Timothy Davies´s work operates through inter-textual relationships — presenting unprecedented conjugations of found or slightly modified objects, motifs and images. Each work or group of works points to the contingencies of what is seemingly “given” with regard to the material presented.

The aesthetics, which have been described as “aggressively middlebrow”, tend or try to evade visual or critical recuperation, instead offering humour, sentimentality, awkwardness, and affection as recognisable strategies to engage with a public.

Recent work has been informed by developments in digital print. For instance, the possibility to print a wished-for motif on to almost any surface has revolutionised the sphere of gifting as much as that of art-making and can be taken to represent an expansion of bourgeois ethics on to new territories of product.

TIMOTHY DAVIES

Born: 1983, London, UK
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION
2004-2008 Slade School of Fine Art, BA Fine Art, London
2006-2007 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2003-2004 Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Foundation Diploma, Birmingham

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Prinzen Rolle, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen
2019 Forever Teddy Complex, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2017 Tranquillo, Mavra, Berlin
2016 LDN, Balfron Tower, London
2014 Spätburgunder, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2013 Continental Breakfast, Limoncello, London
2012 Two’s Company, Clarence Mews, London
2011 Is this seat taken?, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main
2011 Fruits, Flowers and Clouds, w. Neue Alte Brücke, MAK, Vienna
2010 Gif, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2007 Rubberwood, FormContent, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Parabasis, Tiziana Di Caro, cur. Francesca Lacatena, Naples
2019 Die Läden sind geschlossen, Weiss Falk, Basel
2019 Sweetie, w. Ehsan Morshed Sefat, Table Dance, Antwerp
2019 Art Berlin, Salon, Bossman
2019 Condo, SANDY BROWN, London
2018 Sweetie, w. Ehsan Morshed Sefat, Table Dance / SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2018 Birds, Oldenburger Kunstverein, cur. Michael Beutler, Oldenburg
2017 Paris Internationale, SANDY BROWN, Paris
2017 SUMMER 2016 TO SUMMER 2017, Bath Factory Estate, org. Sara Knowland, London
2017 Cosmoscow, SANDY BROWN, Moscow
2017 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Ginerva Gambino, Köln
2017 Condo, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
2017 Der Verdienst. 2014-2017, Oracle, cur. Tenzing Barshee, Berlin
2017 Physical Mind Restless Hands, Micky Schubert, cur. Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested, Berlin
2016 Dépossession, TG Gallery, Nottingham
2016 Le Mérite, Treize, cur. Tenzing Barshee, Paris
2016 Psaumes des Gorphoncelet, Center, Berlin
2016 Stray Cabs, Berlin
2015 The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow
2015 Jazz Endured, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2014 How the Tangible Shapes the Mind, Kunstverein Nürnberg
2014 Overlooked, 5UN7 / Ecole des Beaux Arts Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2014 Grand Opening, Tonus, Paris, cur. The Ister
2013 Waste, not, Galerie Gregor Staiger, cur. Matthew Richardson, Zurich
2013 Prisma Pavilion, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, org. Gerry Bibby, Berlin
2012 Tiling, Seventeen Gallery, London
2012 Glaze II, Chez Valentin, Paris, cur. George Henry Longly
2012 Attachments, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2012 Young British Artists (Part II), Dienstgebaude, Zurich
2011 Sunday, w. Neue Alte Bruecke, London
2011 Liste 16: The Young Art Fair, w. Neue Alte Brücke, Basel
2011 Glaze, Bischoff and Weiss, cur. George Henry Longly, London
2011 Young British Artists, Limoncello, cur. Ryan Gander, London
2010 Sunday, w. Neue Alte Brücke, London
2010 Boyfriend Material, 8 Egerton Mews, London
2010 Disidentification, w. Simon Fujiwara, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
2010 Being is what it is, 38 Elderfield Road, London
2010 Seven Little Mistakes, w. Simon Fujiwara, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
2009 Scorpio’s Garden, w. Simon Fujiwara, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 Berlin Los Angeles, A Tale of Two (Other) Cities, w. Simon Fujiwara, Massimo de Carlo, Milan
2009 This is not Vauxhall, 70 County Street, cur. Michael Elmgreen, London
2009 Warm Summer Days, Indoors, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2008 International Artist Exhibition, Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum, China
2008 Home is the place you left, cur. Elmgreen and Dragset, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 Starship
2017 INDEX, January 2017 - February 2017
2016 Publication, w. SANDY BROWN
2010 Seven Little Mistakes, group exhibition catalogue, Mousse Publishing
2009 Berlin Los Angeles, A Tale of Two (Other) Cities, group exhibition catalogue, Mousse Publishing
2009 Scorpio’s Garden, group exhibition catalogue, Buchhandlung Walther König

SELECTED PRESS
2019 Steven Warwick, Artforum, March 2019
2019 Beate Scheder, "Den inneren Teddybären bewahren", TAZ, April 2019
2017 Beate Scheder, "Tintengefühle und Techno-Fantasien", TAZ, April 2017
2014 Gili Tal, “The Place Beyond One's Prime - Gili Tal on Timothy Davies at Sandy Brown, Berlin”, Texte Zur Kunst, Issue No. 94, May 2014

RESIDENCIES
2010 Serpentine Gallery, Sackler Centre for Arts Education, London
2008 Triangle Arts Trust / Gasworks, Organhaus, Chongqing, China

TALKS
Erotics of Infrastructure, KW, Berlin