Exhibitions

Museum & gallery exhibitions, public commissions, art fairs and festivals. Click an item for more details.

Transports of Delight

14th October 2022
Cotterrell's new work, Bodegon 1, was included within the exhibition Transports of Delight at Danielle Arnaud Gallery from 14th Oc...

Deptford Eggs

24th September 2022
The artists at 1 & 5 Borthwick Street hosted Deptford Eggs as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the building's less celebrated hist...

Brouhaha

4th November 2018
A festival of contemporary Hungarian, British & Sri-Lankan Audiovisual performance and installation. Staged by Standard Island...

Ubumuntu Festival

13th July 2018
Ubumuntu Arts Festival is Rwanda's biggest arts event that takes place every year. The festival brings together artists from aroun...

To Make Art Happen

6th April 2018
'To make art happen' is the first in series of three international art exhibitions with twenty-seven artists from seven countries ...

Maelstrom

27th October 2017
Cotterrell's new permanent public installation, Maelstrom, launched 27.10.2017 in Chester, UK alongside new works by Bedwyr Willia...

Age of Terror

26th October 2017
Cotterrell's photographic work, Gateway II, has been acquired by the Imperial War Museum and is included within their new exhibiti...

Breturn

16th June 2017
As a pilot (in the hope of greater things to come),Kabinet Múz is hosted a weekend of cultural imports from the sorry state...

Empathy and Risk: Three Mirrors and a Wall

13th January 2017
For his fourth solo exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, Cotterrell presented three works from the "Mirror" p...

Peckham Platform Retrospective

25th November 2016
Cotterrell's SlipStream was shown at Peckham Platform for its final exhibition in 2016. A richly populated timeline of 20 original...

Buffet d'Art (London)

4th November 2016
Buffet d'Art at the Ambika P3 gallery in London showcased an array of artists, all of whom were invited to bring along a buff...

Mirror III: Horizon

18th October 2016
Cotterrell's Mirror III: Horizon grew through research and conversations with residents of Malta and was presented ...

SEEING

28th June 2016
Cotterrell's installation Mirror II - Distance, was shown as part of the SEEING exhibition at Science Gallery Dublin. SEEING...

Buffet d'Art (Berlin)

31st March 2016
Buffet d'Art at Meinblau Projektraum, Kunsthaus Meinblau, Berlin, showcased an array of artists, all of whom were invite...

Pilot 1

17th March 2016
Pilot is a series of exhibitions and events planned to showcase work in progress. The aim is to initiate a public dialogue around ...

Trauma

20th November 2015
Cotterrell's photographic works, Sightlines I and Supernumerary were shown as part of the Trauma exbibition at Science G...

ISEA 2015 - The Ostrich Effect

15th August 2015
Hosted by Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts + Technology and FCAT, the 21st International Symposium on El...

Terminus

8th August 2015
Focussing on the absurd beauty of infrastructure in a post-industrial landscape, Terminus, at the Scottish Queen Gallery / S1 Arts...

At the Sharp End of Bluntness

24th June 2015
At the Sharp End of Bluntness was a sister project to the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) 2015 conference, sharing the th...

Politics of Amnesia II

17th May 2015
Politics of Amnesia II was curated by Richard Ducker (Fieldgate Gallery) and looked at past trauma through the conduit of technolo...

Shock and Awe

19th July 2014
Billed as its most most controversial and compelling exhibition to date, Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe - C...

Code Yellow

28th March 2014
In this co-curatorial expose, six nationally and internationally acclaimed artists compared and contrasted how the reality of a &l...

The Ostrich Experiments

4th October 2013
Cotterrell's fourth solo exhibition at Danielle Arnaud explored the illusion of chance amidst a dominant culture of redu...

Artraker Award Exhibition

21st September 2013
For its inaugural Award, Artraker received 300 submissions from 90 countries. An international jury shortlisted 17 submissions and...

Engines of War

28th March 2013
Engines of War, was curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy at Gasser and Grunert gallery, New York. It was open from&...

Saving Lives: Frontline Medicine in a Century of Conflict

13th October 2012
This major new exhibition examines war and medicine from the First World War onwards, exploring the efforts made to save lives ami...

Tatton Park Biennial: Flights of Fancy

12th May 2012
The inaugural exhibition in 2008 set the scene for future Biennials in 2010 and 2012, with a commitment to place, site and multipl...

Monsters of the Id

11th February 2012
Responding to Cotterrell’s civilian experiences of Afghanistan, this new body of work explores the contradiction between the...

Other Surfaces

12th January 2012
Cotterrell's Hero, was shown within the exhibition Other Surfaces at Poppy Sebire Gallery. Other Surfaces presented a single...

Uncontainable : Broken Stillness

14th October 2011
ISEA 2011 curator, Lanfranco Aceti used the title “UNCONTAINABLE” as an umbrella term for a series of independently cu...

Dislocations

12th September 2011
In collaboration with the ISEA2011, Istanbul, International Symposium on Electronic Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb ope...

Wake

26th June 2011
Six artists held a sequence of week-long mini-residencies in Dilston Grove. Each artist chose the artist to succeed him or her and...

War and Medicine (Canada)

26th May 2011
War inflicts terrible physical and mental injuries. Medical practitioners try to save lives, manage disease and rehabilitate the w...

SlipStream

24th May 2011
Peckham Space presents SlipStream, a specially commissioned film from artist David Cotterrell, which maps social, geographical and...

Hill33

9th October 2010
Working with the 100 Field Squadron of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers to build the work, the artist has realised one of t...

Afghanistan

23rd September 2010
Afghanistan has been at the centre of British politics for the last decade. It’s presence in society and it being forefront ...

Volta Basel

16th June 2010
The 2010 Curatorial Board, composed of Adam Budak, curator of Kunsthaus Graz and co-curator of Manifesta 7; Jacopo Crivelli Viscon...

Structurescapes

1st June 2010
The University of Essex Gallery, Arts on 5 presented Structurescapes, an exhibition exploring images of rural and urban constructe...

Field Broadcast

16th May 2010
Field Broadcast was a live broadcasting network/ project/ platform/ contraption that enabled artists to make artworks that fo...

Shanghype (Chicago)

27th September 2009
From September 20 to December 13, 2009 the Hyde Park Art Center presented this exhibition featuring the video work of eighteen int...

Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture

24th September 2009
“Industrial perspectives before my eyes. Unforgiving architecture. The prospect of a future civilization made of metal struc...

The Making of the New Silk Roads

27th August 2009
The New Silk Roads is a highly constructed and symbolic subject that keeps fascinating East and West alike as a source of never en...

Krieg und Medizin

4th April 2009
War and Medicine: Its hard to imagine more contradictory disciplines. On the one hand the destructive power and the human misery o...

MapGames: Dynamics of Change (Terni)

1st March 2009
On March 28, 2009 Italian art and culture scene welcomed a new exhibition space, CAOS “Centro per le Arti Opificio Siri&rdqu...

Aesthetic Distance

9th January 2009
Aesthetic Distance is David Cotterrell’s third solo exhibition with Danielle Arnaud. After two years of negotiations between...

Aqua Art Miami

4th December 2008
New work presented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art at Aqua Art Miami, to coincide with the Miami Basel art fair.

War and Medicine

21st November 2008
War and Medicine: 150 Years of Life and Loss New work by contemporary artist David Cotterrell was unveiled for the first time as ...

MapGames: Dynamics of Change (Birmingham)

1st October 2008
FROM BIRDS NEST TO BIRMINGHAM Birmingham is the first city in the world outside Beijing to host the groundbreaking contemporary...

Machinic Alliances

4th July 2008
The 'machinic' is a process that expresses our capacity as humans to form alliances with non-human forces, be they animal, insect,...

MapGames: Dynamics of Change (Beijing)

1st June 2008
Map Games: Dynamics of Change is a new international visual art and architecture project. Traditionally maps are meant to provide ...

Tatton Park Biennial (v)

2nd April 2008
This inaugural exhibition sets the scene for future Biennials, marking Tatton Park as a significant and innovative addition to bot...

Shanghype (Prague)

26th February 2008
Shanghype! Shanghai, the city as celebrity Shanghype constitutes a dialogue between remote cultures, conducted by means of video ...

Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China

1st February 2008
Eastern Standard Offers Western Artists’ Perspective on China (North Adams, Mass.) – Like a surging tide, China&rsquo...

Shanghype (Shanghai)

10th January 2008
Shangype! Portrait of the city from dawn to dusk Curated by Davide Quadrio, With the support of Artissima, Turin, Italy, in col...

Driven by Cars

27th July 2007
Driving can be the escape to freedom, but it can also mean the endless wait in the traffic jam, or the infuriating search for a fr...

Eurasia One

25th May 2007
In 1967, long before the term "globalisation" was born, the German sculpture and installation artist Joseph Beuys create...

Shanghype (Turin)

27th March 2007
Shanghype! portrait of the city from dawn to dusk The spectacular building of Museo del Cinema hosted a selection of art vid...

Searchlight

27th March 2007
A commissioned series of temporary public installations. Curated by Dan Dubowitz, CivicWorks and produced with the support of...

Remote Control

4th March 2007
REMOTE/CONTROL, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai's 10th exhibition, is an investigation of the presence of technology in co...

Grind

7th December 2006
Grind was an exhibition that researched underlying layers of our contemporary society. Four different artists / groups abstracted ...

CineCity

20th November 2006
The 4th edition of CINECITY presented a range of international cinema and features a global mix of premieres and previews, treasur...

What Happens?

10th October 2006
An exhibition of international video artists concerned with the analysis of cities and urban behaviour

Core

15th September 2006
CORE brought together a diverse group of international artists exploring the contemporary context of ideas and experiences of the ...

Less Travelled

23rd August 2006
Less Travelled is the concluding exhibition of the Artist Links China programme, a joint project between Arts Council England and ...

Art and Ideas

12th August 2006
‘Art and Ideas’ was inspired by the Canadian CBC radio program IDEAS. The program is holistic in its content encompas...

The Art of Regeneration

1st June 2006
This exhibition illustrating the process of involving public artist, David Cotterrell, as part of the design team for the new soci...

Platform for Urban Investigation

10th May 2006
On the 13th of May 2006, Island6 Arts Center hosted the first Platform for Urban Investigation, a nomadic research facility that h...

Unicorn Development

7th December 2005
The new £13m Unicorn Theatre, the first ever purpose built professional theatre for children in central London, included ins...

South Facing

11th November 2005
Tower blocks, traffic police and visions for a problematised Utopia are presented in South Facing, David Cotterrell’s second...

Guardami

1st November 2005
An exhibition of major installations by established international video artists. Each room, accommodated a single work, and the sh...

Flux

21st October 2005
A multi-dimensional arts exhibition called Flux. Organised by Illuminate Productions it brought together a group of international ...

Fathom

24th June 2005
Timed to coincide with the International Festival of Rivers and the Sea to celebrate the return to Tyneside of the spectacular Tal...

Hand Luggage 2005

10th April 2005
Hand Luggage was an annual show curated by Clare Goodwin, Sandi Paucic and Oliver Kielmayer of K3 Project Space, Zürich. In 2...

Dead Reckoning

1st March 2005
A temporary exhibition mounted in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Captain William Bligh, who is buried in t...

Grey Goo

8th October 2004
Exhibitions of international artists' works addressing issues of nanotechnology, viruses and dystopian scientific predictions. Gr...

Scope Circle

23rd August 2004
Exhibition of work nominated by international curators which coincided with the Frieze International Art Fair.

Tempered Ground

1st June 2004
Presentation of collaborations between Head Gardeners and artists reflecting the many and varied roles and responses to the creati...

The Healing Environment

10th April 2004
Cotterrell's computer controlled lightwork, Fresco, was commissioned by the Kings Fund to develop new work for Great Ormond Street...

Tape 291

10th March 2004
Exhibition of film, video and new media work by UK-based artists

Urban Networks

1st November 2003
Urban Networks was an exhibition that charted the city as a social and physical experience. The work was grouped under four catego...

Il Palazzo Delle Liberta

10th October 2003
All the spaces of the Siennese art center (including the service spaces, like the room for didactic projects etc.) will be given t...

Reference Frame

10th September 2003
David Cotterrell’s first solo exhibition, Reference Frame, explored themes of approximation and translation in the process o...

Exhumed

5th September 2003
Exhibition of commissioned works by London-based artists

ZOO

1st August 2003
London art fair created as companion to Frieze. Work selected and presented by Flaca Gallery.

Hand Luggage

5th April 2003
The first Hand Luggage show curated by Clare Goodwin and Rebecca Geldard at K3 Project Space, Zürich. The curators invit...

Video Invitational

14th March 2003
f a projects presented an exhibition which brings together important contemporary video works by international emerging artists. T...

Art 2003

10th March 2003
The London Art Fair. Work selected and presented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art

Artissima

1st November 2002
Internationale d'arte contemporarea a Turin. International art fair. Work presented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art

Beck's Futures 2002 (Sheffield)

20th October 2002
Final exhibition with the Becks Futures touring show.

Beck's Futures 2002 (Glasgow)

10th August 2002
Second exhibition of the national touring Finalists show

Diversion

10th June 2002
23 artists presented new work drawing from the contents and commenting on the role and specific location of the Museum of Garden H...

Public House

10th May 2002
Exhibition of installation, painting and sculpture within a temporary gallery.

Inauguration

6th April 2002
Inauguration was an exhibition of various artists from the United Kingdom and Switzerland to celebrate the launch of the K3 Projec...

Beck's Futures 2002 (London)

20th March 2002
Exhibition of artwork by the 10 finalists for the Beck's Futures prize. Press Release: It’s a whole lot hipper than the Tu...

Hart

1st September 2001
Commissioned new work within the framework of festival of international artists' festival occupying various venues across the city...

Portobello Film Festival

18th July 2001
Festival of installation and expanded cinema. Bay 67 was a series of unique events held below the Westway near Ladbrooke Grove, We...

Stirring the City

10th July 2001
Exhibition of installation, photography and video.

Gorbals Festival

20th May 2001
Temporary public installation to herald the beginning of a major process-based commission.

High Fidelity

29th April 2001
High Fidelity was an exhibition by three international artists working within new media and kinetic installation.

Plastic Sheet

14th April 2001
A group exhibition including sculpture, painting and videos of ten international artists.

Inefficient Machinery

1st February 2001
Inefficient Machinery was a group exhibition by emerging artists at the Mafuji Gallery, East London. The exhibition included exper...

London/Seoul

10th August 2000
Group exhibition of commissioned and loaned work by artists from the United Kingdom and South Korea.

PEACE (Public Electronic Art Commission Exposition)

29th July 2000
PEACE (Public Electronic Art Commission Exposition) was a temporary public art exhibition supported by Hull Time Based Arts.

Art in Sacred Spaces

21st May 2000
Exhibition of commissioned installations by international artists, within places of worship. Art in Sacred Places brought togethe...

The East Wing Biennial

10th September 1999
Exhibition of international artists works curated by the students, academics and advisors of the Courtauld Institute.

A Celebration of Regeneration

10th July 1999
Group exhibition of installation works by artists who work in the public realm.

Birmingham Rep Redevelopment

10th April 1999
Architectural commission within the context of the redesign of a major performing arts venue.

Worth

9th September 1998
One of the largest group shows of the late 90s which brought together the work of over 70 artists. The group exhibition of install...

A Splash of Colour

1st July 1998
A Splash of Colour was an ambitious program of temporary public artworks developed by the architects practice, Shillam + Smith Urb...

Adhocracy

1st March 1998
An exhibition of international emerging artists in the gallery and artists centre of Bremen, Germany. Cotterrell's work which was...

Game Show

12th November 1997
Exhibition of artists installations investigating the themes of chance and probability.

Hidden Art of Hackney

1st October 1997
Hidden Art of Hackney was a festival and series of exhibitions which offered artists access to disused and derelict sites wit...

Chelsea '97

10th September 1997
Exhibition of four artists selected by the Paton Gallery from the final MA exhibitions at Chelsea College of Art.

The Ladies Smoking Room

10th June 1997
Exhibition of installations and interventions at the historic St Pancras Chambers Building in Kings Cross.

Beck's New Contemporaries '97

1st June 1997
Juried exhibition of work of international young artists based in the UK.

Paranoia of a London Attache Case

5th September 1996
Solo Exhibition in the Frank Pick Gallery presenting the installation of the same name.

Bonnington Festival

30th August 1996
Community festival of performance, visual art and music

Bunker

1st April 1996
A decomissioned nuclear bunker was opened to the public as a venue for site-specific installations produced in a wide variety of m...

Krajina Zivlu, Mezinarodni Vytvarni Symposium

20th March 1996
Residency and exhibition of installation work by invited international artists from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, United Kingd...

From Nuclear Bombs to Nuclear Bullets

1st August 1995
This exhibition at The Edge Gallery represented the culmination of a documentary project about the use and effects of depleted ura...

SUPERNOSCAROUS

10th March 1995
Group exbibition of site-specific installations by international artists resident at Emily Carr Institute. The exhibition was held...