Tacita Dean: FILM

Tacita Dean is a British European artist born in 1965 in Canterbury who lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. Over three decades, her multidisciplinary practice has centered on motion picture film as its primary medium, employing Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm formats to investigate subjects and themes suited to analog cinema's distinctive capability to materialize subjective, fleeting experiences. Her work revives and reconceives obsolete silent film techniques—glass matte painting, gate masking, anamorphic lens manipulation, and in-camera superimposition—to create immersive installations that privilege the handmade, photochemical processes impossible to replicate digitally. Dean has received the Queen Sonja Print Award (2026), Kurt Schwitters Prize (2009), Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim (2006), and the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her solo exhibitions span major institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Menil Collection, and Tate Modern.