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Harald Smykla

Harald Smykla is a German-born artist who has been London-based since 1988. He studied painting and printmaking at Karlsruhe in the 1980s, and pictorial concerns still inform the ephemeral, site-time, context-specific and frequently collaborative live art practice he has pursued since the late 1990s. He has exhibited and performed throughout Britain and Europe and presented work in Israel and Croatia during the MAP Live Performance Art Exchange programme. He performed as part of East Wing Collection VIII (2008-09) at the Courtauld Institute, London, and at the Quad film festival in Derby, where his Movie Protocol drawings were exhibited (2010-11); and at the launch of UnSpooling - Artist & Cinema at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2010).  He exhibited with England & Co at the Zoo Art Fair (2009), and had a solo exhibition at the gallery Harald Smykla: Movie Protocols & Other Activities in 2010. Smykla has participated in numerous the group exhibitions at the gallery, most recently in Trailer (with Alberto Duman); Wandering Lines i & ii (2011 & 2012) and Screen Practice (2012).

Harald Smykla has been awarded the 2022 Brewers Towner International Prize for his series of works Iconoclash Press Flowers and Ovid Press Rewilding.

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Desert Island Apple Discs - Details


Desert Island Apple Discs 2010
25.5 x 36 inches
Pigment ink on dried apple slices, pencil and tape on paper
Ref: HS17
22 Bytes - Details


22 Bytes 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS005
Untitled - Details


Untitled 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS008
Horizontal Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 - Details


Horizontal Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
SOLD
Ref: HS006
Vertical Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 - Details


Vertical Rundum Observation, Malpas Rd, London SE4 2009
15 x 12 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on Somerset paper
Ref: HS007
Song Book - Details


Song Book 2003
21.5 x 36 inches
Ink on sliced and ironed apple laid on tracing paper
SOLD
Ref: HS001