2023 Metis

The film's narrative follows the journey of the discovery of an unknown creature 'Metis' which had been lying dormant for…
2023 Model organism

Model Organism is a term which scientists use to describe creatures which are used as a basis for measure to test their methodologies.…
2023 Cryptid

Cryptid Text by Günseli Yalcinkaya “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. For the…
2023 Zoophyte

Zoophyte is an art installation dedicated to the rediscovery of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience that deals mainly with recovering…
2023 Feels Like Memeplex™

The exhibition, Feels Like Memeplex™, engineered by Omsk Social Club and Joey Holder, is an evolution of Memeplex™ - originally…
2022 The Waxing

The “compendious and occasionally accurate, glossary” of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy handbook offers some information…
2022 Æquator

Æquator means equator in Latin, which means ‘to make equal’. The installation is formed of two symmetrical grids, which house…
2021 Memeplex™

“I will start by telling you a little about Memeplex™. We are a neutral hospital that specialises in neuro ops… which means…
2021 Abyssal Seeker BZ

ἄβυσσος (abussos) = bottomless βένθος (benthos) = depth (of the sea) —refers to the lowest surface and…
2021 Abyssal Seeker DZ

Abyssal Seeker depicts a slow, aquatic journey to a fictional brine lake at the bottom of an unnamed ocean. Protagonists…
2020 Mana

Mana is the name given to a force or power which is said to permeate the entire universe in Austronesian language and culture.…
2020 Khthon

The Greek word khthon is one of several for "earth"; it typically refers to that which is under the earth, rather than the…
2019 Semelparous

Joey Holder presents Semelparous, a site-specific installation in the Pool and Spa of the now-closed Springhealth Leisure…
2018 The Evolution Of The Spermalege

Insects have some of the strangest mating practices in the animal kingdom, for example honey bees penises snap off and explode,…
2018 The Deep Belief Network

‘Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network’ is a series of installations developed across several sites, as well as a research and…
2017 Selachimorpha

Commissioned for Conspiracy Week at The Photographers Gallery (Media Wall), Joey Holder takes a particular scene from the…
2017 XGLULX: The Exegesis of Swamp Brain

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2016 Tetragrammaton

A dialogue between two artists on themes of myth, ritual and meaning, as much about their exhaustion and propensity to bewilderment…
2016 Ophiux

Ophiux gives a glimpse into a near future that whilst fictional, is not far from reality and is founded on current scientific…
2015 Feldspar (Hadal Zone)

Feldspar (Hadal Zone), 2015, references both the deep ocean - the Hadal Zone is the delineation for the deepest trenches…
2015 Lament of Ur

Lament of Ur is an exhibition by Joey Holder and Viktor Timofeev inspired by themes of entrapment, conspiracy theories and…

About

b. 1986, London, UK.
Lives and works between London and Helsinki.

Joey Holder is an artist whose work raises philosophical questions of our universe and things yet unknown, regarding the future of science, medicine, biology and human-machine interactions. Working with scientific and technical experts she makes immersive, multimedia installations that explore the limits of the human and how we experience non-human, natural and technological forms.

Selected Press

Art Monthly: Profile, Joey Holder by Tim Dixon
Artforum, Vol. 58, No. 10 - Gilda Williams on Joey Holder (July/August 2020)
Rhizome Artist Profile: Joey Holder by Jamie Sutcliffe
BOMB Magazine: Faith and Technology: Joey Holder Interviewed by Caroline Elbaor
Elephant: 5 Questions with Joey Holder
The Evening Standard: 'Conspiracy Week at The Photographers' Gallery: Pictures from a post-truth world' by Ben Luke
frieze: ‘The Mutants We Will Become’, Chris Fite-Wassilak
The Guardian: ‘DIY call centres and puppet shows help Athens Biennale fight the power’ by David Batty
Art Monthly: 'Art and the Chthulucene' by Jamie Sutcliffe
Dazed: ‘Mutant Hybrids’
MUTE: 'Mutatis Mutandis' by Josephine Berry Slater

Websites

www.theabyssalseeker.life
www.dark-creatures.com
www.wefadetogrey.co.uk
www.queeringnature.com
www.sushishhihuiiishii.com

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Upcoming

30 Sep 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 , Storm Warning, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK and Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, UK

6 Oct 2023 , Live A/V set for 33EMYBW, Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland (12 midnight)

6 Oct 2023 , Unsound Festival (Talk), Kraków, Poland (12 noon)

13 Oct 2023, Live AV set for 33EMYBW at Frieze (party), London

19 - 22 Oct 2023 , Solo booth (with Seventeen), Paris+ par Art Basel, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris

26 Oct - 17 Dec 2023 , Web to Verse, Group show at Modal Gallery, Manchester, UK

1 Nov 2023 , Artist Talk, University of Plymouth, UK

24 Nov 2023 - 17 Feb 2024 , Cryptid, Solo exhibition at Two Queens, Leicester, UK

9 Dec 2023 - 1 Mar 2024 , X Virtual, Solo exhibition at X Museum, Beijing

Past

9 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 , Feels Like Memeplex, KARST, UK

18 Mar - 11 Apr 2023 , THAW (Group Show), St Chads, London, UK.

26 - 27 Oct 2022 , The Waxing, Omsk Social Club and Joey Holder, 3hd Festival, Stiftung Planetarium, Berlin, Germany

1 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 , Jumping Frames Festival (Group Show), Hong Kong

27 May - 4 Sep 2022 , 2022 British Art Show, Castlefield Gallery, Touring, Manchester, UK.

5 May - 20 Jun 2021 , Abyssal Seeker, [Benthic Zone], FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic

14 Apr - 22 May 2021 , Abyssal Seeker, [Demersal Zone], Seventeen, London, UK

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