Langlands & Bell

For us, architecture is a way of getting to grips with who we are as people on the personal level, the social level and the cultural level.

Ben Langlands via Dezeen.com, 2022

Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell (1955 and 1959, United Kingdom) explore the complex web of relationships linking people and architecture and the coded systems of mass-communications and exchange we use to negotiate a fast changing technological world. Their art ranges from film and digital media projects to sculpture, installation, and full-scale architecture. It focuses on the structures we inhabit and the networks that penetrate and link them, while reflecting at a wider global level on the many ways space is encoded as social, political or economic territory.

Artist Background

Langlands & Bell began their collaboration in 1978 while still at art school in London. They are based in London and Kent, (UK), and have exhibited widely internationally since the early 1980s. In 2002, Langlands & Bell were commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London (UK), to research The Aftermath of September 11 and the War in Afghanistan. They were awarded a BAFTA and shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Their work is held in a large number of international museum collections including: Arts Council of England, London (UK); Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (UK); Saatchi Collection, London (UK); Tate, London (UK); New British Embassy, Moscow (RU); Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (FI); Norwegian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (NO); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (US).

Artist Website

http://www.langlandsandbell.com/

Langlands & Bell | UNO City | 1990
Embossing | 71 × 74 CM

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