Magali Reus starts from existing objects from everyday life. Her interventions can be seen as "rewriting" what is materially possible for an object. Reus uses our emotional and physical connection with objects to allow us to pause, to think and to become more aware of the material environment in which we find ourselves.
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Magali Reus was born in Den Haag, The Netherlands in 1981, and currently lives and works in London. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, BE (all 2022) and CAC Synagogue de Delme, FR (2023). Recent solo shows include As mist, description, South London Gallery, London (2018); Hot Cottons, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2017); Night Plants, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (2017); Mustard, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Quarters, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2016); Spring for a Ground, SculptureCenter, New York; Particle of Inch, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield; Halted Paves, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (all 2015). Reus has been included in group exhibitions and screenings at Tate Britain, London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; ICA, London; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, LUMA Westbau, Zürich; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, De Appel, Amsterdam and the British Art Show 8 (touring).
Reus has been shortlisted for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, and was awarded the Prix de Rome 2015. Her work is included in international collections including Tate Collection, UK; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Collection CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Lafayette Anticipation — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; New York David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Zabludowicz Collection, London, Sarvisalo, New York; The Perimeter, London; Arts Council Collection, UK; The Government Art Collection, London; Hepworth Wakefield Collection, UK. Reus’s work is featured in three monographs, printed with Sternberg Press (2018), JRP Ringier (2017) and Mousse Publishing (2016).
Reus has been shortlisted for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, and was awarded the Prix de Rome 2015. Her work is included in international collections including Tate Collection, UK; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Collection CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Lafayette Anticipation — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; New York David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Zabludowicz Collection, London, Sarvisalo, New York; The Perimeter, London; Arts Council Collection, UK; The Government Art Collection, London; Hepworth Wakefield Collection, UK. Reus’s work is featured in three monographs, printed with Sternberg Press (2018), JRP Ringier (2017) and Mousse Publishing (2016).
CV
Magali Reus was born in Den Haag, The Netherlands in 1981, and currently lives and works in London.
Education
2013-2014 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2006-2008 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
2002-2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
2001-2002 Foundation Art and Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Solo exhibitions
2023
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (forthcoming)
CAC Synagogue de Delme, FR (forthcoming)
2022
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, BE (forthcoming)
The Approach, London, UK (forthcoming)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (forthcoming)
Shadow Tonics, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Pale Planets, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, PT
Earth Stretched at Noon, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Stem Systems, OVR The Approach, London, UK
2019
Private Road, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, USA
2018
As mist, description, South London Gallery, UK
2017
Hot Cottons, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
Night Plants, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
2016
Mustard, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Quarters, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2015
Halted Paves, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Particle of Inch, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Spring for a Ground, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
2014
Dinosaurs, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
In Lukes and Dregs, The Approach, London, UK
2013
Highly Liquid, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Out of Empty, Albert Baronian, Room, Brussels, BE
2012
Hands Down, Unsolo project room (1/9unosunove), Milan, IT
2011
ON, The Approach, London, UK
2010
Weekend, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Background, IBID Projects, London, UK
2009
Background, La Salle de bains, Lyon, FR
Some Surplus, Plan B Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2008
The Angle Between Two Walls, MOT International, London, UK (with Brock Enright)
2006
A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibitions
2022
FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, USA (forthcoming)
Ecosystems of Relations, Super Dakota, BE
2021
After Daan van Golden, Part Projects, Den Haag, NL
Before the Cockerel Crows, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Something About Us, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Moment. Monument, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2020
Melancholy of the Future, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, BE
City Pollen, The World as Lover, The World as Self, Shimmer, Rotterdam, NL
This margin will be your vantage point, In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc, Romainville, FR
Shorelines, Ordet (online), Milan, IT
2019
who knows one (curated by Haim Steinbach), Vistamare, Pescara, IT
The Extended Mind: Walk, Hands, Eyes, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
How We Live: Selections from the Marc & Livia Straus Family Collection, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, USA
