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Berlin, Germany
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Drawing Sculpture
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Haus Huth, Alte Potsdamer Strasse 5 Berlin D-10785
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 41 420 Website
Hamburger Bahnhof
Paul Pfeiffer: the Saints
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 50-51 Berlin D-10557
Tel: +49 (0)30 3978 3412 Website
Echoing through the ordinarily hushed halls of the Hamburger Bahnhof come the competing sounds of “Rule Britannia” and “Deutschland über Alles”, as American artist Paul Pfeiffer launches his ArtAngel commission The Saints (video still shown right) in Germany. The sound and video installation focuses on the World Cup Final between England and Germany at Wembley in 1966. A constellation of speakers and screens relays the match and the reactions of the crowd, from tense anticipation to a deafening roar of mass celebration. Laid over the original crowd reactions are the passionate chants of a new set of spectators, a group of young Filipinos from Manila that the artist brought together to watch the match for the first time. For this German showing, Pfeiffer has added the original match commentary in English, adding a new layer of sound to the experience. Curator Britta Schmitz expects “a tremendous reaction” to the project, because the “memory of the loss is still so fresh” for Germans. (England won 4-2 after extra time.) Pfeiffer, who trained at Hunter College, New York, first realised the project in London in 2007, inspired by the opening of the new national stadium at Wembley. C.B.
The Saints (video still)
Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Julian Rosefeldt: American Night
Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, 2 Bonn D-53113
Tel: +49 (0)228 776 260 Website
Bregenz, Austria
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Tony Oursler: Lock 2, 4, 6
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Karl Tizian Platz, Postfach 371 Bregenz A-6901
Tel: +43 (0)557 448 5940 Website
Chicago, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Daria Martin: Minotaur
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig
Harun Farocki
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website
Detroit, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts
Action/Reaction: Video Installations
Dates: 3 Jul 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit 48202
Tel: +1 313 833 7900 Website
Dublin, Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Philippe Parreno
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website
While elements of this show have been exhibited earlier this year at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Kunsthalle Zurich, this version comes in a slightly different guise. The Algerian-born artist has worked closely with the museum’s director, Enrique Juncosa, and head of exhibitions, Rachel Thomas, to make use of the particular architectural spaces to present this show of 14 works. There are site-specific works tailored to the show, such as Orange Bay (After Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment of Future History), 2002-09, “an orange Plexiglas work covering all of the windows in the galleries so that all works will be seen in an orange glow”, said Thomas. The show is supported by L’Ambassade de France en Irelande.
The Boy from Mars, 2003.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dean Gallery
Running Time
Artist Films in Scotland: 1960 to Now
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: 73 Belford Road Edinburgh EH4 3DS
Tel: +44 (0)131 624 6200 Website
Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Anhava
Marko Vuokola
Dates: 29 Oct 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Video & New Media
Address: Mannerheiminaukio 3 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 669989 Website
Indianapolis, USA
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)
Julie Dash: Smuggling Daydreams into Reality
Dates: 8 Aug 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis 46208-3326
Tel: +1 317 923 1331 Website
Innsbruck, Austria
Kunstraum Innsbruck
Carsten Nicolai
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Maria Theresien Str. 34, Arkadenhof Innsbruck A-6020
Tel: +43-512-584000 Website
German artist and musician Carsten Nicolai’s work is concerned with scientific experiments involving sound, light and space. The main presentation is four 2009 works from the “Aoyama Space” series. The name derives from a photographic studio in Tokyo’s Aoyama district, in which there is a concave room designed to create a seemingly endless space. Nicolai’s “Aoyama Space” works act as scaled down models of imaginary room installations, replicating the curved edges of the studio. In each case, a box is illuminated by a light triggered by specially composed electronic sounds.
Also on show are 48 prints from the “Fades Stills” series of 2006, the images taken from his “Fades” video and sound installation, in which beams of white light are projected to create a light sculpture that moves in synch with the sound. Nicolai is also showing another installation work involving sound, Invertone, 2007. Two loudspeakers emit white noise in a room whose walls are coated with sound-absorbing acoustic foam. If the viewer stands directly between the two speakers, the soundwaves erase each other, but at all other points in the room the sound can be heard.
The show, curated by Kunstraum Innsbruck director Stefan Bidner and Innsbruck artist Christoph Hinterhuber, has been staged in collaboration with the Innsbruck organisation Medien Kunst Tirol. On 7 November, Nicolai will be performing under his musician identity, Alva Noto, with a live sound and video event at the Innsbruck venue Max Events and Culture. Rosie Spencer
Aoyama Space no.2, 2009
Ithaca, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Selected film and video works by Gordon Matta-Clark
Dates: 12 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Cornell University Ithaca 14853
Tel: +1 607 255 6464 Website
Karlsruhe, Germany
ZKM Centre for Art and Media
Produced at ZKM: Media Art Revisited
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lorenzstrasse 9 Karlsruhe D-76135
Tel: +49 (0)721 8100 1200 Website
Imagining Media
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 21 Dec 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lorenzstrasse 9 Karlsruhe D-76135
Tel: +49 (0)721 8100 1200 Website
Leon, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MU
Ugo Rondinone: the Night of Lead
Dates: 11 Jul 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24 Leon 24008
Tel: +34 987 09 00 00 Website
Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone’s only museum show of 2009 is also his solo debut in Spain. Curated by Augustín Pérez Rubio, Musac’s acting director, the show encompasses many aspects of Rondinone’s eclectic practice—with sculpture, painting, video, collage and installation—and consists of more than 50 objects arranged across five rooms. “He’s never shown anything in Spain, so that’s why it’s such a huge presentation,” Mr Rubio told The Art Newspaper.
The overriding theme is of fantasy, poetry and ritual, and the exhibition begins with an installation of six ancient olive trees, painted white. This is a new version of Get Up Girl a Sun is Running the World shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale when Rondinone represented Switzerland with Urs Fischer. Because of the generous scale of Musac’s exhibition spaces, the trees reach up to 4.5 metres in height, compared to the three-metre forms in Venice. In the centre a giant sculpture of a light bulb hangs from the ceiling, and strong white light fills the room to create the sensation of “white night”, says Mr Rubio. In another room Rondinone is showing his Star paintings, a brand new series of 13 works, all around 4x3 metres. “He wants to install them altogether as a tribute to Rothko’s chapel,” Mr Rubio told TAN. “Each painting is like a cosmos, showing the stars by night. He wanted to create the feeling of night and loneliness, and in the middle of the room is the sculpture of a clown lying on the floor. For Ugo, the idea of the clown is somebody who looks human but is also a creation. You never know if it’s a man or a woman—it’s like a human being in process.” In the final room is Still.Life (John’s Fireplace), a 2008 installation showing a replica of US poet John Giorno’s fireplace from his apartment in New York. Poetry is a strong influence: the show weaves together disparate elements that build up poetic layers of symbolism and personal narrative, at times menacing, at times more dreamlike.
On a different register, one of Rondinone’s bright rainbow sculptures, Hell, Yes!, 2001, adorns the façade of the New Museum, New York, until 19 July. Rosie Spencer
Get Up Girl a Sun is Running the World
London, United Kingdom
Chisenhale Gallery
Duncan Campbell
Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 20 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 64 Chisenhale Road London E3 5QZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8981 4518 Website
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Of Dreams and Cities - Architecture in Film
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Design
Video & New Media
Address: 66 Portland Place London W1N 4AD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 4389 Website
Manchester, United Kingdom
Whitworth Art Gallery
The Complete Roberta Breitmore: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7450 Website
Miami, USA
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
Sculpture & Video: New Additions to the Collection including Franz West, Sara Barker, Zilvinas Kempinas, Ivan Navarro & Bill Viola
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 25 Apr 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 591 Northwest 27th Street Miami 33127
Tel: +1 305 576 1051 Website
Munich, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne
Thomas Steffl: Naked Nation
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Barer Strasse 29 Munich D-80333
Tel: +49 (0)89 23 805 280 Website
New York, USA
Asia Society
Performa 09
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 725 Park Avenue New York 10021
Tel: +1 212 288 6400 Website
Performa 09 is the third biennial of new visual art performance, held in collaboration with 80 institutions, and featuring more than 150 international artists in about 110 events organised by 40 international curators—all in just three weeks.
That dizzying set of statistics is being overseen by director RoseLee Goldberg, who set up the non-profit arts organisation Performa in 2004 and has done much to bring performance art and its history to the fore, as much through her writings as through her teaching and curatorial work, turning the public eye on to such performance artists as Marina Abramovic and Laurie Anderson.
“The major difference for Performa 09 compared with previous biennials is that we’re commissioning from all disciplines, encompassing art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, design, food—it’s crossing all disciplines, and that is the big leap forward this year,” said Goldberg. Her major contribution this year is the “Performa Commissions” series, which forms the nerve centre of the biennial, alongside, for the first time, a “Performa Premieres” programme featuring six pieces never before seen in New York.
The 11 new commissions are by Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Omer Fast, Yeondoo Jung, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Futurist Life Redux and Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners (a group of experimental musicians and composers).
South African video and installation artist Candice Breitz is presenting New York New York, 2009, her first live performance work. The piece features two casts, made up of identical twins performing on identical sets, spontaneously responding to scripts given to them on the spot. Unlike the performers, viewers will be able to take in both performances in real time.
Other highlights in this programme include Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician, 2009, at the Asia Society—a theatre piece, commissioned with the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology, that looks at the relationship between magic and cinema—and Omer Fast’s first live performance piece, commissioned with the Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, which looks at history and memory through the re-enaction of a childhood storytelling game.
The six artists chosen for the “Performa Premieres” programme are Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, Loris Gréaud, William Kentridge and Joan Jonas. British artist Tacita Dean is presenting Craneway Event, 2009, at Danspace Project in the Bowery. This feature-length work shows the choreographer Merce Cunningham and his company in rehearsal in a deserted Ford motor factory in California, marking Cunningham’s last appearance on film before his death in July. South African artist William Kentridge is showing I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, 2009, a work related to his current opera-in-progress inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1928 satirical opera “The Nose”, and French artist Loris Gréaud is showing a video of a fireworks display in Abu Dhabi that he co-designed with Groupe F.
There are related events across the city involving architecture, design, dance, film, music and food. Berlin-based architecture collective An Architektur is creating a “living think-tank” about the future of architecture in New York, Spanish designer Marti Guixé is staging Mealing, a three-hour performance involving 200 people and “edible microsnacks”, and Jennifer Rubell stages Creation on the opening night of the biennial, with a series of food installations at X Initiative.
Rosie Spencer
A performance still from the Korean artist Yeondoo Jung’s theatrical work Cinemagician, showing at the Asia Society, New York
International Center of Photography (ICP)
The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Biennials
Address: 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York 10036
Tel: +1 212 857 0045 Website
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Looking at Music: Side 2
Dates: 17 Jun 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11 West 53rd Street New York 10019-5497
Tel: +1 212 708 9400 Website
NewYork, USA
Performa
Performa 09
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Various venues NewYork
Tel: Website
P erforma 09 is the third biennial of new visual art performance, held in collaboration with 80 institutions, and featuring more than 150 international artists in about 110 events organised by 40 international curators—all in just three weeks.
That dizzying set of statistics is being overseen by director RoseLee Goldberg, who set up the non-profit arts organisation Performa in 2004 and has done much to bring performance art and its history to the fore, as much through her writings as through her teaching and curatorial work, turning the public eye on to such performance artists as Marina Abramovic and Laurie Anderson.
“The major difference for Performa 09 compared with previous biennials is that we’re commissioning from all disciplines, encompassing art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, design, food—it’s crossing all disciplines, and that is the big leap forward this year,” said Goldberg. Her major contribution this year is the “Performa Commissions” series, which forms the nerve centre of the biennial, alongside, for the first time, a “Performa Premieres” programme featuring six pieces never before seen in New York.
