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The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago presents contemporary art exhibitions, events, and publications. “The Ren”—as we are known by many—is an independent, non-collecting museum driven by an uncompromising commitment to artists and their ideas.
For artists, we offer an unfettered platform for bold experimentation.
Our work with artists frequently results in newly commissioned art, and these presentations in our gallery at the University of Chicago spur further scholarly and creative reflections in our publications and public programs. Events—including artist talks, lectures, screenings, concerts, readings, and more—offer further opportunities for discovery and discussion.
All exhibitions and events are free to attend.
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Image: Diego Marcon, Krapfen, 2025, installation view, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Photo by Bob.
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Artist Talk: 4pm
About the exhibition
The Renaissance Society and Fondazione In Between Art Film present Tendered, a solo exhibition by Karimah Ashadu, whose moving-image practice examines the conditions under which bodies are rendered legible within contemporary systems of labor and value, especially within the cultural context of Nigeria and its diaspora.Karimah Ashadu: Tendered will be on view at the Renaissance Society in Chicago from September 12 - November 1, 2026.
Working across film and installation, Ashadu develops close, sustained encounters with people whose lives unfold within informal economies, attending to how aspirations are negotiated under material constraint.
The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of MUSCLE, a new moving image installation co-commissioned and co-produced by the Renaissance Society, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and Camden Art Centre. Centered on bodybuilders training in the heart of Lagos’s slums, the work situates bodybuilding within a broader field of exertion: the body as site of labor, autonomy, and self-fashioning. MUSCLE is accompanied by a series of new sculptural works, Pure Rugged Water (2025),that draw directly from the film’s environments.
Having grown up between Nigeria and the United Kingdom, the artist situates her point of view within a constant negotiation of distance. In MUSCLE, she works with a sympathetic—and sometimes visceral—proximity to the subjects of the film, eschewing the documentary point of view. As she gathers the stories of men in this film, she extends an ongoing inquiry present in earlier works, including Machine Boys (2024) (on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 11 — November 1, 2026),Plateau (2022), and Red Gold (2016).
The exhibition is organized within the framework of Unison, a biennial initiative established by the Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions in collaboration with international institutions.
Publication
Tendered
9.76 x 12.79 inches
168 Pages
ISBN: 9788867497089
Tendered is accompanied by the first reference monograph dedicated to the artist, edited by Bianca Stoppani, curator for the editorial and discursive programmes at Fondazione In Between Art Film, with Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi. Published by Mousse, the monograph features contributions from Karimah Ashadu; Myriam Ben Salah, director and chief curator at The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Leonardo Bigazzi, curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Gina Buenfeld-Murley, curator at Camden Art Centre, London; Martin Clark, director at Camden Art Centre, London; Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, associate professor in film, culture and society, UCL, London; Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Bettina Steinbrügge, director at Mudam Luxembourg; and Arese Uwuoruya, assistant curator at Camden Art Centre.
About the Artist
KARIMAH ASHADU (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian artist and film director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Other Institutional shows and screenings include Camden Arts Centre, London, Canal Projects, New York, MoMA PS1, New York, Kunsthalle Bremen, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein in Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Current solo shows include the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.
Credits
Tendered is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi of Fondazione In Between Art Film with Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund for its iteration at the Renaissance Society.
Supported by Sadie Coles HQ, London
Pure Rugged Water (2025) was produced with additional support of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.
Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Events
Conversations at the Edge: An Evening with Karimah Ashadu
Thu, Sept 10, 6PM
Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60601
Presented in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute and Gene Siskel Film Center, this screening presents three other films by Karimah Ashadu—Plateau,Brown Goods, and King of Boys—and will be followed by a conversation with the artist.
Opening Reception
Sat, Sep 12, 4-7pm
Screening by the African Film Institute
With a conversation between Christian Nyampeta and Natacha Nsabimana
Thu, Oct 15, 7PM
Logan Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor
In 2019, artist and filmmaker Christian Nyampeta, who is based in New York, launched the African Film Institute, housed at e-flux. In conjunction with Karimah Ashadu’s exhibition, Nyampeta and anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana will show a film and be in conversation as part of their ongoing collaboration on the question of what is African cinema?
Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
Image: Karimah Ashadu, MUSCLE, 2025 [Still] HD digital film, colour with stereo sound, 22:20 mins © Karimah Ashadu. Courtesy the Artist, Camden Art Centre, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Sadie Coles HQ and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
Fundraiser, 4th Annual Bowling Fundraiser for the Ren in Hyde Park
Please join the team of the Ren and our host committee of seasoned bowlers—
Daniel G. Baird
Brian Black
Bethany Collins
David Frej
Chanelle Lacy
Emma McKee
Sundeep Mullangi
—for our fourth annual evening of strikes, spares, suds, and sliders, as we raise critical support for 2026–27 exhibitions and programs.
All bowling ticket buyers have the opportunity to bowl on a team. Lane Sponsors can bring their own teams. Don’t bowl? Get a Cheering Section ticket and join us to watch the competition and root for your favorite bowlers!
All proceeds from the evening will provide critical support for the Ren’s exhibitions, performances, and concerts.
Lane Sponsor
Includes game for 8, food and drinks: $5,000
Single Bowling Ticket
Includes game for one, food and drinks: $500
Cheering Section
Includes food and drinks: $350
Artist Sponsor
Includes single bowling ticket benefits: $350
Please note: per IRS regulations, $50 per ticket is non-tax-deductible.
Purchase a ticket or make a donation.
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Reading: Ambiguity Forum
\r\nThe Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60637
In both form and content, Sadie Benning’s works often suggest how indeterminacy can take on a political dimension. A number of artists and writers have been invited to send in short written responses to these ideas. This performative reading of the texts in the gallery stages a polyphony of sorts, as different voices rise up within the exhibition.
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\r\n\r\n1020 E. 58 Street
\r\n\r\nThe Ren’s current exhibition, Shared Eye is inspired in part by the structure and progression of Blinky Palermo’s work To the People of New York City — an installation of forty chromatic panels that was acquired by the Dia Foundation soon after the artist’s unexpected death in 1977.
\r\n\r\nLynne Cooke, a former curator at Dia, now Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Art, has long been an advocate of Palermo’s work, editing a book about To the People of New York City and organizing the German painter’s first North American retrospective.
\r\n\r\nHere, Cooke discusses Palermo’s ambitious final project in relation toShared Eye.
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\r\n\r\nSide by side, works by Klein and Olson offer an opportunity to explore the affinities and differences in the artists’ respective approaches to sculpture, collage and photographic imagery. Their practices share a tendency to manipulate or call attention to space, as if testing out ways of being in the world. As space itself—whether physical or psychological—becomes subject matter, they also draw into focus dynamics of representation, social structures and negotiations of gender.
\r\n\r\nB. Ingrid Olson’s work responds to borders and the structure of space. Her photographs are performative, recording investigations of an individual body as it shifts in relations to its surroundings, selected objects and the camera. Within these images, the artist casts herself as the anonymous participant in her immediate environment and the active creator of an ambiguous pictorial field, full of blurs and mirrored doublings. Each work is the afterimage of an activity, but also a momentary pause in time as Olson triggers the shutter and flash. Presented in deep, open-faced acrylic frames, her photographs themselves become multi-dimensional objects.
\r\n\r\nAstrid Klein’s collages tease out the psychological spaces implied in existing imagery, paying close attention to how the female body is depicted, viewed or addressed. The artist adds evocative text fragments to images of women appropriated from popular culture, overlaying the scenes with notes of dissonance or ironic affirmations of the feminine roles they depict. In their extraction of familiar scenes, the collages take aim at “a woman’s place,” including the expectation of certain behavior or balance of power in gendered spaces.
\r\n\r\nScale, too, plays a crucial role in the artists’ practices. Klein’s large black and white photoworks and her sculpture Flycatcher tower over the viewer, filling one’s field of vision. Klein responded to her experience as a woman in the masculine art scene in 1980s Germany by staking a spatial claim with her works, and this Renaissance Society presentation demonstrates how they come together to create a space both physical and affective within the gallery. Olson’s sculptures for this exhibition, conversely, are scaled more closely to the human body. The forms, made partially by hand and partially by computerized mill, suggest a kind of intimacy in their size, shape and placement. Positioned at waist height on the wall or in freestanding columns, they anticipate the presence of the viewer’s own body.
\r\n\r\nCurated by Solveig Øvstebø.
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\r\n\r\nJENNIFER PACKER (1984) was born in Philadelphia, and received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art in 2007, and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. Packer was the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Grant in 2013. In 2012-2013 she was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014-2016 was a Visual Arts Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Packer lives and works in New York.
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Martin Beck examines the paradoxes of history and intersections of art, architecture, and popular culture in his finely calibrated installations and conceptual artworks.
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\r\nThis Saturday, Beck presents Prisms, Trunks, and Branches, a new talk commissioned by the Renaissance Society. In it, he weighs the processes of looking, reading, and note-taking to “exhibit” how things come about in his work through a form of drifting. Taking various twists and turns, the artist delves into aspects of his methodology and larger processes of visualization.
Opening reception: Sat, Nov 18, 5-8pm, with artist talk at 6pm
\r\n\r\nThe Renaissance Society presents Alejandro Cesarco, Song, featuring newly commissioned works alongside recent projects. With video, sound, and photographic elements, this poetic installation suggests themes of duration, directionality, repetition, and chronology.
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\r\n\r\nWith artist talk by John Durham Peters at 6 PM
\r\n\r\n“Why talk of the elements, this seemingly archaic idea, instead of something like nature or ecologies?” asks Karsten Lund, curator of Unthought Environments, in the exhibition essay. “Nature is a deeply familiar term, of course, one that can be used in conversation unguardedly and yet its outlines can still be oddly hard to draw, leading into thickets of debate after all. Where does nature end and culture begin?”
\r\n\r\nPlease join us on Saturday to celebrate the opening of this group exhibition, which features videos, sculptures, photographs, installations, and digital images from 13 international artists. These works consider in various ways how our elemental surroundings become a kind of vital infrastructure.
\r\n\r\nWe are delighted to welcome media theorist and historian John Durham Peters to speak during the opening reception at 6pm in Swift Hall, a short walk from the gallery. Peters is the author of the 2015 book The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media, from which the exhibition title is borrowed.
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\r\n1010 E 59TH ST
Working in the fields of both philosophy and environmental studies, David Macauley has dug deeply into the ancient and perennial notion of “the four elements,” tracking them as ideas from early philosophical sources to the twenty-first century.
\r\n\r\nAs one critic writes, Macauley’s book Elemental Philosophy “is an homage to a different and seemingly unfamiliar sensibility in which earth, air, fire and water… animate human thought and action.” Macauley’s ongoing work offers ways to reevaluate how we relate to the natural world and how aesthetics bring us back to environmental questions.
\r\n\r\nHere, he presents a talk titled “Elemental Beauty: The Four Seasons and the Un-thought Aerial World.”
\r\n\r\nCo-sponsored by the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago.
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\r\n\r\nKELLER EASTERLING is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Another recent book, Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), considers building removal or how to put the development machine into reverse. Other books include: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Her research and writing was included in the 2014 Venice Biennale, and will be included in the 2018 Biennale. She lectures and exhibits internationally.
\r\n\r\nCo-sponsored by the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago.
\r\n\r\nPLEASE NOTE: This talk was rescheduled from its original date of March 3.
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\r\n\r\nFollowing the walk-through, students are invited to join Ren staff and the Student Committee for refreshments and conversation at our Spring Student Social. Please visit our Facebook event for more details and to RSVP.
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\r\n5706 S. UNIVERSITY AVE.
Free, But please RSVP
\r\n\r\nNorwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds made by sea ice at the North Pole and from glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, among other remote locations. Embracing the sensory possibilities of audio and the immateriality of her medium, her work generates compelling new experiences of these places while taking us beyond the normal bounds of human senses.
\r\n
\r\nHere, Winderen presents Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, a new, live eight-channel mix of underwater sounds recorded in the marginal ice zone, or the transition between open sea and sea ice, in the Barents Sea between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
\r\n
\r\nThis event is free, but due to limited capacity in the venue, we are asking attendees to please register in advance.
Address brings together twenty sculptures by the Chicago-based artist Richard Rezac produced over the last two decades. Alongside a number of new works commissioned by the Renaissance Society, the exhibition features primarily recent sculptures and a small selection from earlier in his career. Presented together, they demonstrate the artist’s ongoing engagement with the sculptural logic of geometry and the elusive mechanisms of interpretation.
\r\n\r\nTo read CGN's summer 2018 interview with Rezac, click here.
\r\n\r\nRICHARD REZAC lives and works in Chicago. His sculpture has been shown nationally and internationally, most notably in a 2006 survey of his work at the Portland Art Museum. He has recently exhibited at James Harris Gallery, Seattle (2017), the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2016), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2015), and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2015). Rezac has received fellowship grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Tiffany Foundation, and in 2006, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. He is an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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\r\n\r\nYou may arrange your own transportation between the venues, or a bus will depart from the Renaissance Society at 12:45pm and return at 2:30pm, with an estimated arrival time back in Hyde Park at 3:15pm. Seats are free but limited so please register in advance.
\r\n\r\n12-12:45 pm: The Rennaissance Society
\r\n\r\n1:30-2:30 pm: The Arts Club of Chicago, 201 E. Ontario St.
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\r\n\r\nThis event will take place at 3pm and at 5:30pm.
\r\n\r\nGray Center Lab, 929 E. 60th St.
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\r\n\r\nKirshner lectures frequently on contemporary art and was most recently the Deputy Director of Education at the Art Institute of Chicago.
\r\n\r\nFilm Studies Center
\r\nCobb Hall, 3rd Floor (Directly below the Renaissance Society)
Travis Jeppesen, a critic, novelist, and artist living in Berlin, has developed innovative ways of addressing sculpture—including what he calls “object-oriented writing.” New York-based artist Erin Shirreff works across a range of forms to consider the interactions of sculpture and photography and how they deal with concerns like scale and presence.
\r\n\r\nHere, Jeppesen and Shirreff each respond to Richard Rezac’s practice and then come together in discussion, drawing on their own work to consider the various ways we experience sculpture.
\r\n\r\nClassics Building, Room 110, 1010 E. 59th St.
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“One of the reasons I’m so interested in performance in general is the potential of the gathering of bodies and what happens when we’re in rooms together.”
\r\n\r\nKeyon Gaskin’s works obviate the traditional divide between spectators and artist, inviting audience members to move throughout the performance space and challenging them to experience the work in unexpected ways.
\r\n\r\nAt the Renaissance Society, doors will open at 6:30 and guests are invited to join us for refreshments before the performance begins at 7pm.
\r\n\r\nIntermissions launched in January 2017 as a new programming series devoted to ephemeral and performative works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform presents two events every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
\r\n\r\nThis series is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.
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Opening reception: Saturday, September 15, 5-8pm with artist talk at 6pm
\r\n\r\nThe Renaissance Society presents Put to Rights, an exhibition of new and recent work by Shadi Habib Allah. Habib Allah is a New York and Miami-based Palestinian artist who works across film, sculpture, and installation, often drawing on a process of deep research and on-the-ground engagement in specific locales. Richly varied in form and focus, his projects run the gamut from reimagining a ghost story from 1930s Jerusalem to traveling along illicit trade routes with Bedouin smugglers.
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\r\n\r\nFor this program, Shadi Habib Allah has selected two of Žilnik’s short films, Little Pioneers (1968) and Black Film (1971), which are closely attuned to the lives of marginalized populations. Pairing them with one of his own videos, The King and the Jester (2010), Habib Allah hints at a sense of shared methods or concerns.
\r\n\r\nWriter and curator Leo Goldsmith introduces the screening.
\r\n\r\nThis event is co-presented with the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago.
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Please save the date for a dynamic benefit gala shaped by artists for the Ren's most generous supporters.
\r\n\r\nMore information can be found HERE
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\r\n\r\nThis event preceeds a reading of Caryl Churchill’s play Far Away, in the gallery, which is also presented in conjunction with Habib Allah’s exhibition.
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Featuring: Constance DeJong, Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, Tetsumi Kudo
Gritty faces look out from painted cages, surrounded by wax flowers, string, and various mutated forms. Photographs capture a studio wall marked by cryptic arrangements. A woman’s voice, floating in the space, relates her restless nighttime walks. Plush domestic rugs become the substrate for paintings of warped boots and menacing dogs.
Let me consider it from here presents four artists who operate in the liminal realms between the public and the intimate, the concrete and the fantastical. They frequently draw from their own histories, humors, and instincts as they grapple with or reimagine what’s happening in the world around them. Across a range of mediums, their works open up spaces that oscillate between strange and familiar, registering deeply personal experiences as well as more ambient cultural and political pressures.
The works in this exhibition are borne of different moments and places. Brought together here, in a period in which public life feels defined both by digital interconnection and vocal conflict on many fronts, their practices suggest other ways of meeting the world face to face: anchored in solitary places but stretching beyond, and drawing on a generative tension between inside and out.
In tandem with the gallery presentation, poets Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Simone White, and Lynn Xu have been invited to write new texts, which will be presented in a public reading and in the forthcoming catalogue. These writers evince a shared positioning with the artists in Let me consider it from here, parsing in their own ways the complexities of contemporary experience from within a more private sphere.
Curated by Solveig Øvstebø.
Let me consider it from here is supported by the David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Curator’s Circle of the Renaissance Society, and the Japan Foundation, New York.
Image: Saul Fletcher, Untitled # 23 (Self/Behind Desk), 1997
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov 17, 5-8PM
RSVP REQUESTED
In a period in which public life feels defined both by digital interconnection and vocal conflict on many fronts, the artists in Let me consider it from here—Constance DeJong, Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo—suggest other ways of meeting the world face to face: anchored in solitary places but stretching beyond, and drawing on a generative tension between inside and out.
Please join us on Saturday, November 17 to celebrate the opening of this group exhibition. At 6pm in Swift Hall, a short walk from the gallery, Constance DeJong presents Candle Night Radios Insomnia, a performance of four nocturnal narratives.
Read more.
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As a complement to Let me consider it from here, three poets will read from new work, written for the occasion. Embodying the concerns of the exhibition in their own ways, their poems offer rich viewpoints on how a private or personal space can open on to larger social and political realities.
This event also marks the launch of the catalogue for Let me consider it from here, featuring these new poems alongside documentation from the gallery presentation.
The three authors will also come together in a lunchtime discussion the following afternoon. Read more.
Co-presented with Poem Present/Program for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Chicago.
GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN’s latest book is Experience in Groups (Wave, 2018). He is also the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets (Minus A Press, 2012). O’Brien is a Professor of English at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
SIMONE WHITE is the author of Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, Unrest and House Envy of All the World. Her work has appeared in Frieze, BOMB, Chicago Review and Harper’s, among other places. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Brooklyn.
LYNN XU was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June, a chapbook. With her family, she divides her time between Marfa, TX, and Chicago, IL, where she teaches at the University of Chicago.
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Following their reading the previous day, O’Brien, White, and Xu come together in a roundtable discussion of their work and Let me consider it from here.
Co-presented with Poem Present/Program for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Chicago.
GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN’s latest book is Experience in Groups (Wave, 2018). He is also the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets (Minus A Press, 2012). O’Brien is a Professor of English at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
SIMONE WHITE is the author of Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, Unrest and House Envy of All the World. Her work has appeared in Frieze, BOMB, Chicago Review and Harper’s, among other places. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Brooklyn.
LYNN XU was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June, a chapbook. With her family, she divides her time between Marfa, TX, and Chicago, IL, where she teaches at the University of Chicago.
Image: Brook Hsu, Forget-Me-Not, 2016
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Image: Saul Fletcher, Untitled #264 (8 Nests), 2013.
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The Renaissance Society presents Also on View, a solo exhibition by Croatian artist David Maljković. Embracing a wide range of media—including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and various hybrids— the artist has developed distinctive methods of incorporating, and refiguring, his own earlier works in new installations. Maljković brings this approach to his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, gathering elements that originate from different projects for a presentation tailored to the architectural space.
Throughout an ever-shifting body of work, Maljković returns to “the question of form,” asking how considerations of form itself might illuminate the ebb and flow of ideologies, for example, or the overlaying of past, present, and future. In the wake of major exhibitions of his work in Europe in recent years, here Maljković turns away from the impulses of a survey show—namely, to gather an artists’ output, map the territory, and convey that understanding. Also on View is more a collection of notes or gestures, a fluid effort by the artist to consider the underlying structure of his practice, unburdened by the need for a “proper presentation” of each work. Small projected animations loop and flicker on the side walls. Three videos merge into a new mixed image. Floor sculptures foreground the marks and residues of physical production processes. On either side of a long wall, two-dimensional works merge aspects of photography, printmaking, and painting, the ensemble becoming a kind of expanded collage.
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David Maljković: Also on View is organized by Karsten Lund, Associate Curator.
David Maljković was born in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia, and lives and works in Zagreb. He has presented solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Secession, Vienna; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel; Sculpture Center, New York; MoMA PS1, New York, and other museums and galleries. His work has been included in prominent group exhibitions around the world such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale; 56th Biennale di Venezia; La Triennale 2012, Paris; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, and the 11th and 9th Istanbul Biennials, among others.
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago is committed to supporting ambitious artistic experimentation, primarily through the commissioning of new works, and to fostering rigorous, interdisciplinary discourse. In addition to the exhibition program, this independent, non-collecting museum hosts lectures, concerts, performances, screenings, and readings, and regularly publishes catalogues and artist books.
All of the Renaissance Society’s exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. The gallery is open during exhibitions Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10am-5pm; Thursday, 10am-8pm; Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm; closed Mondays and between exhibitions.
http://renaissancesociety.org/
Image: David Maljković, Vignettes, 2016-2017. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
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Opening reception:
Saturday, February 9, 5-8pm
with artist talk at 6pm
The Renaissance Society presentsAlso on View, a solo exhibition by Croatian artist David Maljković. Embracing a wide range of media—including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and various hybrids— the artist has developed distinctive methods of incorporating, and refiguring, his own earlier works in new installations. Maljković brings this approach to his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, gathering elements that originate from different projects for a presentation tailored to the architectural space.
Throughout an ever-shifting body of work, Maljković returns to “the question of form,” asking how considerations of form itself might illuminate the ebb and flow of ideologies, for example, or the overlaying of past, present, and future. In the wake of major exhibitions of his work in Europe in recent years, here Maljković turns away from the impulses of a survey show—namely, to gather an artists’ output, map the territory, and convey that understanding.Also on Viewis more a collection of notes or gestures, a fluid effort by the artist to consider the underlying structure of his practice, unburdened by the need for a “proper presentation” of each work. Small projected animations loop and flicker on the side walls. Three videos merge into a new mixed image. Floor sculptures foreground the marks and residues of physical production processes. On either side of a long wall, two-dimensional works merge aspects of photography, printmaking, and painting, the ensemble becoming a kind of expanded collage.
Maljković suggests seeing the works, for the moment, as “facts” rather than as “artifacts:” a set of things that exist on their own terms, decoupled from their initial intents or the values ascribed to them later. Redeployed here, the works meet each other again in new proximities. Together they may hint at the artist’s underlying methodologies, his processes, and recurring motifs, from Peugot’s experimental concept cars to mid-century cartoons from Yugoslavian magazines; just as likely, they speak to the way artworks awaken in new contexts and in evolving configurations, questioning which aspects of the work are primary and which are secondary.
David Maljković: Also on Viewis organized by Karsten Lund, Associate Curator.
David Maljković was born in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia, and lives and works in Zagreb. He has presented solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Secession, Vienna; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel; Sculpture Center, New York; MoMA PS1, New York, and other museums and galleries. His work has been included in prominent group exhibitions around the world such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale; 56th Biennale di Venezia; La Triennale 2012, Paris; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, and the 11th and 9th Istanbul Biennials, among others.
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Chicago music ensemble a•pe•ri•od•ic presents a concert of works by Berlin-based composer Catherine Lamb, whose music turns almost imperceptible changes into intricate, sonorous textures. Like pupils becoming more sensitive to light, listeners’ ears focus and refocus under the dilated time, tracking gentle pitch interferences, contour changes, and shifts in harmony. Each piece acts as a refraction of the others, inviting a hyper-focused state throughout the program.
This concert is presented in partnership with the Frequency Festival.
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Our Literal Speed is a text and art undertaking located in Selma, Alabama, since 2006. Their appearance here coincides with David Maljković’s solo exhibition, Also on View.
Image: David Maljković, Untitled, 2014.
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Henderson’s own works also blur the lines between mediums, as he uses different processes to engage with painting, including casting, printing, and electrotyping. Olson’s photographs and sculptures, like those in her 2017 Renaissance Society exhibition, deploy various materials and presentation methods, often in tune with the artist’s and viewers’ bodies
Image: David Maljković, Problems with Predecessor, 2013-14.
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Kienitz Wilkins says his goal was to “reflect our multifaceted contemporary world where there is no one right way to look or listen: we are perpetually barraged by a sea of information, histories, and the promises of absolute connection, while remaining fundamentally alone.”
A discussion with the filmmaker follows the screening.
This event is co-presented with the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago.
Image: Still from Common Carrier.
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While embracing a wide range of media—including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and various hybrids—the Croatian artist has developed distinctive methods of incorporating, and refiguring, his own earlier works in new installations. Maljković brings this approach to his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, gathering elements that originate from different projects for a presentation tailored to the architectural space. Imagining a new situation for these objects and images, he lets them become a new collective body.
Image: David Maljković, Vignettes, 2016-2017.
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Composer Sarah Hennies premieres a new work for percussion and cello that examines the care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space. Over 90 minutes, a series of repeating patterns creates a peculiar kind of harmony in which two musicians are rarely “playing together” but are nonetheless intimately bonded. The Knoxville-based duo Two-Way Street (Ashlee Booth and Adam Lion) commissioned Hennies to compose “a very long piece;” for this performance they step into its two intertwining roles.
This concert is presented in partnership with the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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In her vocal or choreographic performances, Budvytytė draws out relationships between bodies and their environments, whether she’s exploring codified behaviors in public spaces or plying the boundaries between the human and non-human. Springing from ideas of ecofeminism and finding its power in song,Incantation Karaoke channels multiple beings bruised by modernity or threatened by human hubris—forms of life such as plants and animals, bacteria and fungi, which are crucial to sustaining balance in our ecologies. Through rhyme, repetition, sonic alteration of the voice, and physical proximity, Budvytytė aims to draw the audience into different mind states and measures of collectivity.
“I see the songs almost as a tool for incantation, a spell,” the Amsterdam-based artist says. “I’m focused on the sound and texture of words, different speeds and volumes.” As the performance unfolds, she notes, “I’m hoping to create a moment of collective utterance—a shared vulnerability through this improvised form of karaoke without images or recognizable melodies.”
Intermissions was founded in January 2017 asa programming series devoted to ephemeral and performative works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform presents two events every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects. Previous participating artists include keyon gaskin, Gordon Hall, Jochen Dehn, and Xavier Cha.
These events are free and open to the public, but space is limited and advanced registration is essential: RSVP at renaissancesociety.org/events
EGLĖ BUDVYTYTĖ is an artist based in Amsterdam. She graduated from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2008, and since then has been working at the intersection between performing and visual arts. Her work was shown amongst others at Lofoten International Art festival; Block Universe Festival, London; Art Dubai commissions 2017; Liste, Art Basel; 19th Biennale of Sydney; De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; CAC in Vilnius; and Stedeljik Museum in Amsterdam. Budvytytė was resident at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2012 and at Wiels, Brussels, in 2013.
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For the next iteration of its biannual Intermissions series, the Renaissance Society presents a performance by Lithuanian artist Eglė Budvytytė, featuring her recent work Incantation Karaoke alongside a newly developed piece.
In her vocal or choreographic performances, Budvytytė draws out relationships between bodies and their environments, whether she’s exploring codified behaviors in public spaces or plying the boundaries between the human and non-human. Springing from ideas of ecofeminism and finding its power in song,Incantation Karaoke channels multiple beings bruised by modernity or threatened by human hubris—forms of life such as plants and animals, bacteria and fungi, which are crucial to sustaining balance in our ecologies. Through rhyme, repetition, sonic alteration of the voice, and physical proximity, Budvytytė aims to draw the audience into different mind states and measures of collectivity.
“I see the songs almost as a tool for incantation, a spell,” the Amsterdam-based artist says. “I’m focused on the sound and texture of words, different speeds and volumes.” As the performance unfolds, she notes, “I’m hoping to create a moment of collective utterance—a shared vulnerability through this improvised form of karaoke without images or recognizable melodies.”
Intermissions was founded in January 2017 asa programming series devoted to ephemeral and performative works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform presents two events every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects. Previous participating artists include keyon gaskin, Gordon Hall, Jochen Dehn, and Xavier Cha.
These events are free and open to the public, but space is limited and advanced registration is essential: RSVP at renaissancesociety.org/events
EGLĖ BUDVYTYTĖ is an artist based in Amsterdam. She graduated from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2008, and since then has been working at the intersection between performing and visual arts. Her work was shown amongst others at Lofoten International Art festival; Block Universe Festival, London; Art Dubai commissions 2017; Liste, Art Basel; 19th Biennale of Sydney; De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; CAC in Vilnius; and Stedeljik Museum in Amsterdam. Budvytytė was resident at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2012 and at Wiels, Brussels, in 2013.
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For more than four decades, Liz Magor’s practice has quietly dramatized the relationships that develop among objects. Drawing on materials familiar from daily life, she carefully pairs elements of tenderness and exposure, often playing soft against hard, weak against strong, hand-made against mass-produced. Each artwork conjures broad social histories and is driven by intimate, contingent dynamics of power, desire, and vulnerability.
Manipulating found objects much in the way an author gathers fragments of stories, the Canadian artist brings them together into a newly commissioned body of work that she describes as “a collection of tiny intense narratives.” Here, she uses Mylar to create clear plastic support forms recalling commercial packaging for a number of sculptural “agents”—stuffed toys that she alters in various ways. In another installation, thirty pairs of secondhand shoes line a low structure, each displayed within its own box amidst elaborate embellishments. Magor uses sculptural techniques like casting, containing, cutting, and reattaching to create these hybrids, which she arranges into sprawling vignettes.
The artist is interested in how the objects might express or conceal conflicted aspirations and emotions through their own physical vocabularies: they are at once active, awkward, humorous, pathetic, and joyful. As designed products, the original items have been influenced by trends in fashion, which Magor identifies as a powerful engine for reproducing and reinforcing specific aesthetic ideals. As concrete entities with inscrutable histories, they have accumulated signs of deterioration and obsolescence. The tension between these characteristics—reflecting idealized possibilities but failing to achieve them—is a central theme in BLOWOUT, pointing to complex questions of form and material, as well as the deeply-rooted systems of social organization that lie beneath.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication—the artist’s first US catalogue in 10 years—featuring thorough photographic documentation of the new work, newly commissioned texts by Sheila Heti and Mitch Speed, and a conversation between the artist and curators.
BLOWOUT is co-organized by The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and is co-curated by the Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center, and Solveig Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
LIZ MAGOR lives and works in Vancouver. In 2017, her work was the subject of traveling survey at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Migros Museum, Zurich, and MAMAC, Nice. Other recent solo exhibitions of her work include: Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac, Paris (2016), Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2016), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015), Peep-hole, Milan (2015), Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2014), and Triangle France, Marseilles (2013). In addition, she has had solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2008), the Power Plant, Toronto (2003) and the Vancouver Art Gallery (2002). Magor participated in Documenta 8, Kassel (1987), and the 41st Venice Biennale, Venice (1984).
Image: Liz Magor, Seasonal, 2018
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BLOWOUT is co-organized by the Renaissance Society and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. It is co-curated by Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center, and Solveig Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society.
Image: Liz Magor, Pet Co., 2018. Courtesy of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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From stuffed toys to knitted sweaters, peculiar shoes to plastic wrap, common objects become “agents” or activators in Liz Magor’s sculptures, bringing with them elusive narratives or up-swells of feeling.
For this program, artists Alex Chitty and Jenine Marsh each respond to Magor’s practice, followed by a conversation together. Reflecting on her work and their own, they consider how sculptures can tune in to the lives and afterlives of objects, or how they might offer their share of surprises through the use of familiar-seeming materials.
Image: Liz Magor, Toolshed (Marine Paint), 2017.
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Free, but booking is essential and space is limited.
Image: Liz Magor, Installation view of Previously..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2018
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For more than four decades, Magor’s practice has quietly dramatized the relationships that develop among objects. Drawing on materials familiar from daily life, she carefully pairs elements of tenderness and exposure, often playing soft against hard, weak against strong, hand-made against mass-produced. Manipulating found objects much in the way an author gathers fragments of stories, the Canadian artist brings them together into a newly commissioned body of work that she describes as “a collection of tiny intense narratives.”
Image: Liz Magor, Installation view of Previoulsy..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York October 27 - January 13, 2018. Courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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Swift Hall, 1025 E. 58th St.
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Acclaimed author Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood) shares a new text that springs out of Magor’s work and is included in the forthcoming catalogue for BLOWOUT.
In Sheila Heti’s genre-bending novels, life’s vexing questions course through the pages like underground rivers, whether she’s asking How Should a Person Be? (2010) or thinking about Motherhood (2018) without having children.
Here, Heti shares a new text that springs out of Liz Magor’s work and is included in the forthcoming catalogue for BLOWOUT. Alluding to Heti’s particular vitality, Magor notes: “I am interested in writers who eschew the conventional operations of fiction in search of emergent feeling; writers who might use the material of a real life in its raw state.”
This event is presented in partnership with the Seminary Coop Bookstore.
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Associate Curator Karsten Lund introduces Magor’s new work in BLOWOUT, which the artist describes as “a collection of tiny intense narratives” featuring found and altered objects such as stuffed animals, shoes, and textiles.
For more than four decades, Magor’s practice has quietly dramatized the relationships that develop among objects. Drawing on materials familiar from daily life, she carefully pairs elements of tenderness and exposure, often playing soft against hard, weak against strong, hand-made against mass-produced. Manipulating found objects much in the way an author gathers fragments of stories, the Canadian artist brings them together into a newly commissioned body of work that she describes as “a collection of tiny intense narratives.”
Image: Liz Magor, Installation view of you you you, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich February 18- May 7, 2017. Courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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Artist talk at 6pm during Opening Reception, Saturday September 14
The Renaissance Society announces an upcoming exhibition of new work by LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze. The acclaimed visual artist is known for collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her photographs, videos, texts, interviews, and performances. In The Last Cruze she brings this approach to Lordstown, Ohio: over the last few months, she has been working closely with the automotive union there, United Auto Workers Local 1112, to shed light on the economic catastrophe that the workers and their families are currently facing.
For more than fifty years, General Motors has had a major production site in Lordstown, but the historic plant there was “unallocated” by the company earlier this year, despite a commitment to manufacture the Chevrolet Cruze at this location until 2021. Employees can apply to be relocated to another plant, in a different part of the country, but those who choose not to be uprooted will be cut off from the company, losing all their benefits. These developments in Lordstown have brought wide-spread attention to the small Rust Belt town, which has emerged as a political flashpoint and been cited as symptomatic of shifting economic trends.
