Daniel von Sturmer

Born in Auck­land, New Zealand 1972

Lives and works in Melbourne

Daniel von Sturmer’s prac­tice involves a range of media and approach­es includ­ing video, pho­tog­ra­phy and instal­la­tion. His works orches­trate a field of rela­tions between peo­ple and things, light and space, video and time, where the encounter between audi­ence and art­work reveals a dialec­ti­cal inter­play of view­er and viewed. His approach is exper­i­men­tal, play­ful­ly test­ing expec­ta­tions of quo­tid­i­an occur­rences and ordi­nary experience.

Exhi­bi­tions include Play: video art in the col­lec­tion, Gothen­burg Muse­um of Art, Gothen­burg, Swe­den (2022); CATARACT (con­crete), per­ma­nent instal­la­tion, ACMI, Mel­bourne, (2020); Paint­ed Light, Gee­long Per­form­ing Arts Cen­tre, (2019); Space­mak­ers and Roomshak­ers, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2018); Red Green Blue: A His­to­ry of Aus­tralian Video Art, Grif­fith Uni­ver­si­ty, Queens­land Col­lage of Art, Bris­bane (2017); Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures/​federation square), Mel­bourne Prize for Urban Sculp­ture (win­ner), Fed­er­a­tion Square (2017); Wheriko — Bril­liant!, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Wai­whetū, Christchurch (2017); Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures), Bus Projects, Mel­bourne (2017); Elec­tric Light, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne (2016); These Con­structs, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne (2014); Cam­era Ready Actions, Young Projects, Los Ange­les (2014), The Field Equa­tion, ACCA, Mel­bourne (2006).

Von Sturmer rep­re­sent­ed Aus­tralia at the 52^nd Venice Bien­nale in 2007 and pre­sent­ed large-scale instal­la­tion works at the Syd­ney Bien­nale in 2004. Von Sturmer was the win­ner of the Mel­bourne Prize for Urban Sculp­ture in 2017.

Von Sturmer’s work is rep­re­sent­ed in Aus­tralian & inter­na­tion­al col­lec­tions includ­ing: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney; Art Gallery of South Aus­tralia, Ade­laide; Aus­tralian Cen­tre for the Mov­ing Image, Mel­bourne; Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Muse­um of Art, Mel­bourne; Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Queens­land Art Gallery, Bris­bane; Gothen­burg Muse­um of Art, Gothen­burg; Auck­land Art Gallery, Auck­land; Chartwell Col­lec­tion, Auck­land and Dunedin Pub­lic Art Gallery, Dunedin.

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