Zac Langdon-Pole

Biography

Zac Langdon-Pole, Concatenations, 2022, iron meteorite dust, magnets, murex shell, quartz, bronze socketed axe head (Luristan, Iron Age, ca. 1000-650 BCE), Blickensderfer typewriter case (ca. 1897), gymnasium/community center stool, antique microscope case, banded jasper, 1540 x 440 x 440mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World (Marbled / Undergrowth), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles of: Marbled Endpaper, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th Edition (1842) Undergrowth (1941), Eliot Hodgkin, 1020 x 790 x 50mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon-Pole, A Quiver of Names, 2022, wooden specimen cabinet drawers, Blickensderfer, Royal, and Underwood typewriters, keys replaced with mixed ancient arrowheads: Neolithic (c. 7000-1700 BCE); Ancient Greek (c. 1200 BCE – 600 AD); Roman (c. 753 BC – 1453 AD); Ottoman (c. 1400 – 1600 AD), 1550 x 485 x 425mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Same River Twice, 2022, borer-ridden wooden shelf trolley, gold, painted wooden shape-sorter blocks (two sets laid out identically on separate shelves), 720 x 460 x 750mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Dog-God Cycle (detail), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles, 3010 x 3930 x 40mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Dog-God Cycle, 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles of: Stephan’s Quintet (2022), NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Rocky Mountain Landscape (1870), Albert Bierstadt, 3010 x 3930 x 40mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon Pole in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022

Zac Langdon Pole, Breath as Breath, 2020 (film, 11min 38secs). Music by Samuel Holloway. Exhibition view as seen in ‘Lines of Flight’ CIAP Vassiviere, photo by Aurélien Mole.

Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)

the body and its outside

Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (v), 2018, paper nautilus shell, Sericho meteorite (iron pallasite, landsite: Sericho, Kenya) 107 x 33 x 56mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021

Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021

Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (3. Bones kiss sour air), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths, 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889

Zac Langdon-Pole, end of history, 2015, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, The Union Jack and the Southern Cross, by Miri Davidson, The New Inquiry, March 24 2015
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main

Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouth (shell fossil), 2016, chrome mouth cast, chain, shell fossil, chain, shackles, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach,  2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, Meine Bilder, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012

Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012

Zac Langdon-Pole, T.O., 2012, found canvas, un-stretched, reversed and re-stretched, 868 x 744mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World (Marbled / Undergrowth), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles of: Marbled Endpaper, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th Edition (1842) Undergrowth (1941), Eliot Hodgkin, 1020 x 790 x 50mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, A Quiver of Names, 2022, wooden specimen cabinet drawers, Blickensderfer, Royal, and Underwood typewriters, keys replaced with mixed ancient arrowheads: Neolithic (c. 7000-1700 BCE); Ancient Greek (c. 1200 BCE – 600 AD); Roman (c. 753 BC – 1453 AD); Ottoman (c. 1400 – 1600 AD), 1550 x 485 x 425mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Dog-God Cycle (detail), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles, 3010 x 3930 x 40mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon Pole in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022

Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)

the body and its outside

Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021

Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889

Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012

Zac Langdon-Pole

Born 1988, Auckland (NZ). Lives and works in Berlin (GER) and Auckland (NZ)

Zac Langdon-Pole is a New Zealand artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His photographic and sculptural work of found and fabricated artefacts traverses a range of scales from the familial to the celestial, all connected by the artist’s interest in memory, translation, and the ordering of social and natural worlds. After gaining a BFA (Hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts, at the University of Auckland, in 2010, Langdon-Pole received a Meisterschüler from Frankfurt’s Städelschule, in 2015.

A survey of his practice, Containing Multitudes, was exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi, in 2020. In 2018 Langdon-Pole was selected as the seventh recipient of the BMW Art Journey and in 2017 he was the recipient of the Ars Viva Prize. Recent projects include: Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2024); Porous World, Michael Lett 3 East St (2022);  Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2022-2023); Lines of Flight / Lignes de Fuite at the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, L’ile de Vassiviere, France (2022) Splendide Mendax, (with Daniel Boyd) at STATION Gallery, Melbourne (2021-2022); the body and its outside, Michael Lett, Auckland (2021).

From February to May 2022 Langdon-Pole was the McCahon House Artist in Residence at Parehuia, Titirangi.

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Zac Langdon-Pole, Concatenations, 2022, iron meteorite dust, magnets, murex shell, quartz, bronze socketed axe head (Luristan, Iron Age, ca. 1000-650 BCE), Blickensderfer typewriter case (ca. 1897), gymnasium/community center stool, antique microscope case, banded jasper, 1540 x 440 x 440mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World (Marbled / Undergrowth), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles of: Marbled Endpaper, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th Edition (1842) Undergrowth (1941), Eliot Hodgkin, 1020 x 790 x 50mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon-Pole, A Quiver of Names, 2022, wooden specimen cabinet drawers, Blickensderfer, Royal, and Underwood typewriters, keys replaced with mixed ancient arrowheads: Neolithic (c. 7000-1700 BCE); Ancient Greek (c. 1200 BCE – 600 AD); Roman (c. 753 BC – 1453 AD); Ottoman (c. 1400 – 1600 AD), 1550 x 485 x 425mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Same River Twice, 2022, borer-ridden wooden shelf trolley, gold, painted wooden shape-sorter blocks (two sets laid out identically on separate shelves), 720 x 460 x 750mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Dog-God Cycle (detail), 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles, 3010 x 3930 x 40mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Dog-God Cycle, 2022, recombined jigsaw puzzles of: Stephan’s Quintet (2022), NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Rocky Mountain Landscape (1870), Albert Bierstadt, 3010 x 3930 x 40mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon-Pole, Porous World, 2022, Installation view, Michael Lett 3 East St

Zac Langdon Pole in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022

Zac Langdon Pole, Breath as Breath, 2020 (film, 11min 38secs). Music by Samuel Holloway. Exhibition view as seen in ‘Lines of Flight’ CIAP Vassiviere, photo by Aurélien Mole.

Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)

Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (v), 2018, paper nautilus shell, Sericho meteorite (iron pallasite, landsite: Sericho, Kenya) 107 x 33 x 56mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021

Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021

Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (3. Bones kiss sour air), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths, 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889

Zac Langdon-Pole, end of history, 2015, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, The Union Jack and the Southern Cross, by Miri Davidson, The New Inquiry, March 24 2015 Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main

Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux

Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouth (shell fossil), 2016, chrome mouth cast, chain, shell fossil, chain, shackles, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach,  2016

Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, Meine Bilder, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2014

Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm

Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012

Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012

Zac Langdon-Pole, T.O., 2012, found canvas, un-stretched, reversed and re-stretched, 868 x 744mm