Daniel von Sturmer

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Paint­ed Light, 2019
    ani­mat­ed light installation
    Gee­long Arts Centre

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Paint­ed Light, 2019
    ani­mat­ed light installation
    Gee­long Arts Centre

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    CATARACT, 2019
    81 screen installation
    300 x 510 x 40 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures/​anna schwartz gallery upstairs), 2019
    ani­mat­ed light installation
    dimen­sions variable
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures/​anna schwartz gallery upstairs), 2019
    ani­mat­ed light installation
    dimen­sions variable
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light, 2016
    mixed media instal­la­tion with 4 HD videos
    (pro­gram­ma­ble LED lights, mov­ing head pro­file light, cus­tom cables, back­drops, booms, supports)
    instal­la­tion detail, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley
    Made with the assis­tance of the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts.

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light, 2016
    mixed media instal­la­tion with 4 HD videos
    (pro­gram­ma­ble LED lights, mov­ing head pro­file light, cus­tom cables, back­drops, booms, supports)
    instal­la­tion detail, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley
    Made with the assis­tance of the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts.

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light, mixed media instal­la­tion with 4 HD videos
    (pro­gram­ma­ble LED lights, mov­ing head pro­file light, cus­tom cables, back­drops, booms, supports)
    instal­la­tion detail, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley
    Made with the assis­tance of the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts.

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Elec­tric Light, 2016
    mixed media instal­la­tion with 4 HD videos
    (pro­gram­ma­ble LED lights, mov­ing head pro­file light, cus­tom cables, back­drops, booms, supports)
    instal­la­tion detail, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley
    Made with the assis­tance of the Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts.

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Cam­era Ready Actions, 2014
    instal­la­tion view, Young Projects, Los Angeles

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    These Con­structs, 2014
    installation

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    These Con­structs, 2014
    installation

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Cin­e­ma Complex, 2010
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Carriageworks

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Cin­e­ma Com­plex (Sequence 4), 2010
    HD video, 16:9, colour, sound
    3 min­utes 17 seconds
    Edi­tion of 3

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Cin­e­ma Com­plex (Sequence 6), 2010
    HD video, 16:9, colour, silent
    1 minute 10 seconds

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Object of Things, 2007
    exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Pavil­ion, 52nd Bien­nale di Venezia
    Pho­to: Eric Holm

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Object of Things, 2007
    exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Pavil­ion, 52nd Bien­nale di Venezia
    Pho­to: Eric Holm

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Object of Things, 2007
    exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Pavil­ion, 52nd Bien­nale di Venezia
    Pho­to: Eric Holm

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Field Equation, 2006
    Exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Field Equation, 2006
    Exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Field Equation, 2006
    Exhi­bi­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Paint­ed Video (Sequence 4), 2009
    HD video, 16:9, colour, silent
    2 min­utes 39 seconds

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Paint­ed Video (Sequence 4), 2009
    HD video, 16:9, colour, silent
    2 min­utes 39 seconds

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Paint­ed Video (Sequence 4), 2009
    HD video, 16:9, colour, silent
    2 min­utes 39 seconds

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Into a Vac­u­um of Future Events, 2005
    5 screen dig­i­tal video instal­la­tion (5 sin­gle chan­nel DVD videos, 5 alu­mini­um and steel pro­jec­tion screens, 5 video pro­jec­tors and DVD players)

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Hor­i­zon­tal Hold, 2004
    2 screen syn­chro­nised video installation
    2 win­dows each 534 x 275 cm
    Bien­nale of Syd­ney — Muse­um of Syd­ney Cube view­ing space

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Truth Effect, 2003
    mixed Media instal­la­tion (5 DVD video pro­jec­tions, MDF plane, steel frame, screens: mod­el­ling timber,cardboard, draft­ing film)
    over­all: 6 x 5.8 m
    instal­la­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Melbourne

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    The Truth Effect, 2003
    mixed Media instal­la­tion (5 DVD video pro­jec­tions, MDF plane, steel frame, screens: mod­el­ling timber,cardboard, draft­ing film)
    over­all: 6 x 5.8 m
    instal­la­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Melbourne

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Sci­ence Fiction, 2002
    sin­gle chan­nel DVD video instal­la­tion, Acrylic screen, shelf
    acrylic screen: 60 x 45 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Pent­house & Pave­ment Gallery, Melbourne

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Mate­r­i­al from Anoth­er Medium, 2001
    mixed media instal­la­tion (3 sin­gle chan­nel DVD videos, exci­sion of gallery wall, tele­vi­sion mon­i­tor, 2 acrylic pro­jec­tion screens, video projectors)
    var­i­ous (2 acrylic screens 120 x 90 cm and 60 x 45 cm)
    instal­la­tion view, Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Pho­tog­ra­phy, Melbourne
    This project has been assist­ed by the Com­mon­wealth Gov­ern­ment through the Aus­tralia coun­cil, its arts fund­ing and advi­so­ry body.

