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)
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)
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 Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
The work of Zac Langdon-Pole proposes unlikely juxtapositions: hybrid forms that bring divergent scales of time, materials and systems of knowledge into close proximity. Applying a tender scrutiny to the world around him, Langdon-Pole creates enigmatic artworks that trace the myriad historical forces that have deposited us into the present. His diverse approaches to making enable what the artist has called “ the transformative poetry of looking.”
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. In 2018 he was recipient of the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel and in 2017 he was awarded the Ars Viva Prize for outstanding young artists in Germany. His work has been exhibited at numerous prominent international venues, including: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Kunstverein Munich; Musée de l’Homme, Paris and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.
Recent projects include: The Drift of the World, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (CIAPV), Vassivière (2025-26); All The World’s Memories, University of New South Wales Galleries, Gadigal/Sydney (2026); The 11th Asia Pacific Tri-ennial, QAGOMA, Meanjin/Brisbane (2024-25); Chimera, presented at both Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane and Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke (2024); and Entity Studies at STATION, Sydney (2023).
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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