Siobhán Hapaska
Hapaska has over the past almost three decades created original and formally complex work difficult to categorize. Moving effortlessly between abstraction and figuration the viewer is ultimately left with the space her sculptures and installations leave for the imagination, allowing for a more abstract reflection. Her practice has long been known and celebrated for its diverse vocabulary of organic and synthetic materials, its complex layering of narrative and its immaculately crafted, descriptive detail. Drawing from both technology and nature, her materials charged with history and sometimes conflicting meanings.
Without directly addressing political issues Hapaska’s work oftentimes references issues of territory and cultural identity, alienation and solitude, often with an element of humour and hopefulness and never with cynicism.
Hapaska (born 1963 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) lives and works in London and Rotterdam. Recent projects include a solo-exhibition at Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland as well as a permanent installation at Chateau Lacoste, France (both 2020), solo exhibitions at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK, (2019) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2015) and Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (2013-2014). Her work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions such as, among others, Dreamers Awake, White Cube, Bermondsey, London, UK, (2017) The Hepworth Wakefield, UK, (2017), Forecast of the Next Century, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (2017), the Azerbaijan Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Astralis at Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014).
In 1997 Hapaska participated in Documenta X and in 2001 she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale.
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Siobhán Hapaska - Olive
Paris 30 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020It is with great pleasure that Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris announces the opening of Olive by Siobhán Hapaska. Hapaska has over the past almost three decades created original and formally complex work...Read more -
Siobhán Hapaska - a wolf, an olive tree and circumstances
Stockholm 12 May - 23 Jun 2016Andréhn-Schiptjenko is proud to present Siobhán Hapaska’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Hapaska has over the past two decades created original and formally complex work difficult to categorize. Moving...Read more
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2020.
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2020
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2020
Photo: Stefan Rohner.
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2020
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Siobhán HapaskaOlive, 2014. Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaOlive, 2014. Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view, Mule, 1997. "Sense and Suggestion", Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, France, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, England, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, England, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, England, 2019
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Bloomberg Space, London, England, 2016
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Sensory Spaces 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2015
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Sensory Spaces 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2015
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Sensory Spaces 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2015
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view from the exhibition "Siobhán Hapaska", Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view from the exhibition "Siobhán Hapaska", Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view from the exhibition "Siobhán Hapaska", Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Site Festival, Goods Shed, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, 2013
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Siobhán HapaskaInstallation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
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Snake & Apple, 2019
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Candlewick, 2018
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Snake and Apple, 2018
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a wolf, an olive tree and circumstances, 2014
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Olive, 2014
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cube of fools in a matrix, 2014
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Four Angels, 2012
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the recent incarnation of two advanced souls, 2012
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for eyes that are full, 2012
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so, do you have any regrets, 2012
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light lives in a box, 2012
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The world at daybreak, 2011
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Downfall, 2009
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Snow Seared, 2008
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Want, 1997
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Siobhán Hapaska at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Group-exhibition 4 Feb - 7 May 2023Curated by Jes Fernie Trickster Figures presents the next chapter in the story of British sculpture, bringing together a selection of work by eleven contemporary...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at FIAC
Art Fair 20 - 24 Oct 2021Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present works by Dana-Fiona Armour, Uta Barth, Jacob Dahlgren, Elisabeth Frieberg and Siobhán Hapaska. We look forward to welcoming you...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at FIAC Online Viewing Rooms
Art fair 2 - 7 Mar 2021We are delighted to announce our participation in the first edition of FIAC Online Viewing Rooms, which will take place from March 4 to 7,...Read more