La Stanza Analoga, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo at the Palazzo Biscari, Catania, IT
Material Encounters, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Delirious, Lustwarande at Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, NL
Hybrid Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Familiar Machines, Backlit, Nottingham, UK
2018
Even if it’s Jazz or the Quiet Storm, NEST, Den Haag, NL
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
True Luxury… Art Acquisitions 2012-2018, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
The Everyday and Extraordinary, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Towner art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
The 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, cur. by Gunnar B. Kvaran and Danielle Kvaran), Cultural Centre of Belgrade, CS
DRAF + MOSTYN: She sees the shadows, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK
Smooth Transitions, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
6C7N1H8O16S, The Island Club, Limassol, CY
Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, DE
Group exhibition, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
2017
20 Years, The Approach, London, UK
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, AU
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS Gallery, AU
Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Disobedient Bodies, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
2016
Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard, New York, NY, USA
The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, AT
Condo, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2015-2017
British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
2015
NATIONAL GALLERY II: EMPIRE, Chewdays, London, UK
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Prix de Rome 2015, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, NL
Objects, Food, Rooms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
I am here but you’ve gone, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Hybridize or Disappear, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, PT
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
Fit for Purpose, Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
2014
Monumental Fatigue, Freymond Guth, Zurich, CH
Bill Bollinger, John Divola, Magali Reus, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London, UK
Theatre Objects, ETH Zürich and LUMA Foundation, Zürich, CH
Till youth and genial years are flown, ZERO, Milan, IT
Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
To Meggy Weiss Lo Surdo, Happy Hours, CO2, Torino, IT
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL
Pool, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
Post / Postminimal. The Rolf Ricke Collection in Dialogue with Contemporary Artists, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
2013
Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Silent Hardware, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Shadows of a Doubt, Tallinn Photomonth 2013, Tallin, EE
SLIP, The Approach, London, UK
Notes (on declassing), curated by Vincent Honoré, Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
Heavy duty, silent haze, racing hearts, Freymond Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
Material World, NEST, The Hague, NL
Can’t Hear My Eyes, NoguerasBlachard, Barcelona/Madrid, ES
2012
Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
superpositions, New Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Centre, USA
Blackboard, SPACE, London, UK
2011
Rain, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Young London, V22 Collection, London, UK
Rehearsal, Galeri Non, Istanbul, TR
2010
Martijn Hendriks & Magali Reus, Walden Affairs, Den Haag, NL
From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
Fluorescent Adolescent, SCHUNCK, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL
2009
Là-bas’, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, FR
Verité Tropicale, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
2008
Sun Shine Shine, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL
ARTfutures, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
Bass Diffusion Mode, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Rochav Aorech (Width Length), Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Collections
Arts Council Collection, UK
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, FR
Government Art Collection, UK
The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK
Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Lafayette Anticipation — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris, FR
Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Rubell Family Collection, MiamiThe Perimeter, London, UK
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Tate Collection, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Sarvisalo, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
2020
Leij, Machteld, Vrachtwagenesthetiek – Magali Reus in Shimmer, Metropolis M, 13 Nov.
Reus, Magali et. al, Platform 2, Metropolis M, n. 6, Oct 2020.
Basciano, Oliver, Magali Reus Objets d’affection/Affective Objects, TL Magazine,
2019
Magali Reus: Portfolio, Electra Magazine, Fundacao EDP, Lisbon, PT.
Hamilton, Dana, Magali Reus’s Crisp, Tidy Beauty, Frieze, (online), 5 June.
White, Katie, 5 Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough Whose Work You Can See This May, Artnet, (online), 13 May.
2018
Mclaughlin, Rosanna, Magali Reus: The Everyday, Stranger , ArtReview, December 2018.
Judah, Hettie, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 Bristles with Lovers’ Locks, Glass Flutes and a World Aflame, Frieze, (Online), 30 October.
Searle, Adrian, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic, The Guardian, 26 October.
40 under 40, Apollo Magazine, September.
Smith, Laura, Magali Reus: As Mist, Description at South London Gallery, ArtReview, May.
Smyth, Cherry, Magali Reus: As Mist, Description, Art Monthly, nr. 416, May.
Turner, Matthew, Bodies Rest and Motion: Magali Reus at South London Gallery, The Quietus, May.
Bennet, Alex, Magali Reus / South London Gallery, Flash Art (Online), 11 April.
Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhin, Magali Reus: Bergen Kunsthall, Artforum, Vol 56., no 7, March.
