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Helen Marten is a contemporary British artist working in an interdisciplinary conceptual practice. View Helen Marten’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Dec 6, 2016 · But who is this young artist, born in 1985 in Macclesfield, northern England, who’s achieved the pinnacle of her artistic career just two weeks shy of turning 31? And what’s behind her mighty ...
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Raised in Macclesfield, a working class post-industrial town just south of Manchester, Marten's father was a travelling pharmaceutical developer who encouraged collecting in his children, and her mother a scientist. Marten went to Central St. Martins, Londonin 2004 and then to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford be...
Marten's sprawling but compelling projects delight in evading tidy meaning, being meticulously structured like the syntactical components of a sentence with an apparent logic that then furtively slips away. With fragments that jump from medium to medium, they are poetic, theatrical, visually rich, self-reflexive, convoluted, and maddeningly layered...
Helen Marten has been the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including the Turner Prize (2016), the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture (2016), the LUMA Prize (2012), the Prix Lafayette (2011), and the Boise Travel Scholarship (2009). In 2020, Marten published her debut novel, The Boiled In Between.
Helen Marten has been the subject of both solo and group exhibitions in leading commercial galleries and also institutions. Recent solo exhibitions include Sparrows on the Stone, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2021); 18 Works on Paper, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2020); Fixed Sky Situation, König Galerie, Berlin (2019); Drunk Brown House, Serpentine North Gal...
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Nov 25, 2012 · Helen Marten, an artist still in her 20s, and whose Chisenhale Gallery exhibition has travelled from Zurich en route to the US, has taken tradition, and the English language, off on her own...
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Oct 6, 2020 · Helen Marten, ‘Census’ (detail), 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Annik Wetter. © the artist. König Galerie, Berlin, London & Tokyo. The artist on taking a break from visual work to turn to writing, life changes under lockdown and her favourite audiobooks.
Sep 11, 2021 · Helen Marten on turning language and visual games into art. The British artist wants to wrongfoot visitors to her new show and says awards are ‘dangerous’. Helen Marten, at Sadie Coles HQ,...
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Sculptor and video artist Helen Marten combines disparate imagery and materials to create eclectic, large scale works. Through intricate, assemblage-inspired installations, Marten plays with the notion and history of the readymade.
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