Frazier remarks, “While one of General Motors’ company slogans is ‘Family First,’ my work in The Last Cruze reveals a corporate culture of union-busting, profits over people, and the destruction of families and an entire community.”
Featuring photographs and other audio-visual elements, The Last Cruze introduces a significant new chapter in Frazier’s investigations of labor, family, and community. Throughout her practice, Frazier uses photography to create a platform of social justice and visual representation for working-class families. This is rooted in her commitment to adding to the legacies of 1930s social documentary work and to asserting the continued relevance of 1960s and 70s conceptual photographic practices that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life.
As she works across a variety of geographic settings—including Flint, Michigan, the Borinage mining region in Belgium, her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and now Ohio—Frazier continues to develop a timely, nuanced, and increasingly ambitious view of working-class life. Frazier’s new work in Lordstown creates a platform for the workers who are directly affected by the plant’s changing status, bringing forward their own relationships to an urgent subject that connects the local with the global.
A monograph with multiple new essays, published by the Renaissance Society, will accompany the exhibition.
The Last Cruze is curated by Solveig Øvstebø and Karsten Lund, and it will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio in early 2020.
A selection of Frazier’s images and interviews from Lordstown is presented in a photo essay in the May 5 issue of The New York Times Magazine.
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s (b. 1982) work has been exhibited widely, including solo and group exhibitions at MUDAM, Luxembourg; CAPC Muséed’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; MAC’s Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium; Carréd’Art, Nîmes; The Brooklyn Museum; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Seattle Art Museum; the 2012 Whitney Biennial; MCA Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, among others. Frazier is currently Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she is represented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (New York | Rome). She is also the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows Award (2015), TED Fellows (2015), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014), and USA Artists (2014).
This exhibition is supported by Mirja and Ted Haffner, Mary Frances Budig and John Hass, and The Hartfield Foundation.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Eugene (Red) Adams, Eugene Jr. (Andy) Adams, Bill Adams and Dan Adams, The Last Cruze, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise New York | Rome
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Please join us to celebrate the opening of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s solo exhibition, The Last Cruze.
The Last Cruze presents a new body of work by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, centered on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. After more than fifty years of auto production, the facility has recently been “unallocated” by GM, with profound impacts on the workers, their families, and the larger community there. Featuring an extensive series of photographs and other audio-visual elements, this exhibition introduces a significant new chapter in Frazier’s investigations of labor, family, and working-class lives. The developments in Lordstown have brought wide-spread attention to the small Rust Belt town, which has emerged as a political flashpoint and been cited as symptomatic of shifting economic trends. Timely and nuanced, Frazier’s new work in Lordstown creates a platform for the workers who are directly affected, amplifying their voices.
ARTIST TALK: Frazier discusses her work at 6pm in Kent Hall, a short walk from the Ren.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze in the Detail Shop at Sweeney Chevrolet, Boardman OH, 2019.
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This event has reached maximum capacity. Please follow the RSVP link above to register for the waiting list.
David Harvey is an influential geographer and Marxist thinker who has written extensively about contemporary capitalism, political economy, and the roots of neoliberal thinking. For this walk-through of The Last Cruze, Harvey joins LaToya Ruby Frazier to talk about the exhibition and related concerns.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mindy Miller, Iron Works Union Local 851, 2019
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Register here
The Last Cruze grows out of Frazier's close collaboration with the United Auto Workers union in Lordstown, Local 1112. For this discussion, she joins two of its leaders—President Dave Green and Treasurer Rick Smith—and historian Steve Wyatt from Detroit's Local 600. Drawing on their deep knowledge of labor history, they'll speak to the cultural significance of Locals 600 and 1112, the union's relationships to the big US automakers, and why unions are important today.
Event attendees may also RSVP by calling or emailing us:
773 702 8670 / info@renaissancesociety.org
All Renaissance Society events are free and open to the public. When registering, please consider making a donation in support of our work.
Image: United Auto Workers Local 1112 President Dave Green and Treasurer Rick Smith in conversation with Steve Wyatt and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
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ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPEL
5850 S. WOODLAWN AVE.
[MAP]
For this concert developed in collaboration with the Renaissance Society and Lampo, Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Davachi premieres a new long-form work for pipe organ and two French horns in the soaring interior of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Titled la brume jaune, the composition explores alternating experiences of gradual movement and stasis, driven by subtle yet impactful gestures within intimate musical relationships of harmony, melody, and timbre. The interplay between the organ (played by Davachi) and the two amplified horns (played by Liz Deitemyer and Matthew Oliphant) provides a further layer of acoustic counterpoint, reflecting Davachi’s more recent explorations in writing for unconventional chamber ensembles. Designed by master builder E.M. Skinner in 1928, Rockefeller Chapel’s Skinner Organ is among the most revered in the United States and contains over 8,000 pipes.
This program is presented in partnership with Lampo.
Image: Sarah DaVachi, Photo: Alex Waber
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FILM STUDIES CENTER
COBB HALL, 3RD FLOOR
(DIRECTLY BELOW THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY)
Frazier uses photography as a platform for social justice and visibility for working-class families. Her approach is influenced by the Frankfurt School’s critiques of the culture industry and 1960s and 70s conceptual photography that addressed urgent socio-political issues in everyday life. Here, Frazier speaks with art historian Benjamin Young, who positions her work in relation to artists like Allan Sekula, and sociologist Werner Lange, who studied under the Frankfurt School and recently conducted a 45-day roadside vigil in Lordstown in solidarity with the auto workers.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Werner Lange, 45-Day-Vigil, 2019.
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ROCKWELL ON THE RIVER
3057 N ROCKWELL ST
Chaired by Mirja and Ted Haffner, Jennifer and Ashley Keller, and Catherine and Mamadou-Abou Sarr
RenBen 2019 is a Gala and Art Auction benefitting the Renaissance Society’s 2019-2020 program.
The Renaissance Society is driven by an uncompromising commitment to artists and their ideas.
In support of this mission, the Ren’s generous community comes together at the annual RenBen to raise crucial funds that support the next year of exhibitions, publications, and programs.
These funds result in ambitious new artistic production; open scholarly and creative discourse; beautiful, lasting publications; and opportunities for us all to consider new ways of experiencing and understanding our contemporary moment.
As always, the Ren is committed to keeping all exhibitions and programs free and open to the public, and your support of the RenBen makes this possible.
Host Committee:
Mirja* & Ted Haffner; Marilyn* & Larry Fields; Laura De Ferrari* & Marshall B. Front: Front Barnett Associates LLC; Edlis Neeson Foundation; Jennifer* & Ashley Keller; Catherine & Mamadou-Abou Sarr; Richard Wright* & Valerie Carberry; Helen Zell; Raven Thomas Abdul-Aleem* & Zaid Abdul-Aleem; Heiji Choy Black* & Brian Black; Mary Frances Budig* & John Hass; Vanessa* & Rich Copans; Nancy Lerner Frej* & David Frej; Jill Ingrassia-Zingales* & Luigi Zingales; Ivan Moskowitz* & Jolie Nahigian; Phillips; Neil Ross* & Lynn Hauser; Margaret Stone*; Anne Van Wart* & Mike Keable; David Williams* & Eric Ceputis
*Member of the Board of Directors
Participating Artists:
Kelly Akashi; Christiane Baumgartner; Kevin Beasley; Chris Bogia; Miriam Böhm; Kate Bonner; Peppi Bottrop; Halida Boughriet; Derek Paul Jack Boyle; Sol Calero; Phil Chang; Meg Cranston; Joël Degbo; Chris Dorland; Dickon Drury; Marley Freeman; Laura Gannon; Ana Elena Garuz; Robert Grosvenor; John Henderson; Ann Hirsch; Maryam Hoseini; Astrid Klein; Alex Kwartler; Cary Leibowitz; Jim Lutes; Win McCarthy; Matthew Monahan; Yu Nishimura; Niyi Olagunju; B. Ingrid Olson; Philippe Parreno; John Pittman; Walter Price; Kevin Reinhardt; Richard Rezac; Richanda Rhoden; Matt Rich; Daniel Rios Rodriguez; Em Rooney; Amanda Ross-Ho; Lara Schnitger; Celia Perrin Sidarous; Josef Strau; Iiu Susiraja; Philip von Zweck; Nicole Wermers; Elisabeth Wild; Andrew Norman Wilson; Cici Wu; Masaomi Yasunaga; Hiejin Yoo; Ping Zheng; Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Participating Galleries:
47 Canal, New York; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Arcadia Missa, London; Bodega, New York; ChertLüdde, Berlin; DiabloRosso, Panama City; DOCUMENT, Chicago; Et al., San Francisco; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; Greene Naftali, New York; Grice Bench, Los Angeles; Half Gallery, New York; Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas; Invisible-Exports, New York; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Karma, New York; Kate MacGarry, London; KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Koppe Astner, Glasgow; Kristen Lorello, New York; Lyles & King, New York; M. LeBlanc, Chicago; Magenta Plains, New York; Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Mrs., Maspeth; Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles; Officine dell’Immagine, Milan; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; Praz-Delavallade, Paris/Los Angeles; Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Ramiken, New York; Ratio 3, San Francisco; Regards, Chicago; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Smart Objects, Los Angeles; Soloway, Brooklyn; Sprüth Magers, Berlin; TAFETA, London; The Pit, Glendale
Live Auction conducted by Melyora de Koning, Phillips
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SWIFT HALL, THIRD FLOOR
1025 E 58TH ST.
[MAP]
The United Auto Workers Women’s Committee plays an active, radical role in Lordstown’s Local 1112, central to the union’s activism, membership donations, and advocacy for women and childrens’ homeless shelters. They have also battled regressive right-to-work laws in Ohio and participated in the Million Woman Marches. For this discussion, members of the UAW Women’s Committee—Pamela Brown, Chairperson; Marilyn Moore, Retiree Executive Board; and Frances Turnage, committee member—talk with Frazier about their work as it continues both in public and behind the scenes.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Frances Turnage, UAW Local 1112, Women's Committee, 2019.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier leads a public tour of her solo exhibition, The Last Cruze.
The Last Cruze presents a new body of work by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, centered on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. After more than fifty years of auto production, the facility has recently been “unallocated” by GM, with profound impacts on the workers, their families, and the larger community there. Featuring an extensive series of photographs and other audio-visual elements, this exhibition introduces a significant new chapter in Frazier’s investigations of labor, family, and working-class lives. The developments in Lordstown have brought wide-spread attention to the small Rust Belt town, which has emerged as a political flashpoint and been cited as symptomatic of shifting economic trends. Timely and nuanced, Frazier’s new work in Lordstown creates a platform for the workers who are directly affected, amplifying their voices.
Image: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cindy Higinbotham and Monet Hostutler, Best Friends and Banner Carriers, 2019.
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OPEN FOR LISTENING, REGULAR GALLERY HOURS
SAT, DEC 14, 7PM
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Camille Norment uses sound and music as means to reflect on socio-cultural phenomena or dimensions of public life. Her work creates experiences that are both somatic and cognitive—feeding both body and mind—whether she is delving into moments of dissonance or relating human speech to action. Norment’s Untitled (Flame) is an expansive, ongoing project that relates feedback and fire. In Chicago, it takes shape as two complimentary presentations: Untitled (blue heat), a performance at the Renaissance Society, and Untitled (red flame), a concurrent exhibition at the Logan Center for the Arts (Nov 15, 2019–Jan 5, 2020).
At the Renaissance Society, as part of the Intermissions series, the American-born, Oslo-based artist stages an exploration of audio feedback within the open gallery space. The museum’s distinctive architecture—with its high ceilings, hard surfaces, angular walls, and concave shape—forms an unusually dynamic acoustic environment. Thinking about feedback as both a sonic phenomenon and a metaphor with social and political resonance, Norment brings this space to life through an evening of performance. During the week, the staging for the performance is an active listening experience, open to the public during regular gallery hours.
As the project unfolds, Untitled (Flame) intersects with various histories including that of the Great Chicago Fire, the pioneering feedback experiments by sound artists like Max Neuhaus, and the contemporaneous activities of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). These artists and musicians were part of a global reach towards socio-cultural revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. For Norment, revolution or enlightenment involves both heat and cool; it’s an activity that is both social and internal, active and meditative, echoing red and blue flames.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Untitled (Flame) is co-presented with Logan Center Exhibitions.
Intermissions launched in January 2017 as a new programming series devoted to ephemeral and performative works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform presents two events every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
CAMILLE NORMENT is based in Oslo. She has recently performed in Sapporo, Japan and The Stone in New York with Ryuichi Sakamoto, and at The Armory in New York with Craig Taborn. She has presented both performances and exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Festspillene Festival in Bergen, Norway, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2015, Norment represented Norway at the Nordic pavilion for the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale.
Intermissions is supported by a gift from Mirja and Ted Haffner.
Image: Camille Norment, Photo: Marta Buso, OCA Norway
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Opening reception: Saturday, January 11, 5-8pm-with artist in conversation at 6pm
The Renaissance Society presents In the waiting room, a solo exhibition featuring new large-scale paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp. An arrangement of free-standing display structures situates the works, forming a kind of multidimensional stage set within the gallery.
Otto-Knapp’s paintings carry a certain enigmatic quality, the seeming simplicity of the reduced compositions belied by their layered, diaphanous surfaces and powerful sense of atmosphere. In some, silhouetted bodies stretch, ambulate, and contort, in the midst of a performance or preparing for one. Others introduce more scenic elements, reminiscent of the painted backdrops used on proscenium stages. These works hover between figuration and abstraction, withholding concrete narratives even as they suggest scenarios with their own strange, choreographed logic.
At the Renaissance Society, a number of new works are mounted on temporary walls. Another stands alone in the form of a folding screen. In context with paintings that allude to performance and dance, these structures gesture towards conventions of theatrical staging, where decorative facades frame the set for a fixed audience. Here, they operate as both supports for imagery and as partitions, a provisional architecture of their own. Their positioning in the space generates vantage points and patterns of movement, a loose choreography played out by whomever is viewing them. And within the bounds of the canvases themselves, the stage is set for the kinds of complex interplay painting makes possible: referential connections, material traces, the sedimented weight of history, embodied perceptions of time and space, and more ineffable experiences of emotion, all mediated by the pictorial surface.
The title of the exhibition,In the waiting room, points towards a space of anticipation—perhaps the period before the curtains are raised on a performance, or the passage of time before a doctor’s appointment. Waiting rooms are always underpinned by the promised fulfillment of some desire or need, and its temporary deferral. Otto-Knapp’s exhibition centers this kind of experience; hinting at staged activations but never explicitly delivering one, her work invites the viewer to linger in a moment of suspension, dwelling on latent tensions and impressions as they arise.
Curated by Solveig Øvstebø.
http://renaissancesociety.org/
Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, Screen (Trees), 2019. Courtesy of the Artist.
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During the opening reception: January 11, 7-8pm
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Silke Otto-Knapp’s solo exhibition, In the waiting room.
Otto-Knapp’s paintings carry a certain enigmatic quality, the seeming simplicity of the reduced compositions belied by their layered, diaphanous surfaces and a powerful sense of atmosphere. In the waiting room brings together a new group of large-scale works, situated in an arrangement of free-standing structures to form a kind of multidimensional stage set within the gallery.
ARTIST TALK: Otto-Knapp discusses her work in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Solveig Øvstebø, at 6pm.
Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, Screen (Trees), 2019. Courtesy of the Artist.
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Associate Curator Karsten Lund leads an informal tour of Silke Otto-Knapp’s solo exhibition, In the waiting room.
Otto-Knapp’s paintings carry a certain enigmatic quality, the seeming simplicity of the reduced compositions belied by their layered, diaphanous surfaces and a powerful sense of atmosphere. In the waiting room brings together a new group of large-scale works, situated in a patterned arrangement of free-standing structures to form a kind of multidimensional stage set within the gallery.
Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, Schatten Theater (Detail), 2017, Courtesy of the Artist and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.
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Executive Director and Chief Curator Solveig Øvstebø leads an informal tour of Silke Otto-Knapp’s solo exhibition, In the waiting room.
Otto-Knapp’s paintings carry a certain enigmatic quality, the seeming simplicity of the reduced compositions belied by their layered, diaphanous surfaces and a powerful sense of atmosphere. In the waiting room brings together a new group of large-scale works, situated in a patterned arrangement of free-standing structures to form a kind of multidimensional stage set within the gallery.
Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, Formation, 2019.
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LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
SCREENING ROOM
915 E 60TH ST
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The silhouetted figures in some of Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings appear as bodies in motion, involved in a fluid choreography. These works evince the artist’s deep interest in dance, from the history of its development as an avant-garde form, to the settings and conventions that make it legible as a particular mode of creative expression. For this cinematic screening, she has chosen a selection of dances for film and video from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, all by innovative choreographers and their artistic collaborators. The program includes works by Yvonne Rainer, Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham, and Babette Mangolte and Trisha Brown, followed by a discussion of the films with Otto-Knapp
Image: Charles Atlas & Merce Cunningham, Still from Channels/Inserts, 1982.
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Catriona MacLeod, a professor at the University of Chicago, writes about the intersections of art, literature, and film, with an emphasis on 18th- and 19th-century Germany. As a scholar and as the editor of the journal Word & Image, she has delved extensively into encounters between visual and verbal languages. Here, she discusses Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings against the backdrop of Germanic creative histories and considers how the artist’s work draws from other fields of expression. The paintings in Otto-Knapp’s Renaissance Society exhibition reveal a highly developed visual and material language, while dealing richly in referential connections that open up subtle historical echoes of their own.
Image: Silke Otto-Knapp, Eine Aufeinander Folgende Reihe Von Bildern. A Series of Images Following One From the Other (detail, 2019.
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This solo exhibition by Miho Dohi was originally scheduled to open to the public on April 18. As the our gallery remains closed until further notice, images of each work in the show are available here. A suite of new online programming will accompany this presentation, taking various live and pre-recorded forms. We look forward to welcoming you again soon.
Miho Dohi uses materials such as yarn, wire, fabric, sheet metal, paint, and tape to create what she describes simply as buttai, or objects. Compact and complex, each buttai brings together an idiosyncratic constellation of shapes and surfaces, conjoined in subtle or playful juxtapositions. These modestly sized works seem to enact a deft off-balancing of their constitutive parts, even as they hold together tightly as lively self-contained forms. This exhibition presents a cross section of Dohi’s recent practice. Co-organized with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, it is the Kanagawa, Japan-based artist’s first solo presentation in a U.S. museum.
Dohi’s nimble, hands-on approach is rooted in a close dialogue with her unassuming materials, which she manipulates to establish interplays between weight, mass, color, shape, and texture. In some works, bright or dark paint can accentuate or soften perceived differences between surfaces, while a matte finish might give a lightweight, airy sculpture a sense of density. In others, physical twists and layers cast shade and modulate the appearance of color, or bring different materials into contact with each other. Each gesture in the studio shifts an evolving object into new configurations and reveals a fresh range of untested possibilities.
As the artist explores these paths, the buttai gradually coalesce into their forms. The sculptures that emerge set their own terms, continually finding new ways to express the latent potential in simple, everyday materials and their mutable relationships to one another. Grounded in its intimate scale, this approach is fundamentally open-ended and driven by discovery. Dohi’s works, in her own words, often find resolution in an unexpected moment: “just when it seems to become clear what is inside and what is outside, they turn completely upside down, and all of a sudden, an object appears quite naturally out of that chaos.” Through this push and pull of order and disorder, artistic agency and the tendencies of materials, the creation of the buttai becomes a transformative act, a process of becoming.
This exhibition is co-organized by the Renaissance Society and The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, where it will be on view July 17th—September 20, 2020. It is co-curated by Dan Byers and Solveig Øvstebø, with Karsten Lund.
Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, Joyce Chelberg, and the Japan Foundation, New York.
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THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE-STREAMED ONLINE
Given ongoing public health concerns, our spring programs will be presented online in reimagined formats.
Hoa Nguyen is the recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and was nominated for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. The author of Violet Energy Ingots and other books, she writes complex poems that find their footholds in everyday experience, the slippages of language, and the natural world. Often compact on the page but spacious in their experimental range, Nguyen’s poems conjure memorable images and the inner wilds of thought, while developing a kind of concentrated power. Nguyen’s poems, like Miho Dohi’s sculptures, take shape as fragmentary forms that hold together tightly; each enacts a lively off-balancing of their chosen materials, whether language or tactile things.
For this online program, Nguyen presents her poems in a special home-recorded reading, available on our website beginning May 7. A link to this audio recording will appear on: https://renaissancesociety.org/events/1262/hoa-nguyen/?mc_cid=4c8c652a68&mc_eid=375d06b725
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THIS PROGRAM WILL BE LIVE-STREAMED ONLINE. LINK AVAILABLE HERE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT.
Given ongoing public health concerns, our spring programs will be presented online in reimagined formats.
In a live-streamed program, writer and curator Shannon Stratton shares a series of poetic, insightful responses to Miho Dohi’s work, attuned to its materials and processes. Stratton is currently Executive Director of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and was previously Chief Curator at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2003, she co-founded Threewalls in Chicago, where she was Director for twelve years.
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Curator and writer Shannon Stratton will respond to Miho Dohi's work with a poetic meditation on material, process, and objecthood—interleaving images of Dohi's sculptures with found and manipulated text, sound, and images. An exhibition of works by Miho Dohi is currently on view at renaissancesociety.org.
This event will be live-streamed on Zoom and Facebook Live. Follow the link above.
Stratton is currently Executive Director of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and was previously Chief Curator at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2003, she co-founded Threewalls in Chicago, where she was Director for twelve years.
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The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor organized and hosted by Experimental Sound Studio, meant to provide musicians a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. On May 22nd, the Renaissance Society will guest curate an evening of live music on this platform, streaming directly from the artists’ homes in four different cities.
Please consider supporting the artists with a donation. 100% of the donations contributed during the performance go to the artists. We encourage you to tune in to other Quarantine Concerts throughout April and May as well. The stream and full schedule are available here.
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Nine Lives, an ambitious group exhibition presented under the banner of the Feminist Art Coalition, a new initiative at museums nationwide. Nine Lives takes shape around a set of protagonists—real or imagined, past or present—as if the exhibition were a collection of short stories or personal essays. These figures come forward in the artworks, which offer intimate but imperfect access to these individual lives as they navigate everyday settings or more overt power structures and weigh the histories that inform them. Nine Lives includes new commissions from Kapwani Kiwanga, Hương Ngô, Raven Chacon, and Bethany Collins; and additional works by Marwa Arsanios, Tamar Guimarães, Aliza Nisenbaum, Charlotte Prodger, Alison O’Daniel, and Elle Pérez, many of whom are showing in Chicago for the first time.
Even in the face of wider uncertainty and rapid change, the Ren continues to aim high and our plans for our program this coming year are as far-reaching as ever. For a major group exhibition like Nine Lives, we face significant expenses for production, shipping and installation, while we also rise to new demands in order to welcome visitors safely and deliver initiatives for physically distant engagement. The support of our community combines with our streamlined staff, lean budget, and collaborative ethos to allow us to explore big ideas and present vital new artists' projects, such as the ones you will encounter in Nine Lives this fall.
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RenBen: Wildcard 2020 presents Renaissance TV
On December 4 at 7PM CST, the benefit format of RenBen: Wildcard returns as a 24-hour virtual launch party for Renaissance TV.
Renaissance TV, the Ren’s the newest curatorial platform, will launch with an online event that will be free and available for anyone to engage with, regardless of your geographic location, time zone, or local pandemic-related restrictions.
Conceptualized by Executive Director and Chief Curator Myriam Ben Salah, Renaissance TV will host artist projects such as films, animations, DJ sets, and more. Powered by Gucci and designed by Special—Offer Inc. (LA & NYC), this new website brings to life a new digital environment to transform our experiences with artworks online.
Image: Still from Liberian Boy by Mati Diop and Marion Lutanie. © Neon Productions, 2015.
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Performance November 20, 2020
Beginning in November 2020, the Renaissance Society will present projects by Joe Namy (performance) and Haig Aivazian (exhibition) as part of the Consortium Commissions, which brings together ten institutions to produce new works by eight emerging artists from the Arab world. This innovative model for co-commissioning was initiated by Mophradat in 2018.
Other partners include Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, De Appel in Amsterdam, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Portikus in Frankfurt, The Showroom in London, and Spielart Festival in Munich.
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A co-presentation of UChicago Presents and the Department of Music, the “SOUND/SITES” series explores the sonic implications of different spaces on the UChicago campus and the meaning of place in music and performance. In the second installment of the series, cellist Seth Parker Woods, Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago Department of Music and at the Kaufman Music Center in New York, explores what he calls “the unabashed celebration of the Black and Brown experience” through the music of Fredrick Gifford, Monty Adkins, Alvin Singleton, and Nathalie Joachim.
In this performance, Woods showcases the Renaissance Society gallery and its distinctive acoustics, performing music by Fredrick Gifford and Alvin Singleton surrounded by Haig Aivazian’s exhibition All of the Lights.
SOUND/SITES premieres on Friday, February 26 at 7:00 pm central time, and it will be available until 11:59 pm central time on Sunday, February 28. Tickets for the stream are $15 and can be purchased by visiting tickets.uchicago.edu.
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THIS DISCUSSION WILL BE CONDUCTED ON ZOOM. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
In conjunction with Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, LaToya Ruby Frazier joins curator Karsten Lund for an in-depth discussion of The Last Cruze, a substantial new book that expands upon her 2019 solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society.
Featuring the artist’s extensive body of work that centers on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, The Last Cruze records the devastating effects on the workers’ families and their community after GM “unallocated” the plant, which soon led to its closure. For Frazier, this publication is a vital part of The Last Cruze, extending the dialogue around the work, offering another platform for the workers’ voices, and inviting new reflections by a number of leading scholars and thinkers.
While the GM plant in Lordstown has officially closed and its workers and their families have largely had to relocate, it’s clear this story is hardly over. The ripple effects of the closure are only starting to be seen. And in the time since The Last Cruze was first exhibited in Chicago, the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the economy and underlined just how precarious things are, and continue to be, for so many people. The importance of advocating for workers, the need for good healthcare, the blessings of community, and the power of collective action are now more palpable than ever. Building on the original exhibition and gathering LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ongoing dialogues around these topics, this book presents The Last Cruze in an expanded form, filled with voices from Lordstown and beyond.
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2PM CDT | REGISTER
On Saturday, March 20, two scholars from the University of Chicago, Joseph Masco, Professor of Anthropology, and Lisa Wedeen, the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science, offer their reflections on Haig Aivazian’s work and their own, before joining the artist in discussion, moderated by curator Karsten Lund.
Each working at the intersection of many fields in their research, Masco and Wedeen, like Aivazian, at times delve into the effects of technology, political imaginaries in the US or the Middle East, power and violence, and the roles played by mass mediation and visual culture. Together with the artist, they offer wide-ranging perspectives on these dynamics, to name only a few, and the images and narratives that shape them.
The two video works in All of the Lights, All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes (2021) and Prometheus (2019), will screen three times on Renaissance TV before and after the talk, at 11am, 1pm, and 4pm CDT. The approximate total running time is 40 minutes.
This closing discussion is organized in partnership with the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT).
View the exhibition in-person through Sunday, March 21. Make a reservation.
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In each of her in-depth projects, Jill Magid becomes intimately involved with different structures of authority, whether government bureaucracies, a secret service agency, or the guardians of other artists’ estates. Gaining access through systemic loopholes or contact with people on the inside, she follows the rules of engagement with each institution and draws out their internal logics. In a way, she becomes a stand-in for any person trying to navigate something much larger than themselves.
As the pandemic began last year, the complex relationships between individuals, groups of people, institutions, and deeply-rooted systems quickly came into stark relief. Magid was especially struck by the way public figures weighed the loss of human lives against the supposed costs for the economy. Against this backdrop, she began developing a project that would take multiple forms over time, while centering on the circulation of pennies, as they’re exchanged by hand and within the economy at large.
Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid's Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society follows the movement of pennies and some of their afterlives, while thinking about absence, loss, and traces left behind. Reflecting her unique approach as an artist, the exhibition has aspects that are intimate and poetic while also observing broader systems around us—in this case the intertwining of the economy and the lives of individual people.
While developing new threads, Tender: Balance unfolds in parallel to Magid's monumental but nearly-invisible public artwork, Tender, produced by Creative Time in New York starting last fall. For Tender, Magid engraved the edges of 120,000 new US pennies with the words ‘THE BODY WAS ALREADY SO FRAGILE' and quietly put them into everyday circulation, where they can only be experienced in intimate and unscripted ways, one penny at a time—or more likely, simply as a rumor. At the Renaissance Society, in contrast, as Magid presents a new film and other new works, the project comes to rest, but only momentarily, as the latest chapter in an ongoing story.
VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK SAT APR 10, 6PM
VIRTUAL WALK-THROUGH MON, APR 12, 5:30PM
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THIS TALK WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society thinks about the circulation of pennies, against the backdrop of the pandemic, and measures of absence and loss. With dimensions that both intimate and observant of larger systems around us, this exhibition both parallels and builds on a monumental but nearly invisible public artwork that Magid began in New York in fall 2020. On the exhibition’s opening day, the artist joins curator Karsten Lund to discuss Tender: Balance and the project’s various manifestations, in Chicago and beyond.
Live captioning will be available for this event.
Organized in conjunction with EXPO Chicago.
Image: JILL MAGID, TENDER (DETAIL), 2020. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LABOR, MEXICO CITY.
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Exhibition Tour | 2:30PM CDT
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Karsten Lund (Curator, Renaissance Society) leads a virtual walk-through of Jill Magid's Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society, navigating immersive 3D documentation of the gallery space and discussing the works in the show, their installation at the Ren, and broader conceptual threads running through Magid's practice. Presented in partnership with the Renaissance Society.
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THIS TALK WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
For a series of public programs, artist Jill Magid invites scholars from three different fields — anthropology, political theory, and art history—to share their perspective on her exhibition Tender: Balance and join her in conversation about her work and theirs.
On May 12th, Magid talks with renowned political theorist Wendy Brown, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is Class of 1936 First Chair in Political Science. Brown’s recent books, including In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia, 2019) and Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone 2014), describe how “neoliberal rationality” infuses every aspect of our lives, reorganizing society around markets and traditional morality, with unforeseen consequences for the health of democracy.
Live captioning will be available for this event.
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Thursday, June 17th, 6pm | VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK
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Matthew Metzger’s paintings often closely replicate not-quite-familiar images, cultural artifacts, or common objects that signify nauseating conditions of power—conditions that for him leave self-expression feeling inadequate or corrupted, requiring a different way forward. While rendering each painting with an obsessive focus, Metzger relies on abstraction to more than formal ends, using it as an active means of distortion that mirrors the effects of our information ecologies and other aspects of culture today.
In Heirloom, Metzger presents a new ensemble of works, conceived as an installation for the Renaissance Society and its space. This exhibition strategically brings together a collection of “odds and ends,” paintings that echo and invert motifs shared among many of Metzger’s ongoing series and beyond. Whether political regimes, or expressive vocabularies, capitalism, or simply the heart’s ability to pump blood, what do we do with the systems we inherit that fail repeatedly? This question has continued to unravel slowly in Metzger’s studio over the past four years. Recognizing the breadth of such a question, Metzger considers the ramifications and aesthetics of learned behaviors and ideologies, and their impacts on traditions of expression.
“Modeling” and repetition continue to reinforce inherited, restrictive systems of meaning making, governance, and influence. From the atelier tradition in painting to the power of a dictator, to patterns in public education, violence, and even speech, models proliferate and become a form of constraint. Thoughts and actions, from childhood and throughout one’s life, in part become a performance of the systems we are taught to use and trust. For Metzger, abstraction has become a way around this paradox, albeit a convoluted one. On the one hand, abstraction in painting today is yet another performance of an iconic system of expression, bound up by taste and the market. On the other hand, abstraction in language and image remains a core method for personalizing meaning that in fact welcomes subjectivity, allowing the artist to find intimacy in politics, privacy in symbols, and individuation in everyday commodities.
Heirloom is further guided by Metzger’s manipulation of surfaces and grounds. These are familiar concepts in painting, but in practice they can become complicated points of pressure on the body that simultaneously orient and distort. Metzger embraces this in the exhibition through varying methods of representation that weigh how abstraction is used and deployed by systems of power and also by individuals who desire to speak.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
MATTHEW METZGER (b. 1978) lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA from The University of Chicago and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency Program, both in 2009. Metzger is Associate Professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent solo exhibitions include Regards, Chicago; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; and Arratia Beer, Berlin. His work has also been featured in various group exhibitions such as Without Stopping, Ratio 3, San Francisco; Retrogarde, Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago; The Freedom Principle, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and The Works, Fondation CAB, Brussels.
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The Renaissance Society is thrilled to announce Heirloom, an upcoming solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Matthew Metzger.
In Heirloom, Metzger presents an ensemble of new works conceived as an installation for the Ren and its architectural space. This exhibition strategically brings together a collection of “odds and ends”—paintings that echo and invert motifs shared among many of Metzger’s ongoing series. Whether political regimes, expressive vocabularies, or simply the heart’s ability to pump blood, what do we do with the systems we inherit that fail repeatedly? This question has continued to unravel slowly in Metzger’s studio over the past four years, as he considers the ramifications and aesthetics of learned behaviors or ideologies, as well as their impacts on traditions of expression.
Read more.
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For this virtual program in the orbit of his exhibition Heirloom, Matthew Metzger joins critic and writer Jan Verwoert for a conversation about the show, abstraction, and other shared questions emerging from their work.
MATTHEW METZGER, GRAY, 2021. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND REGARDS.
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For this virtual program looking at his exhibition Heirloom and beyond, Matthew Metzger joins scholar Fumi Okiji for a conversation that delves into painting and music, questions around expression, and more.
MATTHEW METZGER, INSTALLATION VIEW OF HEIRLOOM, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
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“Friend” is the loosest of terms we have for how we relate to each other. Michel Foucault calls friendship “a desire, an uneasiness, a desire-in-uneasiness.” Not always democratic or inclusive, friendship starts with negation: we collectively wish everyone else would go away. Friendship can be impolite, and as it unfolds, it can be opaque and asymmetrical, tortuous. It is tensile, capable of bearing heart-wrenching passion, ambivalence, or even the absence of feeling. It is sometimes what’s left when nothing else is possible.
More broadly, friendship is a mode of alliance that exists beyond typical kinship and outside of institutional relations (family, profession). It’s an elective affinity without finality. Being a good friend signals an inclination to form anomalous, unproductive bonds that exceed strategic self-interest. An essentially political relationship—one of allegiance and responsibility—it offers a framework for interrogating how we live and work and exist in the world. It offers a possibility for a new poetics of the Other.
Smashing into my heart looks at friendship as a condition, a model, and a metaphor for art. The artworks presented engage with regimes of care, structures of support, horizontal relationships. They are steeped in affection, desire, longing, jealousy, comfort, love. The tone is sentimental—irony has left the building.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
Image: TITA CICOGNANI, STILL FROM I AM SO FULL OF LONGING AND DESIRE IT GUSHES OUT OF MY KNEES AS THEY SCRAPE THE GROUND UPON WHICH I CRAWL TOWARD YOU, 2020. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.
