus brings together a choir, PowerPoint projection, spoken text and choreography. With guest artists including Megan Clune, Brian Fuata, Sarah Rodigari, Brooke Stamp, Lizzie Thomson and renowned American vocalist and musician, Joan La Barbara, Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus fragments the singular, rhetorical voice, dissolving it into a spectacle of transmission, calling into question both the circulation and consumption of knowledge. Performance times (duration 1 hour): Thursday 19 October - 9pm [sold out]; Friday 20 October - 9pm; Saturday 21 October - 3pm and 9pm; Sunday 22 October - 7pm. Purchase tickets on Performance Space website.
» 03/10/2017: It is with pleasure that The Commercial presents Every Artist Remembered, a performance project by Agatha Gothe-Snape for the Live program at Frieze London, 05/10/17 - 08/10/17 (Preview 04/10/17). Every Artist Remembered 2017 will take place at Frieze, Regent's Park, London, in Live Square (adjacent to the Focus galleries sector of the fair). Gothe-Snape will perform five sittings of Every Artist Remembered for Frieze Live, one two-hour performance each afternoon of the fair. Participating artists for Every Artist Remembered 2017 are: Wednesday 04/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: AMA JOSEPHINE BUDGE (b. 1991, lives between London and Accra). Thursday 05/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: RICHARD WENTWORTH (b. 1947, lives London). Friday 06/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: RICHARD GRAYSON (b. 1958, lives London). Saturday 07/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: KEIKEN (Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, b. 1993-1994, live London, Falmouth, Berlin). Sunday 08/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: SUSAN JACOBS (b. 1977, lives London and Melbourne). Gothe-Snape first performed Every Artist Remembered at the artist-run-initiative, Firstdraft, Sydney, in 2009 and subsequently at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne in 2011. Many of the drawings from Every Artist Remembered 2009 and 2011 are in public collections in Australia.
» 28/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's You and everything that is not you (Art Gallery of New South Wales), has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The text work was exhibited earlier this year in The National: New Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
» 26/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns' portrait of Agatha Gothe-Snape that won the 2017 Archibald Prize has been acquired by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
» 11/08/2017: Interview on ABC Arts with Agatha Gothe-Snape and Mitch Cairns on the confluence of their divergent art practices in the context of the launch of Gothe-Snape's Biennale of Sydney Legacy Artwork commission in Surry Hills and Cairns' recent Archibald Prize win.
» 10/08/2017: On 10/08/17, the second Legacy Biennale of Sydney Artwork Commission, 'Here, an Echo' by Agatha Gothe-Snape, was launched in Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, by Lord Mayor Clover Moore with words by Penelope Seidler, MCd by Biennale of Sydney CEO, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. The text work in the Surry Hills laneway is the culmination of a 2.5 year project realised for the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), curated by Stephanie Rosenthal. 'Here, an Echo' will remain in place for 25 years. A 7.35 minute video on the Biennale of Sydney's YouTube channel documents the project.
» 04/08/2017: The Commercial looks forward to presenting at Frieze London 4-8 October 2017 in the Live section with a solo project by Agatha Gothe-Snape. Further details available shortly.
» 01/08/2017: Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape are in conversation about Archibald Prize win with Richard Glover at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wednesday 02/08/17, 6.30pm duration: 30mins. Free.
» 28/07/2017: Huge congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced today as the winner of the Archibald Prize 2017 for his portrait of fellow artist and partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. It is the fourth time Cairns (b. 1984) has been a finalist in the $100,000 prize which is in its 96th year. Both Cairns and Gothe-Snape are represented by The Commercial. The Archibald exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens to the public tomorrow and continues until 22/10/17.
» 24/07/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's two-channel video work, Inexhaustible Present, is included in The Score curated by Jacqueline Doughty at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne. "In this international group exhibition, scores and notation are considered as a starting point to explore the current cross-disciplinary trend in contemporary art, which has seen dance, music and vocal performance increasingly incorporated into visual artworks. Opening Thursday 03/08/17, 6-8pm. exhibition 01/08/17 - 05/11/17.
