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David Levine
Born 1970 in New York. Lives and works in Berlin and New York
SOLO PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND & PERFORMANCES:
2009 Hopeful, Cabinet, New York
2009 Hopeful, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
2009 Venice Saved: A Seminar, PS122, New York
2008 The Gallery will be Relocating over the Summer, Curators Without Borders, Berlin
2007 The Barber Trial, Documenta XII, Kassel
2007 2 Forms of Endurance, Galerie Magnus Muller, Berlin
2007 Bauerntheater, Biorama-Projekt, Joachimsthal, Germany
2007 Actors at Work, Cabinet Magazine, issue 25
2006 Stranger, Gershwin Hotel, New York
2004 ‘Night, Motherfucker, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise@Passerby, New York
2003 Babylon is Everywhere, Schaeberle Theater, New York
2002 The Devil You Know, Dixon Place, New York
GROUP SHOWS:
2009 Sleeper, Brown, London
2009 Exhibition June 13, Exhibition (NY)
2008 No Food for Visitors, Appartment22, Rabat, Morroco
2008 All I Wanted was a Pepsi, West Germany (Berlin), Malkasten (Dusseldorf), Elektrohaus (Hamburg)
2008 The Practice of Everyday Life, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
SELECTED PLAYS (director):
2005 Messalina, by Gordon Dahlquist (premiere), SPF Festival, New York
2004 Futur de Luxe, by Igor Bauersima (workshop), Public Theater/LabyrinthTheater Co., New York
2003 Night Just Before the Forest (premiere), by Bernard-Marie Koltes, Ohio Theater, New York
2003 Romola & Nijinsky, by Lynn Alvarez (premiere), Primary Stages, New York
2002 The Flu Season, by Will Eno (workshop), New York Stage & Film
2002 Shoppers, by Denis Johnson (premiere), Vineyard Theater, New York
2001 Shoppers, by Denis Johnson (workshop), Sundance Theater Lab
2001 Hellhound on my Trail, by Denis Johnson (premiere), Atlantic Theater, New York
1999 Richard 3, Ludlow Street Municipal Parking Lot, NYC
1997 Black Samba, by Mick Collins (premiere), Soho Rep, New York
ARTICLES & REVIEWS:
Dominikus Mueller, “David Levine: Hopeful”, ArtForum, October 2009
Noako Kaltschmidt, “David Levine: Hopeful”, Spike magazine, Autumn 2009
Ana Finel Honigman, “David Levine: Hopeful”, artforum.com, July 2009
Kari Rittenbach, “Keeping the Hope”, ArtinAmerica.com, August 2009
Helen Shaw, “Venice Saved: A Seminar “, in Time Out New York, April 2-8, 2009
Jason Zinoman, “The Audience has its Say during the Performance”, in The New York Times, April 1, 2009
Tom Murrin, “Venice Saved: A Seminar” in Paper Magazine Online, March 19, 2009
David Cote, “Politics as Unusual at PS122”, in Time Out New York Online, March 19th, 2009
Alexis Soloski, “Mr. High Concept”, in The Village Voice, March 17,2009
Gary Winter, “Venice Saved: A Seminar”, in The Brooklyn Rail, March 2009
Christian Hawkey, “In conversation with David Levine,” in The Believer, Winter, 2009
Kimberly Bradley, “The Battle for Berlin,” in Manhattan, Nov/Dec 2008
Saatchi Gallery Online, “The Practice of Everyday Life,” August 19, 2008
Astrid Mania, “Berlin Dispatches,” in Art Review #25, September, 2008.
Marvin Carlson, “David Levine’s Bauerntheater: The Return of the Matrix” in TDR, Fall, 2008, 52:3
Alix Rule, “David Levine in Conversation with Alix Rule,” in Saatchi Gallery Online, July 2008
Walter Robbins, “Art Opening as Theater in Berlin”, Artnet June 24, 2008
Hanne Seitz, “Alles nur Theater oder Wirklicher als die Wirklichkeit?”, in Paragrana, Spring 2008
David Levine, “Artist’s Journal: Bauerntheater”, in Theater, 28:2, Spring 2008
David Levine, “Interview with Michael Thalheimer”, in BOMB, 2007
Geoffrey Scott & Aaron Cedolia, “David Levine & Bauerntheater”, in BOMB, #100
Thomas Irmer, “Auf fruchtbarem Boden” in Shakespeare (Norway), Maska (Latvia), Didaskalia (Poland) 2008
Wolfgang Behrens, “Wer Erntet die Dickste Kartoffeln?” in Theater der Zeit, June 2007
Anja Quickert, “Das Kartoffel-Konzept”, in TheaterHeute, June, 2007
Daniel Volzke, “Ertragreich,” in Tagesspiegel , May 21, 2007
Sally McGrane, “An Actor Out Standing in his Field” in The New York Times, May 20, 2007
Sarah Rich, “Farming, Acting, and Critical Art,” in Worldchanging, May 16, 2007
Max Glauner, “Die Kartoffeln sind Real,” in Freitag, May 11, 2007
Falko Mueller, “Ein Landpartie,” in Zitty Magazine, May 10.
Kerstin Decker, “Es riecht nach Regen” in Der Tagesspiegel, May 8, 2007
Max Glauner, “Ackern fur die Kunst,” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 6, 2007
PUBLICATIONS:
“Bauerntheater Production Diary” in Theater, 2008
“Hopefuls,” in Cabinet, Issue 31, 2008
“Actors at Work,” in Cabinet, Issue 25, 2007
“Bad Art & Objecthood,” in Art/US , Issue 13, May-June2006
“Re-Public,” in Theater, 2005
“Babylon is Everywhere,” in Theater, 2004
AWARDS:
Florence Gould Foundation Commissioning Grant for Venice Saved, 2008
Etants Donnés (French-American Fund for Performance) Commissioning Grant for Venice Saved, 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship for Cross-Disciplinary/Performative work, 2007
German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes), Commissioning grant for Bauerntheater
TEACHING:
Director, Studio Program, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin