BETH KETTEL
“Beth Kettel is a visual artist based in the UK. She has worked across the UK and internationally, in the gallery, public space and cinema. Her research-led practice spans performance, sculpture, moving image, installation, costume, sound and writing.
Kettel was previously a UK Associate at Delfina Foundation, London. She has presented work at Art Night, London; Göteborg International Biennial, Sweden; Jerwood Space, London; The ICA Screening Programme, London; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Copperfield Gallery, London and The Lowry Galleries, Salford. She is a studio member at Primary, studio fellow at NearNow and was recently in-residence with Launchpad LaB, France.”
Kettel was previously a UK Associate at Delfina Foundation, London. She has presented work at Art Night, London; Göteborg International Biennial, Sweden; Jerwood Space, London; The ICA Screening Programme, London; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Copperfield Gallery, London and The Lowry Galleries, Salford. She is a studio member at Primary, studio fellow at NearNow and was recently in-residence with Launchpad LaB, France.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | COMMISSIONS
2026 Morphic Resonance, Nottingham Contemporary (performance commission)
2024 DEAD RECKONING, Eastside Projects (solo)
2023 A Tree Root Tapping on a Concrete Coffin, The Contemporary Journal (text & video commission)
2021 The Sound of Somebody Changing Their Mind, Phoenix (solo)
2021 A Mutual Influence, Green Man, Wales (outdoor installation commission)
2019 Baseline Drift, Art Night, London
(performance commission produced by Forma London)
2018 A Bang, A Bomb, A Lie & A Band that stands for Something Else, Art & Screen Network, ICA, London (video commission)
2017 The Mist of a Pessimist, London (solo & performance)
2016 Viscoelastic Muted Contempt [soft applause], Eastside Projects (solo & performance)
2016 ||,I, Two Queens (solo)
2015 Post-Point, or, The Sequential Tangential Potential, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (solo & performance)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES
Wysing Arts Centre / Jerwood Space / Micro-Service (Huam-dong, Seoul) / GIBCA / Forma London /
Cob Gallery / Copperfield Gallery / Caustic Coastal / Tatjana Pieters Gallery / Art Sheffield / Open Eye Gallery / Tŷ Pawb /
Dateagle at Platform / Haarlem Art Space / Phoenix Cinema / Primary / TACO / Self Esteem / The Lowry Galleries
RESIDENCIES
Launch Pad LaB, Champagne-Mouton, France (2023, 2 months)
Fieldwork Studio, Southerndown, Wales (2023)
Writer-In-Residence, Nottingham Contemporary (2022, 6 months)
UK Associate Delfina Foundation, London (2022, 4 months)
Research residency ECOC, Gothenburg; Stockholm; Malmo, Sweden (2017, 2 months)
Non-Space, Aarhus, Denmark ( 2017, 1 month)
Production Residency. Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016, 1 month)
Wysing Arts Centre (6 weeks) / East Bristol Contemporary / LOW PROFILE. Plymouth Arts Centre / THE WRITING ROOM, HUTT / AltMFA, Guest Projects, London / MUTO, Manchester
AWARDS | FELLOWSHIPS
2025-26 --- NearNow Fellow, Broadway
2026 --- Advanced Textiles Research Group, Nottingham Trent University
AWARDS: Arts Council England / Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Prize Nomination (Jury - Melanie Keen, Wellcome Collection; Fiona Bradley, Fruit Market Gallery; Aurelie Deplus, Société Générale, Paris; Andrew Nairne, Kettle's Yard; Sarah Brown, Leeds Art Gallery) / To & Fro with Sonya Dyer / A-N Artist Bursary / London Borough of Culture Funding / European Capital of Culture Funding
TALKS | TUTORING
Goldsmiths University (LINK workshop) / University College London (Performance Workshop) / Camberwell College of Arts, UAL / Leicester De Montfort University / Nottingham Trent University /
Bristol UWE / Bath Spa University / Delfina Foundation / Launch Pad LaB / Green Man / Sheffield Hallam University with Bloc Projects / Nottingham Contemporary / Phoenix Gallery / Derby University / Eastside Projects / Studio Voltaire
REVIEWS | WRITINGS | PRESS