Best Laid Plans suggests that the ‘plan’ can provide a framework for artists to propose alternative ways of living or of understanding our experience. Artists Matei Bejenaru, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Janice Kerbel, Marie Lund, Marjetica Potrc, Paul Rooney, Katya Sander and Ultra-red use different forms of planning to drive their production of images, sound, actions and text. This book presents the artists’ projects through statements, images and documents. Essays by Kate Macfarlane, Cylena Simonds and Rob Stone expand the conceptual framework of Best Laid Plans and examine the nuances of the artists’ contributions.
Marie Lund (b. 1976, Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in London. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and the Royal Academy of Art, London. Selected solo exhibitions include: Marie Lund: Statements, Art Basel, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2014); Drums, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2014); Back Pack, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (2013); Handstand, IMO projects, Copenhagen (2013); Clickety Click, Croy Nielsen, Berlin (2012); End On, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen (2012); Two Ways to Fall, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2011); and Turtles, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2011). Selected group exhibitions include: Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana, Dox, Prague (2011); The Object Lessons Mudam, Luxembourg (2011); Best Laid Plans, The Drawing Room, London (2010); and Tumult, Public art festival, Lolland Falster, Denmark (2010).
Lund is represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery, London.
Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Hancock received his M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000; B.F.A. Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX,1997; Associate of Science, Paris Junior College, Paris, TX,1994. Selected solo exhibitions include: 2009 Trenton Doyle Hancock, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Trenton Doyle Hancock, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX; 2008 FEAR, James Cohan Gallery, New York; Trenton Doyle Hancock, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Group exhibitions: 2010 Best Laid Plans, Drawing Room, London; 2008 Prospect , New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA; Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Marjetica Potrc (b. 1953, Ljubljana, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana. Recent solo exhibitions include 2010: Venice Case Study Meulensteen Gallery, New York; Burning Man Nordenhake, Stockholm; Rainwater Harvesting on-site project, St. Erasmo, Venice; 2009: The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour Stedelijk Museum Goes West, Nieuw West,Amsterdam (on-site project with Wilde Westen); New Citizenships Kunsthalle Lingen; 2008: Future Talk Now: The Great Republic of New Orleans Max Protetch Gallery, New York.
Janice Kerbel (b. 1969, Toronto) lives and works in London. Studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Emily Carr Institue of Art and Design, Vancouver; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA; and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Kerbel was nominated for the Turner Prize (2015). Select solo exhibitons include DOUG, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2014); Arts Club of Chicago (2012); Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto (2012); Kill the Workers, Chisenhale, London (2011); BaidscherKunstverein, Karlshue (2011); and See it Now, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (2010). She is represented by greengrassi, London; Catriona Jefferies, Vancouver; and i8, Reykjavik.