Dziautaite, Modesta, Magali Reus, Interview, March.
Fullerton, Elizabeth, Magali Reus’ liberated objects, Art Quarterly, Spring.
2017
Thorne, Harry, Magali Reus: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH, Frieze, issue 189, September.
What it Means to Love Today: Real Review Interviews Magali Reus, Real Review, nr. 4, July.
Magali Reus, Marfa Journal, nr. 7, Spring/Summer.
2016
Elderton, Louisa, New Establishment: Magali Reus, Elephant, nr. 29, Winter 2016-17.
Stroband, David, Het stilstaan van de Tijd. Beeldend werk van Magali Reus, Ons Erfdeel, nr. 4, Nov. Hickey, Andria, Magali Reus in the Studio, Art In America, November.
Leij, Machteld, Supersnel En Langzaam Traag, H ART, nr. 16, 6 October.
Schons, Donna, In Amsterdam verwirrt Magali Reus Mit Bemerkenswerten Skulpturen, Monopol, nr. 9, September.
Koen, Kleijn, Magali Reus, Dream Out Loud, De Groene Amsterdammer, nr. 4, 4 October.
Magali Reus: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Blau Ein Kunstmagazin, September.
Stroband, David, Magali Reus ou le temps figé, Septentrion, nr. 3.
Kruse, Ton, Kruipen en bukken, Magali Reus in het Stedelijk, Metropolis M, nr 5, 1 November.
Staffhorst, Maaike, Kunst met karakter, De Telegraaf, 10 September.
Kleijn Koen, Echt nepvlees, De Groene Amsterdammer, 6 October, p. 51.
Bier, Arielle, Reviews: Magali Reus, Modern Painters, September, p.104.
Ter Borg, Lucette, Hybride objecten met macho-kracht, NRC Handelsblad, 13 September.
Elderton, Louisa, Magali Reus; Michael Dean; Das Institut; Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Burlington Magazine, issue CLVIII, June.
Perlson, Hili, Magali Reus Will Bring You to Your Knees at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, ArtNet News, 21 April.
Reus, Magali, Top Ten: Magali Reus, Artforum, 1 March.
2015
Ekker, Jan Pieter, Prix De Rome voor uitvergrote sloten, De Volkskrant, 15 December.
Wilk, Elvia, Hybridize or Disappear, Frieze, September, p. 175.
Inner Chaos, L’Officiel, December, p. 76-80.
Smyth, Cherry, British Art Show 8, Art Monthly, 1 Nov, p. 25-26.
Chu, Christie, 15 Artists to Watch at Frieze, Artnet News, 15 October.
Hontoria, Javier, Critics’ Picks, Artforum, 11 October.
30 Artists to Watch at Frieze, Artsy, 8 October.
Sumpter, Helen, Magali Reus: Particle of Inch, ArtReview, October, Vol. 67 No. 7, p. 137.
Wright, Karen, In The Studio, The Independent, 11 July.
Chu, Christie, 10 Exceptional Millennial Artists to Watch, Artnet News, 20 May.
Hirst, Christopher, I’m Here But You’ve Gone exhibition smells of pandas, pop starts – and an awful lot of sex, The Independent, 30 April.
Magali Reus and Michael E. Smith at SculptureCenter, Cura.
Katrib, Ruba, Highlights, Kaleidoscope, Issue 23, 52-53.
2014
Withers, Rachel, Magali Reus: The Approach, Artforum, Vol. 52 No. 9, May, pp. 329-330.
Quaintance, Morgan, Magali Reus: In Lukes and Dregs, Art Review, April, Vol. 66 No. 3, p. 104.
Sherlock, Amy, Something in the Water, Frieze, No. 162, April, pp. 98-101.
Coomer, Martin, Critic’s Choice: Magali Reus, Timeout London, 11-17 February, p. 67.
2013
Spotlight Magali Reus: Out of Empty, In conversazione con Nicoletta Lambertucci, Cura Magazine, No. 15, Autumn.
Latimer, Quinn, Nicola Martini, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus, Freymond-Guth Ltd Fine Arts, Artforum, May, p. 342-343.
Archey, Karen, Post-Materiality, Kaleidoscope, Issue 18, p.36-41.
Gratza, Agnieszka, Magali Reus: Minimaal en Menselijk, Metropolis M, April, p.36-39.
2012
Distance and Desire: A Conversation Between Magali Reus and Nicholas Deshayes, Mousse Magazine, Issue 36, December, p. 224-229.
Bier, Arielle, Reviews: Magali Reus, Modern Painters, March, p. 76.
2011
Braat, Manon, Solo: Magali Reus, Kunstbeeld no. 11.
Fite-Wassilak, Chris, Rain, Art Monthly, no. 349, September.
Basciano, Oliver, Rain, ArtReview, September.
Mayhew, Alexander, Minimalisme, Britney Spears en pyromanie, MetropolisM.com, January.
Woods, James, Review: Rain, AN Magazine, September.
2010
Ruyters, Domeniek, MetropolisM.com, July.
Ter Borg, Lucette, Bij Magali Reus blijft alles verstild, NRC Handelsblad, 26 June.
Leij, Machteld, Magali Reus, Kunstbeeld, nr6.
Allsop, Laura, Magali Reus, Frieze, no.130, April, p.120-121.
Milliard, Coline, Magali Reus, Artpress, April, no 366, p.81-82.
2009
Basciano, Oliver, Magali Reus: Background, Art Review, December.
Moulene, Claire, Nouvelle tete, Les Inrockuptibles, numero 732, 9 December.
Trigg, David, Moot, Art Monthly, May.Mister Motley, no21, De Kunstenaar.
2008
Guner, Fisun, Art reviews, Metro, 29 August.
de Wagt, Wim, Spiegel voor verwende apen, Haarlems Dagblad.
2006
de Jongh, Xandra, De illusoire wereld van vruchtensap, de Volkskrant, 21 June.
Publications
2021
Magali Reus, JRP | Editions, CH (forthcoming)
Magali Reus: Park Cities, Koenig Books, DE (forthcoming)
2020
Moment.Monument: Sculpture Today, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, DE
2019
Delirious Lustwarande: Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture III, Lustwarande Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, NL
2018
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
The 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Oktober Salon, CS
Magali Reus: Hot Cottons/As Mist Description, Sternberg Press, Berlin, DE
2017
Magali Reus, First Monograph series, JRP | Ringier, Zurich, CH
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum or Art, Caulfield East, AU
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS, Sydney, AU
I aint the noing UV it im jus onle the showing UV it, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NL
Inside Intensity, Kunsthaus Kleve, Kleve, DE
2016
How Does it Feel?, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
Magali Reus: Spring for a Ground / Particle of Inch / Halted Paves / Quarters, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard, New York, USA
2015
Prix de Rome 2015, nai010 publishers, Rotterdam, NL
British Art Show 8, Hayward Publishing, London, UK
Spring for a Ground, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
'Bodies in Space' in Mass Effect, Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press and the New Museum, New York, USA
2014
Theater Objects, gta Verlag, Zurich, CH
2011
Effects, onestar press, Paris, FR
Surfer, La Salle de bains, Lyon, les presses du réel, FR
2009
Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum, NY, Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, Phaidon
Education
2013-2014 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2006-2008 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
2002-2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
2001-2002 Foundation Art and Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Solo exhibitions
2023
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (forthcoming)
CAC Synagogue de Delme, FR (forthcoming)
2022
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, BE (forthcoming)
The Approach, London, UK (forthcoming)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (forthcoming)
Shadow Tonics, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Pale Planets, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, PT
Earth Stretched at Noon, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Stem Systems, OVR The Approach, London, UK
2019
Private Road, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, USA
2018
As mist, description, South London Gallery, UK
2017
Hot Cottons, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
Night Plants, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
2016
Mustard, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Quarters, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2015
Halted Paves, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Particle of Inch, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Spring for a Ground, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
2014
Dinosaurs, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
In Lukes and Dregs, The Approach, London, UK
2013
Highly Liquid, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Out of Empty, Albert Baronian, Room, Brussels, BE
2012
Hands Down, Unsolo project room (1/9unosunove), Milan, IT
2011
ON, The Approach, London, UK
2010
Weekend, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Background, IBID Projects, London, UK
2009
Background, La Salle de bains, Lyon, FR
Some Surplus, Plan B Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2008
The Angle Between Two Walls, MOT International, London, UK (with Brock Enright)
2006
A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibitions
2022
FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, USA (forthcoming)
Ecosystems of Relations, Super Dakota, BE
2021
After Daan van Golden, Part Projects, Den Haag, NL
Before the Cockerel Crows, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Something About Us, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Moment. Monument, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2020
Melancholy of the Future, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, BE
City Pollen, The World as Lover, The World as Self, Shimmer, Rotterdam, NL
