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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is devoting an extensive solo exhibition to the Korea-born artist Kimsooja (* 1957), who lives and works in New York and Seoul.

In her performances, installations, sculptures, video and photo works Kimsooja combines isolated, fragmentary observations to form a whole encounter of different places and people. Duration and time and the metaphorical intertwining of her own experiences, cultural backgrounds, and historical references all play a major role. The artist equates her task with a needle whose work brings together divergent elements, that is to say, different cultures or standpoints.

One day in 1983, Kimsooja was sewing a traditional bedcover together with her mother. When passing the needle through the fabric, she had a sudden sensation like an electric shock. “The energy of my body channeled through the needle, seeming to connect to the energy of the world. From that moment, I understood the power of sewing: the relationship of needle to fabric is like my body to the universe.” This experience became a far-reaching crucial experience for Kimsooja’s artistic work. Her highly varied and contemplative oeuvre has received considerable international attention for over 30 years. Works from 1999 to 2017 are now on show at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

The thread that runs through the exhibition—as expressed by the title—is the metaphor of Weaving the World. Among the works featured is the trailblazing video installation A Needle Woman (1999–2001) in which the artist stands still facing the waves of crowds in eight metropolises. Thread Routes – Chapter IV (China) of her latest 16mm film work Thread Routes (2010–ongoing) is shown for the first time. This distinct body of work, filmed in six chapters, each shot in a different cultural area of the world, weaves an impressive tapestry of textile traditions in all their beauty, at the same time reflecting the interaction with nature, architecture and agriculture. Thread Routes – Chapter I (Peru) and Thread Routes – Chapter II (Europe) are also on show at the exhibition. 

The exhibition conceived in close collaboration with Kimsooja is a production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll.

A two-volume publication from Walther König publishers, with an English and a German edition, will be released. It comprises all interviews with Kimsooja from 1994 to 2017 and an accompanying volume of illustrations. Interviews by Daina Augaitis, Nicolas Bourriaud, Ryu Byoung Hak, Franck Gautherot, Flaminia Gennari Santori, Chiara Giovando, Hou Hanrou, Hwang In, Mary Jane Jacob, Petra Kapš, Barbara Kelly Gordon, Sunjung Kim, Andrew Maerkle, Gerald Matt, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francesca Pasini, Oliva María Rubio, Olivia Sand, Jérôme Sans, Thomas Van Loocke, Bahk Young-Taik, Maxa Zoller.

video artists --- installation artists --- Kimsooja

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Dara Birnbaum: Reaction, the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States, presents a wide and in-depth view of Birnbaum’s extraordinary practice, charting the indelible contributions she has made to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. The exhibition’s title, Reaction, echoes Birnbaum’s career-long position toward mass media: across form and method, she has persistently elaborated a vision of art as an empowering force to disrupt quiet acquiescence to authority. Including works from 1975 to 2011, Reaction focuses on major installations, many not seen in the US for years, as well as key single-channel videos and archival materials that expand on her singular approach to artmaking.

Birnbaum irrevocably changed the course of video art when, in the 1970s, she forged a way to harness television’s form and content in order to “talk back to the media.” Many techniques that she first tested—reediting found video material or inserting remixed footage back into public networks—opened doors for future generations of artists while also presciently prefiguring the essential operations of popular media culture today.

Beyond these formal innovations, Birnbaum’s legacy includes a rigorous and perceptive analysis of systems of control, one born of her refusal to passively consume and defiant insistence on engaging with such systems on her own terms. Reaction traces her study of how media reflects and perpetuates the destructive dictates of normative sociopolitical structures, starting with sexism and then extending into broader, imbricated forms of state-sponsored violence. In the decades this exhibition covers, which span the shift from broadcast TV to internet streaming, Birnbaum’s work remains undaunted in its commitments and relentless in its pursuit of new possibilities.

Organized by Lauren Cornell, chief curator of the Hessel Museum and director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, the retrospective illuminates a groundbreaking artistic practice based in deep study and deconstruction of technological context, message, and medium. This retrospective has been planned to accompany a significant thematic survey of Birnbaum’s works set to open at the Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in Fall 2022 and organized by Miller ICA Director Elizabeth Chodos. Together, the two complementary exhibitions provide a moment to consider Birnbaum’s pertinence to the present moment in art, culture, and society.

The accompanying book aims to depict this ongoing influence through gathering a reader to situate the work from the vantage of the present. Catalogue contributors include: critic Alex Kitnick, Dia Art Foundation curator Jordan Carter, media scholar and critic Erika Balsom, Museum Brandhorst curator and writer Giampaolo Bianconi, and The Kitchen’s Executive Director & Chief Curator Legacy Russell in conversation with Miller ICA Director Elizabeth Chodos. Overseen by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder of New York–based publisher Dancing Foxes and focused on fresh scholarship around Birnbaum’s work, this new volume is situated in a rich line of research and scholarship, all of which has benefited greatly from the artist’s contribution and vision.

Interpretive materials for Dara Birnbaum: Reaction written by Ania Szremski. Over the three years leading to the exhibition, curatorial research and support was provided by Ursula Pokorny, Casey Robertson, and Candice Strongwater.

Art --- video artists --- multimediakunst --- Birnbaum, Dara

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Tacita Dean is considered among the most important living British artists. Best known for the films that have taken her all over the world, she is a passionate defender of analogue methods. This authoritative publication brings together her writings with a complete filmography.

Dean's insightful and informative writing is key to understanding her works and interests. She reveals a wide range of influences, from seascapes to documentary, and an intimate study of the nature of film itself. Her projects are populated with the figures she admires, including the artists David Hockney and Cy Twombly, the poet Michael Hamburger and the legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham.


Beautifully illustrated throughout with film stills, archival photographs and related artworks, these two volumes map Dean's career up to and including her three major exhibitions in London in 2018, and provide - in the artist's own words - an unparalleled insight into the stories behind her work.


Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (19.05. - 12.08.2018).

writings [documents] --- artists' statements --- video artists --- multimediakunst --- Dean, Tacita

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video artists --- Art --- installation artists --- photographers --- Alves, Maria Thereza --- Kunst --- videokunstenaars --- installatiekunstenaars --- fotografen --- Maria Thereza Alves

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