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With writings by Kaveh Akbar, Miranda July, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, Natasha Stagg, and Audrey Wollen.
Deadlines and Divine Distractions is an ongoing epistolary project, which brings together letters between friends and strangers, the living and the dead. In this special iteration, letters penned by six artists, writers, and filmmakers—each accompanied by a phone recording—will intervene weekly in the Renaissance Society’s regular cadence of email announcements.
The project’s co-editors—Negar Azimi, writer and Editor in Chief of Bidoun, and Pati Hertling, Deputy Director of Performance Space New York—have made this selection of letters on the occasion of Smashing into my heart.
THIS PROGRAM IS TAKING PLACE VIRTUALLY.
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Welcome to a special iteration of Deadlines and Divine Distractions. This ongoing epistolary project brings together letters between friends and strangers, the living and the dead, penned by artists, writers, scholars, and poets.
This program is organized on the occasion of our current exhibition, Smashing into my heart, which explores friendship as a framework for interrogating how we live and work and exist in the world. One letter, and a phone recording of each, will be disseminated every week through October 31.
Deadlines and Divine Distractions is co-edited by Negar Azimi, writer and Editor in Chief of Bidoun, and Pati Hertling, Deputy Director of Performance Space New York. A readable transcript of this letter can be found here, and phone recording is accessible via this link.
Eileen Myles | New York, November 2014
Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their 22 books include For Now, evolution, Afterglow, I Must Be Living Twice/new & selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. In 2019 they wrote and directed an 18-minute super 8 film, The Trip, a puppet road film. See it on youtube. They live in NewYork and Marfa, TX.
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Our team invites you to join us for live music by claire rousayrooted in low-fi and electronic traces of personal relationships; an in-person and live-streamed performance lecture, Pool Party, by Lily Scherlis on care and its limitations within capitalism; and the collective editorial project, Deadlines and Divine Distractions, focused on intimate letters penned across generations.
Information about accessibility and visiting the Logan Center for the Arts, where the live events take place, can be found here. Please note below, or on our events page, where registration details apply as each program will vary.
LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
PERFORMANCE PENTHOUSE
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Claire Rousay’s music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life—voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations—layering them with electronics in patient, poetic arrangements and exploding their significance. Learn more.
The artist is based in San Antonio, Texas. rousay has released music on a range of labels, most notably Astral Spirits, Second Editions, Longform Editions, and American Dreams. rousay has presented music at venues like Issue Project Room, Casa Del Lago (CDMX) and Salon De Normandy (Paris).
THE EVENT IS FREE, BUT CAPACITY IS LIMITED. CLICK HERETO REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR GUARANTEED ENTRY. LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR AS CAPACITY ALLOWS. COVID-19 PROOF OF VACCINATION GUIDELINES FOR ATTENDEES HERE.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CLAIRE ROUSAY.
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Paul Maheke (b. 1985, Brive-la-Gaillarde; lives in London) takes dance as a focal point in his varied, and often collaborative, performance practice. Thinking about the body as an archive or a territory with its own cartography, he uses movement and language to reconsider personal and collective histories as well as aspects of memory.
Maheke’s performance, Taboo Durag explores, in the artist’s words,\"the porous interface between vulnerability and resilience.\" Adopting the form of a solo dance, the work moves through different narrative and choreographic registers, the score swelling with bass-heavy ambience and vocals. For this presentation, Maheke has adapted the performance for the Ren's space.
The Intermissions series, begun in 2017, focuses on ephemeral and live projects, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery between exhibitions.
Paul Maheke, Taboo Durag, 2021.
Courtesy of the Roberts Institute of Art, Glasgow International and the artist.
Photo: Eoin Carey.
Attendance is free but capacity is limited! Register and review COVID-19 policies via the links below.
CLICK HERE for Saturday, Nov 13, 8-9PM CT
CLICK HERE for Sunday, Nov 14, 5-6PM CT
Both performances will take place at the Renaissance Society
at the University of Chicago
5811 South Ellis Avenue
Cobb Hall, 4th Floor
(wheelchair accessible)
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Ghost Dog, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.
To celebrate the opening of LAWS OF CONFUSION at the Renaissance Society, save the date for Saturday, December 11. Details about an in-person artist talk with Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed will follow.
All guests must adhere to the University of Chicago’s indoor visitor protocols.
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LAWS OF CONFUSION is the second collaboration of Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed, whose individual practices converge in a choreography of movements. Together, they contend with ideas of displacement and the friction between personal histories and wider narratives––geopolitical, mystical, speculative, technological. This new exhibition hinges on interceded or interrupted communications in various forms. On a more fundamental level, the show is a culmination of a sustained, ever-evolving, and at times chaotic process—what the artists describe as an “unraveling of attempts.”
Lydia Ourahmane (b. 1992, Saïda; lives between Barcelona and Algiers) and Alex Ayed (b. 1989, Strasbourg; lives between Brussels, Paris, and Tunis) will create a new collaborative body of work, bringing together the artists’ shared embrace of indeterminacy, forms of intimacy, and ideas of magic as ways to interrupt belief systems, or cultural ”macro patterns.”
In her own practice, Ourahmane often excavates geopolitical histories through a choreography of research, cultural artifacts, and personal effects. Ayed’s practice, in turn, offers fleeting impressions of places, movements, and dialects in almost familiar objects in careful arrangements—like physical incarnations of an oral tradition. Both artists outwit fixed narratives of the world’s evolution and their work, and at the Renaissance Society, their collaboration finds new pathways through dialogue and improvisation.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund.
VISITING INFORMATION
The Renaissance Society is free to all.
During exhibitions, the gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday. Daily hours are 12–6pm, except for Friday, when we are open 1–7pm.
The gallery is located on the fourth floor of Cobb Hall at the University of Chicago, at 5811 South Ellis Avenue. Cobb Hall is accessible from the sidewalk level via platform lift, which is located inside the entrance at the south-east corner of the building. An elevator is available for access to the fourth floor.
Learn more, including COVID-19 precautions, here.
Image: Ghost Dog, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.
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For this virtual talk, presented in response to Laws of Confusion, philosopher Emanuele Coccia discusses connected aspects of his own recent work, considering different forms of life, interconnection, and transformation.
The event is free but all guests must register online to attend on Zoom.
Learn more and register to join us on Zoom here.
Photo by Enrique Martínez Bueso.
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PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER is based on a true story of kinship and betrayal aboard a transatlantic air ambulance from London to Miami. Including life-size dolls and starring live actors (in order of appearance) Marti Wilkerson, Jim Fletcher, Alexandro Segade, and Cammisa Buerhaus, the video is a psychological thriller that takes place in flight—while time moves glacially, reality becomes suspended.
This is the online premiere of Strafer's film and it is presented in collaboration with PARTICIPANT INC where it is currently on view in New York.
Renaissance TV is an online platform created to produce and host artists’ projects. It focuses on moving image and occasionally expands onto performance and sound work.
Learn more.
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JORDAN STRAFER IN CONVERSATION WITH SOHRAB MOHEBBI AND ALEXANDRO SEGADE
SUN, FEB 6, 1PM CT REGISTER TO ATTEND ON ZOOM
On the last day of Jordan Strafer's new film PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER's one-week run on Renaissance TV, join the artist with curator Sohrab Mohebbi and artist (and cast member) Alexandro Segade for a discussion on the work. Learn more.
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7:40PM DOORS / 8PM SHOW
RSVP FOR GUARANTEED ENTRY
5640 S ELLIS AVE, ROOM 161
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish composer, sound artist, and performer living in Berlin. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, and sound installations, and given numerous performances all over the world.
For her Chicago debut, Hartman presents two works live in person: SOLO, for amplified and moving objects, and FRACTURE, originally commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur.
This concert is presented in partnership with the Frequency Festival and in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Chicago.
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Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in Meriem Bennani’s film trilogy of the same name, set in a supernatural, dystopian future surrounding a fictional island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This new work is a result of the artist’s research and reflections on the histories of island societies, biotechnology, and vernacular music. Layering live action footage and computer-generated animation, Bennani intuitively adapts editing techniques that evoke documentary film, science-fiction, phone footage, music videos, and reality TV. Her one-person exhibition at the Renaissance Society will mark the debut of this personal, electric yet melancholic consideration of what it is to live in a state of limbo.
Tune in Thursday, March 31 for Live from the CAPS, an hour-long program featuring a number of Meriem Bennani's colleagues and collaborators. Each shares their insights on different aspects of the CAPS trilogy, presented in a variety of formats and accented by Bennani's signature editing style.
Image: Meriem Bennani, Life on the CAPS, 2022, Installation view. Courtesy of the Renaissance Society. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
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ON RENAISSANCE TV
Tune into Renaissance TV online for a live transmission from the CAPS. This variety show will feature music, conversations, and more from Bennani and various collaborators from the film and the forthcoming book—plus special guests. Details forthcoming.
Image: Meriem Bennani, Life on the CAPS (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
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Joe Namy’s live projects and exhibitions often focus on the social constructs of music and organized sound. For this new performance, the London- and Beirut-based artist conjures a dance floor and brings to life a series of collaborative scores and improvised happenings. Disguised as Dance Floor, as it’s titled, explores the subversive politics of bass and the effects of sound on the body, generating new modes of holistic listening and situations where gestures, sounds, and words mingle in adventurous ways. Curated by Karsten Lund with Michael Harrison.
This iteration of Intermissions is part of the Consortium Commissions, an initiative of Mophradat, which builds a network of partner museums to produce new works, and it will also be staged at Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany, this winter.
PHOTO: LE 18 MARRAKECH ROOFTOP PERFORMANCE. PHOTO: GUY PETERSON (154 CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR).
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ORIENTAL INSTITUTE
BREASTED HALL
1155 E 58TH ST, CHICAGO, IL
Co-presented with the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in collaboration with the Oriental Institute, the Renaissance Society will host a lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars, I Utter Other.
Founded in 2006, Slavs and Tatars is an art collective whose practice spans exhibitions, books, and lecture-performances. A 40-minute multimedia presentation, I Utter Other considers the study and conception of the \"East\" in 19th and 20th-century Russia and the USSR against bodies of scholarship on Orientalism—the critique of Western imaginations of the East.
This event coincides with the opening of the artists' exhibition, MERCZbauat the Neubauer Collegium, a short walk from where the lecture-performance is being held. All attendees are welcomed to join the opening reception, which continues after the lecture-performance until 8pm.
Slavs and Tatars’ presence on campus is made possible by the Gray Centerfor Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.
Image: Slavs and Tatars. I Utter Other, 2014–present, documentation of lecture performance at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
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Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, Carson, CA), who lives between New York and LA, will present a new video installation anchored in the visual and political context of the Vietnamese community in Poland. This lens grounds the exploration of globalism and the effect of ideologies on non-Western bodies. Integrating an important element of music (K-Pop), the work continues Nguyen’s artistic interests in considering how cultural touchstones like songs and shared histories are fragmented and woven together in new ways over time and in different places.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
The project, which will be accompanied by the artist’s first publication, is co- commissioned with SculptureCenter in New York, where it was on view through December 13, 2021. The New York presentation was curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Curator-at-Large.
DIANE SEVERIN NGUYEN, STILL FROM IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND BUREAU, NEW YORK.
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For this live program, Diane Severin Nguyen joins scholar Anna Kornbluh, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, for a conversation that delves into Nguyen’s exhibition IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS in relation to Kornbluh’s book The Order of Forms, an important influence for the artist. In their work as an artist and a scholar of literature, film, and critical theory, respectively, each of them has explored aspects of realism, form, and abstraction, ever attentive to a larger web of social relations and political possibilities.
Image Caption: Diane Severin Nguyen. Still from “IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS,” 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York.
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Please Note: This takes place at Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse on the 9th Floor
Jessica Pavone has been active in the New York improv scene for years, well known for her prolific collaborations. But it may be her solo viola music where she has most deeply concentrated her long tone practice, her interests in repetition and song form, and the physicality of playing her “somewhat larger-than-comfortable” instrument. Pavone expands on these themes from her solo work with the J. Pavone String Ensemble. The group explores what she calls “the tactile experience,” while incorporating research into the effects of sonic vibrations on human physiology and emotion. Here they present new compositions Hidden Voices, Done and Dusted, …of Late, and others. Joining Pavone in her ensemble are Abby Swidler on violin and viola and Aimée Niemann on violin.
Presented in partnership with LAMPO.
Image Caption: J. Pavone String Ensemble. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Josiah Cuneo.
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Please Note: This screening takes place at Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room
Screened in conjunction with Diane Severin Nguyen’s exhibition IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, Vincent Meessen’s film, in its own ways explores revolutionary aspirations, the echoes of past films, and the response of a new generation to the traces of lingering ideologies.
Juste un Mouvement, 2021 is Meessen’s take on La Chinoise, a Jean-Luc Godard movie shot in 1967 Paris. Godard’s original film followed a group of French students who embrace revolutionary ideals and eventually turn to violence. Updating its plot and reallocating its roles, Meessen places the characters fifty years later in Dakar, creating a new version that offers a meditation on the relationship between politics, justice, and memory.
Image Caption: Vincent Meessen. Still from Juste Un Movement, 2021.
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In this exhibition, 17 artists offer perspectives on property—from objects and land to new technology. As an abstract idea that shapes social and economic structures, how does “property\" start to organize emotional life today, too?
The Renaissance Society will be open to the public from noon until 6pm, with drinks and music from 3 until 5pm on the quadrangle, just outside Cobb Hall.
In addition to the the gallery, works are presented online at Renaissance TV, available for viewing at home or on mobile devices. During the opening day only, these video works by Karrabing Film Collective, Pedro Neves Marques, and Andrew Norman Wilson will also be screened in a viewing room down the hall from the gallery.
Learn more.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Image: Kevin Beasley, Valentines Pines (residence), 2022. Photo: Dan Bradica.
Fear of Property was made possible through the generous support of the Van Wart/Keable Family.
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Join us for a curator-led walk-through of Fear of Property. Karsten Lund, Curator at the Renaissance Society, will bring participants through a tour of the exhibition, touching on key ideas and works and inviting conversation.
Image: Fear of Property, 2022, installation view at the Renaissance Society. Image by Useful Art Services.
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FREE [RSVP ENCOURAGED]
Eunsong Kim’s practice spans poetry, translation, essays, and scholarship in visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. For this program Kim reflects on Fear of Property and then joins exhibition curator Karsten Lund in conversation around questions of property, poetry, and art.
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FILM STUDIES CENTER, COBB HALL, ROOM 307
FREE, RSVP ENCOURAGED
In her most recent book, Having and Being Had, essayist Eula Biss embarks a provocative exploration of the value system behind American home ownership. Lingering over property’s contradictions, with all the comforts and discomforts involved, the book draws unshrinkingly on Biss’s own experience while bringing equal sensitivity to the larger structural patterns and histories in which property is so deeply enmeshed.
For this program, Biss joins curator Karsten Lund in conversation around the exhibition Fear of Property, as they talk about artworks in the exhibition, the tangles of property as an idea and a lived experience, and some of the emotional dimensions that are often left out of the picture. Learn more.
Fear of Property closes this Sunday, November 6. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6pm, and Friday 1 to 7pm. Plan your visit.
Image credit: Ghislaine Leung, Public Sculpture (detail), 2018. Installation view in Fear of Property, 2022. Photo: Useful Art Services.
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Nour Mobarak has used her body as an instrument, her voice as a guide, and often technology in a graceful supporting role. For this newly commissioned sound and performance piece Mobarak extends these ideas and methods into new directions. On two consecutive days, Mobarak manipulates sound in the space through her position and movement, turning the empty gallery into a de facto collaborator, an instrument of its own, and a site of improvisation and live experimentation.
Image: Nour Mobarak, \"Private Plug\" Score in Lampo Folio, 2021, photos by Tony Cherenka.
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Max Guy lives in Chicago. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. Guy received his BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Krannert Museum of Art (Urbana-Champaign); MCA Chicago, Prairie Gallery, Produce Model, and Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago); Malmö Museum of Art (Malmo, Sweden); CAVE (Detroit); and Galeria Federico Vavassori (Milan, Italy).
Curated by Michael Harrison.
Friends of Max Guy Patron Circle:
Chairs, Raven Thomas Abdul-Aleem and Zaid Abdul-Aleem; Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson; Sundeep Mullangi and Trissa Babrowski, Richard Wright and Valerie Carberry; Dirk Denison and David Salkin; and an anonymous donor.
Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by 247 and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Additional support is provided by The MacArthur Fund for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at Prince and The Provost’s Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
The Study at University of Chicago is the Renaissance Society’s Exclusive Hotel Sponsor.
Image: MAX GUY, STILLS FROM THE CITY & THE CITY (STUDY #4), 2021, TWO-CHANNEL VIDEO. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.
For his first museum solo exhibition, Max Guy debuts a colorful installation centered on the story of The Wizard of Oz, from the franchise’s Chicago roots to its enduring cultural presence and fandoms.
Artist Talk: Guy discusses his work in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Michael Harrison, at 4pm.
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Join us for an artist and curator-led walk-through of But tell me, is it a civilized country?. Guy and Harrison, Curatorial Assistant at the Renaissance Society, will lead a tour of the exhibition, touching on key ideas and works and inviting conversation.
Advance registration is encouraged, but not required.
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The Dark Side of Oz, 1989 (2020) is a feature-length video by artist Curtis Miller pairing three albums by the English rock band Pink Floyd with Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz (1939) in an alternate version of a classic mash-up.
First described by Charles Savage for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in 1995, for years the fan-generated mash-up The Dark Side of Oz (alternately referred to as The Dark Side of the Rainbow and The Wizard of Floyd) circulated among Pink Floyd fans through word of mouth and the Usenet newsgroup alt.music.pink-floyd. The Dark Side of Oz instructs viewers to begin Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon at the first roar of the lion in the MGM logo at the beginning of the film, creating an unexpected synchronicity between an album and a film produced thirty-four years apart.
