Max Couper Collection

Max Couper
Collection

Max Couper has shown extensively internationally & in London where he lived, worked & exhibited for 3 decades to 2014. He currently lives, works & exhibits in Sussex UK, whilst showing abroad.

In the Time of Covid Antwerp 2021

Solo exhibition of outfits, charts and models
Galerie Verbeeck Van Dyck Antwerp

Couper Collection Sussex 2021 - Ongoing

Max Couper artworks 1978-today, including charts, models, outfits, photos & documents. View in Hove Sussex by appointment.

Couper Collection London 1992 - 2014

River Thames Chelsea Reach London
6,500 m2 installation on 9 converted Thames lighters

Water Tractor 6-ton steel assemblage 2014. 1.5x8x8m

“It is highly desirable the collection be returned to the public domain”
Dr Chris Stephens, Lead Curator, Tate Britain, 9 Nov. 2015.

Fleeting Opera London 2000

Thames opera for Parliament and the riverside public
with The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet and Judi Dench
“Any opportunity to be part of Max Couper’s waterbourne opera …
I find irresistible.” Judi Dench 4 March 2000

Shrinking Beach London 2000

Dialectical artwork on the Thames Chelsea beach including British Army General,
Queen’s Chaplain, Amnesty International Secretary General, Bishop of Southwark
and Buddhist monk

Tug Print Hannover 1997

Imprint in clay of Couper’s 20 ton tug Pablo from London,
Sprengel Museum Hannover

The Steel Fulcrum Düsseldorf 1997

30-ton Thames lighter, balanced on a steel fulcrum
animated by the public inside, The City of Düsseldorf 1997

The Plot Antwerp 1996

Charts, assemblages, models and The Rudder performance
Solo exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp