DOMOBAAL

*1955 Germany
lives/works in Brittany, France and London

Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer working in London and France. Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, she is also a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London. She has exhibited widely in Europe and North America. Sharon Kivland has dreamt of Rome, been melancholy in Trieste, and had a disturbance of memory in Athens, which can be traced in the publications in the series Freud on Holiday (information as material and CUBEarteditions). Her next holiday book will be published in autumn 2013, after walking in Vienna and the Tyrol. She has recently completed a set of appendices to 'Freud's Holidays', on his weather, dining, hotels, and shopping. She forgot her shoes on the steps of the Freud Museum, London, and thought of witty remarks too late on the stairs of the Freud Museum, Vienna, events are recounted in 'L'esprit d'escalier' and 'An Agent of the Estate'. The flowers Freud did not send are recorded in 'Freud and the Gift of Flowers' (with Forbes Morlock), and she has commenced a series of modest pamphlets recounting the incidence of trains, stations, and related railway matters in the Freudian canon, entitled 'Reisen'. Earlier works were conceived in the grands magasins of Paris, where she retreated after walking the streets in pursuit of Marx and Freud, in the shadow of Lacan. She has described her practice as one of stupid refinement, trapped in archives, libraries, the arcades, and the intersection of publicpolitical action and private subjectivity. Recent works for exhibition include amateur watercolours, copied from memory from postcards; ink drawings on blotting paper, unsuccessfully copying buvards; photographs of the smoke of steam trains, the limpid waters of mountain lakes, and the snow on Alpine peaks; and painstaking sketches of women modelling lingerie. She paid her son an enormous amount of money to fill old school exercises books with the indexical references to mother/son relations in Freud's works, a work tiled 'Mes Fils' exhibited at the Freud Museum, London, in 2011. She is also working her way through the twenty novels of Zola's Rougon–Macquart cycle, while paying particular attention to a continued rewriting of Nana. At the moment she is eliminating horizons on old postcards of various kinds of sea views, having last year spoilt many postcards of Rome in her attempt to turn them into negatives, and embellishing rather grubby vintage collars of crochet, lace, cotton, with etiquettes declaring that 'je suis une petite charmeuse' (and she is, sometimes), associating these with some adorable stuffed squirrels.

Education

2002: PhD History of Art Department, University of Reading, UK

1995: Masters: History of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Academic Appointments

Researcher, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London

Reader in Fine Art, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London

Solo Exhibitions

2014: Cafe Gallery Projects (CPG), Bermondsey, London

2013: Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany (october)

2013: Reproductions II, domobaal

2012: Ma Nana et autres filles (encore), Galerie des Petits Carreaux, Paris, France

2012: Un vent de revolution, Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest, France curated by Ulrike Kremeier

2011: I am sick of my thoughts, domobaal

2011: Reisen, three short films, Freud's Dream Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2011: Reproductions, AMT project, Bratislava, Slovakia

2011: Sharon Kivland, amateur and collector, IDEAS Store, Whitechapel, London

2010: Mes plus belles, le Sphinx, Paris, France

2009: Quels seraient les meilleurs moyens de perfectionner l'éducation des femmes?, Frac Bretagne, Ciac Centre international d'art contemporain, Pont–Aven, France

2009: Reisen, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008: A Wind of Revolution Blows, the Storm is on the Horizon, Chelsea Art Space, London

2008: Mon abécédaire, Sleeper, Edinburgh, UK

2008: Natural Education, Bast'art Contemporary, Bratislava, Slovakia

2006: La forme–valeur II, AKAU inc., Toronto, Canada

2005: La forme–valeur, Galerie du Cloître, ERBA, Rennes, France

2005: Ma Nana et autres filles, Atelier de Marcel Dinahet, Rennes, France

2005: Mes fils, domobaal

2004: Cela aura deéjà eu lieu, Centre d'art contemporain, Morsang–sur–Orge, France

2004: Flair, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London

2003: L'autre corps, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2002: Le bonheur des femmes, Centre Culturel, Ploufragan, Hôtel de Ville, Guingamp, Côtes–d'Armor, France

2001: Le bonheur des femmes, Galerie La Centrale, Montréal, Canada

2001: Le bonheur des femmes, Le Triangle, Rennes, France

2000: A View from a Distance, Harewood House, Leeds, UK

2000: Le bonheur des femmes, Portfolio, Edinburgh, UK

2000: Le bonheur des femmes, Galerie VU, Québec, Canada (Manifestation: Biennale internationale d'art contemporain)

2000: Mes Péripatéticiennes, The Economist Building, Contemporary Art Society projects, London

1999: Wigmore Fine Art, London

1999: La valeur d'échange, Centre d'art contemporain, Rueil–Malmaison, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2013: Five Years, London

2013: Ulysses, l'autre mer: Celebrating 30 years of FRAC Bretagne, France, curated by Marcel Dinahet, Catherine Elkar and Jean–Marc Huitorel, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, Brittany, France

2013: Ulysses, l'autre mer: Celebrating 30 years of FRAC Bretagne, France, curated by Marcel Dinahet, Catherine Elkar and Jean–Marc Huitorel, Musée de compagnie des Indes, Lorient, Brittany, France

2013: Ulysses, l'autre mer: Celebrating 30 years of FRAC Bretagne, France, curated by Marcel Dinahet, Catherine Elkar and Jean–Marc Huitorel, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint–Brieuc, Brittany, France

2013: Resort, Transition, London

2013: Interdits au mineurs, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris

2013: Anthology: a project conceived by Lucy Reynolds in 'Film in Space: an exhibition of film and expanded cinema', curated by Guy Sherwin, Camden Arts Centre, London

2012: Ghost IV: Presence and Absence, curated by Sarah Sparkes, St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London

2012: A kind of "huh?" in collaboration with information as material, Médiathèque des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2012: Lessons in history vol. II Democracy, Grahame Gallery and Editions, Brisbane, Australia

2012: Sense of Place in Artist Books, curated by Karen Kinoshita, Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

2012: Forget–me–not, Galerie Elika, Athens, Greece, curated by Supermina

2012: Making Space, Slade School of Art, London, curated by Patricia Townsend

2012: Surfaces: Works on paper, Sput+Nik Gallery, Lisbon, curated by Steve Perfect and John McDowall

2012: Tegel: Flights of Fancy, Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany

2011: Encounters, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2011: Les paris sont faits, Freud Museum, London

2011: One–day wonder, Studio One, Valentines Mansions, London

2011: Project 101, The LAB, New York, USA

2011: Sequences, Johan Deumens, Haarlem, `The Netherlands

2011: Text and Image, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2011: Why do I keep reading the same books?, AMT project, Bratislava

2010: Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK/dd>

2010: elles@pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Camille Morineau

2010: Reise, galerie Vox, Bergen, Norway

2010: Sophisticated boom–boom (in black and white), domobaal

2010: Super Farmer's Market, Handel Street Projects, London

2010: The Secret Library of Solihull, Solihull Gallery, Homer Road, Solihull, West Midlands, UK

2010: U235 Deuxième, La Collection, Enrichissements, 2008–2009, Centre des livres d'artistes, Saint–Yrieix–la–Perche, France

2009: Time is a Sausage, domobaal

2008: Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London

2007: Pages, in Special Collections, University of Leeds, UK

2007: Textual Healing, The Embassy, Edinburgh, UK

2007: Art Brussels with Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006: Sitting Room, an exhibition of contemporary artists' book, curated by Tom Sowden and Lucy May Schofield, Manchester Metropolitan Gallery, Manchester, UK

2005: Paris Photo with Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2005: Diderot, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London

2005: Erratum, SYMPRA, Stuttgart, Germany

2005: Focused listening, in 'Contact', Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

2005: In Arcadia, touring exhibition of artists' books

2005: Sommergästen, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2003: A Reader, domobaal, with Lucy Harrison, Nina Papaconstantinou