» 20/07/2017: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced this morning as a finalist in the 2017 Archibald Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for his portrait of fellow artist and partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Both Cairns and Gothe-Snape are represented by The Commercial. ‘In this painting, Agatha is both an active subject and a recalcitrant muse embracing and resisting simultaneously any idea of what it is to be fixed. Ultimately this is what is most attractive about Agatha. She embodies an uncompromising agency whilst having the grace to accept the ready complications inherent within our life as artists,’ says Mitch Cairns. ‘I composed this portrait with love in the full knowledge of its inevitable and palpable quake.’ The Archibald winner is announced Friday 28/07/17. Exhibition dates 29/07/17 - 08/10/17.
» 30/06/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's 2017 wall painting, Three physical doorways, one conceptual wedge and a gentle breeze, and a POWERPOINTS subscription have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 27/05/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape interview (in Japanese) in Bijutsu-techno, coinciding with her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
» 22/05/2017: Video documentation of Agatha Gothe-Snape's artist talk on the opening weekend of her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo is now available for viewing on MAM's YouTube channel. The 9.25 minute video includes footage of the exhibition and opening performance as well as discussion by Gothe-Snape's various collaborators on the project including Tokyo-based, Michiko Tsuda and Sydney-based, Anna John. Photo documentation of the exhibition will be on The Commercial's website within the next couple of weeks. Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oh Window, continues at Mori Art Museum until 11/06/17.
» 01/05/2017: Chapters on Agatha Gothe-Snape, Emily Hunt, Andrew Liversidge and Mary Teague are included in the new Thames & Hudson publication, Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art, written by Melissa Loughnan.
» 20/04/2017: As part of her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a series of performances in May. In preparation for the performances, Gothe-Snape will conduct a series of walks around the Roppongi Hills area in the immediate vicinity of MAM. These walks are open to all. Meet in front of the Mori Art Museum information desk (Mori Tower 3F, to the left of the Mori Art Museum ticket counter). Each walk is 10.30-11.30am. Dates as follows: Sunday, April 23; Monday, April 24; Sunday, April 30; Monday, May 1; Monday, May 8; Sunday, May 14; Monday, May 15; Sunday, May 21; Monday, May 22; Sunday, May 28.
» 26/03/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, curated by Haruko Kumakura has been reviewed by Franz Thelmair as a Critic's Pick on Artforum.com.
» 25/03/2017: In the lead up to The National: New Australian Art opening this week at AGNSW, Carriageworks and MCA, Agatha Gothe-Snape in today's The Australian newspaper talking about her six year project 'The Fatal Sure/The National Doubt', a long form documentary about Australian art commencing now, commissioned to link the three venues over three iterations of The National with the final work being presented in 2021. Gothe-Snape takes Robert Hughes' monologue at the conclusion of Episode 8 of The Shock of the New (1980) as a starting point.
» 22/03/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape is talking on the panel, Situating Practice, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the opening week events for The National: New Australian Art. Panel participants are Daniel Browning, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Helen Hughes and Tom Nicholson, moderated by AGNSW curator, Anneke Jaspers. Thursday 30/03/17, 12.30-1.30pm. Free but booking necessary here.
» 17/03/2017: Diena Georgetti and Agatha Gothe-Snape have been invited by guest curator, Callum Morton, to present new works as part of the acquisitive $ 25,000.00 Redlands | Konica Minolta Art Prize at the National Art School Gallery. The 2017 exhibition marks the 21st year anniversary of the high profile prize. Each year a guest curator invites a number of established artists to participate who in turn each invite an emerging artist. For the 2017 exhibition, Georgetti has invited Brisbane-based Spencer Harvie and Gothe-Snape has invited Sydney-based Ella Sutherland. Exhibition dates 28/03/17 - 20/05/17.
» 11/02/2017: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, by Kent Wilson on The Submachine.
» 01/02/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's 2012 wall painting, Emotional Wall with Everything Else, recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is currently on display as part of Primavera at 25: MCA Collection. Gothe-Snape's wall painting was originally commissioned by Shepparton Art Museum as part of their ongoing Drawing Wall series. Emotional Wall with Everything Else is based on the Lüscher colour test, a psychological test invented by a Swiss psychotherapist, Dr Max Lüscher in the early 1970s. The Lüscher test claims to objectively measure a person's psychological state through their responses to specific colours. A traditionally-trained signwriter is employed to write the cursive script on the final panel. The artist sees this last panel as a contemplative space, with the hand-painted white text offering difference and respite.
» 30/01/2017: Coinciding with her solo exhibition, Oh Window - MAM Project 023 - at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Agatha Gothe-Snape will present a talk about her exhibition, joined by collaborating artist Tsuda Michiko. Following the talk, a short performance by Gothe-Snape along with artist/musician Anna John will be given in the MAM Project 023 exhibition space. Saturday 04/02/17, 14:00-15:30. Book here.
» 12/12/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition, Oh Window, at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, her first solo exhibition in Japan. For Oh Window - MAM Project 023, Gothe-Snape will interpret the view of Tokyo from the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower venue, along with the MAM motto, as a metaphor for the ‘Life’ of ‘Art + Life’ to create a number of imaginary ‘windows’ in the windowless exhibition space. The site-specific installation will include text, video footage and objects developed from conversations between Gothe-Snape and Museum staff, and discoveries the artist has made around Roppongi Hills. A series of performances will complement the content of the installation, staged over the duration of the exhibition, both in the gallery itself and in settings around Roppongi Hills. exhibition dates 04/02/17 - 11/06/17.
» 01/12/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been invited to produce a significant new work for The National: New Australian Art. The National is a major exhibition partnership between three of Sydney’s premier cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The National is a six-year biennial initiative presenting the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art over three editions in 2017, 2019 and 2021. The inaugural exhibition dates of The National are 30/03/17 - 25/06/17.
» 27/10/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's Book Marks FOUR (Margo Snape and Rollo May), recently exhibited in her solo exhibition Volatile Medium at The Commercial, has been acquired by the University of Technology Sydney Collection.
» 03/10/2016: From 4pm on Saturday 08/10/16, the final day of her solo exhibition, Volatile Medium, Agatha Gothe-Snape will execute Afterword, the companion drawing to Foreword which was executed in the gallery at the commencement of the exhibition as part of the performance Eight Mediums, No Audience after Chris Brennan.
» 30/08/2016: The opening drinks for Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo exhibition, Volatile Medium, will be Saturday 10/09/16, 4-6pm.
» 08/08/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's Emotional Wall with Everything Else, commissioned by Shepparton Art Museum for a Drawing Wall project, has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
» 08/07/2016: A two-minute video excerpt of Agatha Gothe-Snape's one hour performance, 'Rhetorical Chorus (LW)', presented for PERFORMA 15 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture 18/11/15 is now available for viewing on The Commercial's website.
» 28/06/2016: Article today by Brooke Boland on ArtsHub about recent public art commissions in Sydney, including Agatha Gothe-Snape's forthcoming installation in Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, "Here, an Echo." co-commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the City of Sydney.
» 09/05/2016: Congratulations to Agatha Gothe-Snape on being awarded the second Biennale Legacy Artwork commission. The Biennale of Sydney and City of Sydney today announced that the 2016 Biennale Legacy Artwork Project will be created by Gothe-Snape, the second time this 25 year jointly-commissioned public art work has been awarded. The 2016 Legacy Artwork will be a work developed during the ‘20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal. The final work will relate to a series of three scored walks that Gothe-Snape is presenting during the course of the Biennale and which are already underway. These performances will result in a major new permanent public artwork for the City of Sydney’s City Art Collection. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said, “I applaud Stephanie Rosenthal’s proposal of Agatha Gothe-Snape as the recipient of the 2016 Legacy Project. I am delighted her work will connect with the residents of Sydney and reveal their stories. The success of events like the Biennale shows there is enthusiastic public support for contemporary art in Sydney – people want to be inspired, challenged and delighted by art, and Agatha’s project will, I’m sure, succeed on all fronts. The City is committed to making Sydney the sort of place where groundbreaking art is encouraged and appreciated.” Full press release on the Biennale of Sydney website.
» 08/04/2016: As part of the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Agatha Gothe-Snape with Brooke Stamp presents 'Here, an Echo', a series of three scored walks over three Sundays - 17/04, 15/05 and 5/06 between 3.30-4.30pm. These choreographies for the city begin in The Domain and culminate in Wemyss Lane in Surry Hills. They are expansive, non-monumental and discursive events. Further details on the Biennale of Sydney website.
