Josephine Meckseper
dal 13/7/2007 al 27/10/2007
Segnalato da
13/7/2007
Josephine Meckseper
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Her artistic projects have stringently focused on addressing the politics of power and violence that undergird the current global imperium. Using a wide array of methodologies: film, video, photography, painting, graphic and product design, installation, and architectural fragments, Meckseper has invented an amalgam of display surfaces as critical armatures for the interrogation of global geopolitics, protest, contestation, and empowerment.
Solo show
curated by Simone Schimpf
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is
honored to present the first extensive mid-career survey of Josephine
Meckseper's multimedia work. The exhibition will span four floors of
the museum. It will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue,
published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, featuring essays by Okwui Enwezor and
Christian Höller.
Josephine Meckseper was born in
Germany and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts
in 1992. Meckseper is an internationally recognized artist,
participating in such recent exhibitions as Resistance Is at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Second Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Media Burn at Tate Modern, the Biennial of
Contemporary Art of Seville, USA Today at the Royal Academy, traveling
to the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and the Whitney
Biennial 2006: Day for Night. She lives and works in New York.
" . Josephine Meckseper's artistic projects have stringently focused on
addressing the politics of power and violence that undergird the
current global imperium. Using a wide array of methodologies: film,
video, photography, painting, graphic and product design,
installation, and architectural fragments, Meckseper has invented an
amalgam of display surfaces - in reference to both Warhol's pop
ironies and to the rhetoric of negation at the heart of the work of
artists as disparate as John Heartfield, Raymond Hains, Asger Jorn,
David Hammons, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer - as critical armatures
for the interrogation of global geopolitics, protest, contestation,
and empowerment. In her sculptures, paintings, films, photographs,
collages, and posters, she draws a direct correlation to the way
consumer culture defines and circumvents subjectivity, and as such
sublimates the key instruments of individual political agency as part
of the world of the commodity." Okwui Enwezor, 2007
opening july 14, 2007
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Kleiner Schlossplatz 1- Stuttgart
Hours: Tue to Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Wed and Fri 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Mon closed