Klara Liden
dal 22/2/2009 al 7/6/2009
Segnalato da
22/2/2009
Klara Liden
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
Martin Kippenberger produced a complex and richly varied body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44. This ambitious, large-scale exhibition includes key selections and bodies of work from his entire career: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, multiples, photographs, posters, announcement cards, books, and music. Klara Liden creates architectural interventions and installations by cannibalizing existing structures and materials, such as cardboard, corrugated metal, dry wall, wood, and carpet remnants. With a sprit of activism and rebellion, Liden rethinks the places people inhabit and builds spaces that deviate from their normal functions.
For artist Klara Liden’s first solo museum exhibition in the United
States, The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 89: Klara Liden, a site-specific sculptural
installation and new performative video, as part of its ongoing Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series.
Liden (Swedish, b. 1979) is known for her installations and videos that respond to specific
architectural environments. For Projects 89, she has created a towering construction that conjures
a vision of a city in decay and is a play on the prevalence of the cube in modern art. To build this
work, she brought materials from the urban landscape—scaffolding, discarded cardboard,
sheetrock, and the tar paper found on many New York City rooftops—into the gallery, blurring the
line between exterior and interior space. The bundles of recycled cardboard highlight the massive
volume of accumulation created by contemporary consumer culture. By transforming everyday
materials and discarded goods into the building blocks of her work, Liden finds value in ruin.
Accompanying the installation is a new video featuring the artist and the hypnotic music of
Tvillingarna, a Stockholm-based music duo whose members are Paul Siegerhall and Andreas
Nelson. Liden’s low-tech video shares the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of her installation.
The exhibition, on view February 25 through June 8, 2008, is organized by Eva Respini,
Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. The Projects series is
coordinated by Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director, The Museum of Modern Art.
Liden, who lives and works in Berlin, studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and
Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Universität der Kunst, Berlin, and the School of Architecture, Royal
School of Technology, Stockholm. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo
projects at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2008); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Moderna
Museet, Stockholm (2007); and Reena Spaulings Gallery, New York. Her work has been included
in such group exhibitions as After Nature, The New Museum, New York (2008); Second Moscow
Biennial (2007); Street Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006); Fourth Berlin Biennial
(2006); and When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005).
Her video works Paralyzed (2004) and Moonwalk (2008) were acquired by MoMA in 2008.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Eva Respini is Associate Curator in the Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. In
addition to Projects 89: Klara Liden, she organized the upcoming exhibitions, Into the Sunset:
Photography's Image of the American West (2009), New Photography 2009 (2009) and past
exhibitions Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus (2008), New Photography 2007: Tanyth Berkeley,
Scott McFarland, Berni Searle (2007); Out of Time: A Contemporary View (2006), as co-curator;
New Photography 2005: Carlos Garaicoa, Bertien van Manen, Phillip Pisciotta, Robin Rhode
(2005); Projects 81: Jean Shin (2004); and Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 (2004),
as co-curator. Ms. Respini helped organize the collaborative exhibition Life of the City (2002), for
which she was the recipient of the Museum’s Lee Tenenbaum Award. She holds a Master of Arts
degree in Modern Art and Critical Theory and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, both from
Columbia University, and joined the Museum in 1999 as Curatorial Assistant.
ABOUT THE ELAINE DANNHEISSER PROJECTS SERIES
Created in 1971 as a forum for emerging artists and new art, the Elaine Dannheisser
Projects series plays a vital part in MoMA’s contemporary art programs. With exhibitions
organized by curators from all of the Museum’s curatorial departments, the series has presented
the work of close to 200 artists to date. For further information on the series, including a listing of
all Projects artists, please visit www.moma.org/projects.
SPONSORSHIP
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by The Junior Associates of The
Museum of Modern Art and the JA Endowment Committee.
Pictured above:
Klara Liden. Paralyzed (video still). 2003. Color video with sound, 3:00 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century Courtesy the artist and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York. © 2009 Klara Liden.
Press Contact: Kim Donica, 212/708-9752 or kim_donica@moma.org
Press Preview: February 24, 2009, 10 a.m.—12:00 p.m.
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