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SculptureCenter warmly welcomes Zina Reed to our team. Reed joins SculptureCenter as our new Director of Development. In this role she will work to strengthen and grow SculptureCenter’s capacity to protect artistic risk-taking and deliver our program to publics in the US and around the world. Prior to joining SculptureCenter, Reed served as Senior Development Officer, Individual Giving & Major Gifts at the Brooklyn Museum, and also brings extensive experience from roles at Creative Time and the Museum of Modern Art. Reed received her BA in art history from Temple University with a concentration in contemporary art.
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Image: Matteo Prandoni & BFA
“For the past decade, I have approached domestic space through a documentary format, working with furniture and design aesthetics to address the social and cultural transformation that accompanied the transition from socialism to capitalism in East Germany...
I want viewers to critically consider the things they’ve grown up with and interrogate aesthetics that might seem funny, weird, or unserious, but that can also be deeply dangerous.” - to for .
Read more of the interview at the link in our bio.
‘Henrike Naumann: Re-Education’ is on view at SculptureCenter, open Thurs-Mon from 12-6PM EST.
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Image: Henrike Naumann, Welcome to Bedrock, 2022, detail, Henrike Naumann: Re-Education, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
‘Tirzah’ is an exhibition of the British musician’s music video output installed in an immersive video and audio environment, now on view at SculptureCenter.
These videos, shot by friends and collaborators to accompany Tirzah’s understated but affecting melodies and warm electronic production, sometimes center the artist and others as performers, but just as often open a window onto the community around her music.
Plan your visit to see ‘Tirzah’ today, SculptureCenter is open Thurs-Mon, 12-6PM.
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Tirzah, Devotion, 2018, Directed by Akinola Davies. Installation view in Tirzah, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Exhibition design by Shahryar Nashat. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Charles Benton
SculptureCenter is open for our regular hours today from 12-6PM. Make your visit today to see ‘Henrike Naumann: Re-Education’ and ‘Tirzah’.
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Image: ‘Henrike Naumann: Re-Education’, installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
Tirzah – Opening October 29 at SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is pleased to announce “Tirzah,” an exhibition of the British musician’s music video output installed in an immersive video and audio environment across SculptureCenter’s lower-level spaces. These videos, shot by friends and collaborators to accompany Tirzah’s understated but affecting melodies and warm electronic production, sometimes center the artist and others as performers, but just as often open a window onto the community around her music. In one example, “Hive Mind,” a ten-minute video marks backstage parties and moments of transition between the tour for Tirzah’s album “Devotion” (2018) and the release of “Colourgrade” in 2021.
The exhibition is designed by artist Shahryar Nashat () and includes videos directed by Grant Armour (), Akinola Davies (), Mica Levi, Fleur Melbourn (), Hannah Perry, Rebecca Salvadori (), Leah Walker (), and Tirzah (). Writer Bruce Hainley has contributed a new text to accompany the exhibition, available on-site in a takeaway brochure designed by Fleur Melbourn.
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Tirzah, Hive Mind, 2021, video still. Directed by Leah Walker and Rebecca Salvadori. Courtesy the artists
🚨 Diane Severin Nguyen’s film, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (2021), will be presented within the 60th New York Film Festival (NYFF)’s Currents section today and Monday, October 10. Learn more about the film at the NYFF’s page .
Set in Warsaw, Poland, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to be absorbed into a K-pop inspired dance group. Meshing revolutionary writings with choreographed sequences, the film is a euphoric and paradoxical conflation of socialist and capitalist iconographies and post-Cold War diasporas.
Curated by and co-presented by SculptureCenter and the , ‘Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS’ will be in view starting October 27th.
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Images: Diane Severin Nguyen, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (video stills), 2021. 4K video with sound. 18:53 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Bureau, New York.
Join us here at SculptureCenter on Wednesday, September 28 for an artist talk by Henrike Naumann on her new exhibit ‘Re-Education’ and her recent work. The program take place in person from 6:30-8:30 PM and will be introduced and moderated by exhibition curator, Kyle Dancewicz, Deputy Director of SculptureCenter.
RSVP at the link in our bio!
🚨Final Week to Submit Proposals to the In Practice 2023 Open Call 🚨
Applications are open until August 31, 2022. Visit the link in our bio to apply and to learn more about this year’s open call.
In Practice 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of SculptureCenter’s signature open call program for artists, and the first year of a new format for generating a yearlong series of solo presentations.
