Ontario - Charles Stankievech
ideas | CBC | Posted: November 7, 2016 3:32 PM | Last Updated: November 7, 2016
The Sobey Art Award is Canada's pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art. The annual prize is given to an artist under age 40, who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
Charles Stankievech is a multidisciplinary artist from Okotoks, Alberta with an MFA from Concordia University. In sculptures, fieldworks, sound pieces, installations and films, he critically examines the history, specificity and geopolitics of place. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, TBA21, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture. A founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, he is co-director of K. Verlag in Berlin and director of Visual Studies in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design in Toronto.
Sobey Art Award Juror Barbara Fischer on Charles Stankievech
"Charles Stankievech is an internationally recognized artist whose award-winning exhibitions include Counterintelligence (2014) and Monument as Ruin (2015). He often refers to his interests as "fieldwork" – a temporary form of architectural installation that combines a diverse array of physical and immaterial elements, from photography to film, light and sonic materials, as well as writings, archival documents and works by other artists. Concerned with the transformation of the physical landscape and immaterial spaces as effected by military, industrial and colonial interests, and the history of technology, his work manifests ambitious and intensely rich essays on contemporary social and technological upheaval."