aZarouhie Abdalian Dennis Adams Saâdane Afif Jennifer Allora Carlos Amorales bNicolas Bacal Eric Baudelaire Barbara Bloom Martin Boyce Kennedy Browne Matthew Buckingham cStéphane Calais Guillermo Calzadilla Etienne Chambaud Marcelo Cidade Abraham Cruzvillegas dMatthew Darbyshire Jason Dodge fGeoffrey Farmer Omer Fast Hans Peter Feldmann Ceal Floyer Claire Fontaine gRyan Gander Dora Garcia Lydia Gifford Felix Gmelin Pascal Grandmaison Igor Grubic Loris Gréaud kBen Kinmont Szabolcs Kisspál Kitty Kraus Gabriel Kuri lPierre Leguillon nRivane Neuenschwander Eko Nugroho pSheung Chuen Pak Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Dominique Petitgand Pratchaya Phinthong Pablo Pijnappel sJoe Scanlan Goldin+ Senneby Amie Siegel Jonas Staal Simon Starling Mladen Stilinovic tColectivo Tercerunquinto vNicoline Van Harskamp Danh Vo wNatasha Wheat zYANG Zhenzhong
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Hans Peter Feldmann Pair of shoes / Shoes with eggs The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Verging on a form of fetichism,... Hans Peter Feldmann Hat with photograph The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Hats and photographs are... Hans Peter Feldmann Teapot with shadow The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Against authorship and the... Pablo Pijnappel Felicitas In Felicitas, we follow the converging routes of three characters: Felicitas, Michael and Andrew (the artist's father-in-law who also features elsewhere). Felicitas is thedaughter of a... Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla The Nature of Conflict This installation combines the display of real objects with the deceptively painterly amalgamation of their content as the subject of a photograph. Here Allora & Calzadilla condemn the... Mladen Stilinovic Exploitation of the Dead 1985 The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of... Dominique Petitgand Le bout de la langue 1994 A woman pronounces parts of sentences. Via rigorous editing, the artist creates anticipation with the silences, rhythm by the repetitions, temporal ellipses with music. The recording is... Barbara Bloom The Bedroom 1997 In the 1980's, while browsing Parisian fleamarkets, Barbara Bloom stumbled into an anonymous watercolor (dating to around 1960) in one of Paris' fleamarkets, probably a study made by an interior... Ryan Gander Travelogue lecture with missing content 2001 This work is meditative and fragile. These abstract forms are projected slides belonging to another lecture, Travelogue, where the images have been removed. What is left is the hole of... Matthew Buckingham The six grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the year 502 002 2002 Matthew Buckingham presents a narrative directly connected with a highly symbolic site in the United States, the Mount Rushmore Memorial*. He elaborates a historiographic narrative of this place... Omer Fast A Tank Translated 2002 For Immersion, Harun Farocki went to visit a research centre near Seattle specialized in the development of virtual realities and computer simulations. One of their projects consists in... Pascal Grandmaison Solo 2003 Solo (2003) is a video exhibited as a video/sound installation depicting shots of drum, voice, guitar, clavier/synthesizer, and a melodica player cut into segmented fragments from the... Martin Boyce Our love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours 2003 In the installation Our Love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Martin Boyce uses common elements from public gardens – trees, benches, trashbins– in a game which... Dennis Adams Make Down 2004 The video Make down is a 34 minute sequence shot that shows the artist removing make-up in front of a mirror. The peculiarity of the scene consists in two symbolic details: first, the... Loris Gréaud Dream Machines 2004 This work refers to the "Dream Machine", an experimental object invented by the painter and writer Brion Gysin and the scientist Ian Sommerville, and which is composed of a light bulb with light... Loris Gréaud CFL 2004 The acronym "CFL" stands for an existing light standard (Compact Fluorescent Light) as well as a standard nutrient (Cognitive Fooding Laboratory). "CFL" is a mobile laboratory for growth of... Felix Gmelin Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009 Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body... Ben Kinmont Digger Dug 2004 The archive proposes to examine the difference between helping others in the context of an artistic project and in the context of social work in order to question authorship. The first part of... Abraham Cruzvillegas Improvisación escrita para lectura a primera vista 2005 Amie Siegel Berlin Remake 2005 Berlin Remake (2005) combines extracts of East German films with images filmed by the artist in Berlin. While staying in Berlin, the artist found the locations where the official films... Felicitas 2005 3 synchronised slide projections Saâdane Afif Lyrics: Edition 2006 Claire Fontaine Foreigners Everywhere (Italian) 2006 John Kelsey: Claire Fontaine's practice seems to revolve around the word « foreigner »... could you say something about this concept, if indeed it is one, and how it informs (infects) your... Colectivo Tercerunquinto Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey 2006 Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey is a public sculpture on the periphery of the city of Monterrey. It consisted of a concrete foundation that was free to use by the... Carlos Amorales Useless Wonder 2006 The animation is composed of digital vector drawings drawn from the artist's image archive. Figurative and abstract silhouetted motifs, in a palette of red, black and white, are combined to create... Pratchaya Phinthong If I dig a very deep hole 2007 In order to make If I dig a very deep hole (2007) the artist looked for the extreme geographical opposite of Paris when drawing a straight line throughout the globe.Then, he went to this... Stéphane Calais L’herbier (petit Trianon) 2007 L'herbier (petit Trianon) consists of four "realistic" drawings of plants, screenprinted on transparent PVC. Relying on drawing as a study, this work resembles many sketchbook drawings of... Danh Vo Good Life 2007 Good life (2007) is an installation displaying letters, documents, photographs and objects from a man