Simon Denny
Real Mass Entrepreneurship, 2017 / What is Blockchain, 2016
about
Simon Denny born in New-Zealand, today he lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, graduating with a BFA in 2005 and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, with a Meisterschule in 2009.
Denny’s work has been exhibited recently in solo exhibitions at MOCA, Cleveland (2018); OCAT, Shenzhen (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014) MUMOK, Vienna (2013); Kunstverein, Munich (2013). He represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. His works are represented in institutional collections including MoMA (New York), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Berlin) and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington).
Denny cofounded the BPA//Berlin Program for Artists, an artist mentoring program, in 2016 with Willem de Rooij and Angela Bulloch. Since 2018, he has been a professor for Time Based Media at the HFBK, Hamburg.