Nine Oils

Anna-Sophie Berger

Sanya Kantarovsky

Oliver Osborne

Minh-Lan Tran

Banks Violette

Francis Irv is pleased to present Nine Oils, a group exhibition. Nine Oils refers to a 19th century remedy comprised of nine disputed ingredients. A companion text by Paris J. B. Reid titled Spirit of Vitriol will accompany the exhibition.

Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Vienna) lives and works between Vienna and New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Mode und Tod, Layr, Vienna (2023); The Years, MAK Geymüllerschlössel, Vienna (2023); Wealth and Propriety, Lodos, Mexico City (2022); Sin, JTT, New York (2022); Duel, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2020); A Failed Play, Cell Project Space, London (2019); New York, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf (2017); Places to fight and make up, MUMOK, Vienna (2016); Billboards, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2016).

Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982, Moscow) lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include To Prison, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles (2023); After birth, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto (2023); A Solid House, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2022); Center, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2022); The House of the Spider, Modern Art, London (2021); Disease of the Eyes, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2018); Letdown, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2017).

Oliver Osborne (b. 1985, Edinburgh) lives and works in Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include Manganese Blue, Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (2023); Recent Painting, Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles (2023); Mantegna’s Dead Christ, Union Pacific, London (2022); Portrait of a Fat Man for Düsseldorf, JVDW, Düsseldorf (2022); Der Kleine Angsthase, Braunsfelder, Cologne (2020); Birth, Education, Leisure, Death, Giò Marconi, Milan (2019); Bonnie, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2018).

Minh-Lan Tran (b. 1997, Hong Kong) lives and works in Paris. Selected exhibitions solo exhibitions include Space of Resistance, Jan Kaps, Cologne (2023); Heat Generation, Harlesden High Street, London (2023); Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond (two-person show with Evelina Haggünd), Nicoletti Contemporary, London (2022).

Banks Violette (b. 1973, Ithaca) lives and works in Ithaca. Selected solo exhibitions include Gladstone 64, New York (2018); Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2012); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2011); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2010); Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle (2010); Espacio Arte Contemporáneo La Conservera, Ceutí, Spain (2009); Team Gallery, New York (2009); Maureen Paley, London (2008); Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2008); Focus: Banks Violette, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth (2008); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2007); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2005); Arroyo Grande, 7.22.95, Team Gallery, New York (2002).