Ballroom Marfa was thrilled to host a solo exhibition by one of the foremost painters of our times, the Scottish-native, Trinidadian resident, Peter Doig. Over eighty of Doig’s film posters from the Rheingold and Ringier collections were included in the exhibition at Ballroom, as well as posters from the artist’s personal collection. Doig created each of these works for his ongoing STUDIOFILMCLUB, co-organized by Trinidadian artist-peer, Che Lovelace. 

In 2005 the Museum Ludwig, Köln and Kunsthalle Zürich devoted major exhibitions entirely to the STUDIOFILMCLUB works and in 2006 a small selection of Doig’s posters were included in the Whitney Biennial but Ballroom’s show was the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s STUDIOFILMCLUB posters to date to be presented in the United States. The exhibition at Ballroom showcased over eighty works in total, dating from 2003 through 2006.

Doig and Lovelace co-founded STUDIOFILMCLUB in February 2003 in response to the absence of an arthouse cinema and a subsequent lack of film diversity in their home of Port-of-Spain. STUDIOFILMCLUB’s base was set up in Doig’s studio and the artists’ choice of films is as democratic as the atmosphere. Titles range from Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl (2000) and Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) to Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express (1994). An oil painted poster by Doig — often done that very day — announces each evening’s screening. 

In conjunction with Peter Doig: STUDIOFILMCLUB 2003 – 2006, Berlin and Hamburg-based artist Jonathan Meese did a special performance at Ballroom on the evening of Thursday, 28 September 2006. Meese is renowned for his paintings and sculptures, and his practice at times combines these along with photography, installation, and performance in an all-encompassing performance theatre. 

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