For The Dark Side of Oz, 1989, Miller reproduces the mash-up using an unedited television recording of the Wizard of Oz from 1989, broadcast on the fiftieth anniversary of the film, which he found at an antique mall while storm chasing in 2018. Miller's version includes the original advertisements from the broadcast, creating unexpected overlaps and displacing the conventional synch of The Dark Side of Oz, as well as subtle image alterations and karaoke moments. When The Dark Side of the Moon ends after 43:00 minutes (roughly halfway through the original film), the audio cycles through Pink Floyd’s subsequent releases: Wish You Were Here (1975) and Animals (1977).
Learn more.
Curtis Miller, still from The Dark Side of Oz, 1989, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
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Join us in Bond Chapel for Julia Reidy’s debut Chicago performance, co-presented with the Frequency Festival.
Berlin-based composer Julia Reidy makes music for processed and acoustic instruments—mostly guitars. Having drawn acclaim for solo performances on 12-string acoustic guitar that bridge microtonality, fingerpicking techniques, and classic minimalism, their recent work has utilized an increasingly broad sonic palette, fleshing out guitar-based composition with electronics, field recordings, and auto-tuned vocals. Records such as In Real Life (Black Truffle, 2019), Vanish (Editions Mego, 2020) and World in World (Black Truffle, 2022) showcase these elements in a series of non-traditional song forms as experimental as they are emotive, characterized by rhythmic elasticity, unstable harmonics (driven by Reidy’s unorthodox tuning experiments with just-intoned guitar), and a powerful sense of intimacy and atmosphere.
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Artist Talk: Feb 25, Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room, 4pm
Aria Dean is an artist and writer who has created a multi-platform body of work based in trenchant critiques of representational systems. Confounding binaries such as abstraction and figuration, individual and collective, Dean’s sculptures, installations, videos, and essays trouble received ideas of race, power, and form. Concerned with what art objects can do, and have done, for their producers and receivers, Dean tracks artistic innovations against an array of theoretical positions, from poststructuralism to Afropessimism, not just to parse the social and material bases of art but also to grasp its impact on the ontology of Blackness. Minimalism has proven especially fertile for Dean: “insofar as minimalism evades the representational sphere almost entirely,” she writes, “pure play of forms and volumes and densities—it’s like having an amusement park all to myself, with the lights out.”
Abattoir U.S.A.! is both the title of her solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society and the newly commissioned film that is at the center of it.
Abattoir U.S.A.! surveys the interior of an empty slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse is animated using Unreal Engine, a 3D computer graphics tool used to create real- time environments for a wide range of platforms. In Dean’s film, the viewer follows a linear path through an impossible architecture—a seamless combination of 19th, 20th, and 21st century design elements and non-Euclidean spaces rather than a direct model of an existing building. The film is accompanied by an immersive 8-channel score by composer Evan Zierk, which weaves together field recordings, samples, melodies written by Zierk and Dean, and algorithmically generated sequences. Influenced by Romantic-era classical composition and Hollywood melodrama, this multidimensional score plays a vital role in developing the film’s affective landscape, and its experimentation with the construction and limitations of narrative. Dean significantly altered the idiosyncratic architecture of the Renaissance Society to create the film’s viewing context. Laying a rubber floor on the ground, building side walls that echo the cattle’s path in a slaughterhouse and adding a steel door, she created an uncanny doubling of what’s on view on screen.
Dean was initially inspired by philosophers Georges Bataille and Frank Wilderson, each of whom address the slaughterhouse in their writings– whether as a metaphor or paradigm–as crucial to the constitution of civil society. Abattoir U.S.A!, also builds on Dean’s own research into the slaughterhouse and industrial architecture, and the ways they reveal modernism’s intimacy with death on conceptual, political, and material levels. The film ruminates on this through the slaughterhouse’s presence as both an allegorical structure and a literal place where the boundary between human animal and machine is produced and reproduced. As it takes the slaughterhouse as its subject and projects its forms into a virtual space, Abattoir U.S.A! ultimately explores how meaning is produced through moving images, working across material, symbolic, and technological registers.
Support
Aria Dean’s new film commission for this exhibition was co-produced by The Vega Foundation. Major support for the publication is provided by the HARTWIG ART FOUNDATION. Aria Dean’s research for this project was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by 247 and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by The MacArthur Fund for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at Prince and The Provost’s Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program. The Study at University of Chicago is the Renaissance Society’s Exclusive Hotel Sponsor.
About the Artist Aria Dean (b. 1993) lives and works in New York. In February 2023, she will open a solo exhibition at The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions and performances include REDCAT, Los Angeles (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Artists Space, New York (2020); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2019); and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018). Significant group shows include the Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept (2022); the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2019); The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2019); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); Swiss Institute, New York (2018), among others. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
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Join us for a launch event featuring a discussion from 4-5 PM with Beasley, Adrienne Edwards (curator at the Whitney Museum and book contributor), and Karsten Lund (curator at the Ren and editor of the book), followed by a listening session of the double LP at 5:30 PM, live-mixed by Beasley.
PERFORMANCE PENTHOUSE AT THE LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 915 E 60TH ST [MAP] | RSVP TO ATTEND
PURCHASE THE PUBLICATION | $100 [$80 FOR MEMBERS]
Image: Kevin Beasley, A View of A Landscape, 2022. Photo: Useful Art Services.
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For this online conversation, Aria Dean joins Michael Connor, Co-Executive Director of Rhizome, and Filip Kostic, one of her collaborators on Abattoir, U.S.A.! to discuss formal and technical aspects of her new film and larger questions related to virtuality and cinema. Learn more.
Image: Aria Dean, Abattoir, U.S.A.!, digital film still, 2023.
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4PM–8PM
BOND CHAPEL
1050 E 59TH ST
ENSEMBLE:
JOHANNA BROCK, VIOLA
WHITNEY JOHNSON, VIOLA
MALLORY LINEHAN, VIOLIN
OLULA NEGRE, CELLO
Chicago-based musician Whitney Johnson (aka Matchess) is a dedicated explorer of the mysterious relationship between sound and the human psyche, drawing on a broad range of research interests and creative tools. The Tuning of the Elements, a new durational work for string quartet and 8-channel electronics, combines insights from physics and neuropsychology with frameworks outside the prevailing scientific paradigm. The field of sound healing is rooted in the notion that certain kinds of sounds can affect human energies, calming anxiety or invigorating depression. On different terms, scientists have observed strong correlations between the frequencies of brainwaves and familiar mental states. For Johnson, each of these bases of knowledge inform methods for creating meaningful, restorative experiences with sound.
The Tuning of the Elements involves four distinct areas of binaural electronic beat patterns corresponding to the frequencies of different brainwaves, situated around a droning string quartet in the center. Following the balancing moment of the spring equinox, it puts forward a constellation of elements including fundamental frequencies distributed in space, performing and listening bodies, and the architecture of Bond Chapel. Visitors are encouraged to choose their own paths through this environment over the course of four hours, circulating freely around the chapel in perceptual play or lingering in nourishing moments. In doing so, they activate and participate in the open-ended experiment of the piece, testing its potentials and tapping into variously relaxing and stimulating energies.
This concert is presented in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio.
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Join EXPO CHICAGO and the Ren for the official kick-off to EXPO ART WEEK on Tuesday, April 11 with an evening of openings, exhibitions, and performances on Chicago’s South Side.
The Ren will have extended hours on Tuesday, April 11 from 6-8PM with a curatorial walkthrough of Aria Dean's Abattoir, U.S.A.! beginning at 6:15PM.
Click here to learn more about EXPO CHICAGO's South Side Night.
EXTENDED GALLERY HOURS 6 - 8PM | CURATORIAL REMARKS 6:15PM
Image: Aria Dean, Abattoir, U.S.A.!, installation view, 2023, the Renaissance Society. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
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FILM STUDIES CENTER, COBB HALL, ROOM 307 RSVP TO ATTEND
For this in-person conversation, Aria Dean talks with Bruce Jenkins, Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago about how the history of experimental film becomes a kind of \"ghost in the machine\" in Dean's new film Abattoir, U.S.A.!, echoing artists in years past such as Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, and Chantel Akerman.
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Time: 12pm - 8pm each day
Özgür Kar creates inventive installations that feature eye-catching black-and-white animations. While each of his projects hints at different stories and explores new configurations in space, they often function like multi-part soundscapes and deconstructed theater pieces: isolated figures become performers, appearing in looping scenes that are at once austere and emotion-filled. While honing his own style in these works, Kar riffs on traditions like dance macabre, experimental theatre in the vein of Samuel Beckett, early animated films and more recent cartoons. In April 2023, Kar will take over the Renaissance Society’s large, acoustically resonant space as part of the Intermissions series, presenting a new site-specific installation that draws out the performative undercurrents of his practice and leans into the possibilities of a “live” format without human actors.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
About the artist: Özgür Kar (b. 1992 in Ankara, Turkey) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk, Belgium; Emalin, London; and Édouard Montassut, Paris. His work is featured in the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, and has been included in group exhibition and screenings at Jeu de Paume, Paris; Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; CAC, Bretigny, France; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; and the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale; as well as other museums and galleries. Kar received the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize in 2020.
Support: Support for this presentation by Özgür Kar has been provided by SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, www.saha.org.tr; and the Mondriaan Fund, the Dutch public cultural funding organization focusing on visual arts and cultural heritage. This program is also supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
Intermissions launched at the Renaissance Society in January 2017 as a new programming series devoted to performance and other innovative time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society empty space in between exhibitions. This recurring platform presents two events every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
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Opening Day Discussion: 4pm
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RenBen is the Renaissance Society’s annual gala which raises a significant portion of the museum's annual budget, enabling new artistic commissions, scholarly discourse, and lasting publications.
The 2023 edition gives carte blanche to artist and choreographer Adam Linder who will orchestrate the event, in keeping with the format of artist-conceived evenings inaugurated by Piero Golia’s memorable night at the South Shore Cultural Center in 2022.
Table and ticket details will be shared soon. Please contact Jessica Glaser, Director of Development, at jessicaglaser@uchicago.edu or 773-795-0642 for more information or to secure your table today.
Save the Date designed by Studio Yannick Nuss
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For this intimate reading staged inside of the Ren’s current exhibition, artist Catherine Sullivan directs an experimental table read of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third entry in the series of films based on the bestselling books by Stephanie Meyer.
CAST: Democco Atcher, Carolyn Benjamin, Solstice Blanco, Fiona Cooke, Audra Lee Dobiesz, Jamie Mendez, Trinitte Powell, Manuela Rentea, Julia Stern, Neya Truitt, Abby Weber, Alex Weber, Arthur Weiss, Bob Wilson, and Qiuchen Wu.
The event is open to the public by advance reservation. Capacity is limited. RSVP and learn more on our website.
In the fall of 2023, the Renaissance Society will present the first institutional solo exhibition of Beirut and London-based artist Dala Nasser, featuring a new site-specific commission responding to the expansive height and volume of the Ren’s exhibition space.
As an artist working through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making, Nasser applies an interdisciplinary approach through painting, performance, and film. Her indexical paintings of land, made through direct contact on location, stand in opposition to the sweeping vistas offered by traditional landscape painting. In contrast, Nasser’s canvases provide close-up views of the markings of political and environmental erosion and toxicity. Finding meaning in materials and physical processes, Nasser’s works examine the deteriorating ecological, historical, and political conditions that result from practices of capitalist and colonial extraction. In a growing body of work that foregrounds human and non-human entanglements, she takes the non-human as witness to ecologies of slow violence, colonial theft, and infrastructural failure in times where human language has been rendered insufficient or out of reach.
Nasser’s project at the Ren centers on the Adonis River (known in modern day Lebanon as the Abraham River) where the mythical Adonis, the mortal lover of the Goddess Aphrodite, was killed by a wild boar. To this day, the myths surrounding this river are commemorated in pilgrimages of mourning and grief. Nasser made the paintings for the exhibition inside the cave where Adonis was killed, on fabrics dyed with iron oxide-rich local clay and washed in the river’s water. Rather than hanging on walls, these works are configured into three-dimensional spatial environments that evoke the Adonis temple, the cave, and its surroundings.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
DALA NASSER (b. 1990, Lebanon) received her BA from UCL Slade School of Fine Arts (2016) and her MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art (2021). Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Sharjah Biennial 15 in 2023; 58th Carnegie International “Is It Morning For You Yet?” in 2022; Kunstverein, Cologne (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); BetonSalon, Paris (2019); Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2019); Sursock Museum, Beirut (2017).
This exhibition is supported by Maria Sukkar and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Photo: Paul Gorra
THIS TALK WILL BE LIVE-STREAMED ON ZOOM. VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS
For this virtual program, W.J.T. Mitchell, a leading scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature at the University of Chicago, offers his reflections on Dala Nasser’s exhibition at the Ren before joining the artist in conversation. Known especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context of social and political issues, Mitchell is the author or editor of many books, including Landscape and Power (1994), which Nasser describes as a lasting resource as she thinks about her work.
Learn more.
Left: W.J.T. Mitchell, Division of the Humanities, UChicago. Right: Dala Nasser, photo courtesy of Adama Jalloh and the artist.
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1212 E. 59TH ST
A musician and composer based in Finland, Marja Ahti has been a stalwart of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than a decade, working primarily with field recordings, synthesizers, electronic feedback, and digital processing. Her work is rooted in an abiding fascination with the \"simple strangeness\" of human experiences with sound, and human consciousness more broadly--the notion that vibrations sensed by eardrums can be experienced as something deeply affecting, even profound, under the right conditions. The resulting compositions create vivid, immersive electroacoustic environments, precise and rich in detail, characterized by slowly warping harmonies and mutating textures.
Co-presented by the Renaissance Society and Lampo.
Photo: Hertta Kiiski
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This shared event between the Ren and the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures will put Dala Nasser’s exhibition into conversation with the ISAC Museum’s ancient Mesopotamian collections, generating new insights into each by exploring such topics as mythological conceptions and practices related to natural materials and intercultural aspects of divinity. Visitors will be led through Nasser’s exhibition by Myriam Ben Salah before walking across the University’s quad to the ISAC Museum where Kiersten Neumann will present a brief lecture followed by an informal tour and reception in the museum galleries.
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All ticket buyers will receive a Ren bowling shirt and the opportunity to bowl on a team. Lane sponsors can bring their own teams. Don’t bowl? Just join us to watch the competition and cheer on the tournament!
All proceeds from the evening will provide critical support for the Ren’s exhibitions, performances, and concerts.
SINGLE TICKET
Includes game for one, Ren bowling shirt, food, beer & wine
$500
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Includes game for eight, Ren bowling shirts, food, beer & wine
$3,500
(Event is sold out)
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1025 E. 58TH ST
Laurel Halo is a composer, producer, musician, and DJ, born in Detroit and currently based in Los Angeles. Drawing from a range of music lineages, her considered approach has enabled her to maintain a signature aesthetic across a stylistically diverse output, traversing pop, ambient, left-field club, experimental electronica, and film score. Since 2012 she has released a number of albums ranging in genre-fluidity, complexity, and scope, including Quarantine (2012), In Situ (2015), Raw Silk Uncut Wood(2018), and Possessed: OST (2020). In July 2023 she announced the launch of her new imprint, Awe, with her latest album, Atlas, which will be released in September.
Co-presented by the Renaissance Society and Experimental Sound Studio.
Photo: Norrel Blair.
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Alexandra Pirici’s performative actions unfold over longer durations of time, rather than being conceived as one-time events. Without a clear beginning or end, her works invite you to come back repeatedly as they steadily change. At the Ren, over the span of five days, the Romanian artist presents Encyclopedia of Relations, in which six performers continuously reconfigure themselves into various forms and structures while using movement, sound, and language. First staged at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, within the main exhibition, this work reshapes itself at the Ren as the performers add to their ongoing catalogue of relations—encompassing not just human interactions but also relations with and among other entities, including animals, plants, rocks, and digital technologies.
Image: Alexandra Pirici, Encyclopedia of Relations at the 59th Venice Biennale, “The Milk of Dreams”, 2022. Photo: Eduard Constantin.
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As Leung weaves together the conceptual and the personal, she also astutely integrates formal and contextual cues. It can be tempting to favor one of these various aspects over the others when engaging with Leung’s work, perhaps depending on one’s own interests, but for her all these layers intersect. At the Ren, Leung is a close observer of her architectural, institutional, and even acoustical surroundings, recognizing them as their own sites of contingency and negotiation, the space itself becoming part of the conditional grounds for the questions at hand.
In lieu of an artist talk at the opening, Leung will be returning in March, details below.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
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Join us for a walk-through of Ghislaine Leung’s Holdings. Karsten Lund, curator at the Renaissance Society, will bring participants through a tour of the exhibition, touching on key ideas and inviting conversation.
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Referencing the genre of erotic thrillers and televised court cases, LOOPHOLE (2023) and DECADENCE (2024) are the first two chapters of a planned film trilogy set against the backdrop of a fictionalized high-profile rape trial in 1990s-era Florida. LOOPHOLE focuses on the speculative romantic affair between the lead defense attorney and a juror during the trial. DECADENCE, a new chapter commissioned specifically for the exhibition, is elliptical as it incorporates events from the night of the alleged rape, and the celebration after the acquittal.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
Learn more.
1010 E 59th St, Classics Building #110
Acclaimed novelist and former lawyer Constance Debré gives a talk on the occasion of Jordan Strafer’s exhibition DECADENCE. Debré is the author of Love Me Tender (2021), and Playboy, first published in France in 2018 and newly translated into English in 2024.
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Neil Beloufa is an artist whose polymorphous practice spans sculpture, installations, and social and collective experiments. In a constant flirtation with failure, his work insistently interrogates the art field: its institutions and formats, its capacities and limitations. His critical stances, experimental openness, and ongoing search for alternative solutions have led him to explore the digital world and the novel forms of community that coalesce there.
For his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Beloufa considers the power of individual storytelling in building large-scale propaganda while riffing on the gamification of society and the trend of immersive art experiences. A custom, interactive multimedia system guides each visitor through the process of becoming the center of their own success story, creating a company, a cult, a political party. In the end, are those really any different?
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional annual support is provided by The MacArthur Fund for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at Prince and The Provost’s Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
About the Artist
Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris, France) studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts and at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA; Cooper Union, New York; and Le Fresnoy National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing, France. He has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Secession, Vienna; Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Schirn Künsthalle, Frankfurt; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2019, the Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale in 2014, and the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2013. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; François Pinault Collection; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, among others. He lives and works in Paris.
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For this online program, two scholars from the University of Chicago offer their reflections on Neïl Beloufa’s interactive exhibition at the Ren before joining the artist in conversation. Patrick Jagoda is a specialist in media theory and game studies in the Department of English, whose research has explored network aesthetics and the rise of gamification in American culture, among other subjects. Gary Kafer, from the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, examines the politics of twenty-first century digital culture, with a focus on surveillance systems and how data-based processes reproduce existing power relations.
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Farouk Beloufa directed one feature film, Nahla, in the late 1970s, a handful of years before his son Neïl was born. The film holds a powerful place in the history of Algerian cinema, even as 35mm prints of it become increasingly rare, and it left its mark on the younger Beloufa as he began developing his own distinct body of work as an artist and filmmaker decades later. On the occasion of Neïl Beloufa’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society, we’re pleased to screen Farouk Beloufa’s film, as well as Jocelyne Saab’s short film On the Set of Nahla, a behind-the-scenes documentary, also from 1979, that engages the cast and crew of Nahla in conversations about the film.
Shot in 1978 but set three years earlier in 1975, Nahla follows the intertwined stories of four characters in Beirut at the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. Nahla, a young singer who loses her voice; Maha, a feminist journalist; Hind, a Palestinian activist who provides a channel to the camps and later joins the resistance; and Larbi, an Algerian journalist caught in the tumult. An elliptically structured political drama, Nahla’s narrative linearity is propelled only by real-life political events: the battle of Kfar Chouba, a meeting between Kissinger and Sadat, the assassinations of Maarouf Saad and Saudi King Faisal, and so on. Co-written with Rachid Boudjedra and produced by Radio Télévision Algérienne, Nahla is the product of a distinct 1970s pan-Arab leftist intellectualism which connected Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine, and beyond.
Nahla
Farouk Beloufa, 1979
116 min, 35mm
Arabic and French with English subtitles
Archival print courtesy Academy Film Archive
On the Set of Nahla
Jocelyne Saab, 1979
27 min, 16mm-to-digital video
Arabic and French with English subtitles
Courtesy of Association Jocelyne Saab
Special thanks to Bidoun, Tiffany Malakooti, and the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago.
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Image: Film still from Farouk Beloufa’s Nahla (1979).
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Sun, Nov 17, 4 – 6 PM
Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is an artist working with sound, sculpture, and architecture. Recognizing the physical, temporal, and experiential aspects of sound, her work often blurs the line between installation and performance as it offers activations of sonic space for audiences to explore or settle into. At the Renaissance Society, Gork develops a new project for the Intermissions series in collaboration with performer, sound artist, and electronic musician Laetitia Sonami. Directly engaging with this unique setting, Gork introduces new physical elements into the empty gallery space, positions multiple sound sources, and experiments with the room’s unusual acoustics. For two days, Sonami and Gork mobilize and shape the sound within this environment across various listening zones. Visitors are free to come and go during the durational performance.
Special thanks to Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA.
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Launched in 2017, Intermissions is an ongoing programming series devoted to performance and other inventive time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform features two artists every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
Image: Installation view of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Poems of Electronic Air at theCarpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2024. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
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JADINE COLLINGWOOD
STEPHANIE CRISTELLO
JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS
TONY KARMAN
LAUREN PETERSON
ABBY PUCKER
HUNTER RILEY
—FOR AN EVENING OF STRIKES, SPARES, SUDS, AND SLIDERS AS WE RAISE MONEY FOR THE REN’S EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS.
All ticket buyers will receive a Ren baseball hat and the opportunity to bowl on a team. Lane sponsors can bring their own teams. Don’t bowl? Just join us to watch the competition and cheer on the tournament!
SINGLE TICKET
Includes game for one, Ren baseball hat, food, beer & wine: $500
LANE SPONSOR TICKET
Includes game for eight, Ren baseball hats, food, beer & wine: $3,500
ARTIST SPONSOR TICKET
Sponsor a ticket for an artist. Includes single ticket benefits: $300
Purchase a ticket or make a donation.
All proceeds from the evening will provide critical support for the Ren’s exhibitions, performances, and concerts.
Across a growing body of work, Isabelle Frances McGuire turns to familiar figures in American culture with a special interest in the ones that are elevated as models of behavior worth emulating, sometimes against all odds. Whether looking to Elvis, Jesus, Napoleon, or Baby Yoda, McGuire embraces some of the archetypes that loom large in the cultural imagination, or the stories that follow them, and gives them a new uncanny life. McGuire’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society springs out of the lasting lionization of Abraham Lincoln, and it expands from there to think more widely about forms of re-enactment. In various ways here, McGuire tests out different approaches to recreating the past, re-animating old models, or revisiting persistent symbols.
Isabelle Frances McGuire, Symbolic Birth Cabin Unit, 2024. Installation View in Year Zero, 2024. Photo by Bob.
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Image: Isabelle Frances McGuire, Year Zero, installation view, 2024. Photo by Bob.
Suicide Moi is a collaborative art and music project featuring Isabelle Frances McGuire, Liz Vitlin, and Julian Flavin. Its name is borrowed from an album of poetry by Jean Baudrillard, recorded live at Whiskey Pete’s Casino in 1996, on which the French philosopher is backed by an all-star band. This band isn’t that band, but it appreciates the slippage between reality and simulacrum no less. For one day only, Suicide Moi occupies McGuire’s exhibition, becoming a new animating force, live in the present tense. The group’s debut album, Anastasia, is set to be released this year.
Swift Hall, Third Floor, 1025 E 58th St
Betsy Ross is known for sewing the first American flag and aiding in the design of its original thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, following a visit from George Washington to her upholstery shop in Philadelphia. While this meeting took place in 1776, and didn’t leave a paper trail, the story only reached a larger public almost a century later as the country’s centennial drew near. Held up as a patriotic role model and a national icon, her legend has only grown over time. For this afternoon event, Betsy Ross joins us in person.
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Making their US debut as a duo, Pat Thomas (piano and electronics) and Mariam Rezaei (turntables) are radical composers unbound by genre. Informed by jazz, free improvisation, dub, footwork, avant-garde electronics, noise and chamber music, they create a new kind of electro-acoustic music.
One of the greatest pianists the UK has produced, Thomas is fluent in the languages of jazz, modern composition, funk, reggae and calypso. His style can range from thunderous clusters and angular vamps to radiant lyricism and delicate inside piano explorations. As an electronic musician, Thomas has fused drum ‘n bass with Webern and P-Funk (1997’s New Jazz Jungle: Remembering), crossed J Dilla with Morton Feldman (2024’s This Is Trick Step) and created a wildly inventive series of albums using IRCAM’s Time Stretch programme.
Using specially prepared samples, Rezaei will employ a range of techniques, including free juggling, turntable sines (controlling sine waves using the pitch slider), needle dripping and needle weaving - —two new methods she debuted on her 2024 album FRACTURED. The former involves composing music made specifically for needle dropping on multiple decks at once. The latter is a way of using a digital vinyl system to loop music live using two decks, with nothing predetermined.
Presented in partnership with the Frequency Festival.
Left: Mariam Rezaei. Right: Pat Thomas, photo by David Laskowski.
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Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by the Mellon Foundation. Ren programs are supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Annual support is provided by The Provost’s Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago.
The 2024–2025 Music Series is generously sponsored by a grant from the University of Chicago Women’s Board.
All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
Film Screening
Action! Documentary Double Feature
Thu, Apr 3, 7pm
Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room
915 60th St.
This documentary double feature offers a rare look behind the scenes at the DIY studios of two enterprising filmmakers, one in Uganda and the other in Tunisia—each of them putting their own wild spin on 1980s-style action flicks. Once Upon a Time in Uganda!(2021) introduces us to writer-director Isaac Nabwana, the driving force behind Wakaliga Uganda, and tracks his unlikely partnership with Alan “Ssali” Hofmanis, an American producer and super-fan who moved to Kampala to join him. In VHS – Kahloucha (2006), documentarian Nejib Belkadhi trails amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha as he makes his latest feature, Tarzan of the Arabs, with the help of the people around him.
Discussion
Grassroots Filmmaking and African Cinema
Fri, Apr 18, 7pm
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor
1025 E 58th St.
On the occasion of Wakaliga Uganda's exhibition at the Renaissance Society, join us for an expansive discussion with novelist and scholar Akin Adesokan and other participants to be announced. In his multidisciplinary work, Adesokan has explored conceptual patterns in Nollywood and African cinema and the cultural consequences of globalization, among many other subjects. While reflecting on Wakaliga Uganda's movies and methods, this evening program considers the Kampala-based film collective’s work in relation to larger movements in African cinema and grassroots filmmaking.
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Image: Wakaliga Uganda, installation view, If Uganda Was America, 2025. Photo by Bob.
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British cellist and composer Lucy Railton presents a visceral live set drawing on music from her Modern Love release Corner Dancer, bridging experimental electronic and electroacoustic practices with the conventions of new music. Employing a deep consideration of sound and its properties, the work implements cello and antiquated string instruments, analog and digital synthesizers, drum machines and voice, and explores alternate tuning systems, psychoacoustic phenomena, and timbral control.
Lucy Railton is a British, Berlin-based cellist, composer and curator working internationally in sound, dance, film and installation since 2007. She has released music on labels Modern Love, Editions Mego - GRM Portraits, PAN (with Peter Zinovieff), Shelter Press, Ideologic Organ and ECM, and currently collaborates on projects with Shō player Michiko Ogawa Fragments of Reincarnation, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Correspondences, Derek Jarman’s BLUE live with Simon Fisher Turner, presentations of Maryanne Amacher’s electroacoustic work GLIA and as a member of the Berlin ensemble Harmonic Space.
Lucy Railton. Photo: Brian Whar.
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On the occasion of Wakaliga Uganda's exhibition at the Renaissance Society, join us for an expansive discussion with novelist and scholar Akin Adesokan and other participants to be announced. In his multidisciplinary work, Adesokan has explored conceptual patterns in Nollywood and African cinema and the cultural consequences of globalization, among many other subjects. While reflecting on Wakaliga Uganda's movies and methods, this evening program considers the Kampala-based film collective’s work in relation to larger movements in African cinema and grassroots filmmaking.
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RenBen is the Renaissance Society’s annual gala which raises a significant portion of the museum’s annual budget, enabling new artistic commissions, scholarly discourse, and lasting publications. RenBen is aligned with EXPO ART WEEK.
The 2025 edition is shaped by the vision of Meriem Bennani. Known for her sharp humor, resourcefulness, and ability to blend the absurd with the deeply human, Bennani is the latest artist to lead the Renaissance Society’s tradition of artist-conceived galas, following the bold propositions of Piero Golia (2022), Adam Linder (2023), and Kevin Beasley (2024). This year, Bennani’s playful yet incisive approach will transform Vertiport Chicago—a working commercial helicopter facility—into an unexpected gathering space.
Please contact Polina Kasian, Associate Director of Development or Joshi Radin Flores, Senior Development Manager, for more information or to secure your table today.
Doors open 20 minutes before the performance begins, in both locations on the 3rd and 4th floor of Cobb Hall.
In their performance -lalia, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė conjure a legendary figure from Slavic folklore, the demonic Południca. Posing a metaphor for contemporary anxieties related to ecological and social unease, this work is a dynamic hybrid combination of physical presence, text, and video. As a lone performer haunts the Renaissance Society’s gallery space, she is simultaneously livestreamed in a cinema screening room, one floor below. This structure requires audience members to choose where to be at any moment. One can only grasp fragments of the live act and its virtual double, and never the performance as a whole.
Continually evolving as it is staged in new surroundings, Gawęda and Kulbokaitė’s -lalia takes a new form at the Renaissance Society, following past performances at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater in Vilnius, a cultural center in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a traditional Stube at the Museo Civico in Bolzano, Italy featured in Pasolini’s 1971 Decameron, and most recently at the iconic Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, birthplace of the Dada Movement.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Launched in 2017, Intermissions is an ongoing programming series devoted to performance and other inventive time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform features two artists every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
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Drummer Valentina Magaletti’s first solo performance in Chicago combines improvisation and structured composition, some concrète dub textures, and B-movie atmospherics, driven by her distinctively twisted beats. Magaletti (b. Bari, Italy) is a London-based drummer, percussionist, and composer. Conservatory-trained in Southern Italy, she first became active on the London music scene in the early 2000s and has worked across a wide range of genres for over two decades.
Her work combines traditional percussion with experimental techniques, incorporating vibes, marimba, contact microphones, and found objects. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her diverse and exploratory projects include investigations of texture as a solo artist and a wide range of collaborations.
Co-presented with Lampo.
The 2024-2025 Music Series is generously supported by a grant from the University of Chicago Women’s Board.
Photo: Louise Mason.
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About the exhibition
For a new project at the Renaissance Society, Germinations, Ximena Garrido-Lecca continues her research into plants originally domesticated by Andean and Mesoamerican cultures and their subsequent global dissemination. Taking center stage here is Solanum tuberosum, also known as the potato. Domesticated more than 8,000 years ago in the Altiplano region, the potato has been a pillar in the lives of Andean communities, where it is grown as a source of sustenance and attributed symbolic and spiritual value. Today, more than 4,000 potato varieties have been adapted to different altitudes and climatic conditions around the world.
In Chicago, Garrido-Lecca unveils a large-scale installation that features a huge rectangular section of bare earth covered with sprouting potatoes and two observatory platforms, along with other elements. Across its interrelated parts, the exhibition is inspired by Andean cosmovision, the planting and harvesting of potatoes as ritual events, and a traditional unit of measurement known as the papacancha, which unites space, time, and climate. Throughout Germinations, Garrido-Lecca draws on the Andean concept of Pacha, a word with diverse interrelated meanings, which evokes, among other things, a cyclical and simultaneous dimension in which past, present, and future occur.
In multiple ways, Garrido-Lecca also accentuates how the exhibition itself exists within time. The potatoes in the central papacancha field change over the passing weeks. And each day within the exhibition potatoes are boiled, one by one, and then dried, recreating a pre-Hispanic custom of measuring time using the cooking of potatoes as a reference. The resulting potato pulp is then carried to a workstation within the show, where it is mixed with plaster and molded into new forms, which the artist likens to canopas — offerings to the earth like those used for abundance rituals in Andean communities.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Events
Opening Reception
Sat, May 17, 4-7pm with artist talk at 4pm
Notes on Space-Time
Discussion and exhibition walk-through with curator Karsten Lund and physicist Daniel Holz
Wed, May 21, 6pm
As the exhibition draws on different concepts of space-time, Germinations explores the relation of Andean and ancestral knowledge and contemporary scientific knowledge. For this casual talk and exhibition tour, curator Karsten Lund is joined by physicist and cosmologist Daniel Holz, from the University of Chicago. Holz is a leading researcher into gravitational waves, studying how ripples in space-time reveal the hidden lives of black holes and an expanding universe.
Public Reading:
Myths from the Huarochirí Manuscript
Thu, Jun 12, 7pm
Taking place within the exhibition Germinations, this public reading in English and Spanish presents excerpts from the Huarochirí Manuscript, one of the few surviving records of Quechua worldviews from the Andean region. The lively myths in this a 17th-century text feature tricksters, grieving mothers, fire gods, and elemental spirits, who embody the struggle for cosmic balance and other aspects of the underlying cosmology.
Performance: Lia Kohl
Sun, Jul 13, 7pm
For this live performance within the exhibition, Ximena Garrido-Lecca has invited Lia Kohl, a sound artist and musician in Chicago, to occupy this corner of space-time. A nimble performer and composer with a wide-ranging experimental practice, Kohl explores experiences of simultaneity here, as it connects to sound and music, while incorporating recordings of gravitational waves and other sources.
Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
Image: Digital collage, courtesy of the artist.
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Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
Thursday, August 7, 6–8 pm Members Preview (Renaissance Society & EarlyWork Members)
Friday, August 8, 12–8 pm Open to the Public
The Renaissance Society is pleased to announce a two-day pop-up event featuring a curated selection of rare and limited-edition artworks and publications by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists who have exhibited at the Ren.
On Wednesday, August 7, members of the Renaissance Society and EarlyWork are invited to an exclusive private preview, with early access and first pick of available works. The sale opens to the public on Thursday, August 8, for one day only.
Featured artists include Diane Severin Nguyen, Cristina Iglesias, Juan Muñoz, Meriem Bennani, Neïl Beloufa, Shahryar Nashat, Jordan Strafer, Kara Walker (rare work), Jill Magid, Silke Otto-Knapp, Özgür Kar, Ebecho Muslimova, Robert Barry, and many others.
Guests will enjoy 20% off most editions and publications, with all proceeds supporting the Renaissance Society’s exhibitions and public programs.
Visit trenaissancesociety.org for more information.
