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Declan Rooney.
Born Ireland 1977.
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany 2002-2005
University College Dublin, Ireland 1999-2000
Academie Minerva, Groningen, Holland 1997 (Erasmus)
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland 1994-1998
Selected Awards and Residencies
Culture Ireland Exhibition Grant Award 2010
M.A.I. West Residency, San Francisco U.S.A. 2010
Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2009
Watermill Residency, The Watermill Center, Long Island N.Y. U.S.A. 2009
Artspace Residency, Sydney Australia 2008
Culture Ireland Exhibition Grant Award 2008
CCA Kitakyushu Research Program, Japan 2006-2007
Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2006
Liverpool Biennale Artist in Residence, Blue Coat Arts Centre, Liverpool U.K. 2004
Professional Development and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2003
Artists Award. Carlow County Council 2003
Artists Award. Carlow County Council 2001
Art Flight, Arts Council of Ireland (New York) 2000
Travel Award, Arts Council of Ireland (China) 1999
Selected Exhibitions
2010
exist-ence, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
Brisbane Australia (New Spastiks)
Words, Fourboxes Gallery Krabbesholm, Skive Denmark
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, D2D, Toronto Canada
No Strings Attached, Open Works Institute, Bucharest Romania
Sonic Vigil V, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral Cork Ireland (New Spastiks)
Taken As Given. Works From The Balcony Project Space, Bucharest Romania
Members Finest, Platoon, Berlin Germany (New Spastiks)
Happenings And Nonevents, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland (Solo)
The Four Seasons, 4 x 4 The Non-aligned, Trouble, Les Halles Brussels Belgium
2009
Big In Japan, Arcus Studio. Moriya, Japan
Words, Am Nuden Da, London U.K.
Khalid Mezaina, & Declan Rooney, Ductac, Dubai UAE
Young And Innocent, Accumulator, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow, Ireland
Escape Route Homecoming Hanging On It's A Long Road, Hotch Potch, MKII, London U.K.
Eyes Without A Face, NEW isLAND FESTIVAL, Governors Island, NYC U.S.A. 2009 (H*E*R*D)
Stuart Coughlan & Declan Rooney, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh Cork Ireland
Four On The Floor, Die Orbitale, Kunsthalle Fridericanum, Kassel Germany (New Spastiks)
Dive For Five, Platoon, Berlin Germany (New Spastiks)
Revolution No.1 / X You / The Parting Glass Part II and /or Revenge of The Fallen, Kiosk 24, Herford Germany (Solo)
Total Eclipse (Of The Heart), The Watermill Center, New York U.S.A. (H*E*R*D)
Free! Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center CUNY New York U.S.A. (H*E*R*D)
Happy Hour, Kate Werble Gallery, New York U.S.A.
Kunstmanufaktur (Nr.1) Georges and I, Berlin Germany (New Spastiks)
The Stupid Generation, Kunstprojects Berlin Germany
Casa Cadett Stereo Villa Vaudeville Hannover Germany (H*E*R*D)
2008
Broken English and The Missing Piece, Film & Video Festival, Gothenborg Sweden (H*E*R*D)
Many Shades of Black, MOP, Sydney, Australia
How Could You Be Angry While Grooming A Dog? Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt Germany
Alba Art Show, Palazzetto Mostre e Congressi Alba, Italy
Yesterday Once More, Mooheoga, Seoul, Korea (with Eunhye Hwang)
2007
Troops of Quiet Love and Disaster, Marienborg Kunst, Trondheim, Norway
Private Property, The Residence Gallery, London U.K.
