Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™ at Benalla Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery will present Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™, a presentation of the artist’s recent video works, Radical Acts (2020) and the titular New Futures™ (2021).
Rendered from generic, commercial stock footage, Kosloff’s work elicits acerbic criticism from dystopian, unsettling stories that invoke the mundanity of corporate-led late-capitalist societies. Often entwining darkly humorous themes with uncanny yet fathomable storylines, Kosloff manipulates and edits stock footage to constantly shift narratives, presenting alternative and speculative futures unshackled from the authorial presence of the artist. These works in turn often attend to matters of moral corruption, political apathy, tensions between socio-cultural values and representation in the public realm.
Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™ is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography, a major biennial of new photography and ideas taking place from 1–24 March in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™ Benalla Art Gallery 23 February – 28 April 2024
Laresa Kosloff and Rosslynd Piggott in ‘nightshifts’ at Buxton Contemporary
Works by Laresa Kosloff and Rosslynd Piggott feature in the group exhibition nightshifts at Buxton Contemporary. Highlighting artists whose practice attends to solitude and isolation through manifold permutations, nightshifts gathers works which span a range of histories, narratives and media.
Presenting work from the Michael Buxton and the University of Melbourne Collections alongside recent commissions, the exhibition carefully ruminates the importance of solitude as a condition of divergence for contemporary artists who are working at a time of emphasised collaborative practice.
nightshifts Buxton Contemporary 26 May–29 October 2023
Laresa Kosloff’s film trilogy La Perruque (2019), Radical Acts (2020) and New Futures™ (2021) is currently on view at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. These fables explicitly tell tales of resistance, while implicitly questioning representation in the public realm.
In La Perruque (2019), an errant office worker writes a novel while at work, imagining his co-workers to be characters in his fantastical narrative. In Radical Acts (2020), climate scientists clandestinely distribute a pathogen that renders corporate workers less productive and more susceptible to non-profit motivations. In New Futures™ (2021), a war is waged between industrious, hyper-charismatic ‘synthetic’ personalities tailored for commercial success and disgruntled hackers nostalgic for an apathetic past.
Capital Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 09 September–16 December 2023
Laresa Kosloff awarded the 2023 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff, who has been awarded the 2023 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA) with her work New Futures™. This Prize is awarded every two years and is open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia.
New Futures™ is one of a trilogy of short films by Kosloff which are part sci-fi, tragedy and farce, reviews of the socio-political conditions and environmental consequences of late-stage capitalism. It is both a timely and sensitive representation of Laresa’s work.
New Futures™ is now on view at Montsalvat until 11 June 2023. The complete stock footage trilogy is on view as part of the ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia until 20 August 2023.
Titled after a term used in landscape architecture describing an improvised route or path made in defiance of an official roadway or designated direction, Desire Lines suggest a covert journey through the City of Melbourne’s collection of over eight thousand objects and artworks. In Lynch’s exhibition, the lived life of the city is far from a rational approach, rather it celebrates curious encounters and beguiling coincidences, from a forgotten handprint in Melbourne’s walk of fame, signage removed from unknown buildings in the city, and a seemingly-damaged architectural model.
Desire Lines Wednesday 15 March – Wednesday 26 July 2023
Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career, senior practitioners, and collectives.
*Jon Campbell is represented by Darren Knight Gallery
Laressa Kosloff work ‘New Futures’ features in the exhibition ‘Who Can Think What Can Think’ curated by Bruce E. Phillips at Te Tuhi Contemporary in Aotearoa, New Zealand until 7 May 2023.
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‘Who can think, what can think’ is an exhibition that challenges definitions of ‘intelligence’ in relation to human and non-human cognition by embracing understanding of biodiversity and neurodiversity. To question ‘who and what can think’ requires us to confront the troubling history of categorising intelligence that has led to certain groups of people being excluded, controlled and killed, while plants, animals and whole ecosystems are exploited and destroyed. Despite this history, those who worked to understand and value cognitive diversity in all its forms began to influence positive social change.
Laresa Kosloff, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff, who has been announced as a finalist in the 2023 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA). This Prize is awarded every two years and is open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia.
In 2023, the NPCA prize winners will be selected by an independent judging panel including, Hannah Presley, Melissa Keys, and Jason Smith at Montsalvat on 21 April.
George Egerton-Warburton / Laresa Kosloff announced in Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff and George Egerton-Warburton, who have been announced in the first round of Melbourne Now‘s participating artists. Melbourne Now will highlight the work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios, and firms whose practices are shaping the cultural landscape of Victoria. The exhibition will be presented at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from March 2023.
Image: George Egerton-Warburton, ‘Gut fugitive’, 2022, Mixed media, 192 x 180 x 190cm
Laresa Kosloff is a finalist in the 67th Blake Prize. The Blake Prize is a biennial event that engages local and international contemporary artists in conversations on the broader experience of spirituality, religion, and belief.
The selected finalists will show their work at The 67th Blake Prize exhibition on 12 March – 22 May 2022.
‘Who’s Afraid of Public Space?’ is a major new project taking place at ACCA and extending across Melbourne through a series of satellite exhibitions and programs in the public realm from 4 December 2021 – 20 March 2022, featuring artists Laresa Kosloff and John Meade.
‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’ by Anne Marsh
Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups including Catherine Bell, Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Sara Hughes, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Lindy Lee, Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Jane Trengove, with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally.
Laresa Kosloff and Nicholas Mangan at Buxton Contemporary
New work by Nicholas Mangan and Laresa Kosloff is on view at Buxton Contemporary as part of This brittle light until 20 June. Curated by Melissa Keys, the exhibition comprises a series of works made during the past 12 months of pandemic disruption under the title ‘Light source commissions’.
Laresa Kosloff for Buxton Contemporary Light Source Commission, The University of Melbourne
Radical Acts is a darkly humorous and critical short film by Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff assembled and edited entirely from corporate video stock footage sourced on the internet.
Light Source is a new series of commissions that form part of Buxton Contemporary’s expanded digital artistic program.
Laresa Kosloff in Shadow Series at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Laresa Kosloff’s video work La Perruque, 2018 will be shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the forthcoming exhibition Shadow Series. The exhibition investigates the way shadows, body doubles and mirrors haunt our understanding of photography and the moving image. Kosloff’s work will be screened on 22 April.
A new video work by Laresa Kosloff will be on view as part of this ambitious public art project in which a bus tour will stop off at six newly commissioned artworks responding to local stories.
Six Moments in Kingston City of Kingston 18, 19, 25 & 26 May, 2019
Laresa Kosloff has been awarded the prestigious $20,000 Guirguis New Art Prize for her work La Perruque. An exhibition of finalists’ works continues at Art Gallery of Ballarat and Federation University’s Post Office Gallery until 2 June, 2019.
