Douglas Gordon

Born in 1966 in Glasgow (Scotland), DOUGLAS GORDON lives and works in Berlin (Germany), Glasgow (Scotland) and Paris (France). Douglas Gordon’s practice encompasses video and film, installation, sculpture, photography, and text. Through his work, Gordon investigates the fundamentals of the human condition like memory and the passage of time, as well as universal dualities such as life and death, good and evil, right and wrong. Kamel Mennour and Douglas Gordon have been working together since 2018.

Gordon’s œuvre has been exhibited globally, in major solo exhibitions including the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (1999), the Tate Liverpool (2000), the MOCA in Los Angeles (2001 and 2012), the Hayward Gallery in London (2002), the National Gallery of Scotland (2006), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2006), the TATE Britain in London (2010), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2013), as well as in the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2014).
His film works have been invited to the Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Venice Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, New York Film Festival, among many others.
Gordon received the 1996 Turner Prize. In 2017, he presented “I had nowhere to go” at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel.

Works

Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris, 2022
Exhibition view, Mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Mennour, Paris, 2023
Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris, 2022
Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Giacometti Institute, Paris, 2022
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Nine Times Triple Elvis) - © Mennour
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Nine Times Triple Elvis), 2010
Diary Volume IV - © Mennour
Diary Volume IV, 2019—2022
Exhibition view, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels, 2021
Punishment Exercise (when?) - © Mennour
Punishment Exercise (when?), 2001
Exhibition view, Collection Lambert, Avignon - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2020
Exhibition view, ARoS Musem, Aarhus, Danemark - © Mennour
Exhibition view, ARoS Musem, Aarhus, Danemark, 2019
Exhibition view, ARoS Musem, Aarhus - © Mennour
Exhibition view, ARoS Musem, Aarhus, 2019
Exhibition view, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, 2020
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2019
Self Portrait of You + Me (Elv 4 pieces) - © Mennour
Self Portrait of You + Me (Elv 4 pieces), 2015
Hocus Pocus - © Mennour
Hocus Pocus, 2018
The Things He Does - © Mennour
The Things He Does, 2019
Exhibition view, MoMA, New York City - © Mennour
Exhibition view, MoMA, New York City, 2006
Remembered in Flames (Jane Russell) - © Mennour
Remembered in Flames (Jane Russell), 2007
Serve the good cause and die - © Mennour
Serve the good cause and die, 2019
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2019
Exhibition view, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, 2014
The Rhythm of the Night #15 - © Mennour
The Rhythm of the Night #15, 2019
Stolen Fruit - © Mennour
Stolen Fruit, 2019
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2019
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Jackie nine hole) - © Mennour
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Jackie nine hole), 2018
The Rhythm of the Night #2 - © Mennour
The Rhythm of the Night #2, 2019
Sers la bonne cause et meurs 2 - © Mennour
Sers la bonne cause et meurs 2, 2019
Exhibition view, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2015
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2018
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2019
Self Portrait of You + Me (Double Debbie) - © Mennour
Self Portrait of You + Me (Double Debbie), 2018
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2018
Exhibition view, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 2017
The Rhythm of the Night #1 - © Mennour
The Rhythm of the Night #1, 2019
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2019
Exhibition view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2016
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Big Bang Elvis) - © Mennour
Self-Portrait of You + Me (Big Bang Elvis), 2015
Sers la bonne cause et meurs - © Mennour
Sers la bonne cause et meurs, 2019
Exhibition view, MoMA, New York - © Mennour
Exhibition view, MoMA, New York, 2006
Self Portrait of You + Me (8 Elvis doubled inverted) - © Mennour
Self Portrait of You + Me (8 Elvis doubled inverted), 2018
Abracadabra - © Mennour
Abracadabra, 2018
Exhibition view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2013
Selfportrait of you + me (seven hole Jackie) - © Mennour
Selfportrait of you + me (seven hole Jackie), 2008
The Rhythm of the Night #11 - © Mennour
The Rhythm of the Night #11, 2019
Performance, Park Avenue Armory, New York City - © Mennour
Performance, Park Avenue Armory, New York City, 2014
Self Portrait of You + Me (Multicoloured Elvis with Black and White) - © Mennour
Self Portrait of You + Me (Multicoloured Elvis with Black and White), 2018
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2018
Exhibition view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2018

Exhibitions & News

Zidane - MEP - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, Zidane, un portrait du XXIe siècle
19 September 2024
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Bertrand Lavier, Camille Henrot, Pierre Molinier, François Morellet - Centre Pompidou-Metz - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Camille Henrot, Anish Kapoor, Bertrand Lavier, Pierre Molinier, François Morellet, Lacan, l’exposition. Quand l’art rencontre la psychanalyse
31 December 2023 — 27 May 2024
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Group show - © Mennour
Daniel Buren, Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon, Camille Henrot, Anish Kapoor, Alicja Kwade, François Morellet, Group show
5 February — 16 March 2024
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8
Philippe Parreno & Douglas Gordon - Philharmonie de Paris - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, Zidane, un portrait du XXIe siècle
5 October 2023 — 7 January 2024
Philharmonie de Paris
Douglas Gordon - PERFORMING PAC - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Dance Me To The End Of Love
11 July — 10 September 2023
PERFORMING PAC, Milano
Burning Stars - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Burning Stars
7 June — 22 July 2023
Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6
Le Salon de musique - © Mennour
Group show, Le Salon de musique
3 February — 18 March 2023
Opening 03 February 2023, 18:00
Mennour, 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6
Le songe d'Ulysse - Fondation Carmignac - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Camille Henrot, Martial Raysse, Le songe d’Ulysse
30 April — 16 October 2022
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles
Douglas Gordon - Dundee Contemporary Art - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, k.364
7 May — 7 August 2022
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Douglas Gordon - Julia Stoschek Collection - © Mennour
Douglas Gordon, Anti-Monuments
13 — 16 July 2022
Espace Indigo, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Douglas Gordon - Institut Giacometti - © Mennour
Alberto Giacometti, Douglas Gordon, The Morning After
20 April — 12 June 2022
Institut Giacometti, Paris
Revenir vers le futur - la Collection Lambert & la Donation Albers-Honegger - © Mennour
Daniel Buren, Douglas Gordon, Bertrand Lavier, François Morellet, Revenir vers le futur - La Collection Lambert & la Donation Albers-Honegger
7 June 2021 — 3 April 2022
Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
Jours blancs - © Mennour
Group show, Jours blancs
18 October 2021 — 9 February 2022
Opening 18 October 2021, 18:00
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8

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