» 31/03/2016: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Auckland Art Fair 25-29 May 2016. Presented will be a group exhibition of all new works by Mitch Cairns, Gunter Christmann, Diena Georgetti, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Narelle Jubelin and Clare Milledge. (Stand A5)
» 18/03/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a talk for the Biennale of Sydney at the site of her billboard work, 'Physical Doorway (Three Ways)', on Cockatoo Island on Sunday 20/03/16, 12 noon. "Physical Doorway (Three Ways) is the third manifestation of this text, the first appearing as a PowerPoint Show TRYING TO FIND THE PHYSICAL DOORWAY.pptx at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany in 2015 and the second Physical Doorway and Energetic Wedge in a group show TPOLR at The Commercial Gallery Sydney in late 2015."
» 04/12/2015: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's work for Performa 15, Rhetorical Chorus (LW), on Hyperallergic.
» 18/11/2015: In addition to her solo performance on 18/11/15, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting work at Performa 15 as part of the collaborative group, WrongSolo (Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shane Haseman). On Saturday 21/11/15 at 5pm and Sunday 22/11/15, at the Performa Hub, WrongSolo present Cardinals, a short three-part performance centred around an imagined dialogue between the cardinal point ‘North’, and the intercardinal points ‘South-East’ and ‘South-West’. Accompanied by clarinettist Megan Clune and curated by Amelia Wallin. Further information on the Performa 15 website.
» 29/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape has created four fundraising editions (three posters and a luxury beach throw) to raise funds for the presentation and documentation of her Performa 15 project, Rhetorical Chorus (LW), to be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture 18/11/15. Each edition is AUD 500.00. Full details via this link.
» 28/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore have been selected for the 20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed, to be presented 18/03/16 – 05/05/16. Artistic Director, Stephanie Rosenthal, has conceived of the Biennale at seven main venues conceived as ‘embassies of thought’. Both Gothe-Snape and Moore are developing new projects for ‘in-between spaces’ in Rosenthal’s curatorial scheme that are framed “in terms of our interaction with the digital world, displacement from and occupation of spaces and land, and the interconnections and overlaps between politics and financial power structures.”
» 11/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape is developing a major new work for Performa 15 in New York in November this year. Performa is the pre-eminent biennial of international performance art. On 18/11/15 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Gothe-Snape will present Rhetorical Chorus (LW), a performance inspired by a chance encounter with legendary conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner that explores the role of the physical body in transmitting and receiving knowledge. Her most ambitious and formal performance work to date, Rhetorical Chorus (LW) pieces together a gestural lexicon of Weiner’s hand movements, and an expanded verbal vocabulary gathered from his every text work. Rhetorical Chorus (LW) is a visual and aural collage of images, texts and sounds. It presents an improvised choral performance in the byzantine tradition of cheironomia, a musical system notated by hand gestures, accompanied by an animated digital PowerPoint presentation, each illuminating the dual lexicons of Lawrence Weiner. Unraveling the interconnected legacies and influences of modernism and conceptual art in their respective practices, Gothe-Snape follows these threads through acts of embodiment, expression and transference in this layered and multi-sensory circulation and consumption of knowledge. Gothe-Snape's work for Performa has been jointly commissioned by Performance Space, Sydney and the Keir Foundation with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts as well as private donors. Rhetorical Chorus (LW) has been selected as one of fourteen focus Performa Commissions. Other Performa Commissions for 2015 are by Ryan Gander, Jesper Just and Oscar Murillo.
» 25/05/2015: The Commercial is pleased to announce the release of Agatha Gothe-Snape’s POWERPOINTS Catalogue (2008 - ongoing) Series 3. POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital artworks that have been created with Microsoft PowerPoint. They are endless loops with sound. POWERPOINTS parallel Gothe-Snape's broader conceptual practice stemming from improvisational performance. POWERPOINTS are purchased as an entire series which is updated periodically with releases of new works similar to a subscription. Subscribers receive each new release at no extra cost. POWERPOINTS are a numbered, open edition. With the Series 3 release, there are now forty-six works in the POWERPOINTS Catalogue. POWERPOINTS can be viewed in any format that supports Microsoft PowerPoint at any scale. PowerPoint software has recently been released for smartphones and tablets (both Mac and Android). POWERPOINTS subscribers include: The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, the University of Western Australia, Perth; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; private collections internationally. POWERPOINTS subscriptions are AUD 800.00 (incl. GST). Email subscription inquiries to [email protected].
» 28/03/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape, Mitch Cairns and Gunter Christmann have work in the exhibition 21st Century Heide: The Collection Since 2000, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. The exhibition presents 1500 artworks acquired by the Museum since the turn of the century. Exhibition dates: 28/03/15 - 14/07/15.
» 26/02/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape is in the '100 Contemporary Artists of Our Time' issue of Tokyo-based magazine, Bijutsu Techno, vol. 67, NO. 1019, with a text by Reuben Keehan. BT is a monthly magazine, first published in Japan in 1948 and, with the current issue, will be published in a separate English and Chinese edition to be circulated in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Gothe-Snape (#70) is the only Australian artist in the list. Other artists include Urs Fischer, Hito Steyerl, Hernan Bas, Ryan Gander, Tino Sehgal, Sterling Ruby, Oscar Murillo, Shilpa Gupta, Simon Denny, Josh Smith, Teppei Kaneuji, Cao Fei, Thomas Houseago, Kara Walker, Pussy Riot and Eva Rothschild.
» 13/11/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is participating in a series of artist talks at Artspace, Sydney, as part of the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition. Agatha is exhibiting six new works from her POWERPOINTS catalogue. Artists included in the talks are Tim Bruniges, Sarah Contos, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jonny Niesche, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Baden Pailthorpe, Leyla Stevens, Marian Tubbs and Tessa Zettel. Saturday 15/11/14, 2pm.
» 17/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition, 'Free Speaking', in Studio 12 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition of marks the end of her two year studio in Melbourne and comprises a series of drawings tangentially related to her work produced earlier this year for the 8th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art. exhibition 17/10/14 - 15/11/14.
» 16/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in relation to her work in the exhibition Framed Movements. Tuesday 21/10/14, 6pm.
» 09/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Framed Movements at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. The exhibition investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between dance and art. Exploring how a movement-based approach to the occupation of time and space is practiced in dance and in the realm of contemporary art. The exhibition brings together a series of Australian and international artists who use a choreographic approach in their work. Curated by Hannah Matthews. Exhibition: 10/10/14 - 23/11/14
» 03/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting a new POWERPOINT in Art as a Verb at Monash University Museum of Art, a major thematic exhibition that takes as its departure point the concept of art as action. It draws upon the energy of fluxus and happenings, and looks back to dematerialisation of art. Art as a Verb presents a range of projects from the 1960s to today that challenge the traditional role of the artist and the site of the museum. exhibtion: 03/10/14 - 16/12/14
» 23/07/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains that opens this Friday 25/07/14 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition is curated by Tara McDowell and includes thirteen Australian and international artists. "The exhibition considers the building that houses Gertrude Contemporary as a living organism, accruing its history over time, with each renovation, addition, coat of paint, and temporary resident." For her work, 'An Uncertain Reader', Gothe–Snape "asks Gertrude Studio Artists from the program’s 30-year history to nominate a text that influenced them during their residence. In a performative work that concerns both immaterial labour and access to knowledge, gallery invigilators will read the collated reader during the month-long exhibition, accumulating the collective labour of their reading in the process." Exhibition dates: 25/07/14 – 23/08/14
» 04/07/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Lillian O'Neil are two of twelve finalists selected for the 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). The 2014 presentation of the Fellowship will see the exhibition at Artspace, Sydney, transformed from a presentation of individual works to an exhibition that is supported by curatorial development and dialogue. In her inaugural curatorial role at Artspace, recently appointed Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor will co-curate the exhibition in collaboration with Sam Zammit, Artspace Curator of Programs and curator of the 2013 iteration of the NSW Fellowship. The winner will be awarded the fellowship (valued at $30,000) on the opening night of the exhibition, determined by a panel of peers.
» 20/06/2014: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of its first presentation at Melbourne Art Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building from 13/08/14 - 17/08/14. Presented by the Melbourne Art Foundation, a not for profit organisation, Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australasia’s longest running contemporary art events. For 25 years the Fair has stimulated critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists directly contributing to the livelihood of living artists. The Commercial will present a group exhibition in the MAF Galleries sector. Collector's passes and tickets to the opening night Vernissage on Wednesday 13 August, 6-10pm are available on the Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 05/06/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's works Certain Situations, Expression Curtain and Every Artist Remembered (with Elizabeth Pulie) have been acquired by the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth.
» 27/05/2014: The Berlin Biennale opens this week, with the vernissage on Wednesday 28 May. An extensive interview with Agatha Gothe-Snape by Sonja Hornung has been published on ArtSlant in the lead up to the exhibition.
» 19/05/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art curated by Juan A. Gaitán. It is her first major exhibition outside Australia. Gothe-Snape has developed a text-based procedural work, Untitled (2014), for the splash page of the Berlin Biennale website: www.berlinbiennale.de. Eighty word combinations are encountered one at a time, appearing randomly. The sources of the words are mostly found texts – spoken and written. In the months leading up to the Biennale, she has been emailing the word combinations to the curator who forwards them to the London-based designers, Zak Group. In the hands of Zak Group, Gothe-Snape’s phrases are absorbed into the corporate identity of the 8th Berlin Biennale and placed between parentheses (formed by the bisected glyph of the number 8 of this Biennale’s vintage), in a space left intentionally blank. The designers juxtapose these word combinations with thumbnail images that depict cityscapes, demolition, people looking at art etc. Gothe-Snape is not involved in the choice of imagery or its placement relative to her words. Her role is not dissimilar to a copywriter though the texts are far from copywriting. During the Biennale, her word combinations will migrate and find themselves inserted on posters, banners and other ephemera surrounding the exhibition. Gothe-Snape has produced a brochure that documents the work, with commissioned essays by Emily Cormack, Georgina Criddle, Juan A. Gaitán and Erik Jensen. 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: 29/05/14 - 03/08/14. www.berlinbiennale.de. Go there and refresh your screen.
» 01/04/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape's conceptual work, Text Work and Line Work (DO NOT APPROACH THIS END OF THE ROOM DO NOT CROSS THE YELLOW LINE), recently exhibited at Monash University Museum of Art in the exhibition Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 22/02/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting a newly commissioned work in 'Trace: Performance and its Documents' at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. ‘Trace draws out relationships between performance and its documents, bringing together new commissions with historical and contemporary works from across the Gallery’s Collection.' The exhibition brings together works by a large number of international and local artists, including John Baldessari, Brown Council, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Rebecca Horn, Bruce Nauman, Mike Parr, Campbell Patterson, Qin Ga; Carolee Schneemann, Sriwhana Spong, Song Dong, Ai Weiwei, Gosia Wlodarczak, Erwin Wurm, Zhang Huan. Gothe-Snape will be presenting a live performance during the exhibition, details to be announced. Exhibition dates: 22/02/14 - 27/07/14.
» 19/02/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS Catalogue has been acquired by the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne.
» 17/02/2014: The March issue of Vogue Australia is devoted to "great Australian artists, the meaning of art in our lives, and, of course, its intrinsic link with fashion.” A number of artists from The Commercial feature by name and in image. In the 'Critic's Choice' article (pp. 161-166) Agatha Gothe-Snape, Gail Hastings, Archie Moore and Lillian O'Neil are nominated in profiles of respected art consultants, Mark Hughes and Amanda Love and collectors James Roland and Becky Sparks. On newstands now.
» 03/02/2014: A series of talks will accompany the group exhibition, OUI we: - Friday 07/02/14, 4pm - Gail Hastings on her sculptuation, sides: red versus blue (2009), and the creation of space in her work. - Saturday 08/02/14, 2pm - Elizbeth Pulie will talk about Agatha Gothe-Snape's work, Every Artist Remembered with Elizabeth Pulie (2009). - more talks will be announced shortly.
» 17/12/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's work Text Work and Line Work has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 18/11/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting 24 works from her ongoing POWERPOINTS CATALOGUE as part of Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest exhibition in the museum's history. The exhibition includes over 300 artists and incorporates art, architecture, design, performance and broader cultural practice. Melbourne Now will take place across both museum venues: NGV Australia and NGV International. Gothe-Snape's works will be exhibited at NGV International on St Kilda Rd. POWERPOINTS will be exhibited on 24 screens concurrently. POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital works created by Gothe-Snape in Microsoft PowerPoint. They are available as a subscription. Subscribers receive the entire back catalogue of works going back to 2008 on a customised USB card and all updates into the future by email. To inquire about POWERPOINTS subscriptions, please write to: [email protected]. Melbourne Now exhibition dates: 22/11/13 - 23/03/14
» 01/11/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS Catalogue has been acquired by the National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne.
