2011   Artists   Olivia Plender

OLIVIA PLENDER

TITLE: Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams

Born: 1977, London

Lives/Works: Berlin

Masonic Hall, Grace Hill, CT20 IHA
Plender’s installation explores vestiges of mysticism, spiritualism and colonialism in Folkestone. The artist worked with local amateur actors as well as a professional actress for
her two films, which are screened daily in the Masonic Hall’s Great Lodge, a site normally restricted to members only. An installation of related objects as well as a specially produced
graphic novel (available at the Visitor Centre, price £1) accompany the installation. Films approx 15 mins each.

Interview with Olivia Plender
Olivia Plender Interview by FT2011 Audio

Interview with Mike Lawrence from the Masonic Hall
Mike Lawrence Interview (Masonic Hall) by FT2011 Audio

Recent solo exhibitions:

‘Aadieu, Adieu Apa (Goodbye, Goodbye Father)’, Gasworks Gallery, London (2009)

‘Monitor’, Art in General, New York (2008)

‘Information, Education, Entertainment’, Maraboupark Annex, Stockholm (2007)

‘The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Turned Upside Down’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2006)

‘The Medium and Daybreak’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2005)

Recent group exhibitions:

‘No Man’s Land?/Tierra de Nadie’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain (2011)

British Art Show, Hayward Touring, various venues (2011)

Taipei Biennial (2010)

Bucharest Biennial (2010)

‘There is No Alternative’, Konsthall C and Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm (2010)

‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial’, Tate Britain, London (2009)

‘The Greenroom:  Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art’, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York (2008)

Awards:

Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts (2006)