Experimental Geography
This exhibition explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide.
Curated by Nato Thompson
Past Exhibitions
Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
Featuring the work of artists who freely adopt and adapt materials from myriad sources such as the Internet, magazines, advertisements, television and other works of art, Image Transfer spotlights evolving attitudes toward the appropriation of extant photographic imagery.
Curated by Sara Krajewski
Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978–86
Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978–86 taps into the steady stream of this California artist’s early graphic arts production, before he appeared on the contemporary art stage. This exhibition includes over 200 examples of Pettibon’s powerful designs made between 1978 and 1986, when he was immersed in the Los Angeles punk rock scene, doing the graphic design for Black Flag and other punk bands.
Curated by David Platzker
The Storyteller
Responding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the 21st century, contemporary artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art’s documentary capacity: its ability to bear witness to events in the world.
Curated by Claire Gilman, Margaret Sundell
Broadcast
Broadcast explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio.
Curated by Irene Hofmann
People’s Biennial
This innovative project proposes an alternative model to the standard contemporary art biennial, aiming to recognize the talent and unique expression that is present within many communities. At the same time, the openness of this model is intended to reflect upon the often exclusionary and insular nature of contemporary art.
Curated by Jens Hoffmann, Harrell Fletcher
The New Normal
The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter.
Curated by Michael Connor
FAX
FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing.
Curated by João Ribas