BiographyImages
Caroline Achaintre, b.1969, FR. Lives and works in London
Education
2001 – 2003
MA Fine Art Goldsmiths College
1998 – 2000
Postgraduate studies Fine Art in Combined Media, Chelsea College of Art & Design
1996 – 1998
Vordiplom at Fine Art at Kunsthochschule in Halle/Saale, Germany
1991 – 1996
Apprenticeship and work as blacksmith artist, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Caroline Achaintre, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
2016
BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Limbo, Arcade, London, UK
boo, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels, BE
2015
Caroline Achaintre, Tate Britain, London, UK
2014
Present/Future, Illy Prize, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT
Mooner, Arcade, London, UK
2013
Camp Coo, UH Galleries, Hertfordshire, UK
2012
Trip – Dip, Arcade, London, UK
2010
Couleur Locale, Arcade, London, UK
2008
Novelty, Mirko Mayer, Cologne, DE
Visor Visitor, Fake Estate, New York, US
2007
Six Strings, Blow de la Barra, London, UK
2006
Caroline Achaintre, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, DE
2005
DEEDIE, The Showroom, London, UK
2004
Caroline Achaintre, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London
Caroline Achaintre, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, DE
QUARTERS, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK
2002
Billboard, Mafuji Gallery, London, UK
2001
Kampagne, Kohlenhof, Kunstverein Nuremberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Entagled: threads and making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016
XXXmASS, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
A conversation about ceramics, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milano, IT
Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Corridor Plateau VI, DREI, Cologne, DE
The Portent of Light, MeetFactory, Prague, CZ
The British Art Show 8, Touring exhibition, UK
2015
Folleree & Folleroo, Arcade, London, UK
The British Art Show 8, Touring exhibition, UK
2014
Deep One Perfect Morning, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IE
Vernacular Alchemists, Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, FR
Decorum, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CH
More Material, Salon 94, New York, US
Accordion, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
2013
A-Tri-Lick, Peer, London, UK
Decorum, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, FR
The Hecklers, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Six Possibilities for a Sculpture, La Loge, Brussels, BE
Are You Alright? New Art From Britain, MOCCA, Toronto, CA
2012
La demeure joyeuse, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Whitewashing the Moon, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE
Boulevard et Pécuchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Caroline Achaintre, Sara Barker, Alice Channer, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Mocha Non-Truth, Cul De Sac, London, UK
James Tower and Contemporary Ceramic Art, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Laying down and kissing the love in the mist, Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Material Matters, East Wing X Collection, The Courtland Institute, London, UK
2011
Slipped, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, UK
Imagine Being Here Now, The 6th Momentum Biennale, Moss, NO
Kopf an Kopf, Oechsner Galerie, Nuremberg, DE
Adventures in a Miniature Landscape, Log, Bergamo, IT
2010
Collision, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, US
Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Das vertraute Unvertraute, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, DE
2009
Free Radicals, Arcade, London, UK
Cabinet Afrique, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2008
Blue Balls, APF LAB, New York, US
Soft Spot, 0047 OSLO, Oslo, NO
Unfair Fair, Loto Arte, Rome, IT
Strange Days, Whitecross Gallery, London, UK
2007
Open Plan, Art Athina, Athens, GR
Behemoth, Danielle Arnauld, London, UK
Amongst the Ashes and Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
2006
Beauty and the Beast, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Until it makes Sense, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, FR and Seventeen, London, UK
Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papessse, Siena, IT
If it dos not exist you will have to invent it, The Showroom, London, UK
2005
Acid Rain, Glassbox / Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, FR
Brief Encounter, The Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik, IS
Transfer, m-projects, Cologne, DE
2004
Roadsweeper, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, DE
Contrapop, Vamiali’s Gallery, Athens, DE
Gastspiel, Bergstuebl Projekte, Berlin, DE
2003
The Unhomely, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Out to Grass, Galerie Koch & Kesslau, Berlin, DE
Here you have it, MZKMA, Berlin, DE
Positionen und Tendenzen, Kunsthaus, Nuremberg, DE
2002
Gatsby, The New Landsdowne Club, London, UK
Ehai-Elua-Ekolu-Quatro, Galerie Lothringer 13/Laden, Munich, DE
Club, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
Vodka Noire, Galerie Corentin Hamel, Paris, FR
2001
Fear it, do it anyway, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
Record Collection, VTO Gallery, London (travelling to Manchester), UK
Club, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
Holiday, Milchhof, Berlin, DE
Residencies
2015
AIT, Tokyo, JP
2014
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Scholarships and Awards
2013
Present/Future, Illy Prize, Artissima, Turin, IT
2007
British Council, Travel Grant for New York
2006
Arts Council, Grant for Individual Artists
British Council, Travel Grant for Reykjavik, Iceland
2004
Arts Council, Grant for Individual Artists
Elephants Trust, Grant for Individual Artists
2003
British Council, Travel Grant for Tirana, Albania
1998
DAAD German Exchange Service scholarship to take up Postgraduate studies in London
kunstpreis 98, award and exhibition, Kreissparkasse Koethen, Germany