Delaine Le Bas
1965 Born in Worthing, West Sussex
1981–86 West Sussex College of Art & Design, Worthing
1986–88 Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London
Lives and works in Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Solo and Group Exhibitions (selection):
2016
Frontier De Luxe, Atelier21, Aachen, Deutschland
(Re)conceptualising Roma Resistance, Goethe-Institute, Prag, Tschechische Republik
Universal Hospitality (Into The City), Alte Post, Wien, Österreich
(Re)conceptualizing Roma Resistance, Hellerau, Dresden, Deutschland
Safe European Home? Art Exchange Essex University, Colchester, U.K.
Blake's Outsiders, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, Worthing, U.K.
2015
Safe European Home? - RomAmor, Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
Kushti Atchin Tan? - Ein guter Ort?, Galerie Kai Dikhas im Aufbau Haus, Berlin, Deutschland (solo)
The Invisible Faces Of Europe Moderna Museet Malmö, Schweden
Safe European Home? For Diasporas Babylonia Thessaloniki, Griechenland
The Feast Wagon The Tetley Leeds, U.K.
Under Erasure - Apects of Roma/Gipsy/Traveller Life In Europe
Gerlesborgsskolan Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art Gerlesborg, Hamburg und Schweden
Safe European Home? Past Present Future, Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, Deutschland
Romani Revolution, Volkshochschule Aachen, Aachen, Deutschland
She's Not Pop Art collaboration with George Mihai Vesilescu Muzeul Culturii, Romilor Bucharest, Rumänien
Transmitting Trauma?, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Deutschland
Inter Nation, Art A Group Show Of Contemporary Art HDLU, Zagreb, Kroatien
Whose Nation? Re-imagined National Identities, Gallery8, Budapest, Ungarn
Embodied Spaces Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Niederlande
From Artificial Curiosities? To Art with Scott Benesiinaabandan und Tom Thomson, Gallery Owen Sound, Ontario, Kanada
Say No to Identity Theft, Gallery8, Budapest, Ungarn für Off Biennale, Budapest, Ungarn (solo)
Have A Look Into My Life!, Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnien und Herzegowina
The Third Edition Of The Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art D-0 Ark Underground, Titio's Atomic War Command Bunker, Konjic, Bosnien und Herzegowina
Kushti Atchin Tan? Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Deutschland (solo)
Have A Look Into My Life! HALIML, Bucharest, Rumanänien
Love & Loss LENTOS, Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Österreich
Portrait Of The Artist mit Tara Darby Huntergather, Shoreditch, London, U.K.
Basket Case II, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Afrika
PH1 Artists, The New School House Gallery, York, U.K.
2014
Houses as Silver as Tents, Delaine Le Bas, Zacheta - Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
http://otwartazacheta.pl/index.php?action=view/collection&colid=94&catid=10&lang=eng#1
Sztuki, Warsaw,MWW - Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw Poland
http://otwartazacheta.pl/index.php?action=view/collection&colid=94&catid=10&lang=eng#1
Other Sisters, Delaine Le Bas & Iwona Zają City Gallery Gdansk
http://www.ggm.gda.pl/en,11,38,0,971,0,Exhibition_Other_Sisters_by_Iwona_Zajac_and_Delaine_Le_Bas,0,index.html
Unknown… Gypsies? Delaine Le Bas, Phoenix, Brighton, UK
http://www.phoenixbrighton.org/archive/2014-2/local-name-unknown-gypsies-2/
The Power of Collaboration, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
http://nationalgallery.co.zw/index.php/2013-10-25-09-11-01/2013-10-25-09-34-28/328-the-power-of-collaboration
STOPPING PLACES IV, Galerie Kai Dikhas im Aufbau Haus, Berlin, Germany (group)
2013
To Gypsyland, Delaine Le Bas, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
http://togypsyland.blogspot.co.uk/
Save European Home? An Installation by Delaine & Damian Le Bas, .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012
Gypsy Revolution, Delaine Le Bas & Damian Le Bas, Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki, Finnland
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
http://www.gb.or.kr/eng/
Gypsy Revolution U.K, Museum Of East Anglian Life, Suffolk, U.K
http://eastanglianlife.org.uk/exhibitions/gypsy-revolution-uk/
O Brishindeskeriatar, The Cardiff Story, Cardiff, Wales (solo)
http://www.chapter.org/2723/html
The Buccaneers, Stade Hall, Hastings, U.K
Gypsy Revolution, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
http://www.hiap.fi and http://www.kaapelingalleria.fi
Gypsy Revolution, Kalio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
http://www.kalliokunsthalle.fi/index.php?cat=6
2011
Reconsidering Roma - Aspects of Roma and Sinit Life in Contemporary Art,
Kunstquartier, Kreuzberg, Berlin
http:/www./reconsidering-roma.de/reconsidering-roma/ausstellung
Stopping Places, Galerie Kai Dikhas im Aufbau Haus, Berlin
http://www.kaidikhas.de
Face To Face, Galerie DY's, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/face_to_face/ftf_brussels.html
Safe European Home?, Into The City, Wiener Festwochen, Austria
http://www.festwochen.at/index.php?id=eventdetail&L=1&detail=665
Home: Fragile, Transient, Extraordinary, Loaded. Core Gallery, Deptford, London, UK.
