Ruth Buchanan
Split, splits, splitting, 2019
5 pongee silk curtains installed throughout the gallery, essay printed in publication, guided tours led by security guards.
Installation detail: Lexicon of Infinite Movement,
Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands
Ruth Buchanan
Split, splits, splitting, 2019
5 pongee silk curtains installed throughout the gallery, essay printed in publication, guided tours led by security guards.
Installation detail: Lexicon of Infinite Movement,
Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands
Ruth Buchanan
Split, splits, splitting, 2019
5 pongee silk curtains installed throughout the gallery, essay printed in publication, guided tours led by security guards.
Installation detail: Lexicon of Infinite Movement,
Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands
Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019
Installation detail: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019
Installation detail: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019
Installation detail: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019
Installation detail: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ruth Buchanan
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, 2019
Installation detail: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ruth Buchanan
Feminist histories: artists after 2000, 2019
Installation detail: Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Ruth Buchanan
Feminist histories: artists after 2000, 2019
Installation detail: Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Feminist histories: artists after 2000, 2019
Installation view: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil
Ruth Buchanan
Columns, Curtains, Columns, 2018
hand latch-hooked rug,
custom perforated steel frame
870 x 680mm
Ruth Buchanan
Columns, Curtains, Columns, 2018
hand latch-hooked rug,
custom perforated steel frame
870 x 680mm
Ruth Buchanan
Can tame anything, tables, tables, doors, blinds, bodies , 2016
hand latch-hooked rug, custom perforated steel frame
840 x 1150mm
Ruth Buchanan
Can tame anything, tables, tables, doors, blinds, bodies , 2016
hand latch-hooked rug, custom perforated steel frame
840 x 1150mm
Ruth Buchanan
Metabolise, 2018/2019
PVC curtain, rope, steel fixtures
2200 x 1300mm
Ruth Buchanan
My I,I,I be broke, 2019
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan with Benjamin Buchanan
Can, 2019
hand drawn acrylic paint
2650 x 880mm overall approx.
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
My I,I,I be broke, 2019
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
But it’s one way to describe agency. And desire: I’m trapped (leg, leg, bust, rush, step, stair), 2018
cast concrete, coated wood
600 x 380 x 1500mm
Ruth Buchanan
Evacuation Tapes, 2019
audio on speakers embedded in wall
18min loop
Ruth Buchanan
But it’s one way to describe agency. And desire: I’m trapped (leg, leg, bust, rush, step, stair), 2018
cast concrete, coated wood
600 x 380 x 1600mm
Ruth Buchanan
Brain Poem, 2019
digital video on tablet
colour, 8'31” loop
Ruth Buchanan
My I, I, I be broke, 2019
spray paint on wall
dimensions variable
Ruth Buchanan
My I,I,I be broke, 2019
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
Spreads, 2019
powder coated steel paravent
1800 x 1990mm
Ruth Buchanan
Cut ups, 2019
hand latch hook rug
1200 x 1250mm
Ruth Buchanan with Benjamin Buchanan
Can, 2019
hand drawn acrylic paint
2650 x 880mm overall approx.
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ruth Buchanan
Dead Marble, 2018
installation detail: Artspeak, Vancouver
Ruth Buchanan
Dead Marble, 2018
installation view: Artspeak, Vancouver
Ruth Buchanan
Dead Marble, 2018
installation detail: Artspeak, Vancouver
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS (with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex), 2016
installation view: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS (with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex), 2016
installation view: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS (with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex), 2016
installation view: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS (with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex), 2016
installation view: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Ruth Buchanan
The actual and its document, 2016
installation view: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Ruth Buchanan
Mediation (detail), 2016
three geo mesh banners 400cm x 500cm site specific wall painting with wall text
dimensions variable
installation view: The actual and its document, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Ruth Buchanan
Or, a camera Or, a building Or, a screen, 2015
installation view: Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
Ruth Buchanan
J-OKER, 2015
installation view: A–Z. The Marzona Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Ruth Buchanan
Its Interior, Pronoun, 2015
inkjet print on outdoor wind resistant geo-mesh, live audio, single-channel audio on speakers (15'38”), carpet, wooden tabletop, powder coated steel, chairs from the artists home
dimensions variable
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Break. Breaking off of, 2015
scaffolding, customised coated wooden stairs
dimensions variable
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Or, a building
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Or, a building
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Or a document (detail), 2015
powder coated steel grid, flat-bed print on high-pressure laminate on
multiplex
200 x 200 x 900 cm
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Or, a building, 2015
installation view: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ruth Buchanan
Sound Bow (with Milli Jannides), 2014
installation view: Johan Berggren, Malmo
Ruth Buchanan
The library's roof, 2012-2014
hand latch-hooked rug, powder coated steel, glass
1120 x 800 x 900m
Ruth Buchanan
On or within a scenario, 2013
installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
Ruth Buchanan
Conditions Drawing, 2012
table with custom vitrine cover, hand latch-hooked rug, painted ceramic, ink on paper, light drawing
1750 x 750 x 900mm
Ruth Buchanan
Conditions Drawing (detail), 2012
table with custom vitrine cover, hand latch-hooked rug, painted ceramic, ink on paper, light drawing
1750 x 750 x 900mm
Ruth Buchanan
Several Attentions – Lying Freely Part III, 2009
installation view: The Showroom, London
Ruth Buchanan
Circular Facts, 2009
photographic documentation of a performance in the form of a theatre
Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam