Chris Newman -

The first exhibition at the MMK 2 – "Boom She Boom: Works from the MMK Collection" is devoted to women artists in the MMK collection. Among Germany’s contemporary art museums, the MMK is unique in that, from its founding in 1991 to the present, it has directed special attention to the strong contributions of women artists of the past decades.
A survey of the purchases made over the past years strikingly mirrors the fact that women artists account for a very large number of the MMK collection’s recent acquisitions. Major works by Vanessa Beecroft, Rineke Dijkstra, Teresa Margolles, Sarah Morris, Taryn Simon and others mark significant expansions of the collection, which more recently has been enhanced with workgroups by women presently in the limelight of the international art world, for example Andrea Büttner, Jewyo Rhij, Dayanita Singh and Dolores Zinny. From the beginning, the MMK has also devoted itself to the Frankfurt art scene, and here as well the museum’s holdings are enriched by such individualist and radical perspectives as that of Anne Imhof, Franziska Kneidl and Adrian Williams.
The exhibition title “Boom She Boom” quotes the sensationally successful doo-wop song of 1954 by the Chords, which has undergone many reinterpretations since that time.

Jo Baer - Vanessa Beecroft - Shannon Bool - Andrea Büttner - Vija Celmins - Hanne Darboven - Rineke Dijkstra - Marlène Dumas - Parastou Forouhar - Katharina Fritsch - Isa Genzken - Tamara Grčić - Bethan Huws - Anne Imhof - Barbara Klemm - Eva Kotátková - Franziska Kneidl - Teresa Margolles - Sarah Morris - Cady Noland - Anja Niedringhaus - Christa Näher - Charlotte Posenenske - Jewyo Rhii - Taryn Simon - [Elaine Frances Sturtevant] Sturtevant - Rosemarie Trockel - Adrian Williams -
Curator Susanne Gaensheimer - Peter Gorschlüter -

This major exhibition surveying Richard Tuttle’s career from the 1960s to today. He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as 'Purple Octagonal' (1967), as well as making provocative sculptures such as 'Third Rope Piece' (1974), the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Showcasing works selected in close dialogue with the artist the exhibition centers on his use of fiber, thread and textile and offers a fascinating introduction to Tuttle’s influential body of work. The exhibition will include 'Looking for the Map 8', (2013-14), a new work shown in the UK for the first time on display alongside works made in situ by the artist such as the re-making of the key sculpture 'Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself' (1972) as well as international loans from museums and private collections.

Alongside this exhibition, Tate Modern will present a newly commissioned sculpture in its iconic Turbine Hall from 14 October 2014 to 6 April 2015. Principally constructed of fabric, it will be the largest work ever created by the artist, measuring over 12 m in height.

A new book is part of this project, drawing on Tuttle’s knowledge as a longstanding collector of textiles from around the world. It includes contributions by the artist, by Magnus af Petersens, Whitechapel Gallery, and Achim Borchardt-Hume, Tate Modern.

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Curator Magnus af Petersens -

Maureen Paley is pleased to present the sixth solo exhibition by Gillian Wearing at the gallery.

Her new single-screen video work 'We Are Here' sees the artist return to the area in and around Sandwell where she grew up. In the video people from the West Midlands present a series of monologues, speaking as if they have returned from the grave. The concept for 'We Are Here' is taken from American poet Edgar Lee Masters' book Spoon River Anthology (1915). In this book people who lived by Spoon River (that ran close to the poet's hometown) rise up from the grave and talk about their lives, regrets, losses and memories.

'We Are Here' received it’s UK premier in Gillian Wearing’s solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. The exhibition opened on 17 July and runs until 12 October 2014. Regen Projects, Los Angeles will host the US premiere of the film in a solo Show, 11.12.2014 - 24.012015.

'We Are Here' was made with the assistance of Outset Contemporary Art Fund and the Art Fund with additional support from the artist, Maureen Paley, Shaun Regen and Tanya Bonakdar.

Gillian Wearing has been nominated for The Vincent Award 2014 along with Pierre Huyghe, Manfred Pernice, Willem de Rooij and Anri Sala. The Vincent Award is currently on show at The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, 05.09. 2014 to 01.02.2015.

Wearing’s public sculpture A Real Birmingham Family will be unveiled in Centenary Square, Birmingham, on October 30, 2014.

Gillian Wearing -

The exhibition is the first large-scale survey in a United States museum dedicated to the history of the experimental German artists’ group Zero (1957–66) and ZERO, an international network of artists that shared the group’s aspiration to redefine and transform art in the aftermath of World War II. The exhibition features work by the three core members of Group Zero—Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker—and by more than 30 artists from 10 countries who comprised the larger ZERO network, including Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and herman de vries. These artists found common cause in the desire to use novel materials drawn from everyday life, nature, and technology and to develop innovative techniques and formats such as room-scaled installations, kinetic artworks, and live art actions. Focusing on the points of intersection, exchange, and collaboration that define the ZERO artists’ shared history, the exhibition is at once a snapshot of a specific group and a portrait of a generation. ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s celebrates the pioneering nature of ZERO art and the transnational vision advanced by this network of artists during a pivotal decade.

A fully illustrated 244-page catalogue accompanies ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s. Available at the museum shop and online at guggenheimstore.org and distributed in the United States through ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

[Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker] ZERO - Lucio Fontana - Yves Klein - Yayoi Kusama - Piero Manzoni - Almir da Silva Mavignier - Jesús Raphaël Soto - Jean Tinguely - Herman de Vries - [Armand Pierre Fernandez] Arman - [Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd] Armando - Bernard Aubertin - Agostino Bonalumi - Robert C. Breer - Pol Bury - Enrico Castellani - Gianni Colombo - [Eduarda Emilia Maino] Dadamaino - Paul de Vree - Piero Dorazio - Hermann Goepfert - Gerhard von Graevenitz - Gotthard Graubner - Jan Henderikse - Paul van Hoeydonck - Oskar Holweck - Walter LeBlanc - Adolf Luther - Christian Megert - Henk Peeters - Uli Pohl - George Rickey - Dieter (Diter Rot) Roth - Jan [Johannes Jacobus] Schoonhoven - Daniel [Daniel Isaac Feinstein] Spoerri - Jef [Josef-Bernard] Verheyen - Nanda Vigo -
Curator Valerie Hillings -

The theme of The Sea is as immense as the sea itself. It is not, however, a motif that has attracted very many visual artists. Landscapes have been the preferred motif by far. Denmark has been and is still considered a sea-faring nation. The entire country borders on sea or fjords. The Vikings ventured into the world on expeditions of conquest, and later we gradually acquired a navy as well as a merchant fleet. Today Denmark builds some of the largest container ships in the world, and in certain parts of the country, sections of the population still make a living by fishing.

In The Sea we will focus on a few subordinate themes offering different tales of our relationship to the powerful sea, historically as well as from a contemporary angle. The exhibition will start off with a selection of sea battles such as C. A. Lorentzen’s dramatic painting, “The Battle of Copenhagen”, and C. W. Eckerberg’s beautiful seascapes. These will be followed by photographs by the Frenchman Gustave Le Gray, who, as early as the 1850s, took pictures of the sea breaking, as did his American colleague Thomas Joshua Cooper a hundred years later. A special part of the exhibition will be dedicated to the highly dramatic aspects of the mighty forces of nature and man’s fascination with them.

Else Alfelt - Anna Kirstine Ancher - Michael Peter Ancher - Hans Op de Beeck - Carl Bille - Christian Vigilius Blache - Carl Baagøe - Helge Bertram - Oscar Gustaf Björck - Thomas Joshua Cooper - Gustave Doré - Holger Drachmann - Dankvart Dreyer - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg - Torben Eskerod - Elliott Erwitt - Palle From - Fritz Henle - Jacob Hashimoto - Einar Hein - Valdemar Irminger - Viggo Johansen - Ruprecht von Kaufmann - Christian Krohg - Peder Severin Krøyer - Vilhelm Kyhn - Johannes Larsen - Carl Ludwig Locher - Gerhard Mantz - Michael Marten - Anton Melbye - Vilhelm Melbye - Anna Elisabeth Munch - Ulrik Møller - F. A. Mølsted - Carl Neumann - Thorvald Simon Niss - Pipilotti Rist - Paul Pfeiffer - Carl Rasmussen - Vilhelm Jacob Rosenstand - [Allan Sekula *1951 & Noël Burch *1932] Sekula & Burch - Fritz Syberg - Jens Andersen Søndergaard - Frits [Johan Frederik] Thaulow - Ernst Zeuthen - Bill Viola - Massimo Vitali - Sigurd Wandel - Johannes Martin Fasting Wilhjelm - Flaske Peter -
Curator Lene Burkard -

Australian artist Anthony White debuts in Paris

Le Pave D’Orsay presents the work of Australian painter Anthony White in his first Parisian solo show.
Drawing from diverse travels from the Leipzig winter of 2010 to the initial experience on artist studio residency in Paris from 2009, the Paris based non-profit 
Le Pave D’Orsay presents a survey of the artist’s practice from the years 2008 - 2014 including collages, paintings and two distinct strands of abstraction. This broad overview of twenty two pieces encompass work that the artist has completed whilst on residency programmes throught out the United States and Europe.

White has been exhibiting internationally in over 35 group shows since 2006 including The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong, Tim Olsen Gallery – Sydney and the COMODAA Gallery in London. 

White’s work has been well received by the art world and widely collected. As the recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship during 2007 he participated in further study at the New York Studio School, NY. He has also received new work commissions for the costume designer Catherine Martin.

Anthony White is represented by The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong and Roberta Moore, London

An accompanying catalogue is available upon request.

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The exhibition "Late Harvest" explores the human relationship with the wild world. The exhibition juxtaposes traditional wildlife painting with contemporary art using taxidermy and features almost 90 works by 37 artists.

Canonical wildlife paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are juxtaposed with contemporary art that incorporates taxidermy. The energy resulting from this contrast encourages dialogue regarding human-animal relationships.
What the range of artistic strategies have in common is a celebration of the beauty of animals. Each approach reflects the desire to rejoin our simpler and more honest animal natures and to live in harmony with the natural world. Both modes of expression assert the importance of our encounters with animals as a way of understanding our place in the world. All of these artistic practices reflect human fascination with animals, an interest that spans millennia.

The contemporary art in "Late Harvest" is rife with tensions that arise because these artists use taxidermy (Lit.: Rachel Poliquin) in an unexpected manner. Using taxidermy as a contemporary art material makes it neither utilitarian nor decorative, and the taxidermy itself becomes divorced from the didactic and scientific classification systems of natural history museums. Contemporary artists raise questions and challenge traditional notions about the hierarchical relationships between humans and animals.

Catalog by Hirmer Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-7774-2350-0

Richard Ansdell - David Brooks - George Elmer Browne - Berlinde de Bruyckere - Petah Coyne - Kate Clark - Wim Delvoye - Mark Dion - [Michael Elmgreen *1961, Ingar Dragset *1969] Elmgreen & Dragset - Carlee Fernandez - Richard Friese - François Furet - Nicholas Galanin - George Bouverie Goddard - Damien Hirst - William Hollywood - [Afke Golsteijn & Floris Bakker] Idiots - Robert Kuhn - Wilhelm Kuhnert - Bruno Andreas Liljefors - Polly Morgan - John Newsom - [Tim Noble *1966 & Sue Webster *1967] Noble & Webster - Walter Robinson - Georges-Frederic Rotig - Carl Rungius - Yinka Shonibare - David Shrigley - [Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson] Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson - Amy Stein - Archibald Thorburn - Mary Tsiongas - Joseph Wolf - Brigitte Zieger - Andrew Zuckerman - Ray Ching - Alfred von Kowalski-Wierusz -
Curator JoAnne Northrup - Adam Duncan Harris -

Subodh Gupta attained international fame with his large-scale installations of shiny stainless steel vessels and his sculptures consisting of countless worn-out dishes and other items of everyday use in India. The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst is now staging the artist’s most extensive solo presentation in Europe to date with sculptures, paintings, videos and performative works from all phases of his career.
Gupta has moreover developed two large installations and a performative work especially for the show at the MMK. The survey builds on a retrospective presented last year at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
Subodh Gupta’s works mirror the current situation in India – a society shaped in good part by the major transformation processes brought about by the rapid economic upswing of the past decades. At the same time, daily life in India is still determined as strongly as ever by traditional values, spirituality and religious belief. Gupta explores these various developments with the aid of supposedly banal everyday objects. Yet the materials he uses for his works not only bear a relation to sociopolitical aspects but are also deeply linked to his personal biography.

A catalogue will be available in English, edited by Aveek Seen and Susanne Gaensheimer.
With contributions by Germano Celant, Bharti Kher, Sunil Khilnani, Raqs Media Collective and Aveek Seen, published by Penguin Books India.

Subodh Gupta -