2003: Nature and Nation, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, and tour

2003: Twenty four hours, The International 3 (aka The Annual Programme), Manchester, UK

2001: Centième, Editions Filigranes, Salon Paris Photo, Paris, France

2000: Jeux d'Amour, curators by Hybrid, Battersea Arts Centre and Wigmore Fine Art, London

2000: Loving at Home II, EdviksKonst och Kultur, Stockholm, Sweden

1999: Alliance Française, Lodz, Poland

1999: Flop, The French Institute, Edinburgh, UK

1999: Loving at Home, Centre for Freudian Research and Analysis, London

1999: Passion, Gasworks, London

1999: The Equinox, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, UK

Public Collections

The Arts Council of Great Britain

The British Council

The Contemporary Art Society

The Creasey Collection

London Borough of Camden

The Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

FRAC Bretagne, France

Penguin Books, UK

Speck Collection, Germany

V&A Museum, London

TATE Library, special collections

Chelsea College of Art, special collections

Artist Books

2013: Reproductions III, subscription of twelve books sent out each month, domobaal editions

2013: Reproductions II, domobaal editions

2012: Reproductions I, subscription of twelve books sent out each month, domobaal editions

2012: Freud on Holiday, Appendix III Freud's Hotels, Information as Material, York

2012: Freud on Holiday, Appendix IV Freud's Shopping, Information as Material, York

2011: Freud on Holiday, volume III, The Forgetting of a Foreign Name, CubeartEditions, Athens, and INFORMATION AS MATERIAL, York

2011: Freud on Holiday, Appendix I, Freud's Weather, Information as Material, York

2011: Freud on Holiday, Appendix II, Freud's Dining, Information as Material, York

2011: La mer est si bleue, domobaal editions, London

2011: Le cri de la soie I, domobaal editions, London

2011: Le cri de la soie II, domobaal editions, London

2011: Le rouge baiser, domobaal editions, London

2011: Reisen II, Information as Material, York

2010: Reisen I, Information as Material, York

2008: A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon, Fashion: a glossary terms by Esther Leslie, illustrated by Sharon Kivland, Chelsea space, London

2008: An Agent of the Estate, Information as Material, York

2007: Freud on Holiday, A Disturbance of Memory, Volume II, Information as Material, York, UK, CubeArtEditions, Athens, Greece

2007: L'esprit d'escalier, Information as Material, York

2006: La forme valeur, domobaal editions, London

2005: Freud on Holiday, Freud dreams of Rome, Volume I, Information as Material, York

2004: Flair, domobaal editions, London

2004: Parisiennes, with Jeannie Lucas, Jean–Pierre Faur Editeur, Paris

2003: A Reader, with Lucy Harrison and Nina Papaconstantinou, domobaal editions, London

2003: William Markwick, The Property of a Gentleman 1768#8211;1770 Volume I, edited by Sharon Kivland, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK

2002: Le bonheur des femmes, Filigranes editions, Trézélan

1997: Fascinum, with Shelagh Wakely and Michelle Naismith

Monographs

2005: Cela aura deéjà eu lieu, Centre d'art contemporain, Morsang–sur–Orge, France

1999: La Valeur d'Echange, text by Jean–Marc Huitorel, Centre d'art contemporain de Rueil–Malmaison, France

1994: Aphonia, texts by Jean–Marc Huitorel, Christian Gattinoni, Sharon Kivland, Centre d'art contemporain de Saint–Fons, France

1993: Reading in the Dark, texts by Renée Baert, Forbes Morlock, Bruce Russell, with Cheryl Sourkes, Cambridge Darkroom

1992: A Bout de Souffle, text by Sharon Kivland and Claire Paquet, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada

1991: L'une sans l'autre, Texte de Sharon Kivland, Les Ateliers Nadar, Marseille

1991: The Fire of Tongues, texts by Charles Barber, Wendy Dawe, Julie Harboe, Ben Hillwood–Harris, Conrad Leyser, Ikon Gallery

1990: The Forms of Construction/The Abandonment of Origins, with Ben Hillwood–Harris, Stoke City Art Gallery, Museum/Mappin Art Gallery, texts by the artists and Michael Tooby

1989: The Remains of Intention, Textes des artistes et de Alison MacLeod, Watermans Arts Centre

1987: A Trouble Shared, Kate MacFarlane, Riverside Studios, London

1987: The Conversion of Pleasure into Sickness, Marc Chaimowicz, Hilary Gresty, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Group Publications

2011: Crux desperationis, Riccardo Boglione, Montevideo and UBUWEB

2011: Interviews with Artists Enquiries and Solutions, Recordings 2011, Nicholas James, London: CV Publications

2011: La Passante, Jane Rendell, Site–Writing, London: I.B. Taurus

2004: Nation and Nature: Vaster than Empires, London and Hastings

2000: Jeux d'Amour, Hybrid

2000: RDM10, La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, curated by Roberto Martinez

1998: Body and Photography, Prague House of Photography, edited by Martina Pachmanová, France

1996: Clio, limited edition multiple, Serpens Foundation, Prague

1996: Dialect, text by Neil Beggs, Andrew Hubbard, Rome, Italy

1996: DuSoMacLalanKiPonBruHu, Centre d'art contemporain de Saint#8211;Fons, France

1996: Last Out, Lights Out, limited edition multiple, Stephen Cornell

1996: Mauvais genre, Texte de Jean#8211;Marc Huitorel, Mois de la Photo, Reims, France

1995: Desiring Practices, Black Dog Publications, London

1995: In Vino Veritas, limited edition multiple, The British School at Rome, Italy

1995: Wellspring, Bath Arts Festival, Antonia Payne, artists

1993: En Scene, W139, Amsterdam, collection of texts and images by 25 artists

1993: Public/Private: Secrets must circulate, Alain Reinaudo, Stills Gallery /French Institut, Edinburgh, texts by Christine Buci–Glucksman, David Hopkinson, Hilary Gresty

1992: Inádits de Sájour, IAPIF, Rágis Durand, Paris

1992: Rose, Wise/Taylor Partnership, London

1992: Summer Lightning, Wise/Taylor Partnership, London, artists texts and images

1991: Corriger les Lieux, après la photographie de voyage, Editions Trois, Montreal

1991: The Centre of the World, texts by Charles Barber, Stephen Foster, Sharon Kivland, John Hansard Gallery, UK

1990: Artists at the British School at Rome, 1980–90, London

1990: Next Phase, Ian Jeffries, Wise/Taylor Partnership, London

1990: The British School at Rome: Mostra, Catherine Lampert, Rome, Italy

1989: Anima Mundi, Martha Langford, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, London

1989: It's a Still–Life, Isobel Johnstone, Roger Malbert, South Bank Centre, London

1988: Metamorphosis of the Image, John Stathatos, Biennale of Photographie, Athens, Greece

1988: The Consumption of Elements, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1988: The Consumption of Elements, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1988: The Subversive Stitch, Pennina Barnett, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

1987: TWSA/3D, Richard Cork, James Lingwood, London

1986: New British Sculpture, Iwona Blazwick, Air gallery, London

1986: Objects as Art, Susan Butler, Rosy Greenlees, Plymouth Ars Centre, UK

1986: The Illuminations, Sharon Kivland and artists, Camerawork, London

1985: Revisions, Pavel Büchler, Cambridge Darkroom, UK

1982: Houses and Homes, Lewis Biggs, Paul Graham, Arnolfini Gallery, UK

1982: Strategies, Rupert Martin, The British Council

1992: Summer Show III, Richard Francis, Serpentine Gallery, London

1980: Photography as Medium, Teresa Gleadowe, The British Council

Press

2006: Capital and Pedestal, Gary Dault, in Toronto Globe & Mail, March

2005: Mother Tongue, Jaspar Joseph–Lester, in The Internationaller

2005: Questions on post–feminism in the work of Sharon Kivland, Christian Gattinoni, in www.exporevue.com

