Aleks Danko b. 1950

Also known as Aleksander Danko
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
One of Australia's leading conceptual artists, the South Australian born Danko has always been concerned with process as much as the objects eventually (or ephemerally) created.
Tags: Object, Conceptual art
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exhibited at
Melbourne Now
Date
22 November 2013 - 23 March 2014
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow/
exhibited at
Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, Go Back to Sleep
Date
2004
Type
Exhibition
Note
Touring exhibition by the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria
exhibited at
Liverpool Biennial
Date
2004
Type
Exhibition
Note
Represented Australia
exhibited at
Contempora Fellowship 2002-2004: Aleks Danko: Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, go back to sleep (an unAustralian dob-in mix)
Date
2004
Place
Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition. The recipient of the inaugural Contempora Fellowship that awards an Australian visual artist $50,000 per annum for a two year period. An intellectual residency of two years and a touring exhibition of new work by the Fellow produced during the Fellowship. Aleks Danko’s two year residency with the NGV culminates in the exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
IPNGV website; State Library of Victoria catalogue; http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whatson/whatson_exhibitions.jsp?timescale=2&locationID=3 (05/05/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Songs of Australia volume 16 sheee, go back sheep (an unAustralian dob-in mix): a National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2004
47p: ill; 30cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Songs of Australia Vol 9: Uh-oh the Chinese are coming (take-away mix) (Contemporary project series)
Date
2001
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

An installation in a continuing series of work begun in 1996 and triggered by the contemporary coalition and One nation politics.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Songs of Australia Vol 9: Uh-oh the Chinese are coming (take-away mix). [Sydney]: Art Gallery of new South Wales, 2000
1 folded sheet (6p) : col ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Songs of Australia, volume 12: warning, cardiac at rest.
Date
2001
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Artists ongoing project began with the election of the Howard Government in 1996, and ended with its demise [in 2001 initially, anticipated Danko]. Following on from recent exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, is a series of installations that revisit the sites of Danko’s formative years and the memory of his parents.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html (29/11/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta 1999: Talkback
Date
20 August 1999 - 26 September 1999
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Uh-oh
Date
1999
Place
University of South Australia
Description

Exhibition continues Aleks Danko’s Songs of Australia project begun in 1996 and, complements the major sculptural commission songs of Australia volume 3.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UNISAM exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Songs of Australia volume 7 (this is as good as it gets)
Date
1999
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Aleks Danko epic performance was presented in the EAF gallery on 20 May. Rows of arm-banded and blindfolded conscripts chanted 'Australian’ mantras (“Rub some of my luck on ya!”) that were also boldly printed in black on hot-pink paper and pasted to the gallery walls, the Woodville High school choir sang the patriotic 1859 anthem 'The Song of Australia’, and paparazzi strolled among the performers and the crowd taking photos and popping their flashbulbs.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual reports

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation, Performance
exhibited at
Aleks Danko: zen made in Australia
Date
1994
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
What are you doing boy?
Date
1991
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
What are you doing boy?/ Aleks Danko. South Yarra, Vic: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 1991

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Harvest: Aleks Danko with Micky Allan
Date
1990
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

The blurring between individual works of the artists was understated but once the viewer observed the line it became a form of subjective play.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Installation
exhibited at
"Post-Object Show" Revisited
Date
June 1986 - 5 July 1986
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Organised and toured by EAF in 1976- based on the notion of communication within a uniform format the exhibition included work by Micky Allan, Alex Danko, Sue Ford, Imants Tillers, Robin Wallace Crabbe, Tim Burns, Tony Coling, Phil Dadson, Virginia Coventry and others

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Group exhibition, Post-object art
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Australian and New Zealand Post-Object Show- A Survey
Date
May 1976
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Post-Object Art in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey
Post Object Art in Australia and New Zealand

exhibited at
Project 9: Documents, Film, Video
Date
November 1975
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Project 3: Objects
Date
April 1975
Type
Exhibition
Note
Art Gallery of New South Wales
performed at
Events/Structures
Date
24 September 1974 - 4 October 1974
Place
Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Recent Australian Art
Date
19 October 1973 - 18 November 1973
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Recent Australian Art
Date
19 October 1973 - 18 November 1973
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
'Sculpturscape '73', 5th Mildura Triennial
Date
7 April 1973 - July 1973
Description

Also known as 'Sculpturscape '73’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Object and Idea: New Work by Australian Artists
Date
1973
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
participated in
The Joe Bonomo Show: A Show of Strength
Date
8 October 1972
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art
Date
16 July 1971 - 6 August 1971
Place
Central Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Terry Smith and Donald Brook, The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art, was a survey exhibition of conceptual and experimental works in Australia, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) held at Central Street. David Aspden’s work listed in the catalogue was replaced by a work by James Doolin in the exhibition itself.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
One Central Street

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