The 11 new commissions are by Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Omer Fast, Yeondoo Jung, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Futurist Life Redux and Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners (a group of experimental musicians and composers).
South African video and installation artist Candice Breitz is presenting New York New York, 2009, her first live performance work. The piece features two casts, made up of identical twins performing on identical sets, spontaneously responding to scripts given to them on the spot. Unlike the performers, viewers will be able to take in both performances in real time.
Other highlights in this programme include Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician, 2009, at the Asia Society—a theatre piece, commissioned with the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology, that looks at the relationship between magic and cinema—and Omer Fast’s first live performance piece, commissioned with the Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, which looks at history and memory through the re-enaction of a childhood storytelling game.
The six artists chosen for the “Performa Premieres” programme are Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, Loris Gréaud, William Kentridge and Joan Jonas. British artist Tacita Dean is presenting Craneway Event, 2009, at Danspace Project in the Bowery. This feature-length work shows the choreographer Merce Cunningham and his company in rehearsal in a deserted Ford motor factory in California, marking Cunningham’s last appearance on film before his death in July. South African artist William Kentridge is showing I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, 2009, a work related to his current opera-in-progress inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1928 satirical opera “The Nose”, and French artist Loris Gréaud is showing a video of a fireworks display in Abu Dhabi that he co-designed with Groupe F.
There are related events across the city involving architecture, design, dance, film, music and food. Berlin-based architecture collective An Architektur is creating a “living think-tank” about the future of architecture in New York, Spanish designer Marti Guixé is staging Mealing, a three-hour performance involving 200 people and “edible microsnacks”, and Jennifer Rubell stages Creation on the opening night of the biennial, with a series of food installations at X Initiative.
Rosie Spencer
A performance still from the Korean artist Yeondoo Jung’s theatrical work Cinemagician, showing at the Asia Society, New York, as part of Performa 09
Otterlo, Netherlands
Kröller-Müller Museum
Club Mama Gemütlich: Christiaan Bastiaans
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: Houtkampweg 6 Otterlo 6731 AW
Tel: +31 (0)31 859 1241 Website
Paris, France
Centre Pompidou
The Subversion of Images
Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Video & New Media
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Institut du Monde Arabe
Palestine: Creation In All Its States
Dates: 23 Jun 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website
This year saw important developments in the field of Middle Eastern contemporary art, as established and up-and-coming artists from the region followed in the footsteps of their Chinese and Russian counterparts in capturing the attention of international collectors and sellers. Charles Saatchi stamped a seal of approval on the field with his exhibition “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East”.
Amid the furore, the voice of Palestinian artists is rising. This month, for the first time, the territories will be represented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in an exciting exhibition that, according to curator Salwa Mikdadi, “underscores the chronic impermanence faced by Palestinian artists”.
Within this context, the exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) could not be more timely. For 20 years, the IMA has sought to convey the importance and breadth of contemporary Arab art, becoming a crucial platform between two cultures. This show brings together the work of 19 artists, men and women, across generations, working in varying techniques, living and locally or abroad, who commune in a Palestinian aesthetic forged in exile and displacement.
Taysir Batniji and Khalil Rabah, two artists who are showing in Venice, explore these themes respectively in a series of 26 photographs, Miradors, 2008 and United States of Palestine Airlines, London Office, 2007, and Mona Hatoum is represented by Every Door a Wall, 2003, which describes through silkscreen the plight of illegal immigrants smuggled inside a truck.
The media – from drawings and paintings, photography, video and installation art – mix with ease, and in the breadth of the curatorial choice, we are provided with an interesting overview of the state of Palestinian art in the 21st century. Caroline Cardon
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website
Philadelphia, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Video Art: Replay
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 1 Aug 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: University of Pennsylvania 118 South 36th Street Philadelphia 19104-3289
Tel: +1 215 898 5911 Website
Dance with Camera
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 21 Mar 10
Categories: Photography
Video & New Media
Address: University of Pennsylvania 118 South 36th Street Philadelphia 19104-3289
Tel: +1 215 898 5911 Website
Salzburg, Austria
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
Donations by Thaddaeus Ropac
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Mönchsberg 32 Salzburg 5020
Tel: +43 (0)662 8422 20401 Website
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg has 25 reasons to cheer Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s anniversary after the dealer’s donation of 25 works—one for each year—to the museum. “We thought it was more interesting to give works to Salzburg than organise a self-celebratory gallery show,” said Ropac, who invited museum director Toni Stooss to visit studios and choose from the gallery inventory in order to make the selection. The resulting exhibition comprises new and recent work by gallery artists, focusing on work by artists from German-speaking countries, based on the focus of the museum’s existing collection. The show, at the Mönchsberg site, includes two Georg Baselitz drawings, a recent Anselm Kiefer work, an Elger Esser photograph, paintings by Lisa Ruyter, Hubert Scheibl and Bernhard Martin, a video installation by Harun Farocki and sculptures by Sylvie Fleury and Erwin Wurm.
Gerwald Rockenschaub, Untitled, 2006.
San Diego, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Downtown)
Joan Jonas: the Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Dates: 1 Aug 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Video & New Media
Address: 1001 Kettner at Broadway San Diego 92101
Tel: +1 858 454 3541 Website
Shanghai, China
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA)
Animamix Biennial 2009-10
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: People’s Park, Gate 7, 231 Nanjing West Road Shanghai 200003
Tel: +86 21 6327 9900 Website
Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Video Swell
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Art Gallery Road, The Domain Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: +61 (0)2 9225 1700 Website
Powerhouse Museum
Artefact H10515
Dates: 8 Sep 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: 500 Harris Street Ultimo Sydney NSW 2007
Tel: +61 (0)2 9217 0111 Website
Toronto, Canada
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Candice Breitz
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 231 Queens Quay West Toronto M55 2G8
Tel: +1 416 973 4949 Website
Venice, Italy
Palazzo Grassi
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection
Dates: 7 Jun 09 - 31 Dec 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Campo San Samuele, 3231 Venice 30124
Tel: +39 (0)41 5231680 Website
After a year and a half of renovation works, French magnate François Pinault inaugurates the new exhibition space at Punta della Dogana with a permanent show that includes about 300 works selected from his vast collection of contemporary art, also displayed in Palazzo Grassi.
The title “Mapping the Studio” takes direct inspiration from the influential video installation by Bruce Nauman, 2001, and reflects on Pinault’s choices as a collector, as he stated: “Its aim is to explore the individual course followed by a collector for whom the acquisition of works of art has meant becoming closely associated with the creative process of the individual artists themselves. Obviously this means running certain risks and making certain choices, one of them being the very decision to share one’s passions and ideas with the public at large.”
Pinault and the exhibition curators (Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami) selected works by some of the best-known artists of the past 40 years, including Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Cy Twombly and Takashi Murakami, but also featuring emerging artists such as Matthew Day Jackson, Adel Abdessemed, Richard Hughes, and Kai Althoff.
Created in partnership with the City of Venice, the project of Punta della Dogana was supervised by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and the total cost of the structural restoration was 20m euros. The contest for the creation of a centre for contemporary art was launched in July 2006 and saw the main contenders, Palazzo Grassi and the Guggenheim Foundation, engaged in a strenuous battle in order to expand their influence on Venice. The space of the ancient customs building has been re-designed in order to accommodate part of Pinault collection, and as a pendant to Palazzo Grassi, which re-opened in 2006 after extensive works. Giovanna Paterno
Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Wien
Videorama: Art Clips from Austria
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Museumsplatz 1 Vienna A-1070
Tel: +43 (0) 1 521 8922 Website
West Palm Beach, USA
Norton Museum of Art
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1451 South Olive Avenue West Palm Beach 33401
Tel: +1 561 832 5196 Website
Zurich, Switzerland
Migros Museum
A Short History of Animation
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Limmatstrasse 270 Zurich CH-8005
Tel: +41 (0)1 2772050 Website
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