Artists who have not yet had an institutional exhibition in New York City are invited to submit proposals for solo presentations in a designated gallery space at SculptureCenter. Artists are also invited to propose off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats which will be considered based on feasibility.
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WangShui, Gardens of Perfect Exposure, 2018, detail, In Practice: Another Echo, SculptureCenter, New York, 2018. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Kyle Knodell
Kim Brandt, The Volume, 2017, performance view, In Practice: Material Deviance, SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Kyle Knodell
Jordan Strafer, PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure), 2019, and Ficus Interfaith, The 59th Street Bridge Song, 2020, installation view, In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York, 2020. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Kyle Knodell
SculptureCenter is hiring! We are currently accepting applications to join our team as the Director of Development. To learn more about the position, check out the link in our bio.
SculptureCenter is hiring! We are currently accepting applications to join our team as the Director of Development. To learn more about the position, check out the link in our bio.
Henrike Naumann: Re-Education – Opening September 22 at SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is pleased to announce “Henrike Naumann: Re-Education,” the first exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist Henrike Naumann, on view September 22, 2022 – February 27, 2023.
Naumann’s installations of furniture and design objects are composed as scenes that ask pressing and enduring questions: What is the relationship between design and ideology? How should one read the politics of design?
At SculptureCenter, Naumann has developed a museum-scaled display of dozens of furnishings and domestic items staged in a critical parody of the dubious “horseshoe theory.” The “horseshoe theory” was developed in Germany in the 1930s and revived in the 1990s both to establish the parameters of the political center and to treat far left and far right extremisms as equivalent threats to its order – as if they were the two ends of a horseshoe bending away from the middle. Naumann’s exhibition rejects such superficial categorizations of centers and extremes through an idiosyncratic survey of rural sensibilities in American interior design.
Naumann’s exhibition references two phenomena: first, the deployment of anti-fascist “re-education” programs developed by Allied Forces to reestablish a footing for democracy in West Germany after World War II; and second, the later, implicit, self-“re-education” after 1989 of those living in former socialist states, such as Naumann’s native East Germany. For Naumann’s post-1989 generation, “re-education” happened through an imported, American pop culture and increased consumer agency – in essence, the GDR entering Western history through retail and media. Reframing dormant Cold War-era geopolitical conditions, Naumann’s project opens a new consciousness of how we live among the ruins of twentieth century ideologies — now especially visible to a generation born just as the Cold War drew to a close.
Today is the last day to view 'Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili' and 'In Practice: Literally means collapse!'
Don't miss your chance to se works like Allen Hung-Lun Chen's ‘Offering IV (an eave for SculptureCenter)’. The artist's contribution to 'In Practice: Literally means collapse' is a hand-carved architectural detail from a Taiwanese temple, a meditation on the rituals of maintaining structures and tradition. The swallowtail-shaped roof ornament, referring to eaves found on temples in Taiwan and throughout East Asia, is made of black walnut, a wood indigenous to the United States, where Chen is currently based. The eave sits on an aluminum-cast replica of a folding table, a support commonly used in East Asia to make offerings, such as fruits and flowers, to spirits throughout the day. Through this offering of the eave, Chen gives some permanence to a traditionally transient quotidian practice. Situated on
the ground floor, the installation is intended to provide a protective force within the confines of SculptureCenter.
SculptureCenter will be open today from 12-6PM EST.
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Image: Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Offering IV (an eave for SculptureCenter), 2022. Black walnut, cast aluminum, leather, ratchet-straps. 60 × 72 × 36 inches (152 × 184 × 91 cm). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
In his contribution to ‘In Practice: Literally means collapse’ Ignacio Gatica uses a collection of political souvenir wristwatches to narrate the legacy of US intervention and neoliberalism in Latin America. In 2019, the United States sent Argentina a batch of CIA files in what was at the time the largest government-to-government transfer of declassified documentation. Excerpts from the archives, elaborated by Gatica’s research and writing, were printed on concrete plinths with a mechanical handwriting machine. Resting on top, at wrist level, are watches Gatica acquired from various states and organizations throughout the Americas. The total accumulation of towered watches and texts represent a network of overlapping political and social histories and suggest the monolithic, mechanistic nature of the US’s global interventions.
It is the final week to see ‘In Practice: Literally means collapse’. Visit SculptureCenter, open Thurs-Mon 12-6PM EST.
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Ignacio Gatica, Terce, 2022 (detail). Cement, collected watches, metallic holders, CNC printed text. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile. Photo: Charles Benton
