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Morag Keil

Morag Keil’s practice is ouroboric: self-referring, self-erasing, self-consuming, regurgitating. Keil’s installations have the bald efficiency of something bargain-bucket but workable. This amateurish construction — of clunky papier-mâché houses downtrodden with office heels, of a low-fi camera’s glitchy rove over motorbikes — actualises her reflection of contemporaneity’s squashing and conditioning of subjectivity, as well as the interlocking of production and pleasure. Beneath the watermark of professionalism and propriety lies a cesspit of personal contradictions and anxiety-trimmed mediations.

Through a wide variety of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video, as well as collaborative projects with artists such as Georgie Nettell, Keil’s work often relieve the aestheticising cliché of post-financial crash and millennial precarity. In her gallery exhibition, Here We Go Again, the artist simulated in three dimensions an out of date video game mocking home automation: doors with peepholes open up to doors, walls painted in soft pink and green screen, and televisions playing a lush forest CGI animation from a BBC One ident, which then cut to a blue circle that wobbled as a voice-over asked in the half-droning tones of Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa. Behind Keil’s work is the demand to know why we live like this and the impulse to tear it all down; but, until that happens, we wander.

Her celebrated solo institutional exhibition, Moarg Keil, presented a survey of a decade’s work at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London in 2019. Keil recently presented her third solo exhibition at Project Native Informant, Free Like Only Animals Can Be.