named Joseph Carrier, and appropriated by artist Danh Vo. The installation... Jason Dodge Above the Weather 2007 In Algeria, Djidjiga Meffre has woven a fabric with a string, a length equal to the distance from the earth to troposphere. Several works by Dodge, with the same title, follow this principle of... Rivane Neuenschwander Mapa Mundi BR (postal) 2007 Mapa-Mundi BR (postal) is a set of wooden shelves holding postcards that depict locations in Brazil named for foreign countries and cities. When installed, viewers are invited to fill out and mail... Joe Scanlan Travel Drawing 2007 Travel Drawing is a piece shown for the first time in his solo exhibition at the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne in 2007. It pays homage to the work of the famous conceptual... Ceal Floyer No Position Available 2007 NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist. The "billboard sign," like a ready-made, plays with... Pierre Leguillon Diane Arbus: A printed retrospective, 1960-1971 2008 End of 2008, Pierre Leguillon presented at Kadist Art Foundation the first retrospective of the works of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) organized in France since 1980, bringing together all the images... Nicoline van Harskamp Character Witness 2008, 2011 The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political... Pak Sheung Chuen New York Public Library Projects (NYPLP) 2008 Nicolas Bacal Light Years 2008 Jonas Staal Art, Property of Politics III, Closes Architecture 2008, 2011 Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”. The paper, written by the second most important person of Geert Wilderds' Freedom Party,... Kitty Kraus Untitled 2008 This work emphasises Kitty Kraus's involvement with process, with alchemical transformations associated with Post-Minimalist aesthetics, Arte Povera, Joseph Beuys and Robert Smithson. The loss of... Igor Grubic 366 Liberation Rituals 2008, 2009 Felix Gmelin Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009 Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body... Kennedy Browne Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil 2009 Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil is an installation based on 42 blank pages. On the first page, one can read the original version in English of the liberal speech... Geoffrey Farmer Ongoing Time Stabbed with a Dagger 2009 Ongoing Time Stabbed with a Dagger was Farmer’s first kinetic sculpture that added a cinematic character to an “ever-reconfiguring play presented in real time.” The assembly of various... Pratchaya Phinthong What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed 2009 Phinthong provided 5,000 Euros to exchange for Zimbabwean dollars, the most devalued and worthless currency in the world. The ZWD has no legal status outside Zimbabwe. The exchange took place... Eko Nugroho Its Always Fun to Live in This Country 2009 Nugroho’s installations and performances have their roots in the shadow puppet rituals in Indonesia, particularly the Javanese Wayang tradition whose essence is in the representation of the... Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Salomania 2009 For several years now, artists Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been conducting research on the heritage of cultural and gender studies, concentrating primarily on gender discourses and the... Igor Grubic 366 Liberation Rituals 2008, 2009 Matthew Darbyshire Untitled: Furniture Island No. 3 2009 In Kan’s four-channel video Island, a series of objects like nail clippers, hairbrush, toothpaste, and house decorations are shot in close-up. These highly polished and aestheticized... Szabolcs Kisspál Lifesize Draft (Utopia Battery) 2009 Lifesize Draft is the second of two sculptures on a similar theme, the... Zarouhie Abdalian Flutter 2010 The first iteration of Flutter was specifically conceived for the Pro Arts Gallery space in Oakland in 2010, and the version acquired by the Kadist Collection is an adaptation of it. The... Gabriel Kuri Untitled (Ticket Roll) 2010 Gabriel Kuri has created a series of works in which he juxtaposes perennial and ephemeral materials. Untitled (Ticket Roll) belongs to this group of sculptures and consists of three... Marcelo Cidade Adição por subtração - 4 2010 Adição por subtração (2010) is an intervention into the white cube with both beautiful and intimidating results. The installation is a large rectangular frame created out of shards of... Goldin+Senneby The Decapitation of Money 2010 In this installation, you are standing at the heart of a bicephalous space reflecting Goldin+Senneby's main research led during their residency in Paris. Here, two historical events from the late... Jonas Staal Art, Property of Politics III, Closes Architecture 2008, 2011 Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”. The paper, written by the second most important person of Geert Wilderds' Freedom Party,... Eric Baudelaire The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images. 2011 In a society saturated by images, Eric Baudelaire is interested in political events that have not found their representation. For the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako... Nicoline van Harskamp Character Witness 2008, 2011 The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political... Natasha Wheat Be Oblivion, in Disconnect 2011 Be Oblivion in Disconnect (2011) is a sculpture and an intervention. Two cardboard boxes house white neon letters that collectively have the potential to spell 'Be Oblivion.' The... Lydia Gifford Warder 2011 Lydia Gifford composes her work between pictorial expression and its inscription within an exhibition space. This particular approach implies the performative aspect of her in situ painting. The... YANG Zhenzhong Pleasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh - 3 2012 Dora Garcia Klau Mich 2012 KLAU MICH is a TV and performance project by Dora García with Ellen Blumenstein, Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, TheaterChaosium, and Offener Kanal Kassel, during the 100 days of dOCUMENTA (13). Ryan Gander Epiphany...learnt through hardship 2012 A bronze figurine of a young female ballerina resembling Degas' model kneeling on the floor in the same pose as the model in Edward Weston's photograph "Nude", 1936. In the same space...
