Month: October 2008

Drama Queens by Elmgreen and Dragset –


The Old Vic and Victoria Miro are delighted to announce the cast for Drama Queens by Elmgreen and Dragset –
Jeremy Irons as Walking Man by Alberto Giacometti (1947)
Lesley Manville as Elegy III by Barbara Hepworth (1966)
Kevin Spacey as Rabbit by Jeff Koons (1986)
Joseph Fiennes as Four Cubes by Sol Lewitt (1971)
Alex Jennings as Untitled (Granite) by Ulrich Rückriem (1984)
The Old Vic is collaborating with leading international artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset to stage a new production of their acclaimed work, Drama Queens (text by Tim Etchells) for this special gala night in aid of the Old Vic Theatre.
There is extremely limited availability for both VIP and box office tickets.
VIP Gala Tickets £250
Include a signed limited edition print by Elmgreen & Dragsest, pre-show drinks reception and post show supper-party for cast and artists hosted by Kevin Spacey and Victoria Miro.
VIP Tickets please click here or call 44 (0) 20 7902 7590
Box Office Tickets 44 (0) 20 8544 7401
Drama Queens features six famous sculptures as its protagonists. As ‘personalities’ the sculptures assume characteristics from the cultural zeitgeist in which they were produced. Remotely controlled, the sculptures ‘perform’ to a seated audience, thereby reversing the typical roles of how an audience engages with art in galleries, as well as traditional concepts of theatre. The specially cast group of actors, will voice the sculptures, which will be performed live for the first time.
All proceeds from this event will go to The Old Vic Theatre Trust Creative Development Programme, including a special new initiative to bring visual artists and theatre practioners together.

Victoria Miro

Carrie Schneider @ mmg


After a year-long Fulbright Fellowship to the prestigious Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Carrie Schneider returns to Chicago with a body of new work for her first solo exhibition with moniquemeloche gallery. Schneider sets up impossible scenarios that pit a character (usually herself) against some force of nature. Through a complex web of personal mythologies, Schneider throws herself into fantasies of escape and concealment, creating uneasy resonances with simple juxtapositions. The result is a series of large-scale photographs and two 16mm films that continue to heighten the familiar to a level of precarious strangeness

Carrie Schneider (born Chicago, 1979 lives Chicago) earned her MFA (2007) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2001). Schneider attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007, and has just returned from a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship to the Kuvataideakatemia Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Her work has recently been acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. In the past year her work has been included in a number of group exhibitions including The Ties That Bind: Spencer Murphy & Carrie Schneider at Gallery 44, Toronto and Tense Territories at Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey curated by Aura Seikkula. In January 2009 she will open a solo exhibition at The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.

Monique Meloche