Christopher Kulendran Thomas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Parts of Speech, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (USA)
New Eelam: Berlin, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (Germany)
New Eelam: Brisbane, Institute for Modern Art Brisbane (Australia)
New Eelam: Bristol, Spike Island, Bristol (United Kingdom)

2017
ROME, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
New Eelam: Tensta, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas, New Galerie, Paris (France)

2016
60 million Americans can’t be wrong, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (Germany)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Dhaka Art Summit 2016, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

2015
Real Flow (collaboration), K., New York, NY (United States of America)

2014
Christopher Kulendran Thomas (commission for Hotel Palenque), Art Geneva (Special Projects) (Switzerland)

2013
When Platitudes Become Form, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON (Canada)
(((( )))), V4ULT.cc, Berlin (Germany)
When Platitudes Become Form, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (Israel)
When Platitudes Become Form, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (Germany)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Time, Forward! Choreographed by Omar Kholeif and Francesco Manacorda, Palazzo Delle Zattere, 58th Venice Biennale (Italia)
Eldorado, Le Tripostal, curated by Jérôme Sans and Jean-Max Collard, Lille (France)
Parts of Speech, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL curated by Lauren Mackler and Alexander Provan (United States of America)

2018
Ideal Standard, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, curated by Erika Hock and Dominik Busch (Germany)
Christopher Kulendran Thomas, DIS, Katja Novitskova, VSF, Los Angeles (United States of America)
I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, Chicago, curated by Omar Kholeif (United States of America)
Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, Casa Encendida, Madrid (Spain)
Our Thing: Aude Pariset, Jon Rafman, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)

2017
Shenzhen Biennale, Shenzhen, China (Switzerland), curated by Hou Hanru
Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network, de Young Museum, San Francisco (United States of America)
Urban Ritornello, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (South Korea)
tech x space, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
moving is in every direction. Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (Germany), curated by Anna Catharina Gebbers and Gabriele Knapstein
Turn The Tide, Dyson Gallery, RCA London (United Kingdom)
Citizen X – Human, Nature, and Robot Rights, Øregaard Museum, Hellerup (Denmark), curated by Toke Lykkeberg

2016
New Eelam, 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016, curated by Maria Lind
New Eelam, 9th Berlin Biennale, curated by DIS
Emotional Supply Chains, Zabludowicz Collection, London (United Kingdom), curated by Paul Luckraft
Bread and Roses, Museum and Modern Art in Warsaw (Poland), curated by Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz

2015
PĿΛNΞS, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL (United States of America), curated by Anna Frost and Annika Kuhlmann
Dora Budor, Sean Raspet, Jasper Spicero, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Artie Vierkant, New Galerie at the Yves Klein Archives, Paris (France)
Co-Workers, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (France), curated by Angeline Scherf, Toke Lykkeberg and Jessica Castex in collaboration with DIS
Rehearsals in Instability, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna (Austria), curated by Rozsa Farkas

2014
Art In The Face Of Radical Evil, The Air Inn Venice, Los Angeles, CA (United States of America)
911,000 B.C., Grand Century, New York, NY (United States of America), curated by Agatha Wara
Dark Velocity, CCS Bard, New York, NY (United States of America), curated by Victoria Ivanova
DISown, DIS/Red Bull Project Space, NY (United States of America), curated by Agatha Wara
Fulfilment Centre, The Sunday Painter, London (United Kingdom), curated by Nigel Dunkley

2013
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2013, Tate Liverpool (United Kingdom), curated by Francesco Manacorda

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2014
Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse.II, MJ Genève, Geneva (Switzerland) with Dora Budor, Maja Čule, Anne de Vries, DIS, Kristin Luke, Peles Empire, James Prevett, Erica Scourti, Brace Brace

2013
Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse., Enclave Projects, London (United Kingdom) with New Ultra Group, Misery Connoisseur, Special Service, The Air Inn Venice
Plants vs Zombies, Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam (NL) with Katja Novitskova, Harm van den Dorpel, Joey Holder & Megan Broadmeadow

2012
This Is The End (part two), 389 Melrose, Brooklyn, NY (United States of America) with Todd von Ammon, John Lawrence, Roman Liska, Daniel Lichtman & Megan Broadmeadow

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS & ARTIST TALKS

2017
Fine Art Talk: Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Royal College of Art, London (United Kingdom)
Verbier Art Summit 2017, Verbier (Switzerland), curated by Beatrix Ruf w/ Benjamin Bratton, Rem Koolhaas, Tino Sehgal, a.o.

2016
Open Score at New Museum, New York, NY (United States of America) w/ Christopher Glazek, Jamal T. Lewis and Elizabeth Mputu
Common Field Convening, Miami, FL (United States of America) w/ Naomi Fisher, Gean Moreno, Annika Kuhlmann and Marco Roso
Art Post Capitalism at ICA, London (United Kingdom) w/ Isobel Harbison, Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr
9th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Germany) w/ Moritz Schularick
Technology Now: Christopher Kulendran Thomas in conversation with Simon Denny at ICA, London (United Kingdom)

2015
Lunch Bytes at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany) w/ Victoria Camblin, Carson Chan, Diedrich Diedrichsen

2014
DIS, New York, NY (United States of America) w/ Gean Moreno, Suhail Malik, Agatha Wara, Victoria Ivanova, Benjamin Woodard
Auto Italia, London (United Kingdom) w/ Britta Thie

2013
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, (Germany) w/ Katja Novitskova, Simon Denny, Julietta Aranda and Benjamin Bratton
4th FORMER WEST Research Congress, Berlin (Germany) w/ Boris Groys, Anton Vidokle, Franco Berardi, Irit Rogoff
Goldsmiths, University of London, (United Kingdom) w/ Ben Vickers
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, (Germany) w/ Hito Steyerl, Timur Si-Qin and Daniel Keller