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Solo Exhibitions
2024Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
2023Needs & Wants, Jenny's, New York
Inside, 100 Bell Towers, Montreal
2022Free Like Only Animals Can Be, Project Native Informant, London
Videos, Guzzler, Melbourne
2021a LIFE LESS ORDINARY (sh*ll*w gr*ve), Ivory Tars, Glasgow
HOGMANAY, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
2019Moarg Keil, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LondonHere We Go Again, Project Native Informant, London
2018Controllers, Jenny's, Los Angeles
2017passive aggressive 2, Real Fine Arts, New York City
2014L.I.B.E.R.T.Y., Project Native Informant, London
Would you eat your friends?, Real Fine Arts, New York City
2013Potpourri, Cubitt Gallery, London
Palais de Token, Neue Alte Brueke, Frankfurt
2012Civil War, Outpost Gallery, Norwich2011Moarg Kiel, Palais de Tokyo, ParisVirginia Ham, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Public Hanging, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
2010Group Show, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Out of Your Head, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2009Bohemia/Nirvana, Caribic Residency, Frankfurt
2007Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam
Two and Three-Person Exhibitions
2024Morag Keil & Olga Pedan, Roland Ross, Margate
2023Truth vs. Lies with Bedros Yeretzian, Commercial Street, Los Angeles
LIFE LIVE with Bedros Yeretzian and Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Reena Spaulings, New York
2017Questionnaire with Georgie Nettell, Yale Union, Portland
2015Telephone with Ed Lehan and Georgie Nettell, Jenny’s, Los Angeles
Punks Not Dead It's Different with Morag Keil, Project Native Informant at Frieze London, London
Group Exhibitions
2024Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty, Fondation d'Entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris
Hoi Köln Part 3: Albtraum Malerei, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2023Hoi Köln Part 2: In the Belly of the Machine, Kölnischer Kunstverein, CologneTHEY, Le Consortium, Dijon
Water Connects Us All, ALTAN, Ålesund
MOMENTUM 12 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
PNI @ 10, Project Native Informant, London
The Video Show: I Can't See A Thing. I'll Open This One, K4, Oslo
2022Group Show, Graham Vunderink Gallery, Pittsfield
Compact, Third Landscape Vitrine, London
Sex is Censored Part 3: Le Pissoir Du La Perle, JENNY'S, New York
Nothing To Write Home About, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
Lifes, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2021Welcome to L.A., Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
Rites of Passage, Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi
Paradis, Maison R&C, Marseille
Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus and Stadtgalerie, Bern
Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Venice2020Haunted Haus, Swiss Institute, New York
Would Rather Post This Video Than No Video, Select, Berlin
2019You, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Bodies of Work, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Die Läden sind Geschlossen, Weiss Falk, Basel
Masculinities, Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande and the Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Digital Gothic, Centre d’Art Contemporain: la Synagogue de Delme
Discoteca Analitica, Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg
2018DEATH LOLZ, Peak, London
Oh, that I had a thousand tongues, Tinos Quarry Platform, Tinos
Original Character, DREI, Cologne
Our Creative Heart, Mercy Pictures, Auckland
2017Inside, Paddinton Town Hall, Sydney
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
universe, Life Sport, Berlin
The Painting Show, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2016HOME, LUMA Westbau, Zurich
The Highs of Everyday Life, Reena Spaulings Gallery, New York
DIE MARMORY SHOW III „Guilty Pleasures“, Deborah Schamoni, Munich
Stüttgart, Francesca Pia, Zurich
FLUXESFEVERFUTURESFICTION, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao
The Painting Show, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2015Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mirror Effect, The Box, Los Angeles
Looks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
There’s No Space in Space, Life Gallery, SPACE, London
Does Not Equal, W139, Amsterdam
2014Issues with Castillo/Corrales, The Artist Space, New York
2013Saviour Murir, Sandy Brown, Berlin
Issues of Our Times, Castillio/Corrales, Paris
Door Between Either And Or Part 1, Kunstverein München, Munich
Version Control, Arnofini, Bristol
HMV, Foxy Productions, New York
Great Offers, CEO, Malmo
2011Garbage World with Nicolas Ceccaldi, Mark and Kyoko, Berlin
2010The Smart Fridge, Chilly Forecast for Internet Fridge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
84 Paintings with Manuela Gernedel and Fiona Mackay, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Everything Must Go with Manuela Gernedel, Limazulu, London
21st Century Event with Manuela Gernedel, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Ourtv with Manuela Gernedel, Moot, Nottingham
Ourtv with Manuela Gernedel, SWG3, Glasgow
Ourtv with Manuela Gernedel, Lothringer 13, Munich
At Five to Ten by the Old Bridge, My Sweetheart, Neue Alte Bruke, Frankfurt
Local - Meat is my Veg, Caribic Residency, Hamburg
84 Paintings with Manuela Gernedel and Fiona Mackay, Wiels Project Space, Brussels
2008(*){+}, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam
Tage / Die Kirchner show, Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg
Exhibition, Pow Gallery, Hamburg
2007Gallery Exchange, Neue Alte Brucke, Germany
Killed the Painting Star, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Public Collections
British Council, London

Installation View

Morag Keil
Free Like Only Animals Can Be, 2022
Project Native Informant, London

Morag Keil

Pepsi playing Animal Crossing

2022
Acrylic on canvas, collage, dentist lamp, LED light, steel, plastic and found material on steel pegboard
50 x 128 x 16 cm
19 3/4 x 50 3/8 x 6 1/4 in

Morag Keil

Pepsi

2022
Acrylic on canvas, plastic toy lamp, epoxy resin, wheels, circuit boards, collage and disk tray on steel pegboard
64 x 43 x 8 cm
25 1/4 x 16 7/8 x 3 1/8 in

Morag Keil

Clock

2018
Found shoes and clock mechanism
Dimensions variable

Installation View

Morag Keil
LIFES, 2021
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Installation View

Morag Keil
Nothing To Write Home About, Kim?, 2022
Contemporary Art Centre, Riga

Installation View

Morag Keil
Moarg Keil, 2019
Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Morag Keil

Still: passive aggressive

2016
Single-channel video
11 mins, 04 secs

Installation View

Morag Keil
Here We Go Again, 2018
Project Native Informant, London

Installation View

Morag Keil
Here We Go Again, 2018
Project Native Informant, London

Morag Keil

Palais de Token (Grey Portrait)

2013
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 54 x 2 cm
25 5/8 x 21 1/4 x 3/4 in