2000: Flop, Susanna Beaumont, in The List, 7 – 20 January

2000: The Scent of a Woman, Between Flesh and Breath, Jane Rendell, in Portfolio Issue 31

1999: Rites de Passage, Christian Gattinoni, in Arts Croisés, n.11, April

1999: Sharon Kivland, A Case of Hysteria, Hugh Stoddart, in Contemporary Visual Arts, December

1999: Sharon Kivland, A Case of Hysteria, Cathy Courtney, in Art Monthly, July

1998 – 1999: A Painted Picture which never captures the subject, Sharon Kivland/Jeanne Randolph, Tessera: seductive feminisms, vol.25, Winter

1998: Critical Interventions: Evil, Dave Burrows, in Art Monthly, June

1998: Sinthome, Cathy Courtney, in Art Monthly, September

1998: The School for Lovers, Timothy Martin, in Portfolio, November

1997: Artists as Curators, Claire Doherty, in Artists Newsletter, March

1997: Des Femmes at de la Propriété, Sylvie Friedman, in Le Trégor, July

1997: Sharon Kivland, Mes Folies, Jean–Marc Huitorel, in Art Press, November

1996: Dialect, Augusto Pieroni, in Artel 47, June

1996: La Passante, Cathy Courtney, in Art Monthly, January

1996: Letters of the Blind, Aoife MacNamara, in Parachute, April

1996: Mauvais Genre, Dominique Baqué, in Art Press, July

1995: La Passante, Tim Anstey, in The Architectural Review, October

1994: Aphonia, Lise Guéhenneux, in Blocnotes, May

1994: Je sais bien, Caryn Faure Walker, in Art Monthly, June

1993: Jeu d'esprit, Rene Van Peer, Eindhoven, September

1993: L'attente… l'oubli, John Stathatos, in Untitled, Summer

1993: Summer Lightning, Renée Baert, in Parachute, February

1992: Cartes de Séjour, Lise Guéhenneux, in Revolution, 14 May

1992: Inédits de Séjour, Ami Barak, in Art Press, June

1992: Inédits de Séjour, Michael Guilloux, in L'Humanité, 13 May

1992: L'art fait halte en banlieue, Elisabeth Lebovici, in Libération, 26 May

1992: Reading the glass, Cathy Courtney, in Art Monthly, September

1992: Rose, Sacha Craddock, in The Guardian, January

1992: Rose, in Building Design, February

1992: Sharon Kivland: Field of Dreams, Michael Archer, in Art Monthly, April

1992: Summer Lightning, Ami Barak, in Art Press, November

1992: Summer Lightning, Sarah Kent, in Time Out, July

1991: Anima Mundi, Elizabeth Beauchamp, in Edmonton Journal, October

1991: Corriger les lieux, Sylvain Campeau, in Parachute, November

1991: L'une sans l'autre, Angelique Schaller, in La Marseillaise, November

1991: Sharon Kivland: The Fire of Tongues, Robert Burstow, in Perspektief, October

1991: Sharon Kivland: The Fire of Tongues, Ivan Gaskell, in Creative Camera, June

1991: Sharon Kivland: The Fire of Tongues, Ann Cullis, in Women Artists Magazine, May

1990: Anima Mundi, Andrea Kunard, in ETC, Montreal

1990: Next Phase, David Lillington, in Time Out, June

1990: Sharon Kivland: Je me souviens, Lorenzo Buj, in Parachute, July

1990: Sharon Kivland: The blind daughter, Rose Jennings, in City Limits, January

1989: Art, Queen, and Country, Jonathan Watkins, in Art International, Spring

1989: Sharon Kivland : The consumption of elements, Caryn Faure Walker, in Artscribe International, February

1989: The Remains of Intention, Mark Currah, in City Limits, April

1989: The Remains of Intention, Emmanuel Cooper, in Time Out, April

1998: Sharon Kivland: Artist as Curator, Jonathan Watkins, in Art Monthly, December