» 13/10/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith are two of five alumni of Sydney College of the Arts shortlisted for the 2013 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists' Travel Scholarship Prize. The scholarship was established to provide financial assistance to a recent SCA graduate to further his/her visual arts practice and professional development in an international environment. The scholarship offers $28,000 and is awarded on the basis of an application and visual assessment by a panel of judges. Major works by the artists will be on exhibition at SCA 17/10/13 - 25/10/13. Announcement of the prize and opening event takes place on Wednesday 16/10/13, 5.30-8pm.
» 30/09/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Andrew Liversidge are both exhibiting at Monash University Museum of Art in the exhibition, Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century. Curated by former MUMA Director, Max Delany, with Charlotte Day, Francis E. Parker and Patrice Sharkey, the exhibition is the most ambitious exhibition that MUMA has presented to date, "[b]ringing together works by over forty artists – from Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of Australia’s leadingpractitioners – this is a one-of-a-kind salute to an idea that continues to define the very nature of contemporary art." exhibition dates: 3 October - 14 December. (Andrew Liversidge's project is supported by the Bank of Melbourne.)
» 26/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been included in the exhibition Octopus 13: On this day alone, at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne. Curated by Glenn Barkley, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the exhibition includes work by: Anselm Adams, Tim Burns, Kushana Bush, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Patrick Hartigan, Joanna Margaret Paul, Madeleine Preston and Luke Willis Thompson. Exhibition dates 25.07.13 – 23.08.13
» 07/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in a two-person exhibition, Taking form, with New Zealand artist, Sriwhana Spong, at the Level 2 Contemporary Projects space at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. The exhibition brings together new works by Gothe-Snape and Spong, incorporating installation, sculptural objects, video and live performance. Works engage with ideas of process and transformation, as well as the dialogue between history and the present. exhibition opens: Wednesday 17 July, 6-8pm artists talks: Saturday 20 July, 2pm Gothe-Snape performance: Sunday 1 September, 4pm exhibition dates: 17 July - 1 September 2013
» 05/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a temporal, temporary collaborative work on the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Commissioned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority for the exterior of the scaffolding during the Museum's facade cleaning, Gothe-Snape has developed the evolving text-based work with New Zealand artist, Mike Hewson. IT XXXXX XX (2013) is a six-story high digitial print on adhesive vinyl.
» 07/03/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition at The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand. For The Physics Room, Gothe-Snape will incorporate some first impressions of the gallery space, its situation and community, highlighting how fast meetings can generate fast feelings, new perspectives and reflections. Exhibition dates 15/03/13 - 14/04/13
» 23/11/2012: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Amsterdam in INexactly THIS - Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents as part of the presentation by (Sydney's) Society (aka Susan Gibb). KFI is a multi-disciplinary arts festival. Since its inception in 1997, it has been the largest non-commercial exhibition of visual arts in the Netherlands, a platform for independent art institutions, art schools and artist-run initiatives. Approximately 70 institutions participate annually, exhibiting the work of over 350 international artists. The 2012 edition of KFI is curated by Natasha Ginwala (IND) and Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL). Exhibition dates 23/11/12 - 02/12/12.
» 12/11/2012: Agatha Gothe-Snape recently completed a Drawing Wall project at Shepparton Art Museum. Curated by Elise Routledge, the Drawing Wall is an ongoing series of temporary, commissioned, site-specific works for the foyer space of the Eastbank Centre, directly outside SAM. Four artists are commissioned each year. Nine artists have been commissioned for Drawing Wall projects to date including: Anna Kristensen, Richard Lewer, Viv Miller, Caroline Rothwell, Justin Andrews and Agatha Gothe-Snape.
» 12/11/2012: We like seeing writers from this corner of the globe contributing to international art journals. Charlotte Day's recent Year in Review in Frieze singles out Agatha Gothe-Snape's monumental text mural in Contemporary Australia: Women at QAG | GOMA earlier this year (curated by Julie Ewington et al). The Commercial also rates a mention.
» 10/07/2012: Heide Museum of Modern Art have acquired Agatha Gothe-Snape's The surface of the moon (2012) exhibited in ONE/THREE, the inaugural exhibition at The Commercial.