Morag Keil

Reap what you sow

2013
Wood, cotton, metal bucket and toy cars
Dimensions variable

Morag Keil, Georgie Nettell

Still: The Fascism of Everyday Life

2016
Single-channel HD video
11 mins, 44 secs

Morag Keil, Georgie Nettell

Still: The Fascism of Everyday Life

2016
Single-channel HD video
11 mins, 44 secs

Morag Keil

Computer 2

2016
Oil on canvas
36 x 45.5 x 2 cm
14 1/8 x 17 7/8 x 3/4 in

Morag Keil

Blob 1

2016
Vinyl
Dimensions variable

Morag Keil

Carrera by Jimmy Choo

2016
Paper collage in artist frame
31.5 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm
12 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 5/8 in

Morag Keil

Let's Buy Back Our Piece of Mind

2016
Pen and collage on paper, framed
58.5 x 79 x 2 cm
23 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 3/4 in

Installation View

Morag Keil
Passive Aggressive, 2016
Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

Installation View

Morag Keil
Would you eat your friends?, 2014
Real Fine Arts, New York City

Morag Keil

Detail: Helmet

2017
Found motorcycle helmet and flip cam
28 x 25 x 33 cm
11 x 10 x 13 in

Installation View

Morag Keil
Potpourri, 2013
Cubitt Gallery, London

Morag Keil

Still: Potpourri

2013
Single-channel HD video
7 mins, 14 secs

Morag Keil

Still: Potpourri

2013
Single-channel HD video
7 mins, 14 secs

Installation View

Morag Keil
Would you eat your friends?, 2014
Real Fine Arts, New York

Morag Keil

Untitled (Cube)

2016
C-type prints on foam board
50 x 50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in

Installation View

Morag Keil
Civil War, 2012
Outpost Gallery, Norwich

Morag Keil

Untitled (Piss Painting 1)

2014
Oxidized copper water-based paint on canvas
72 x 56 x 2 cm
28 3/8 x 22 1/8 x 3/4 in

Morag Keil

Untitled (Piss Painting 3)

2014
Oxidized copper water-based paint on canvas
72 x 56 x 2 cm
28 3/8 x 22 1/8 x 3/4 in

Installation View

Morag Keil
L.I.B.E.R.T.Y., 2014
Project Native Informant, London

Installation View

Morag Keil
Universe, 2017
Life Sport, Berlin

Installation View

Morag Keil
Universe, 2017
Life Sport, Berlin

Morag Keil

Elle

2013
Acrylic on paper
Dimensions variable

Installation View

Morag Keil
Moarg Kiel, 2011
Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Group Shows

Morag Keil

Lifes

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Morag Keil

Stop Painting

Fondazione Prada, Venice

Morag Keil

Haunted Haus

Swiss Institute, New York

Hal Fischer, Morag Keil

Maskulinitäten

Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Georgie Nettell, Morag Keil

Questionnaire

Yale Union, Portland

Georgie Nettell, Morag Keil

HOME

LUMA Westbau, Zurich

Morag Keil

Looks

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Morag Keil, Georgie Nettell

Questionnaire

PNI Online

Morag Keil

MOMENTUM 12 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway

Juliana Huxtable, Morag Keil

LISTE 2017

LISTE, Basel

DIS, GCC, Morag Keil

Art Cologne 2017

Art Cologne, Cologne

DIS, Georgie Nettell, Morag Keil

Various Others

Deborah Schamoni, Munich

Flo Brooks, Morag Keil, Sean Steadman

Frieze London 2018

Frieze, London

Georgie Nettell, Morag Keil

Frieze London 2015

Frieze, London

DIS, Morag Keil, Sean Steadman

Independent New York 2016

Independent, New York

Morag Keil

THEY

Le Consortium, Dijon

Morag Keil, Dozie Kanu

HOI KÖLN TEIL 2: IM BAUCH DER MASCHINE

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

Morag Keil

Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty

Fondation d'Entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris

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