Minneapolis Institute of Art - Minneapolis, MN
Curated by Yasufumi Nakamuri
By Christina Schmid
“Appendix,” a three-part exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art curated by Yasufumi Nakamuri, sets two recent films by Omer Fast, Looking Pretty for God (2008) and August (2016), in dialogue with August Sander’s century-old photographs of German people: farmers, construction workers, [...]
Law Warschaw Gallery - St. Paul, MN
Curated by Jehra Patrick
By Christina Schmid
Iyapo Repository, an ongoing project in residence at Macalester College’s Law Warschaw gallery in St. Paul, invites participation in creating an archive of the future. Envisioned by two New York based artists, Ayodamola Okunseinde and Salome Asega, Iyapo Repository pays homage to [...]
By Christina Schmid
Rather recently, the choreographic has captured the imagination of curators.1 The choreographic has left the world of dance and performance on stage and entered galleries, where, for the duration of an exhibition, bodies perform scores and gestures amid more traditional art objects and audiences. The effects of this curatorial practice involve [...]
By Christina Schmid
In 2013, at the opening of “Painter Painter,” the Walker Art Center’s first exhibition of contemporary painting in over a decade, Jan Verwoert ended his memorable talk with a demonstration: a simple baseline on a Roland TP 3 Base Synthesizer entering a feedback loop. The filter the sound passes through begins [...]
Rosalux Gallery - Minneapolis
By Christina Schmid
Fifty-seven works on paper, assembled in a horizontal series, wrap around three walls of Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, interrupted only by two black-and-white projections. The sequence begins in pale, barely visible marks before inky black lines gather into recognizable structures: a coterie of chairs, from plastic molded to [...]
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis
Curated by Bartholomew Ryan
A Provocative Proposal
By Christina Schmid
I can’t work this way. The letters emerge from a cluster of nails hammered into the white gallery wall. Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s memorable albeit reluctant contribution to a 2007 art fair proved immensely attractive: part of the Guggenheim’s collection, it now graces [...]
The Soap Factory - Minneapolis
By Christina Schmid
“Why We Do This” was an ostensibly charming show. Twelve thousand square feet of former soap factory, transformed into an intricate maze of three-dimensional vignettes, beckoned with a trip down memory lane: a painted Volkswagen bus, a beer-can studded bar, a period-perfect record store, next to thrift [...]
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis
Curated by Siri Engberg and Clara Kim
A Curious Dispassion
By Christina Schmid
Curated by Siri Engberg and Clara Kim, “The Living Years: Art After 1989″ presents a selection of works from the Walker Art Center’s collection. The explicit purpose of the exhibit is twofold: to engage art of the past two [...]