Katinka Bock First Piano 2008 Like with other works of the artist, with First Piano Katinka Bock tried to go against the rules of use of clay, that is, by forcing the material to the extreme, and transferring the resulting elements into a cubic shaped volume. Thus, the resulting... Mladen Stilinovic Exploitation of the Dead 1985 The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of objects”, with images whose historical role has been suspended or... Yto Barrada Bus Logos 2004 In this photographic series, Yto Barrada was interested in the logos of the buses that travel between North Africa and Europe. They become like abstract paintings that recall Modernist formal experimentation. They are somehow symptomatic of the... Marcelo Cidade Eu preciso estar seguro de você 1 ( I need to be sure of you 1) 2006 This series of photographs reflects Marcelo Cidade's incessant walks or drifting through the city and his chance encounters with a certain street poetry like the Surrealists or Situationists before him. He captures incongruities or everyday... Jeffry Mitchell The Swimmer 2012 Eleanor Antin 100 Boots 1973, 1971 Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin... Tsang Kin-Wah The Third Seal-They Are Already Old, They Don't Need to Exist Anymore 2009 The Third Seal—They Are Already Old. They Don’t Need To Exist Anymore is part of The Seven Seals, Tsang’s ongoing series of digital videos that are projected as installations onto the walls and ceilings of dark rooms. Using texts and computer... Jedediah Caesar JCA-25-SC 2010 After being cast, the resulting resin block used in JCA-25-SC was cut into thin slices obtaining a series of rectangular shapes that resemble ceramic tiles. Usually displayed in grid against the wall or in a corner, the viewer is able to... Akram Zaatari Anonymous, Studio Sherhazade 1950, 2004 "In the 1980s I started using coloured paper backdrops, one of which was yellow. You can see they never reached the floor. I used them for colour and black-and-white photography." Hashem El Madani.Hashem El Madani, a studio photographer in Saida,... Karl Haendel Knight #6 2011 Haendel’s series, Knights, is a set of impeccably drafted, nine-foot-tall, pencil drawings of full suits of armor. The series riffs on previous investigations, including Haendel’s meticulous depictions of masculine political figures such as a... About Page pics Tony Labat I Want You 2008 Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and riffing on the “I Want You” army recruitment campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, Labat asked Bay Area residents to interpret the slogan and make their own demands of the public in a series of... Mario Garcia Torres Until It Makes Sense 2004 Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art. For him, this is a way of rethinking the tradition in a more personal way, to have a grip on events of recent history and examine them with a... Seung-Taek Lee Tied Stone 1973 Luis Garciga Destinos Posibles (Possible Destinations) 2009 Shaun O'Dell Purple Brush 8 2011 Yto Barrada Bus Logos 2004 In this photographic series, Yto Barrada was interested in the logos of the buses that travel between North Africa and Europe. They become like abstract paintings that recall Modernist formal experimentation. They are somehow symptomatic of the... Deimantas Narkevicius The Dud Effect 2008 The Dud Effect is a film that revisits the fear of nuclear attacks during the Cold War by staging the firing of a R-14 missile by a solitary soldier on the site of a real Soviet launch base installed in Lithuania. For this film, Deimantas... Peter Friedl New Kurdish Flag 2001 Peter Friedl's projects place aesthetic questions within an expanded field that takes into account the social, political and philosophical context. This textile piece quotes and diverts a flag with a red background and the central star of the... Pablo Pijnappel Felicitas In Felicitas, we follow the converging routes of three characters: Felicitas, Michael and Andrew (the artist's father-in-law who also features elsewhere). Felicitas is thedaughter of a German industrialist who immigrated to Rio after the Second...
