Langlands & Bell
Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell are based in London and have been collaborating since 1978. Their art ranges from film and video to interactive digital media, sculpture, installation and full-scale architecture using a conceptual and aesthetic framework to explore the structures we inhabit and the networks of communication and exchange that surround us.
Langlands & Bell have shown widely internationally throughout their career including, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, British Museum, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and V&A in London; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Haus Der Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany; MoMA, New York, Yale Center for British Art, USA; Venice Biennale, Seoul Biennale, and CCA Kitakyushu and TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan.
In 2002 Langlands & Bell were commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London, to visit Afghanistan to research “The Aftermath of September 11 and the War in Afghanistan”. They were nominated for the Turner Prize and won a BAFTA for “The House of Osama bin Laden” the trilogy of artworks they made after their return to London.
Major permanent art works in the public realm by Langlands & Bell include Moving World (Night & Day), 2008, London Heathrow Terminal 5; Call & Response, 2012, Porte de Vincennes, Paris, and Beauty < Immortality, 2016, Piccadilly Circus Underground station, London.
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Unlimited II
Galleria Mall, Third Floor, Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast, Accra 15 Jun - 12 Aug 2023Gallery 1957 is pleased to present UNLIMITED II . The first edition of UNLIMITED in 2022 showcased works which grappled with a creative humanisation of locality and this sentiment continues...Read more -
Langlands & Bell-The Past is Never Dead…
Accra, Gallery II 20 May - 12 Jul 2021Gallery 1957, Accra presents a solo exhibition by artist duo Langlands & Bell. Titled, “The Past is Never Dead…” the exhibition explores the architecture of the ‘Slave Forts’ built on...Read more
Live and work in London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2021
The Past is Never Dead… Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
2020/21
Curators Signatures CCA Gallery, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2020/21
Langlands & Bell: Degrees of Truth Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
2018
Internet Giants : Masters of the Universe Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2017
Infinite Loop Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2014
Mode(l)s of Thought – Working Models 1979 – 2014 Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK
2008
Langlands & Bell – Films and Animations 1978 – 2008 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
A Muse Um Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2007
Whitechapel Laboratory Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Superactive i2i Somerset House, London
2005
Zardad’s Dog Tate Britain, London
domain Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Plunged in a Stream Site Archéologique du Coudenberg, Ancien Palais de Bruxelles / Archeologische Site van de Coudenberg, Voormalig Paleis van Brussel
The House of Osama bin Laden La Teoretica, San Jose, Costa Rica
2004
word wide web.af Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Re Awakening – Langlands & Bell at Mount Stuart Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Langlands & Bell Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2003/4
The House of Osama bin Laden IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2003
9.11.03 Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
The House of Osama bin Laden Imperial War Museum, London
2002
Langlands & Bell at Petworth – Turner Studio Residency Exhibtion Petworth House, Petworth, W. Sussex, UK
Strange Partners / Langlands & Bell Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, W. Sussex, UK
Language of Places Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2001
Langlands & Bell + The Artists House New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
2000
Volume Volume!, Rome
Architecture as Metaphor Central House of the Artist, Moscow
1999
Opening / Capture Yale Centre For British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1998
TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Frozen Sky CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
1996
Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa and Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo, Italy
Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Enclosure & Identity Galerie Roger Pailhas, Kunst Messe Basel, Switzerland
Serpentine Gallery, London
Abbaye aux Dames, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
1994
La Criée, Halle d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
1993
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France
Château de Chambord, FRAC Région Centre, France
1992
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
1991
Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
Interim Art, London
1990
Galerie Luis Campaña, Frankfurt, Germany
Surrounding Time Fondation pour I’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1989
Galerie Luis Campaña, Frankfurt, Germany
1987-88
White November Air Gallery, London
1986
Traces of Living Interim Art, London
1984
The Ruined Book Bookworks, London
1978
Red Ashes University of Reading, UK
