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10/2/2014

Two exhibitions

New Museum, New York

Paweł Althamer
Featuring the Artist’s Iconic Portraits and a Sculpture Workshop
Visitors Will Paint Gallery Walls in a Collective Participatory Artwork

Since the early 1990s, Althamer (b. 1967 Warsaw, Poland) has established a unique artistic practice and is admired for his expanded approach to sculptural representation and his experimental models of social collaboration. Althamer is predominantly known for figurative sculptures of himself, his family, and various other individuals within his community. Beyond simple portraiture, these sculptures, along with the artist’s other activities, highlight the complex social, political, and psychological networks in which he operates. “Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors” will be on view on the Fourth, Third, and Second Floor galleries from February 12–April 13, 2014.
The exhibition will include a new presentation of the artist’s work, Draftsmen’s Congress, originally presented at the 7th Berlin Biennial (2012). Over the course of the exhibition, the blank white space of the New Museum’s Fourth Floor gallery will be transformed through the gradual accumulation of drawings and paintings by Museum visitors and a wide array of invited community organizations. Althamer will also activate the exhibition through a sculptural workshop in which the artist and his collaborators will produce new works during the course of the show.
In the past, Althamer has realized a number of projects that seek to subtly alter reality through nearly imperceptible interventions into public space. For his New York exhibition, Althamer has arranged for street musicians to play in front of the New Museum building on the Bowery over the course of the show, with the music being broadcast throughout the Third Floor gallery. More than fifty performers, bands, and choirs will provide an ongoing soundtrack, playing continuously for the entire duration of the show. “Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors” will also feature Althamer’s iconic sculptures and performative videos realized alone or in cooperation with community groups with whom he has collaborated with over the past two decades. The artist’s most recent body of work, the “Venetians,” a haunting group of sculptures created for the 55th Venice Biennale, in which Althamer cast the faces of various individuals he encountered on the streets of Venice, will make its US debut. These works will be presented alongside Althamer’s series of videos, “So-Called Waves and Other Phenomena of the Mind” (2003–04).
Produced in collaboration with artist Artur Żmijewski, these works capture Althamer as he ingests various drugs on a journey to explore the depths of his own mind. Across these varied projects, the exhibition will comprise a portrait of the artist as instigator, organizer, teacher, scientist, and visionary. “Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an interview with the artist and new essays on Althamer’s practice by Boris Groys, Joanna Mytkowska, and Artur Żmijewski.
Paweł Althamer attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, from 1988–93, studying alongside his frequent collaborator Artur Żmijewski. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster (2003), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2004), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2005), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi (2007), and Secession, Vienna (2009), among others. His work has been exhibited in a number of major international group shows including the 2013 Venice Biennale, 8th Gwangju Biennial (2010), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007), 4th Berlin Biennial (2006), and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005).

Support
Exhibition support generously provided by Susan and Leonard Feinstein, Dakis Joannou, Katherine Farley and Jerry Speyer, and VICTORIA—the Art of being Contemporary Foundation. This presentation is made possible in part through a partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. The accompanying publication is made possible by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.

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Laure Prouvost
For Forgetting

curated by Margot Norton, Assistant Curator.

First Solo US Museum Presentation of the Work of Laure Prouvost
New York, NY...In February 2014, the New Museum will host the first solo museum presentation in the United States of the work of artist Laure Prouvost, featuring a new, immersive installation for the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery. In her films and installations, Prouvost unhinges commonplace and expected connections between language, image, and perception. Stepping away from traditional linear narratives, she exposes the unstable relationship between imagination and reality, and opens up a space where audiences can engage provocatively with surreal aspects of meaning. In her films, she often addresses viewers directly, manipulating their senses through a barrage of fast-paced moving images, directive texts, and interspersed clips of sound to achieve a physical experience. In recent works such as The Artist (2010), Farfromwords (2013), and Wantee (2013), which won her the 2013 Turner Prize, Prouvost expands the scope of her disorienting and whimsical modes of display, creating all-encompassing environments that interweave elements of sculpture, painting, and drawing amongst her films.
For her New Museum presentation, Prouvost will present For Forgetting (2014), a new work that will include a semicircular collaged mural, a multichannel video installation, scattered sculptural elements, and a film. Centering on the problems as well as the possibilities of memory and forgetting, the piece addresses the arbitrary distinctions that can be ascribed to power and possession. For Forgetting expands Prouvost’s multilayered investigation of the slippages between systems of communication, and conjures diverse interpretations dependant on how one perceives or remembers the story.

Born in 1978 in Lille, France, Laure Prouvost lives and works in London, UK. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Britain, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, CCA, Glasgow, Portikus, Frankfurt, and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. She has screened work in film festivals internationally and won the Principal Prize in both the 56th and 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2013, Prouvost was awarded the Turner Prize for her piece Wantee (2013) and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Her work for the Turner Prize is on view through January 2014 at CCA Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and Prouvost has upcoming exhibitions at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.

Support
“Laure Prouvost: For Forgetting” is made possible, in part, by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibition Fund.
The Producers Council of the New Museum is also gratefully acknowledged.

Image: Pawel Althamer

Media contact:
Gabriel Einsohn, Senior Communications Director 212.219.1222 x209 press@newmuseum.org
Andrea Schwan, Andrea Schwan Inc. 917.371.5023 info@andreaschwan.com

Opening Reception of Winter Exhibitions Tuesday 02/11/2014

New Museum
235 Bowery, New York
Opening hours: Wednesday 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m.–9 p.m.. Friday–Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Admission: General $16, Seniors $14, Students $10

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