Bethan Huws was born in 1961 in Bangor, Wales. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic (81–85) in London and Royal College of Art (86–88) in London. She lives and works in Paris and Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions
2011-2012
Reading Duchamp, Labor Berlin 7, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany*
2011
Films, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria*
Films & Ready-mades, Fonds régional d’art contemporain du Limousin, Limoges, France
Black & White Animals, Centre international d’art et du paysage, île de Vassivière, France
Billboard for Edinburgh Project, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Capelgwyn, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
2010-2011
Zeichnungen – Drawings, Grafische Sammlung, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany*
2010
Il est comme un saint dans sa niche: Il ne bouge pas, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany*
Singing for the Sea, Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, England
2009
New Works for Margate Seafront and King’s Wood, Turner Contemporary, Margate and Stour Valley Arts, Challock, England
Bethan Huws, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Fountain, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany*
Bethan Huws, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Watercolours, In the cabinet-Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Fountain, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal*
2008
Bethan Huws, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Bethan Huws, University Gallery, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA*
2007
Bethan Huws, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Curious Not Nosey, Dommuseum, Salzbourg, Austria
Bethan Huws, Kunstverein / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland*
2006-2007
Bethan Huws. B.A.C.A. 2006, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands*
2006
Filme, Institute für Kunst und Medien der HGK, Zürich, Switzerland
Beyond the Movement the Cinema, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
DI-SEGNI, Studio Trisorio, Naples & Rome, Italy
Cacao & Co, Musée de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland
Summer Show, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Cherchez le bois, Monsieur Tschudi, pour moi !, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Textual Works, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
Mental-Image, Kunstverein / Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland
2005–2006
Winter Show, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
A Brief History of Invisible Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA*
Brought to Light, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales*
2005
Summer Show, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
ERYRI-A Sense of Place, Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, Wales
Kunst in Schokolate/Chocolate Art, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany*
Over & Over, Again & Again, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius*
2004
Spread in Prato 2004, Centro per l’arto contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy*
Hauptwerke der Sammlung, Kolumba, Sammlung des Erzbischöffichen Diözesanmuseum, Köln, Germany
Summer Show, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Ich will, dass Du mir glaubst!, 9. Triennale Kleinplastisk Fellbach, Stuttgart, Germany*
Congregation: Commotion Artist’s Film, Picture This Moving Image, Bristol, England
2003–2004
Further: Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale 2003, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; National Museums and Galleries, Cardiff, Wales *
2003
ION ON, ArtFilm, Art34Basel, Basel, Switzerland
ION ON, Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy*
The Translator’s Notes, Cafe Gallery, London, England
The Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves / Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine Liebschaften, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2002
Regarder la mer, repenser le monde, Le Grande Café, Saint Nazaire, France
Startkapital, K 21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany*
Räume, Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland
House Party, la mia normalità, la tua follia, Blodo, Firenze, Italy
Ethno-Anthics, Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden*
New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria*
llath-yard, Centre for Research in Fine Art, Cardiff, Wales
Voice Over, Sound and vision in current art, a National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini Galleries, Bristol, England; Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, England; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, England*
1997–1998
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, a touring exhibition from The Britrish Council, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand*
1997
été 97, Centre genevois de gravure contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996, an Independent Curators International exhition, New York, exhibition travelled to: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; The Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Wahington, USA; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, USA*
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany*
Niemandsland, Museum Haus Lange - Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany*
Life/Live, ARC-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, exhibition travelled to Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa, Portugal*
1996
Kunststiftung Sabine Schwenk, Haigerloch, Germany
Private View, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England*
1995–1996
Galerie Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
1995
Uscita di sicurezza, IX Edizione Rassegna d’Arte Contemporanea, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy*
Insomnie, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France*
1994
Welt-Moral, Kunsthalle Basel, Swizertland*
1993
On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present, Antwerpen 93, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium*
De la main à la tête, l’objet théorique, Domaine de Kerguehennec*
1992
Oh! Cet écho!, Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, France*
Mixed Double - Gemischtes Doppel, an exhibition by EA-Generali Foundation in cooperation with the Wiener Secession, Vienna,
1990
The British Art Show 1990, a South Bank Centre Touring Exhibition, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland; Leeds City Art Gallery, England; Hayward Gallery, London, England*
1989
Les Grâces de la Nature, Sixième Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire, Clisson, France*
1988
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
Royal College of Art, Queens Gate, London, England
56-57 Rivington Street, London, England
1987
London Artschools in Brussels, Institut Sainte Marie, Brussels, Belgium*
Royal College of Art, Queens Gate, London, England
* Catalogue
Publications
2011
Reading Duchamp, Labor Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (Texts by Bethan Huws)
FILM, BAWAG Contemporary – BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (Texts by Christine Kintisch & Marcus Steinweg) published by BAWAG
2010
Il est comme un saint dans sa niche: Il ne bouge pas, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (Texts by Ariane Beyn, Kristin Schrader & Julian Heynen, interview by Ariane Beyn & Kristin Schrader) published by Kestnergesellschacht, Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, Dieter Asssociation Paris, France & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany
2009
Fountain, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Texts by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Ulrich Loock & Vincent Honoré) published by Museum Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2006
Bethan Huws: B.A.C.A Europe 2006 (Texts by Konrad Bitterli, Maja Naef, Julian Heynen & Bethan Huws) published by Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands, Kunstmuseun, St Gallen, Switzerland & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany
2005
Bethan Huws: Singing to the Sea (Texts by Michael Archer, Iwona Blazwick, Bethan Huws, Ulrich Loock, Pier Luigi Tazzi, interview by James Lingwood) edited and published by Dieter Association Paris, France & Artangel, United Kingdom
2003
Bethan Huws: Selected textual works 1991-2003 (Texts by Penelope Curtis, Emma Dexter, Ulrike Groos, Julian Heynen, Bethan Huws, Kasper König, Ulrich Loock, Hans-Rudolf Reust, Hubert Salden, Gregory Salzman, Christoph Schenker) edited by Dieter Association Paris, published by Dieter Association Paris, France, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany
1998
Bethan Huws: Watercolours (Texts by Josef Helfenstein, Julian Heynen, Ulrich Loock) edited by Julian Heynen, published by Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Germany
1991
Bethan Huws: Works 1987-1991 (Texts by Emma Dexter, Bethan Huws, Ulrich Loock, interview by James Lingwood) edited by Ulrich Loock, published by Kunsthalle Bern/ICA London, United Kingdom
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2007-2008
DAAD Artist-in-Residence, Berlin, Germany
2006
B.A.C.A. Biannual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2004
Ludwig Gies-Preis für Kleinplastik der LETTER Stiftung, Köln, Germany
1999–2000
The Henry Moore Sculpture Fellowship, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy