Anja Kirschner (b.1977, Munich) & David Panos (b.1971, Athens)
Anja Kirschner and David Panos live and work in London.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2011
> The Empty Plan in ‘British Art Show 7’, Hayward Gallery, London; Centre for Contemporary Art / Tramway / Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Peninsular Arts / Plymouth Arts Centre / Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
2010
> The Empty Plan, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard in ‘British Art Show 7’, Nottingham Contemporary / Nottingham Castle Museum / New Art Exchange, Nottingham
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard in ‘Curated by:’, curated by Ursula Mayer, Gallerie Krobath, Vienna
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard in ‘TINA’, Storey Gallery, Lancaster
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2009
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard in ‘Depression’, Marres Institute, Maastricht
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
> Polly II in ‘Everything then passes between us’, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
> Polly II in ‘For the straight way is lost’, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Chisenhale Gallery, London
> Trail of The Spider, East End Film Festival, London
> Polly II in ‘Images of the Lost, the Reforgotten and the Resistance’, East End Film Festival, London
> Polly II, FACT, Liverpool
> Polly II, Jarman Award, CCA Glasgow
2008
> Trail of The Spider, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
> Polly II in ‘Struggles in the City’, Market Gallery, Glasgow
> Hoelle’s Halber Morgen, KoCA, Weimar
> Trail of The Spider, Mon Ami, Weimar
> Trail of The Spider, Cinema Mosor, Zagreb
> Trail of The Spider, TV broadcast, Container Project, Palmers Cross, Jamaica
> Trail of The Spider, LUX / Chat’s Palace, Hackney, London
> Trail of The Spider in ‘Nought to Sixty’, ICA, London
> Trail of The Spider in ‘Art Premier’, Art Basel With Hollybush Gardens, Basel
> Trail of The Spider, Tate Modern, London
> Polly II in ‘Contrapolis; or, Creativity and Enclosures in the Cities’, NAi, Rotterdam
> Polly II, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin
2007
> Polly II, Tate Modern, London
> Polly II in ‘New Lands’, BFI Southbank, London
> Polly II, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
> Polly II in the ‘LUX program’, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen
2006
> Polly II in ‘Bilder für freies Wissen’, TESLA Medien>Kunst
> Polly II in ‘Was Wäre Wenn #4’, Jet, Berlin
Awards & Commissions
2009
> Shortlisted: Jarman Award 2009.
> FLAMIN Productions development and production award for The Empty Plan: Brecht and Weigel in Hollywood – currently in production, to be completed in November 2010.
2008
> Chisenhale Gallery, London and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow co-commission of The Last Days of Jack Sheppard. With the support of Arts Council England, Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council and The Henry Moore Foundation.
2007
> LAFVA Award for the production of Trail of the Spider. Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and supported by the Elephant Trust.
2006
> Arts Council England Grant for the production of Polly II.
Press
> Jack’s Back! In the Movies at Last!, Peter Linebaugh and A Response to Peter Linebaugh, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Mute, January 2010
> The Artists’ Artists, Artforum, December 2009
> Interview with Kirschner and Panos, Variant, Winter 2009
> Notes on The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims, Ben Seymour, Mute, Vol.2 #13, Autumn 2009
> Production, Steven Cairns in conversation with the artists, MAP, Issue 19, Autumn 2009
> Review: Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Kate Forde, Frieze, Issue 125, September 2009
> Visual Art: Once a thief, Alan Morris, Sunday Herald, 2 August 2009
> Outlaws Bubble Trouble, Moira Jeffrey, Scotland on Sunday, 2 August 2009
> Review: Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Gabriel Coxhead, Time Out, 11-17 June 2009
> The bubble economy, Brian Dillon, New Statesman, 21 May 2009
> Don't Turner your nose up at video art, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian, 18 May 2009
> Credit crunch art at East End galleries, Waldemar Januszsak, The Sunday Times, 17 May 2009
> Artist of the week 40: Anja Kirschner, Jessica Lange, The Guardian, 13 May 2009
> Critics’ picks: Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Steven Cairns, artforum.com, May 2009
> Western vérité, Alli Beddoes, Mousse, April/May 2009
> Duck! You Regeneration Sucker, Neil Gray, Mute, Spring 2009
> On the Ground: London, Emily Pethick, Artform, December 2008
> Craven New Wold, Tom Jennings, Variant, Summer 2008
> Offshore Speculation, Will Fowler, Vertigo, January 2007
> The Films of 2006, Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight & Sound, January 2007
> On the Ground: London, Melanie Gilligan, Artform, December 2006
> Lights, Camera, Now-Time! - Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Marina Vishmidt, Untitled, December 2006
Publications
> The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Chisenhale Gallery, London & Centre for Contempory Art, Glasgow, distributed by Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901066-11-1