This margin will be your vantage point, In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc, Romainville, FR
Shorelines, Ordet (online), Milan, IT
2019
who knows one (curated by Haim Steinbach), Vistamare, Pescara, IT
The Extended Mind: Walk, Hands, Eyes, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
How We Live: Selections from the Marc & Livia Straus Family Collection, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, USA
La Stanza Analoga, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo at the Palazzo Biscari, Catania, IT
Material Encounters, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Delirious, Lustwarande at Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, NL
Hybrid Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Familiar Machines, Backlit, Nottingham, UK
2018
Even if it’s Jazz or the Quiet Storm, NEST, Den Haag, NL
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
True Luxury… Art Acquisitions 2012-2018, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
The Everyday and Extraordinary, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Towner art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
The 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, cur. by Gunnar B. Kvaran and Danielle Kvaran), Cultural Centre of Belgrade, CS
DRAF + MOSTYN: She sees the shadows, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK
Smooth Transitions, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
6C7N1H8O16S, The Island Club, Limassol, CY
Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, DE
Group exhibition, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
2017
20 Years, The Approach, London, UK
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, AU
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS Gallery, AU
Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Disobedient Bodies, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
2016
Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard, New York, NY, USA
The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, AT
Condo, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2015-2017
British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
2015
NATIONAL GALLERY II: EMPIRE, Chewdays, London, UK
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Prix de Rome 2015, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, NL
Objects, Food, Rooms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
I am here but you’ve gone, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Hybridize or Disappear, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, PT
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO
Fit for Purpose, Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
2014
Monumental Fatigue, Freymond Guth, Zurich, CH
Bill Bollinger, John Divola, Magali Reus, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London, UK
Theatre Objects, ETH Zürich and LUMA Foundation, Zürich, CH
Till youth and genial years are flown, ZERO, Milan, IT
Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
To Meggy Weiss Lo Surdo, Happy Hours, CO2, Torino, IT
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL
Pool, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
Post / Postminimal. The Rolf Ricke Collection in Dialogue with Contemporary Artists, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
2013
Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Silent Hardware, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Shadows of a Doubt, Tallinn Photomonth 2013, Tallin, EE
SLIP, The Approach, London, UK
Notes (on declassing), curated by Vincent Honoré, Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
Heavy duty, silent haze, racing hearts, Freymond Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
Material World, NEST, The Hague, NL
Can’t Hear My Eyes, NoguerasBlachard, Barcelona/Madrid, ES
2012
Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
superpositions, New Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Centre, USA
Blackboard, SPACE, London, UK
2011
Rain, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Young London, V22 Collection, London, UK
Rehearsal, Galeri Non, Istanbul, TR
2010
Martijn Hendriks & Magali Reus, Walden Affairs, Den Haag, NL
From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
Fluorescent Adolescent, SCHUNCK, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL
2009
Là-bas’, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, FR
Verité Tropicale, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
2008
Sun Shine Shine, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL
ARTfutures, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
Bass Diffusion Mode, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Rochav Aorech (Width Length), Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Collections
Arts Council Collection, UK
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, FR
Government Art Collection, UK
The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK
Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Lafayette Anticipation — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris, FR
Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Rubell Family Collection, MiamiThe Perimeter, London, UK
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Tate Collection, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Sarvisalo, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
2020
Leij, Machteld, Vrachtwagenesthetiek – Magali Reus in Shimmer, Metropolis M, 13 Nov.
Reus, Magali et. al, Platform 2, Metropolis M, n. 6, Oct 2020.
Basciano, Oliver, Magali Reus Objets d’affection/Affective Objects, TL Magazine,
2019
Magali Reus: Portfolio, Electra Magazine, Fundacao EDP, Lisbon, PT.
Hamilton, Dana, Magali Reus’s Crisp, Tidy Beauty, Frieze, (online), 5 June.
White, Katie, 5 Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough Whose Work You Can See This May, Artnet, (online), 13 May.
2018
Mclaughlin, Rosanna, Magali Reus: The Everyday, Stranger , ArtReview, December 2018.
Judah, Hettie, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 Bristles with Lovers’ Locks, Glass Flutes and a World Aflame, Frieze, (Online), 30 October.
Searle, Adrian, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic, The Guardian, 26 October.
40 under 40, Apollo Magazine, September.
Smith, Laura, Magali Reus: As Mist, Description at South London Gallery, ArtReview, May.
Smyth, Cherry, Magali Reus: As Mist, Description, Art Monthly, nr. 416, May.
Turner, Matthew, Bodies Rest and Motion: Magali Reus at South London Gallery, The Quietus, May.
Bennet, Alex, Magali Reus / South London Gallery, Flash Art (Online), 11 April.
Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhin, Magali Reus: Bergen Kunsthall, Artforum, Vol 56., no 7, March.
Dziautaite, Modesta, Magali Reus, Interview, March.
Fullerton, Elizabeth, Magali Reus’ liberated objects, Art Quarterly, Spring.
2017
Thorne, Harry, Magali Reus: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH, Frieze, issue 189, September.
What it Means to Love Today: Real Review Interviews Magali Reus, Real Review, nr. 4, July.
Magali Reus, Marfa Journal, nr. 7, Spring/Summer.
2016
Elderton, Louisa, New Establishment: Magali Reus, Elephant, nr. 29, Winter 2016-17.
Stroband, David, Het stilstaan van de Tijd. Beeldend werk van Magali Reus, Ons Erfdeel, nr. 4, Nov. Hickey, Andria, Magali Reus in the Studio, Art In America, November.
Leij, Machteld, Supersnel En Langzaam Traag, H ART, nr. 16, 6 October.
Schons, Donna, In Amsterdam verwirrt Magali Reus Mit Bemerkenswerten Skulpturen, Monopol, nr. 9, September.
Koen, Kleijn, Magali Reus, Dream Out Loud, De Groene Amsterdammer, nr. 4, 4 October.
Magali Reus: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Blau Ein Kunstmagazin, September.
Stroband, David, Magali Reus ou le temps figé, Septentrion, nr. 3.
Kruse, Ton, Kruipen en bukken, Magali Reus in het Stedelijk, Metropolis M, nr 5, 1 November.
Staffhorst, Maaike, Kunst met karakter, De Telegraaf, 10 September.
Kleijn Koen, Echt nepvlees, De Groene Amsterdammer, 6 October, p. 51.
Bier, Arielle, Reviews: Magali Reus, Modern Painters, September, p.104.
Ter Borg, Lucette, Hybride objecten met macho-kracht, NRC Handelsblad, 13 September.
Elderton, Louisa, Magali Reus; Michael Dean; Das Institut; Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Burlington Magazine, issue CLVIII, June.
Perlson, Hili, Magali Reus Will Bring You to Your Knees at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, ArtNet News, 21 April.
Reus, Magali, Top Ten: Magali Reus, Artforum, 1 March.
2015
Ekker, Jan Pieter, Prix De Rome voor uitvergrote sloten, De Volkskrant, 15 December.
Wilk, Elvia, Hybridize or Disappear, Frieze, September, p. 175.
Inner Chaos, L’Officiel, December, p. 76-80.
Smyth, Cherry, British Art Show 8, Art Monthly, 1 Nov, p. 25-26.
Chu, Christie, 15 Artists to Watch at Frieze, Artnet News, 15 October.
Hontoria, Javier, Critics’ Picks, Artforum, 11 October.
30 Artists to Watch at Frieze, Artsy, 8 October.
Sumpter, Helen, Magali Reus: Particle of Inch, ArtReview, October, Vol. 67 No. 7, p. 137.
Wright, Karen, In The Studio, The Independent, 11 July.
Chu, Christie, 10 Exceptional Millennial Artists to Watch, Artnet News, 20 May.
Hirst, Christopher, I’m Here But You’ve Gone exhibition smells of pandas, pop starts – and an awful lot of sex, The Independent, 30 April.
Magali Reus and Michael E. Smith at SculptureCenter, Cura.
Katrib, Ruba, Highlights, Kaleidoscope, Issue 23, 52-53.
2014
Withers, Rachel, Magali Reus: The Approach, Artforum, Vol. 52 No. 9, May, pp. 329-330.
Quaintance, Morgan, Magali Reus: In Lukes and Dregs, Art Review, April, Vol. 66 No. 3, p. 104.
Sherlock, Amy, Something in the Water, Frieze, No. 162, April, pp. 98-101.
Coomer, Martin, Critic’s Choice: Magali Reus, Timeout London, 11-17 February, p. 67.
2013
Spotlight Magali Reus: Out of Empty, In conversazione con Nicoletta Lambertucci, Cura Magazine, No. 15, Autumn.
Latimer, Quinn, Nicola Martini, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus, Freymond-Guth Ltd Fine Arts, Artforum, May, p. 342-343.
Archey, Karen, Post-Materiality, Kaleidoscope, Issue 18, p.36-41.
Gratza, Agnieszka, Magali Reus: Minimaal en Menselijk, Metropolis M, April, p.36-39.
2012
Distance and Desire: A Conversation Between Magali Reus and Nicholas Deshayes, Mousse Magazine, Issue 36, December, p. 224-229.
Bier, Arielle, Reviews: Magali Reus, Modern Painters, March, p. 76.
2011
Braat, Manon, Solo: Magali Reus, Kunstbeeld no. 11.
Fite-Wassilak, Chris, Rain, Art Monthly, no. 349, September.
Basciano, Oliver, Rain, ArtReview, September.
Mayhew, Alexander, Minimalisme, Britney Spears en pyromanie, MetropolisM.com, January.
Woods, James, Review: Rain, AN Magazine, September.
2010
Ruyters, Domeniek, MetropolisM.com, July.
Ter Borg, Lucette, Bij Magali Reus blijft alles verstild, NRC Handelsblad, 26 June.
Leij, Machteld, Magali Reus, Kunstbeeld, nr6.
Allsop, Laura, Magali Reus, Frieze, no.130, April, p.120-121.
Milliard, Coline, Magali Reus, Artpress, April, no 366, p.81-82.
2009
Basciano, Oliver, Magali Reus: Background, Art Review, December.
Moulene, Claire, Nouvelle tete, Les Inrockuptibles, numero 732, 9 December.
Trigg, David, Moot, Art Monthly, May.Mister Motley, no21, De Kunstenaar.
2008
Guner, Fisun, Art reviews, Metro, 29 August.
de Wagt, Wim, Spiegel voor verwende apen, Haarlems Dagblad.
2006
de Jongh, Xandra, De illusoire wereld van vruchtensap, de Volkskrant, 21 June.
Publications
2021
Magali Reus, JRP | Editions, CH (forthcoming)
Magali Reus: Park Cities, Koenig Books, DE (forthcoming)
2020
Moment.Monument: Sculpture Today, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, DE
2019
Delirious Lustwarande: Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture III, Lustwarande Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, NL
2018
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
The 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Oktober Salon, CS
Magali Reus: Hot Cottons/As Mist Description, Sternberg Press, Berlin, DE
2017
Magali Reus, First Monograph series, JRP | Ringier, Zurich, CH
Future Eaters, Monash University Museum or Art, Caulfield East, AU
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS, Sydney, AU
I aint the noing UV it im jus onle the showing UV it, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NL
Inside Intensity, Kunsthaus Kleve, Kleve, DE
2016
How Does it Feel?, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
Magali Reus: Spring for a Ground / Particle of Inch / Halted Paves / Quarters, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard, New York, USA
2015
Prix de Rome 2015, nai010 publishers, Rotterdam, NL
British Art Show 8, Hayward Publishing, London, UK
Spring for a Ground, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
'Bodies in Space' in Mass Effect, Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press and the New Museum, New York, USA
2014
Theater Objects, gta Verlag, Zurich, CH
2011
Effects, onestar press, Paris, FR
Surfer, La Salle de bains, Lyon, les presses du réel, FR
2009
Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum, NY, Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, Phaidon
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