Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Yuk King Tan, Ani O’Neill, Rebecca Baumann, Jonny Niesche
17 July – 11 September 2021
1301PE is pleased to present, Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning, a group exhibition of artists Yuk King Tan, Ani O’Neill, Rebecca Baumann, and Jonny Niesche. This exhibition is presented in partnership with Starkwhite, Auckland. The exhibition continues through August 22.
Spanning aspects of sculpture, performance, installation and painting; Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning brings to Los Angeles four artists from across the Pacific, who together form a multivalent network of formal experimentation; indigenous knowledge systems; as well as performative investigations of political issues, such as value and economy.
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” - Gloria Steinem
Art is deeply connected to our experience of the world, and taking in its material is one way in which we recalibrate our sense of it. In this vein, artists are uniquely primed to provide alternative metrics for understanding how we intuit, parse, traverse, share, and value our uniquely human experiences. This is the common thread which weaves together the work of Yuk King Tan, Ani O’Neill, Rebecca Baumann, and Jonny Niesche –an investment in transforming their viewer’s perception of the world and its material. Put another way, an interest in how altered, ambiguous, or re-contextualized perception (dreaming, if you will) can facilitate self-discovery, and bring into being new meanings.
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Yuk King Tan (b. Australia, 1971) is an Australian-born Chinese-New Zealand artist currently based in Hong Kong. Tan graduated in 1993 from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand. Major solo and group exhibitions include: the Camden Art Centre in London, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Artists Space in New York. She has held residencies in Dunedin, New Plymouth, Queensland, Aachen, Sydney and London and has participated in international biennales/triennials in Queensland, Vilnius, Auckland and Sao Paulo.
Ani O’Neil (b. Auckland, 1971) graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand in 1994 and currently lives between the Cook Islands and Auckland, New Zealand. O’Neil has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and the Pacific Region, as well as the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, Brazil, Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Lithuania. O’Neill is a member of the Pacific Sisters collective, and has held many prestigious residencies including the Rita Angus Artist in Residence, Wellington, Artist in Residence APEXART, New York.
Rebecca Baumann (b. Perth, 1983) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology, Perth in 2003. Since 2003, Baumann has participated in numerous major exhibitions including; Radiant Flux, Carriageworks, Sydney, Untitled (exploded view), Kaleidescope: Abstract Aotearoa, te Papa, National Gallery of New Zealand; Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Set in Motion, Govett Brewster Art Gallery; WA Focus - Rebecca Baumann, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; New Romance, MCA, Seoul, South Korea; Here & Now 15, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth; Encounters, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Art Basel Hong Kong; Everyday Magic, GOMA, Brisbane; Contemporary Australia, Women, Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane; Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, and NEW 11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Jonny Niesche (b. Sydney, 1972) graduated with a Master of Visual Arts, from Sydney University, AU in 2013, after completing Heimo Zobernig’s Masters class in sculpture at the Academy Fine Arts, Vienna, AT in 2012. Major solo and group exhibitions include: Zeller van Almsick, Vienna, AT; Museum of Contemporary Art Commission for Vivid festival, Sydney; Commission for Vivid festival, ' Virtual Vibration' Collaboration with Mark Pritchard and Spinifex, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Sculpture Garden, Vienna, AT; New Acquisitions from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Ways of Seeing, Art Gallery of South Australia; ENTKUNSTUNG/VERKUNSTUNG, Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin; February 2, ARTSPACE, Sydney; Shut up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Kaleidoscopic Turn, NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Fishers Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
