Ry David Bradley: 2025 BC

14 Feb-8 Mar 2025

Overview

Carl Kostyál is delighted to present Ry David Bradley’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and his debut in London, ‘2025 BC’.

“A play on the future and the past, these works are a playful but technical investigation of what is possible in 2025 with new tools and new machines – but measured against history, a suite of Byzantine creatures and mythical beings"

– Ry David Bradley on ‘2025 BC’, 2025

Born in 1979 in Melbourne, now based in Paris, Ry David Bradley is known as one of the artists at the forefront of new artistic theories and practices. Exploring the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art and society, he creates digital tapestries which he calls ‘Classical Digital’, as they relate to both the past and the present. Bradley’s framed tapestries are woven from acrylic threads with a 1970s Japanese technique that succeeded in achieving the highest possible resolution of images in tapestry form before the advent of digital printing in the 1980s which made this analogue method obsolete. Although the tapestry appears black and white, it is in fact woven from coloured thread.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Stages’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2024); ‘Ry David Bradley’, Gana Art Nineone Museum, Seoul (2023); ‘Storage Wars’, The Hole, LA (2023); ‘Bots’, KIAF SEOUL, Carl Kostyál, Seoul (2022) and ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ with Oli Epp, Carl Kostyál, Hospitalet, Stockholm (2021). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Clear History’ curated by Oli Epp, Perrotin, Paris (2025); ‘Weaves’, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow (2024) and ‘Ry David Bradley & Jon Rafman: Letmein’, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2019)

Bradley’s work is in the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow and The Lyon Housemuseum, Lyon.