I’d Run Right Into Hell and Back, Hotel Ballymun, Thomas Clark Tower, Dublin Ireland (H*E*R*D)
Shoebox, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna, Austria
Tales Upon The Whispering River, CCA Open Sudios, Kitakyushu Japan
There’s Surf, There’s Sand, Bakery Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Holland (Solo)
2006
Playtime, Kandada Tokyo Japan
Yahata Biennale –We Will Rip Your Heart Out, Fukuoka Japan
Bend it like Beckett – Sound Works, Audio CD Compilation, ArtTrail Cork Ireland
PI Five Performance & Intermedia Festival, National Museum, Szczecin Poland
Future First, History Last, The Residence Gallery, London UK
OUTVideo International Video Art Festival, Moscow Russia
In rest of the room - Viola Yesiltac, Programm: Künstlerische Inszenierung im Film, Kunstverein Langenhagen Germany
Hysterie, Galerie Dachschiff, Berlin Germany 2006 (New Spastiks)
2005
SantaSatan’s Workshop, The Residence Gallery, London U.K.
Loop Pool, Elektropopklub,Wolfsburg Kunstverein, Germany (New Spastiks)
Alive, Alive, Grad Theatre Budva, Serbia & Montenegro
Brutal Education, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Avignon France
Gifted Generation, Hau Eins, Berlin Germany
Egon Scheile – Love and Death, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam The Netherlands
Mona Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit U.S.A.
2004
Cleaning the Mirror, Marta Herford Germany
Retrospective, H.B.K. Braunschweig Germany
Liverpool Biennale, Live Art Programme, Blue Coat Arts Centre, Liverpool U.K.
Loop Performance, PS1, Long Island, New York U.S.A.
Cleaning the House, NMAC, Vejer de La Frontera Spain
Students’ Bodies, Volume! Rome Italy
2003
Jubilee, Perpetuel Gallery, Frankfurt Germany
Three person Show, Perpetuel Gallery, Frankfurt Germany
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Ireland
Student Body, CGAC Museum de Santiago de Compostella Spain
US Live, Fifth Gallery, Dublin Ireland
Performance Loop, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel Germany
Recycling the Future, Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
As Soon as Possible, PAC Milan, Italy
1999-2002
Crawford Open 3, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Ireland 2002
Intermedia 2002, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Crawford Open 1, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Ireland 2001
Heaven on Earth, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2001
Typhoon York / Filipino Bag, Parkside Pacific Place, Hong Kong China 1999
Intermedia ’99, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 1999 (ADF)
Seed, Arthouse, Dublin Ireland 1999
PMT: Where’s My Brief, Pallas, Dublin Ireland 1999 (ADF )
EV+A 99 reduced, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick Ireland 1999 (ADF )
Ahenny Quarry Festival, Tipperary, Ireland 1999 (with Frances Mezetti & Sandra Johnson)
Radar, Cobalt, Dublin Ireland 1999
Curator ‘KP Poetry Journal Volume One’ Curator and Editor, Kunstprojects Berlin 2009
Curator ‘Blytt & Rooney Curate Something Nice’, Kunstprojects Berlin 2009 (co-curated with Are Blytt)
Curator ‘The Stupid Generation’ Kunstprojects, Berlin Germany 2009 (co-curated with Eunhye Hwang)
Curator ‘How Could You Be Angry While Grooming A Dog?’,Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt Germany, 2008
Curator ‘who is your friends? / the soap operas’ Soap Gallery, Kokura Japan 2007
(co-curated with Edvinc Larssen)
Director of I.P.G. (Independent Performance Group), Amsterdam and New York 2004-2007
Founder and Director of 'Kunst Projects', 2007
Personal Assistant / Studio Manager for Marina Abramovic, Amsterdam Holland / New York U.S.A. 2004 - 2006
Visiting Lecturer, Kunstakademiet NTNU Trondheim Norway 2007
Project Manager, Dubai Arts Centre, Dubai U.A.E. 2007
Curator ‘Yahata Biennale 06 – We’ll Rip Your Heart Out’, Fukuoka Japan 2006
(co-curated with Einar Hansen and Edvine Larssen)
