DIS

The collective DIS is exemplary in defining what Hannah Black in Artforum describes as the “relentless anxiety about the conditions and possibilities of art and life, express(ing) the despairing atomization, and the compromised longing for solidarity, of a post-bourgeois creative class hovering on the brink of its own obsolescence”.

Formed in 2010, after the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and global recession, DIS as an entity has over the decade typified its aesthetic, cultural, political and economic impact. Composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, DIS’ interventions blur the distinctions between art, curation, theory, advertising, fashion, retail and technology, manifesting across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects, often all at once. Their work exists often simultaneously online and in situ, as well as more traditional mediums like photography, sculpture, video and installation. Their current multi year project dis.art is a subscriber-based online video channel popularising in “edutainment”, helping us understand the complicated social machinery of our techno-capitalist world. The channel presents new commissions with other artists as well as DIS’ own content.

In 2021, DIS co-curated the Biennial for Image Movement Geneva, featuring their latest work Everything but the World. In a series of interrelated vignettes, Everything But The World presents a non-linear, natural history show about homo sapiens, linking the agricultural revolution to Amazon fulfillment centers. It addresses the gulf between the complexity of the human’s global existence and the smallness of their private everyday lives, and confronts our obsession with “the end of the world” knowing the arrogance of that word: ‘the’.

Recent solo exhibitions include, How To Become A Fossil at Secession, Vienna, Everything But The World at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin and Big Beat Disaster at Project Native Informant, London.

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Solo Exhibitions

2024Everything But The World, MoCA Busan, Busan

2024Everything But The World, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux

2023Big Beat Disaster, Project Native Informant, London 2023Everything But The World, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin 2022How To Become A Fossil, Secession, Vienna

2021A Good Crisis, Turku Art Museum, Turku

2020DIS: Ten Years, Art Basel, Basel

2020DIS: Ten Years, PNI Online 2019XOXO, Safety Net, Oil by Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo 2018A Good Crisis, Project Native Informant, London

2018A Good Crisis, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

2018XOXO, Safety Net, SSENSE, Montreal

2018Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DISEdutainment Network, Plug in ICA, Winnipeg

2018Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DISEdutainment Network, Casa Encendida, Madrid 2017Genre-Nonconforming: The DISEdutainment Network, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco

2017Narrative Devices with Babak Radboy, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2016Image Life, Project Native Informant, London

2014DISown Not For Everyone, Red Bull Arts, New York

2013DISImages Studio, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York

2012Fair Trade, Frieze Projects, London

2011DIS HQ, Invisible Exports, New York

Group Exhibitions

2024Visual Vertigo - Scenarios of Rapid Changes, Fondazione MAST, Bologna 2023PNI @ 10, Project Native Informant, London

2023Someone is Getting Rich, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

2023Subject to Shadowban, M+ Museum, Hong Kong

2022A Wake Up Song Mr. President, Abdellia Palace, Tunis

2022The Dreamers: An Echoing, BASEMENT ROMA, Rome

2022at dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin

2022Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Los Angeles

2021Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, MoCA Taipei, Taiwan

2021A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva

2021One Escape at a Time | 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2021Exit World, Medellín Modern Art Museum, Medellín

2021The Dreamers, Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade

2020DIS Presents: What Do People Do All Day?, Tranen, Hellerup

2020DIS Presents: What Do People Do All Day?, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

2020DIS | Jonathan Horowitz, Sadie Coles HQ and Project Native Informant, London

2019CONDO London, Project Native Informant, London

2018up the river down the tide, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

2018Fashion Work, Fashion Workers, CCS Bard

2018Title II, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal

2018I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2018Art in the Age of the Internet, ICA Boston, Boston

2017Group Show, Project Native Informant, London

2017We Are Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2017Utopia/Dystopia Part II, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon

2017.com/.cn, K11 Foundation, Hong Kong

2017Citizen X - Human, Nature, and Robot Rigts, Øregaard Museum, Copenhagen

2017Whistleblowers and Vigilantes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

2016Philippe Thomas with Interventions by Bernadette Corporation, DIS and Emily Segal, Project Native Informant, London

2016Whistleblowers and Vigilantes, HMKV, Dortmund

2015Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2015Co-Workers, Musee d'Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

2015Surround Audience, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York

2014In the Hotel, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden

2013ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York

201389Plus Marathon and DISCRIT 89Plus with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castet, Serpentine Gallery, London and Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino

Projects

2023Curation - PAF 22nd Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc

2021Curation - A Love Letter, a Wake-Up Call, or a Goodbye Song, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva

2018DIS.art, Online

2017Styles and Customs of the 2020s, Commissioned by Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

2016Curation - The Present in Drag, Berlin Biennale, Berlin

2014Curation - DISown. Not for Everyone, Red Bull Studios, New York

2013Production - Art in America, December 2013 Cover

2012Production - Watermarked, Men’s Fall 2012 Collection Video, Commissioned by Kenzo, Paris

2012Curation - DIS CRIT

2010Elastic Youth: Interpreting the Scrunchie, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

2010New in Stock: Free, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York