Aleks Danko b. 1950

Also known as Aleksander Danko
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
One of Australia's leading conceptual artists, the South Australian born Danko has always been concerned with process as much as the objects eventually (or ephemerally) created.
Tags: Object, Conceptual art
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Citations

  • Thomas, Daniel & McCarthy, Frances (1973), 'Recent Australian Art’.

  • Phipps, Jennifer (November 1975), 'Project 9: Documents, Film, Video’.

Initial data sources

  • Art Gallery of South Australia

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Related events
  • Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, Go Back to Sleep (exhibited at)
  • Liverpool Biennial (exhibited at)
  • Project 9: Documents, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Project 3: Objects (exhibited at)
  • Object and Idea: New Work by Australian Artists (exhibited at)
  • 'Sculpturscape '73', 5th Mildura Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia Vol 9: Uh-oh the Chinese are coming (take-away mix) (Contemporary project series) (exhibited at)
  • Uh-oh (exhibited at)
  • Aleks Danko: zen made in Australia (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia volume 7 (this is as good as it gets) (exhibited at)
  • Contempora Fellowship 2002-2004: Aleks Danko: Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, go back to sleep (an unAustralian dob-in mix) (exhibited at)
  • What are you doing boy? (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia, volume 12: warning, cardiac at rest. (exhibited at)
  • Harvest: Aleks Danko with Micky Allan (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Now (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • The Joe Bonomo Show: A Show of Strength (participated in)
  • The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta 1999: Talkback (exhibited at)
  • Australian and New Zealand Post-Object Show- A Survey (exhibited at)
  • "Post-Object Show" Revisited (exhibited at)
  • Events/Structures (performed at)
  • A programme of exhibitions 1 (exhibited at)
  • Sculpture 1970: the fourth Mildura Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Born to concrete: the Heide collection (exhibited at)
  • Soft Riots (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists) (exhibited at)
  • Event (participated in)
  • Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, Go Back to Sleep (exhibited at)
  • Liverpool Biennial (exhibited at)
  • Project 9: Documents, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Project 3: Objects (exhibited at)
  • Object and Idea: New Work by Australian Artists (exhibited at)
  • 'Sculpturscape '73', 5th Mildura Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia Vol 9: Uh-oh the Chinese are coming (take-away mix) (Contemporary project series) (exhibited at)
  • Uh-oh (exhibited at)
  • Aleks Danko: zen made in Australia (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia volume 7 (this is as good as it gets) (exhibited at)
  • Contempora Fellowship 2002-2004: Aleks Danko: Songs of Australia Volume 16 - Shhh, go back to sleep (an unAustralian dob-in mix) (exhibited at)
  • What are you doing boy? (exhibited at)
  • Songs of Australia, volume 12: warning, cardiac at rest. (exhibited at)
  • Harvest: Aleks Danko with Micky Allan (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Now (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • The Joe Bonomo Show: A Show of Strength (participated in)
  • The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta 1999: Talkback (exhibited at)
  • Australian and New Zealand Post-Object Show- A Survey (exhibited at)
  • "Post-Object Show" Revisited (exhibited at)
  • Events/Structures (performed at)
  • A programme of exhibitions 1 (exhibited at)
  • Sculpture 1970: the fourth Mildura Sculpture Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Born to concrete: the Heide collection (exhibited at)
  • Soft Riots (exhibited at)
  • John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists) (exhibited at)