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Liane Lang | House Guests

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6 - 22 October 2011
Special Frieze Sunday artist's talk: 5pm Sunday 16th October
Cyrated by Debra Wilson & Chiara Williams

WW Gallery is pleased to present House Guests, a new installation by Liane Lang, 6th – 22nd October 2011.

This new work takes its cue from the preserved or recreated living or working spaces of famous figures, designed to allow the viewer to enter temporarily into the past - a museum to the individual life. The projected film is an animation made in Rudyard Kipling's Vermont house, the site of many traumatic events for his family but also where he wrote many of his best-loved books. The haunting atmosphere of the film gently spills over into the exhibition space, where strange objects, piles of books, pieces of furniture and photographs extend the narrative.
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The film animation was made at Naulakha, the house of Rudyard Kipling in Vermont, an isolated building in the Connecticut River Valley. Kipling built this house to his own designs and lived here with his wife and daughters. The space we see is haunted, occupied by inhabitants that appear and vanish, furniture that moves of its own accord and disembodied voices that play in the overgrown swimming pool. In the exhibition space, found objects are arranged like haunted souls along the walls, hinting at the dark side of Kipling’s times and thoughts, the confusion and conflict of colonialism, travel and friendship as well as racism and arrogance, a boy’s adventure tale and the horrors of war. ​


About the artist
Liane Lang grew up in Germany and the US. She studied at NCAD in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College followed by a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy, where she graduated in 2006. Her work is concerned with notions of animacy, which she investigates through sculpture, photography and video works. Many of Lang's works examine museum objects and the biographies they attempt to narrate, modes of display and the verisimilitude of art objects, particularly figurative sculptures and political monuments. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad and her work is held in a number of notable collections. More info: www.lianelang.com

​Work in Collections
Deutsche Bank Collection
Royal Academy Collection
White Cube Gallery
Ernst & Young Collection
Arts Council Of England Collection
Saatchi Collection
DEM Collection
Collection Kunstverein Bregenz
numerous private collections


Awards and Residencies
2011 Royal Academy Print Room
2011 Westmoorland Heart Hospital
2010 Supernova Gallery, Riga
2009 Memento Sculpture Park, Budapest
2006 Selina Cheneviere Fellowship
2006 Hugh Merrell Dissertation Award
2005 Henry Moore Foundation Production Award
2005 SPS Award
2002 London Arts Board Production Award
1999 Tooth Travel Award

​​Solo Shows
2011 The Long Way Home, Permanent Public Commission for Croydon Council
2010 Monumental Misconceptions, KvH Projects, London,
2010 Shadows and Stowaways with Squid/Tabernacle, Dalston, London
2010 Mesmeric Monument at Supernova Gallery, Riga
Talks accompanying the exhibition at KIM Institute supported by the British Council, catalogue
2009 Public Commission, Portobello Road, RBKC
2008 Artist at Apsley, Flora Fairbairn Projects
2007 Fondling Germanicus, Kunstverein Heidelberg
2006 Verisimilitude, T1+2 Artspace, London
2001 Offspace, Vienna, new video work, Austria
2001 Southfirst Art, new video work, New York
Selected Group Shows
Latitude Festival 2011, The Big Screen, July, 2011
Art First, London, new photography, 2-person show, October 2011
Once Upon A Time in The West, Cultural Olympiad, July 2012

2011 Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery at the 54 th Venice Biennale
2011 The Sexual Object, Salon-Vert, Regents Park
2011 London Art Fair, WW Gallery
2011 68m Gallery, Copenhagen
2010 Heft, Winchester Discovery Centre, curated by Tony Hayward
2010 Flaming July, Leighton House Museum
2010 Strangeness and Charm, Fieldgate Gallery at The Last Tuesday Society
2009 Is there anybody there? WilsonWilliams Gallery, London

2009 The Apartment, curated by Paul Buck
2009 Merriscourt, curated by Flora Fairbairn
2008 Super Cilia, Royal Liver Building, Liverpool
2008 Lucifers Greatest War, FRED Gallery, Leibzig
2008 Gothic, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2007 Zoo Art Fair 05/06/07, Royal Academy of Art, T1+2 Art Space
2007 Anticipation, One One One Gallery, Flora Fairbairn Projects 
2007 ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space, London
2005 Go-Between, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
2005 Sesiones Animadas, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
2004 Mementoes and Other Curiosities, London
2003 Kunstwerke, Berlin, Animations
2002 Liverpool Biennial, PoT
2001 Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
2001 New Labour, Saatchi Gallery, London

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​Thanks to Paper Round ‘London’s leading recycling specialist’ for their help with this project

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Part of Photomonth 2011 ​


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