VICTORIA AHRENS

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  • Another Land, Kingston Museum (2019)

    ___________________________________Another Land is an exhibition and events programme showcasing experimental visualisations of place in art and design research. Bringing together practitioners from across Kingston University, the Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London, contemporary works and events have been integrated into Kingston Museum, engaging with themes of past and present, real and…

  • Biennale de l’Image Tangible, bit.20 Paris 2018 – Julio Gallery Space

    ______________________-Biennale de L’image tangible 17 November-8 December REVIEW of the show: http://www.lecorridordelart.com/2018/11/laure-tiberghien-et-victoria-ahrens-la-photographie-comme-image-tangible.html Alti/plano (2018-2019) Photographic transfers, screen prints and wooden painted stands, 170 cm x 150 cm (h) bit20.paris READ more about it in this article http://spaceinprogress.com/works/save-the-date-samedi-13-octobre-2018-17h-2/ Working with Julio Space in the 20th arrondisement in Paris, in a two person show for the Biennale…

  • Peckham Festival:Good Studios presents II

    Working with Joanna Brinton to put theshow together at Good Studios in the BusseyBuilding in Peckham. Also offering print workshops, as part of Peckham Festival alongside Peckham 24 Photography shows.

  • Encuentros, Observatory and University of Cantabria, Santander September 1-10th 2018

    Two person show in the circular gallery under the Observatory in Santander.  Encounters of print in space between Altea Grau Vidal and Victoria Ahrens, as part of Impact 10, University of Cantabria, UWE and local partners.      

  • Tierras áridas, La Nau Cultural Centre, Valencia, and Museo de Bellas Artes, Jaen SPAIN 2018-2019

      Resistant Grounds (2019)- Collaborative printed book: Victoria Ahrens, Altea Grau, Victoria Arney, Jo Love, Sumi Perera (60 cm x 30 cm) including lithography, photo etching, relief and embossed print, etching and screen printed pages Designed and crafted by Victoria Ahrens and Altea Grau Tierras Aridas// Arid Lands Collective publication project Curator: Antonio Damian/ Antonio…

  • Contemporary Printmaking in the UK, Chelsea Triangle Space, Taiwan and Madrid 2018

    Catalogue, A New Vision of Printmaking (2018), written in English, Spanish and Chinese   Ice Ice baby (2018) Projected video, reversed ice crack (Perito Moreno)    

  • Horizonte (after Hito) (2018)

      Horizonte (After Hito) (2018) Photo etchings on fabriano rosaspina paper,  shelf 80 cm x  30 cm (h)    

  • Athens School of Fine Art – Wonderer

    Wonderer aims to establish connections between the U.K and Greece and considers how different cultural, philosophical and historical interpretations of our solar system can be re-imagined from a contemporary art platform. Wonderer will also house 30 works that were successful in our Stars open call. These works, each of stars, have been selected by Fronteer…

  • Printmaking Today, In conversation (Dec 2017)

  • Ar(t)chaeology Project (ongoing)

    https://www.artchaeologyproject.com/ Self Portrait (archaeologist) 2017,  Negative of analogue positive, blue tone C-Type Print, 110 cm x 250 cm- work in progress

  • Artificial Things, ARB Cambridge

    This piece, Allá, is a press transferred photographic print of a double exposure on Japanese paper that explores the nature of landscapes as an artificial construct. It forms part of Victoria’s continued research into the experience of place as a fictional and narrative encounter. Using historic and contemporary alternative photographic processes she looks to hand…

  • LAPC, Ugly Duck, Alternative Photography exhibition and Royal Academy Summer Show

      Lightness of Being is a photo etching created from combining an analogue silver print positive with a digital photograph, which was then exposed and developed onto a metal plate in the landscape itself. Working in situ meant allowing entropic traces to become imbued on the surface of the plate, to mark my encounter with…

  • Burning with Pleasure #3, Photofusion and Seen Fifteen Gallery (September)

    ___________________________________________BURNING WITH PLEASURE #3 Artists’ Books Exhibition Exhibition Dates 1 – 16 September 2017 | Photofusion 8 – 30 September 2017 | Seen FifteenLaunch Party 8 September 2017 | 18:30 onwards | Seen Fifteen   From September 1-16, Photofusion will be co-hosting the third annual Burning With Pleasure. Curated by Archipelago, this is an exhibition…

  • Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk 9 Sept-14 October

    Selected from the RA Summer Show by Norman Ackroyd who has invited me to participate in this show at the Zillah Bell Gallery in Thirsk, Yorkshire from the 9 September to the 14th October 2017.

  • anthropo(BS)cene: when the cock crows three times (2017)

    C-type print of Larsen ice shelf crack, 90 gsm paper Part of the exhibition Le Coq Artiste, at Q Park, 38-42 Whitcomb street, London Weather Vain (2017) Film still, video projection 5 mins looped, car park wall THE WEATHER VAIN PROJECT Climate change denial is on the rise and with Donald Trump’s administration made up…

  • Auratic translations

      Part of my PHD show at the Peltz Gallery, Birbkeck School of Art. Deconstructing the disappearing landscape and reshaping it. Installation views of some of the iterations of my thesis on the translation of forms from analogue to digital. For a read through my thoughts here is the abstract: ABSTRACT _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This research is…

  • Absorb, Peltz Gallery

    Frontier (2016) C-type print of press transferred positive on Hahnemule paper 210 cm x 108 cm What lies beneath (2016) C-type print on Hahnemule paper 210 cm x 108 cm Part of the auratic translations of images from the 1930s on the river in Argentina, these photographic renditions (large scale) emphasize the troughs and fissures…

  • Arte Laguna Prize,Venice

  • Contemporary Printmaking, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

    Jian Zhou curated the show at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou as part of Impact 9 Printmaking Conference 2015. The show is now open at Times Art Museum, Beijing and will be touring to Changsha and Shanghai later in the year. My piece, ‘They were Hanging There’ (2015) above is now part of…

  • River Dialogues, Wells

    Sculptural photographic pieces, currently being shown at WAC, Somerset 4 x triangles with C-type prints, fragments of the same view, layered one in front of the other, with pieces missing, they allude to the difficulties of remembering and our multiple responses and encounters with the landscape.

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