  • Daniel von Sturmer

    Mate­r­i­al from Anoth­er Medium, 2001
    mixed media instal­la­tion (3 sin­gle chan­nel DVD videos, exci­sion of gallery wall, tele­vi­sion mon­i­tor, 2 acrylic pro­jec­tion screens, video projectors)
    var­i­ous (2 acrylic screens 120 x 90 cm and 60 x 45 cm)
    instal­la­tion view, Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Pho­tog­ra­phy, Melbourne
    This project has been assist­ed by the Com­mon­wealth Gov­ern­ment through the Aus­tralia coun­cil, its arts fund­ing and advi­so­ry body.

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Biography

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.

Recent exhi­bi­tions include: ​‘Space­mak­ers and Roomshak­ers’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney (2018); ​‘Col­lec­tive Visions: 130 Years’, Bendi­go Art Gallery, Bendi­go (2017); ​‘Red Green Blue: A His­to­ry of Aus­tralian Video Art, Grif­fith Uni­ver­si­ty, Queens­land Col­lage of Art, Bris­bane (2017); ​‘Elec­tric Light’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne (2016); ​‘Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures), Bus Projects, Mel­bourne (2017); ​‘These Con­structs’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne (2014); ​‘Cam­era Ready Actions’, Young Projects, Los Ange­les (2014).

Von Sturmer rep­re­sent­ed Aus­tralia at the 52nd Venice Bien­nale in 2007 and 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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Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions

Daniel von Sturmer

CATARACT

2nd February – 23rd March 2019
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

Elec­tric Light (facts/​figures/​anna schwartz gallery upstairs)

2nd February – 2nd March 2019
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

Elec­tric Light

30th June – 23rd July 2016
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs

13th November – 20th December 2014
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

Cam­era Ready Actions

23rd May – 9th November 2014
Young Projects

Daniel von Sturmer

After Images

24th May – 14th July 2013
Centre for Contemporary Photography

Daniel von Sturmer

small world

25th October – 15th December 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

The Cin­e­ma Complex

2nd October – 18th December 2010
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks

Daniel von Sturmer

Set Piece

5th September – 31st October 2009
Site Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

Tableaux Plas­tique

13th April – 3rd May 2008
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Daniel von Sturmer

The Object of Things

9th June – 8th November 2007
52nd International Art Exhibition - Biennale di Venezia

Daniel von Sturmer

The Field Equation

4th August – 24th October 2006
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Daniel von Sturmer

Into a Vac­u­um of Future Events

3rd September – 1st October 2005
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Available Works

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Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs (laser scans), 2014
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour
3 min­utes 45 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs (cut­away black), 2014
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour
1 min­utes 38 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs (RGB cube), 2014
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour
1 min­utes 46 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs (flash­light), 2014
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour
1 minute 25 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

These Con­structs (emp­ty white space), 2014
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour
1 minute 8 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (pen drawing), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
1 minute 46 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (land­scape painting), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
5 min­utes 46 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (chalk drawing), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
1 minute 34 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (shad­ow puppets), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
3 min­utes 7 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (desk­top sculpture), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
3 min­utes 46 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (por­trait painting), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9 (ver­ti­cal), colour, silent
8 min­utes 40 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

small world (kinet­ic sculpture), 2012
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, sound
1 minute 10 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

The Cin­e­ma Com­plex (Sequence 4), 2010
HD video, 16:9, colour, sound
3 min­utes 17 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

The Cin­e­ma Com­plex (Sequence 5), 2010
HD video, 9:16, colour, silent
1 minute 47 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

The Cin­e­ma Com­plex (Sequence 6), 2010
HD video, 16:9, colour, silent
1 minute 10 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

Tableaux Plas­tique (Sequence 5), 2008
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video; 16:9, colour, silent
2 min­utes 12 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

Daniel von Sturmer

Tableaux Plas­tique (Sequence 6), 2008
sin­gle-chan­nel High Def­i­n­i­tion dig­i­tal video, 16:9, colour, silent
5 min­utes 19 seconds
Edi­tion of 3

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