http://www.coregallery.co.uk/current-exhibition/
The World Turned Upside Down In The Cathedral Of Erotic Misery (After Kurt Schwitters), Latitude Contemporary Art, Lattitude, Suffolk, UK
http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/2011/lca/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQ53stZRBeY
Wir sind Bettler, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
http://graz.gras.at/?p=436
Ministry of Education Warning: Segregation harms you and others around you. Prague, Czecheslovakia.
http://c2c.cz/msv/conference_en.html
Witch Hunt, Campbell Works, London (solo)
http://www.campbellworks.org/content/delaine-le-bas-witch-hunt
'Chanctonbury Ravens' Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvcN58xE8Y
Witch Hunt, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Aufbau Haus, Berlin (solo)
http://www.kaidikhas.de
2010
BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
http://www.capc-bordeux.fr/programme/bigminis
Artblitz, Transition Gallery, London, U.K
http:/www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/art_blitz/cat1.html
The World In A Few Steps, , Association For Contemporary Art,Graz, Austria.
http://rotor.mur.at/frameset_programm-eng.htmlprogramarchiv
Witch Hunt, Context, Derry, Ireland (solo )
http://www.contextgallery.co.uk/?p=729
Stardust Boogie Woogie, A Monika Bobinska Project, London
http://lounge-gallery.com/displayProj.php?id=1&mode=1
Whose Map Is It? New Mapping By Artists, INIVA, London
http://www.iniva.org/learning-projects/2010/strange_world_of_roderick_wood
Inside, Outside and The Spaces In Between, Kuntstraum Next Andra,
Graz, Austria
http://www.akademie-graz.at/program_detail.php?id=20100210160111
Foreigners Everywhere, T293, Naples, Italy with Claire Fontaine, Karl Holmqvist, Stephan Dillemuth and Damian Le Bas
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2010/06/foreigners-everywhere-at-t293/
If Not Now, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
http//www.trafo.hu/en-US/program_1920
Prognostic Bridewell, A.P.T, Deptford, London
http://www.aptstudios.org/gallery/past_10htm
Witch Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales (solo)
http://www.chapter.org/18456.html
http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/617995
Sur Le Fil, Musee International Des Arts Modestes, Sete, France
2009
Foreigners Everywhere, D’vir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. With Claire Fontaine, Karl Holmquist and Damian Le Bas
http://www.dvirgallery.com
Sur Le Fil, La Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France
Folk Magic and Curious Objects, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, U.S.A
http://www.barristersgallery.com/folkmagic.html
Witch Hunt, ASPEX, Portsmouth, U.K (solo)
http://www.aspex.org.uk/art/gallery_1/witch_hunt
Living Together, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contempornea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
http://www.marcovigo.com/en/content/living-together-strategies-co-habitation-O
Living Together, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/living-together/
Performances
2015
Performance Matters 2: Daniel Baker and Delaine Le Bas, Main Lecture Theatre Chelsea College of Art, London
http://www.transnational.org.uk/events/205-performance-matters-2-daniel-baker-and-delaine-le-bas
2012
"Romani Revolution" performance for O BRISHINDESKERAITAR, Cardiff
"In Praise Of Gypsies?" performance for O BRISHIDESKERAITAR, Cardiff
The Figurine, Performance on The Stade, Hastings, U.K. Collaborative project with Louise Colbourne
Crystal Ball Genocide - Friday 27th January 2012 At The Unfinished Sinti and Roma Memorial, Near The Reichstag, Berlin
http://vimeo.com/37798649
2011
Minister and Ghost a Prophecy for Reconsidering Roma Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in Contemporary Art, Kuntsquartier Bethanien/Studio 1, Berlin
Crystal Ball Genocide, Gypsy Hill, London. Text by Scott Benesiinaabandan and Delaine Le Bas
http://vimeo.com/36223332
The World Turned Upside Down, Latitude Contemporary Art, Latitude, Suffolk, U.K
Two performances. Witchfinder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ53stZRBeY&feature=related
Trashimos Si Ruzlipen, Chavvy. Soundtrack by Eddie Ayres, Johnny Doe and Delaine Le Bas with poem by Firduasi. With Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers
Performed for Witch Hunt at Campbell Works, London and Ministry of Education
Warning: Segregation Seriously Harms You and the People around You, Prague, Czech Republic
2010
Bloody Mary, Mary; Witch Hunt, Context, Derry. Text by Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas. Audio Collage by Justin Langlands.
Mary, Mary for Prognostic Bridewell at APT, Deptford, London. Text by Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas. Audio Collage by Justin Langlands
There Is No Dividing Line for Cross Identifying, Becoming Minority, Reitveld Academy, Amsterdam, Holland. With Damian Le Bas
Minister and Ghost for Witch Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff. Text by Damian James Le Bas and Paradise Lost by Milton
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil for Witch Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff with Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers. Text by Delaine Le Bas with extracts from Where The Rainbow Ends.
2009
Stag Do, Infernal Salon, Brighton. With Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers Chanctonbury Ravens, Chanctonbury, Sussex with Mike Rogers and Damian Le Bas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvcN58xE8Y
Ritual for Witch Hunt, Aspex, Portsmouth. With Mike Rogers. Audio collage by Delaine Le Bas and Mike Rogers.