Assistant Director, ‘The Biography Remix’, Palladium Theater, Rome Italy & Festival D’Avignon Avignon France 2004
Co-Editor, ‘The Biography of Biographies’, Edizioni Charta, Milano Italy 2004
Curator ‘Flix@Rubicon’ Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2003
Curator ‘happy accidents’ Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Curator and Editor ‘Spine’ Intermedia Zine, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Curator ‘Bang Bang Bang’ Video Art Program, ‘Intermedia’ Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002 Visual Arts Co-ordinator, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Project Co-ordinator of 'Cast Together in C', a public art commission and exhibition by Susan Philipsz as part of Cork Mid-Summer Festival, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Intermedia Co-ordinator, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork Ireland 2002
Registrar / Exhibitions Assistant, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2001 - 2002
Research Assistant: Curatorial Dept & Library Assistant, Cataloguing Department. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland 1997
Research Assistant: Curatorial Dept & Library Assistant, Cataloguing Department. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland (June-Sept) 1997
Selected Bibliography
The Futility of Making Salad, Material Press / Insert Press, Los Angeles USA
Horan Edel, Happenings and Nonevents, Paper Visual Art Journal
Coogan Amanda, VISUAL Catalogue, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow 2010 p72-73
Coogan Amanda, VAI Newsletter, March /April 2010 p33
El Rawas Mohammed, 'Mezaina-Rooney' Time Out Dubai October 2009
Ralf Bittner, ‘Revolution hinter Glas’ Neue Westflische June 16th 2009 p 32
Hartmut Horstmann ‘Bewegendes hinter Glas’ Herforder Zeitung June 13/14 2009 p 30
‘Many Shades of Black’ MOP Projects, Sydney 2008 p 7-8
‘Alba Art Fair’ Alba Italy 2008 p 20-23
‘Cleaning The House’ NMAC, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain 2007 p 62
‘Tales Upon The Whispering River’, CCA Kitakyushu Japan 2007
Stuart Coughlan, We Discussed Each Night What Would Be Dreamed, EditPlus 2007
Danny McCarthy, (Ed.) Soundworks; For Those Who Have Ears’ Art Trail, 2005 p 23
James Westcott, ’The Independent Performance Group’ art.es magazine, August #10 2005
James Westcott, ’Bodies Moving’, NY ARTS Online Magazine June 2005
Marina Abramovic, ’Student Body’, Charta, Milan, 2003 pgs 30-31, 330-340
Martina Corgnati, La Classe di Marina’, La Republica, Milano, 6 Giugno, 2003
Swantje Kaulfers’ As soon as possible’ Ein und Alle-das Fridericianum Magazin, 2003 p 14-15
Peter Murray, ’The Crawford Open 1-4’, Gandon, Cork, 2003, p 130 & 267
Paul M.O’Reilly, ’EV+A 99 reduced’, Gandon, Cork, 1999 p 56-57
Suzy O’Mullane, ‘Crawford Open 3’, Circa, No.103, Spring 2003, p 78-79
Hugh Farrelly, ‘The Art of Bluff’, Irish Examiner, 24/01/03 p 15
Mark Ewart, ’Sound Art Focus’, The Irish Times 04/06/1999 p 12
Rooney studied Sculpture at the National College of Art in Dublin, and Performance Art / Raum Konzept at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, Germany. He works in various mediums including installation, video and live performance. He has exhibited at the Butler Gallery Kilkenny, the Fridericianum Kassel, PAC Milan, PS1 MOMA New York and at the Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam. Rooney has participated in residencies at the Bluecoat Arts Centre as part of the Liverpool Biennale in 2004 and at CCA Kitakyushu in Japan. He also works as a project manager and curator on such projects as ‘Intermedia’ at Triskel in Cork, ‘who is your friends? / the soap operas’ exhibition at Soap Gallery in Kokura Japan and ‘How Could You Be Angry While Grooming A Dog?’ at Galerie Perpetuel in Frankfurt. Rooney currently runs Berlin based ‘kunstprojects’ and is a former Director of the ‘IPG’ (Independent Performance Group). Rooney is also a member of the performance groups N.S. (The New Spastiks) and the band pks.