Bill Viola is represented by James Cohan Gallery, New York (jamescohan.com),

Haunch of Venison London (haunchofvenison.com) &

Kukje Gallery, Korea (http://www.kukjegallery.com/)

For more images and articles, please visit their websites.

Fire Woman, 2005
Video/sound installation

Photo: Kira Perov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ocean Without a Shore, 2007
Production still

Photo: Kira Perov
Performer: Blake Viola

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

The Crossing, 1996
Video/sound installation


Please click on the SFMoMA icon to view in-depth information on the traveling exhibition "Bill Viola: a 25 Year Survey" organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The site contains images and descriptions of all the 40 works in the show, as well as interviews with Bill Viola and conversations with museum director David Ross and theater and opera director Peter Sellars.


 

 

 

 



Emergence, 2002
Video Installation
Color High-Definition video rear projection on screen mounted on wall in dark room
Photo:
© Kira Perov

Edition 1/3, commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Please click
here for a description of Emergence.

Please visit the
J. Paul Getty Museum's feature on Bill Viola: The Passions.

The Getty website also features a short documentary film on the making of The Passions exhibition by Mark Kidel. Please click
here to view the film.




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Japan Premier of Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner

Opéra National de Paris

Opera in three acts in the German language

Conductor: Esa Pekka Salonen
Director: Peter Sellars
Video: Bill Viola

 

Performance Dates:

Premier on July 20, 2008, 3:00pm, Hyogo Performing Arts Center

July 27, 2008, 2:00pm, Bunkamura Orchard Hall

July 31, 2008, 3:00pm, Bunkamura Orchard Hall

 


Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg


Larisa Gogolevskaya
with Gary Lehman, Ekaterina Gubanova and René Pape
Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Performance Dates :

Premiers June 19, 2008
June 22, 2008



CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


NORTH AMERICA

 

  • June 26, 2008 and August 14, 2 8, 2008 (please refer to SAAM website for screening details)
    Four Songs (1976), Hatsu Yume (First Dream) (1981), and The Passing (1991), "Visionary Works", Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

 

 

 

  • November 21, 2007 - July 28, 2008
    Information (1973), "Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 - Now", The Museum of Modert Art, New York, NY USA

     

  • October 7, 2006 -
    Eternal Return (2000), Permanent Collection: Modern and Contemporary Art - opening of the new Daniel Libesking-designed wing, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

 

  • October 2001 to be installed indefinitelyThe Quintet of Remembrance (2000), Permanent Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA

 

EUROPE

 

  • June 6, 2008 - August 31, 2008
    The Lovers (2005), "Freedom American Sculpture",The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

  • May 7, 2008 - August 11, 2008
    Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), "Traces du sacré", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

 

  • March 20, 2008 - July 6, 2008
    The Passing (1991), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Memory Surface and Mental Prayers (1977) and Information (1973), "Nan Hoover / Bill Viola: Some Times", Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA

 

  • April 10, 2008 - July 27, 2008
    The Fall into Paradise (2005), "The Fall into Paradise: LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project, 2005", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

 

ASIA

 

  • June 27, 2008 - July 31, 2008
    Three Women (2008)
    , Small Saints (2008), Acceptance (2008), Transfiguration (2007), The Innocents (2007), The Arrangement (2007), Bodies of Light (2006), Poem B (2006), Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), "Bill Viola: Transfigurations", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

 

 

  • April 29, 2008 - July 27, 2008
    The Reflecting Pool (1977 - 79),"Still/Motion"
    , The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (traveling exhibition)

 

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

  • October 12, 2007 - October 12,2008
    Observance (2002),"Bare Life"
    , Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem