Ben Rivers

♂ *1972 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

We have myth to protect us when history goes mad

Kate Macgarry, London (GB)
6 Mar 2026 – 11 Apr 2026
It's About Time

STUK Arts Centre, Leuven (BE)
11 Oct 2023 – 17 Dec 2023
Urthworks

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)
5 Nov 2021 – 9 Jan 2022
BEN RIVERS

Kate Macgarry, London (GB)
1 Mar 2019 – 30 Mar 2019
ISLANDS

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
23 Apr 2016 – 3 Jul 2016
Ben Rivers

Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
25 Sep 2015 – 29 Nov 2015
Things

Kate Macgarry, London (GB)
19 Sep 2014 – 15 Oct 2014
Slow Action

Matt's Gallery, London (GB)
26 Jan 2011 – 20 Mar 2011
On Overgrown Paths

Impressions Gallery, Bradford (GB)
2 Jul 2010 – 5 Sep 2010
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Kate MacGarry Gallery, London (GB)
12 Mar 2010 – 2 May 2010

Group

Images at Work

Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
3 Feb 2024 – 28 Apr 2024

with Kevin Jerome Everson, Harun Farocki, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Sharon Lockhart, Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumière, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Ben Russell, Andrew Norman Wilson, Rehana Zaman
Travaux en Cours

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
14 Sep 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Noelle Pujol, Ana Vaz
The Video is the Message

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
8 Nov 2018 – 15 Sep 2019

with Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Guenter Brus, Peter Campus, Lenka Clayton, Tracey Emin, Valie Export, Jeanne Faust, Pia Greschner, Johan Grimonprez, Rebecca Horn, Juergen Klauke …
La Rivière m’a dit

Frac Ile-de-France, Paris (FR)
24 Jan 2019 – 14 Apr 2019

with Melanie Bonajo, Rosalind Nashashibi, Ben Russell, Margaret Salmon, Lucy Skaer
EYE Art & Film Prize

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
24 Mar 2018 – 27 May 2018

with WANG Bing, Hito Steyerl
Wilderness

New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall (GB)
2 Feb 2018 – 6 May 2018

with Boyd & Evans, Noemie Goudal, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Richard Long, Hiraki Sawa
Truth: 24 frames per second

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (US)
22 Oct 2017 – 28 Jan 2018

with Ant Farm, Dara Birnbaum, Mark Bradford, James Coleman, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Willie Doherty, Omer Fast, Morgan Fisher, Coco Fusco, John Gerrard, Arthur Jafa …
Onion City - Experimental Film And Video Festival

Chicago Filmmakers

Onion City - Experimental, Chicago (US)
5 Sep 2013 – 8 Sep 2013

with Basma Alsharif, James Benning, Max Hattler, Mike Hoolboom, William E. Jones, Lawrence Jordan, Richard Linklater, Marcello Mercado, Shumona Goel+ Shai Heredia, Deborah Stratman
Insomnia

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES)
22 Mar 2013 – 16 Jun 2013

with Stan Douglas, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Lis Rhodes
Lost Places

Orte der Photographie

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
8 Jun 2012 – 23 Sep 2012

with Thomas Demand, Omer Fast, Beate Guetschow, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer, Sabine Hornig, Jan Köchermann , Alexandra Ranner, Thomas Ruff, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Gregor Schneider, Joel Sternfeld …

Events

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
7 Feb 2020 – 23 Feb 2020

with Meriem Bennani, Stan Douglas, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ernie Gehr, Paolo Gioli, Grada Kilomba, Yuki Kimura, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Ben Russell, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Yuki Tawada, Ana Vaz …
20. dresdner schmalfilmtage

Fremde Gestade

dresdner schmalfilmtage, Dresden (DE)
21 Mar 2019 – 24 Mar 2019

with Tibor Hajas, Jozef Robakowski, Stan Vanderbeek, Yevgeniy Yufit
33rd Bienal de São Paulo

Affective Affinities

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
7 Sep 2018 – 9 Dec 2018

with Sofia Borges, Alejandro Cesarco, Sara Cwynar, Tamar Guimaraes, Martin Gusinde, Anibal Lopez, Anibal Lopez, Louise Lawler, Bruno Moreschi, Matt Mullican, Henrik Olesen, Sturtevant (Elaine)
FOTOFEVER PARIS 2018

fotofever, Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Israel Arino, Aneta Bartos, Valerie Belin, Harvey Benge, Ruth Bernhard, Jo Bradford, Patty Carroll, Renan Cepeda, Laurent Chehere, Denise Colomb, Irene Cruz Arroyo …
Images Festival 2018

Festival Images, Toronto (CA)
12 Apr 2018 – 20 Apr 2018

with Kenneth Anger, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Trisha Baga, Filipa Cesar, Moyra Davey, Peter Greenaway, Ken Jacobs, Hiwa K, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Steve Reinke, Ben Russell, P. Staff …
Steven Bode: BEN RIVERS. THE WAY OF THINGS

Vortrag / Talk and Screening

Temporary Gallery Cologne, Köln (DE)