Image: NEÏL BELOUFA, THE BEAN FROM THE GROWTH OBJECTS SERIES, 2024. IMAGE COURTESY OF REN STAFF.
Diego Marcon, an artist known for his radical rethinking of cinema, sound, and space, makes his U.S. debut at the Renaissance Society this September. Marcon’s practice is rooted in entertainment and structural cinema—eschewing traditional storytelling to explore the mechanics of filmmaking itself. His works challenge the hierarchy between subject and image, dissolving narrative into abstraction. For this exhibition, Marcon presents Krapfen, a newly commissioned musical dance film that stages an encounter between the kid, performed by dancer Violet Savage, and four characters represented by costume props: gloves, foulard, trousers, and pullover. Krapfen is also an encounter between the golden age of American animation and Italian opera. The choreography—a mix of contemporary dance, classical ballet, and popular entertainment forms—reflects the juxtaposition of traditional and digital filmmaking processes, a hallmark of Marcon’s practice.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah.
Lead support for this exhibition at the Renaissance Society is provided by the Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation.
Diego Marcon’s Krapfen is co-commissioned and made possible by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, and The Vega Foundation with additional support from Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
THIS PROGRAM WILL HAVE REALTIME CAPTIONING.
Image: Diego Marcon, Krapfen (Gloves), 2025 © Diego Marcon. Courtesy Diego Marcon. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photo: Brigida Brancale.
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Tickets available Here
Composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. As she draws on the repeating structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences, amid textural ebbs and flows, there is a warmth in her use of synthesizers, live keyboards, and other electronic instrumentation. Her new album Diary of a Candle is a consoling melodic suite, minimal and nuanced, featuring woodwinds and richly-layered strings, with the hazy atmospheres of certain films from the 1970s and 1980s. Written while looking out at her garden in Amman, Jordan, where she recently relocated after twenty years in New York, her new songs are infused by this new, yet familiar, topography.
Image: Faten Kanaan, photo by Olena Shkoda.
Tickets available Here
For the exhibition Nine Lives at the Renaissance Society, in fall of 2020, artist and Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon created a new score in his ongoing American Ledger series. Inspired by journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, American Ledger No. 3 is written for two choirs of women who meet in a public place, like a field, street, or town square. Unable to be staged at the time of the exhibition in the early days of the pandemic, this outdoor performance now makes its Chicago debut, co-presented by UChicago Presents and the Renaissance Society.
Gather at the Logan Center courtyard on the University of Chicago campus, as the two groups of singers converge for this evocative work, which links past and present and takes on new resonance today, joined by the sound of drums, glockenspiels, and coins.
Image: Raven Chacon, photo by Neal Santos.
Tickets available Here
Lyra Pramuk, an American multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, has conceived a unique form of devotional music that harmonizes the open-ended potential of the human voice with the magic of technology as it rapidly evolves. Following the success of her last album Fountain, Pramuk’s expansive new release, Hymnal, is her own book of transformational worship songs, drawing from folk, house, techno, gospel and her formal classical education to construct a symphonic universe. A passionate live performer, Pramuk prefers staging her shows in churches, cathedrals and purpose-built theaters, embracing the space as an integral part of the experience, while using delay, feedback, reverb and pitch-shifting and pedals to alter her voice. For this performance in Bond Chapel, Pramuk brings Hymnal to Chicago.
Lyra Pramuk, Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
Join artist Diego Marcon in person for the closing weekend of his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, which marks his U.S. debut. Marcon is known for his radical rethinking of cinema, sound, and space. His practice is rooted in entertainment and structural cinema, which eschews traditional storytelling to explore the mechanics of filmmaking itself. For this exhibition, Marcon presents Krapfen, a newly commissioned musical dance film that stages an encounter between a kid and four characters represented by disembodied costume props. Featuring choreography that mixes contemporary dance, classical ballet, and popular forms, Krapfen is also an encounter between the golden age of American animation and Italian opera.
Lead support for this exhibition at the Renaissance Society is provided by the Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation.
Diego Marcon’s Krapfen is co-commissioned and made possible by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, and The Vega Foundation with additional support from Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
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Moriah Evans, an artist and choreographer based in New York, creates innovative performances for a wide variety of contexts. Building on a series of projects that she has staged in different cities in recent years, Evans continues to explore how performance can offer different ways of sensing our bodies and our relationships to one another. Throughout her work, Evans approaches choreography as an expansive social process, drawing on wide-ranging somatic practices and feminist critiques of dance and visual culture, while seeking out the “knowledge our bodies hold.” She aims to heighten perception beyond the visual, embracing embodied forms of awareness and felt sense.
This winter, for an expanded edition of the Intermissions series, Evans spends two weeks at the Renaissance Society with a small ensemble of dancers. For this new project, Scrimmage, Evans stages a pattern of private rehearsals and public presentations that shifts during the span of her time in the gallery space. Each weekend, she offers a different format to visitors as she opens the doors to the public on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The first two performances (December 6th and 7th) will have an open-ended durational form, fluid and still evolving in real-time. The later performances (December 13th and 14th) offer a concentrated version, staged as a more bounded event. Visitors are encouraged to come multiple times and experience both formats.
Through her scored performance structures and a set of scenographic interventions created specifically for this space, Evans invites an active state of perception—grounded in one’s body and attuned to a larger milieu and social infrastructures—along with hints of reverie where things do and don’t make sense. In the vaulted gallery, she is composing with both material and immaterial ingredients: hanging scrims, enveloping sound, dancers in motion and in stillness, lines of sight, textures of light, and a public that stays or passes through. Dance, here, is both fleeting and visceral, evoking bodies at once fragile and forceful. Evans aims to create a setting for Scrimmage that has a related set of wavering qualities: heavy and light, monumental and ethereal. In doing so, she considers the frame and the format in tandem, the contents of her work and its container, the body and what’s beyond it.
Within her choreographic scores, often developed collaboratively with her dancers, Evans draws on a variety of movement patterns and methods from different contexts. In doing so, she assembles them as a series of floating signifiers or somatic catalysts rather than explicit references. At times, the dancers work together or move apart, drawing out different internal and external states of being, variously individual and collective. Evans foregrounds the ways dance can create different kinds of sociality between people, running interference in the ways our relationships and social connections are mediated through technology, learned behavior, and language. For her this involves recognizing the multiplicity of things that make up a person, complete with inevitable dissonance or incoherence. Scrimmage negotiates how we are always deep within our bodies and also beyond them, constantly feeling and perceiving, figuring out ourselves and others, being affected by micro and macro forces and affecting them in turn.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Launched in 2017, Intermissions is an ongoing programming series devoted to performance and other inventive time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform features two artists every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
Renaissance Society programs are supported by the Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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Each painting reflects on a hexagram not through literal representation, but through an evolving visual language shaped by abstraction, intuition, and the interplay of light and material. As she works with silk and hand-built hardwood stretchers, in continual difference, the exhibition becomes a meditation on change itself: how it is read, made visible, and experienced through painting.
Zheng’s practice brings together traditional Chinese materialities and conceptual art methodologies to explore transformation, multiplicity, and the logic of variation. It is rooted in a dialogue between Eastern and Western modes of thought and influenced by thinkers such as John Cage and Yuk Hui. In this project, the I Ching is not only a reference, it is a method, a structure, and a philosophical companion. This is a one-work exhibition: Zheng considers the full sequence as a total and single work in itself, with every painting still an individualized piece.
For Change, I Ching (64 Paintings), Zheng has also subtly reshaped the exhibition architecture. The transformation is understated rather than dramatic, but carefully calibrated to heighten the play of light throughout the space, and, at times, to redirect it in dialogue with the paintings. By covering certain windows, adjusting the proportions of select walls, and building a new rhythm around the room’s perimeter, Zheng creates conditions that privilege what she calls “the light of the here and now.” As daylight shifts over the course of the day, the silk paintings shift with it, their surfaces absorbing and reflecting minute changes in color and brightness. In turn, these variations reveal the altered space itself, making the architecture and the paintings co-responsive, changing together in real time.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund.
About the Artist
LEAH KE YI ZHENG (b.1988, China) lives and works in Chicago. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Machine(s) at Layr, Vienna (2025); I-Ching/Machineat Mendes Wood DM, New York (2025); Leah Ke Yi Zheng at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2024); John Cage, Leah Ke Yi Zheng: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy at Castle Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Leah Ke Yi Zheng at David Lewis Gallery, New York (2023); and Currency @ Swiss National Bank, Zurich at Soccer Club Club, Chicago (2021). Recent group exhibitions include New Museum, New York (2025); Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (2023); and Caffé Centrale, Monte Castello di Vibio (2022) among others. She was awarded a 2019 – 2021 Fellowship from The Arts Club of Chicago.
Credits
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Murat Ahmed & Katherine Mackenzie and School Museum Fund, The Hees Family. Principal support is provided by Gay-Young Cho and Christopher Chiu.
Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by the Mellon Foundation. Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Annual support is provided by The Provost’s Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago.
All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
Events
Opening Reception
Sat, Jan 10, 2-4pm
With artist talk at 4pm
Performance
Eli Keszler
Sun, Feb 15, 2pm
Eli Keszler is a Grammy-nominated artist, composer, and percussionist based in New York. Whether performing an improvised solo set at the drum kit or writing an electro-acoustic score for a film, he brings an agile experimentation to his work. For this site-specific appearance, Keslzer performs live in the gallery space in the afternoon light. Within this unique architectural and acoustic setting, he offers his own take on some of the dynamics at play in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s exhibition, including change and variation, iterative multiplicity, and logics of impermanence.
Discussion
Special Guests of the Artist
With Danny Bredar, Gaylen Gerber, and Oscar Zheng
Sun, Mar 22, 2pm
For this informal discussion in the gallery space, Leah Ke Yi Zheng is joined by three people from her close circle: artists Danny Bredar and Gaylen Gerber, and her son Oscar Zheng. Each of them brings an intimate familiarity with her practice and a deeply personal perspective on her work. In an impromptu, unscripted exchange, they surface aspects of Zheng’s exhibition that might not emerge in a formal artist talk. Their conversation mirrors the spirit of the I Ching itself, which, according to Zheng, absorbs all aspects of life.
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Whether performing an improvised solo set at the drum kit or writing an electro-acoustic score for a film, he brings an agile experimentation to his work. For this site-specific appearance, Keslzer performs live in the gallery space in the afternoon light. Within this unique architectural and acoustic setting, he offers his own take on some of the dynamics at play in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s exhibition, including change and variation, iterative multiplicity, and logics of impermanence.
Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
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Special Guests of the Artist
With Danny Bredar, Gaylen Gerber, and Oscar Zheng
For this informal discussion in the gallery space, Leah Ke Yi Zheng is joined by three people from her close circle: artists Danny Bredar and Gaylen Gerber, and her son Oscar Zheng. Each of them brings an intimate familiarity with her practice and a deeply personal perspective on her work. In an impromptu, unscripted exchange, they surface aspects of Zheng’s exhibition that might not emerge in a formal artist talk. Their conversation mirrors the spirit of the I Ching itself, which, according to Zheng, absorbs all aspects of life.
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MADISON BALLROOM, 8TH FLOOR
12 S MICHIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60603
Part autobiography, part monograph, part catalogue raisonné, Beware of Yourself, the 400-page volume gathers nearly forty years of the artist's words—drawn from interviews, essays, and conversations—deconstructed and reassembled into an unpredictable self-portrait told with Cattelan's characteristic wit and irreverence.
Free and open to the public, the event takes place in conjunction with EXPO Chicago. This signing coincides with RenBen 2026, the Renaissance Society's annual artist-driven benefit gala conceived by Cattelan, taking place April 8 at the Chicago Athletic Association.
A limited number of books will be available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis.
Courtesy of Artbook, D.A.P.
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Known for his provocative and darkly humorous approach to contemporary art, Cattelan has spent four decades creating works that spark conversation, to say the least. From his infamous solid gold toilet America to his hyperrealistic sculptures, Cattelan's work consistently captivates audiences while questioning authority, religion, celebrity, and the art world itself.
RenBen is the Renaissance Society’s annual artist-centered gala and the institution’s most important fundraising event, vital to sustaining its experimental exhibitions and programs throughout the year. Each edition invites a single artist to design every aspect of the evening, from the space and performances to the food and choreography. Past editions have been conceived by Meriem Bennani (2025), Kevin Beasley (2024), Adam Linder (2023), and Piero Golia (2022), each expanding what an artist-driven benefit can be.
For RenBen 2026, Cattelan will draw on his established signature forms of playful inversion, surprise, and surrealist elegance. Guests can expect his subversive wit and theatrical sensibility. “BEING AN ARTIST IS NOT A JOB, IT'S A MALFUNCTION,” he shared.
Maurizio Cattelan's work has been featured in major museums and exhibitions worldwide, including solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. His collaborations through Toiletpaper magazine and with brands including Kenzo, Berluti, Longchamp, and Seletti—demonstrate his ability to merge high art with popular culture, making him an ideal artist to reimagine RenBen.
All proceeds from RenBen 2026 support the Renaissance Society's program of exhibitions, Intermissions, concerts, public programs, and publications—all free and open to the public.
RenBen 2026 takes place during Chicago's EXPO Art Week, in alignment with EXPO CHICAGO contemporary art fair, attracting cultural figures from around the globe.
Corporate sponsorships and in-kind gift opportunities are available. Please contact Polina Kasian at pkasian@renaissancesociety.org for more information.
Underwriter and Benefactor sponsorships and individual tickets are now available here.
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Towards the end of ART WEEK, select galleries and art institutions throughout the city will again host extended hours from 5-8Pm as part of Art After Hours.
For both occassions, the Renaissance Society will have extended hours from 5pm—8pm for the current exhibition by Leah Ke Yi Zheng on Tuesday and Friday of EXPO ART WEEK.
Image: Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Change, I Ching (64 Paintings), 2026, installation view. Photo by Forrest Frederick for Bob.
Opening Reception for Part 1: Saturday, May 2, 2026, 4pm–7pm
Curator Talk: 4pm
Palomar is a group exhibition about watching the sky, something that appears deceptively simple. Featuring twenty-eight artists, it unfolds in two parts, each five weeks long. Some works remain in place while others come and go, this encounter in time acting like a double exposure. Gradually, the familiar act of looking up spills over into a sense of life that is more layered and complex, or even contradictory. It turns out there is a lot at stake in the space above us.
Decades ago, after the launch of the first satellite into orbit, humans had big dreams of leaving the Earth. Politicians, poets, and scientists made public comments in this spirit. Today it’s mostly billionaires who talk of escape, or of mining the planets out there. The rest of us look to the sky from the ground as life carries on. An earlier age of optimism around space exploration and human progress has given way to a new era, as the stars fade from view in our cities, new technologies emerge with unsettling effects, and those in power surveil from above. Through it all, the sky is a steady presence. The sun rises and sets. The moon, too. The stars come out, where you can see them. We organize our lives by these patterns. They infuse our concepts, our sense of time, and our language, even when they’re not on our minds.
Part 1 of Palomar introduces certain celestial rhythms and cycles, while thinking about astronomy and other forms of observation in everyday life. It also begins to draw out experiences of time, as it is marked, measured, and perceived. Part 2 brings into view changing relationships with technology and the militarization of the skies. Both parts are shadowed by the question of what one sees and what one doesn’t, and the roles that images play, especially photographs, often wrapped up with the comforts and discomforts of distance.
The exhibition borrows its title from the name of an observatory on a California mountaintop, which once had the largest optical telescope in the world. It lost that distinction in 1976, but it is still used to study the stars. In the eighties, Italo Calvino wrote a book about a man who shares his name with that place: Mr. Palomar, a seeker of the cosmic in the commonplace and an unflagging, if absentminded, observer. Taken together, these two touchstones evoke different kinds of observation and attention.
Looking overhead can be a way to understand one’s place in the world, as it has been for thousands of years. Given the many ways people watch the sky or look to the cosmos, from scientific study to the habits of daily life, there are just as many different things to think or feel. The movement of the heavenly bodies offers a measure of continuity in the face of destabilizing change; the view above can be a source of solace, a realm of startling beauty, a reminder of something larger than oneself. The sky can also be a dark premonition, a site of violence or grief, a reminder of what there is to lose, or for many what is already gone. Sometimes it’s all of this at once.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Artists featured:
Part 1 (May 2–June 7, 2026)
Darren Almond, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Paul Fägersköld, Pierre Huyghe, Rinko Kawauchi, Jason Lazarus, Tony Lewis, Aspen Mays, Eadward Muybridge, John Opera, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Kathleen Ryan, Carrie Schneider, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff
Part 2 (June 10–July 13, 2026)
Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Cynthia Daignault, Paul Fägersköld, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sebastian Jefford, Jordan Kantor, Tony Lewis, Eadweard Muybridge, John Opera, Trevor Paglen, Torbjørn Rødland, Kathleen Ryan, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff, Alec Soth, Shomei Tomatsu, Samira Yamin
Videos online (Parts 1 & 2)
Allora & Calzadilla, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Simon Starling, Alice Wang
Credits
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by School Museum Fund, The Hees Family.
Friends of Palomar Patron Circle: Maria Christina & Guy-Karim Caland Puymartin, and Zach Smith.
Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Events
Opening Reception (Part 1)
Sat, May 2, 4–7pm
Talk at 4PM between curator Karsten Lund and Steven L. Bridges (MSU Broad Art Museum)
Walkthrough (Part 1)
Sun, May 17, 1PM
Led by Karsten Lund
Workshop
Sun, May 17, 3PM
Led by Karsten Lund and Joshi Radin Flores
Performance: Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart
Sat, Jun 13, 4PM
Opening Reception (Part 2)
Sat, Jun 13, 5–7PM
Walkthrough (Part 2)
Thu, Jun 18, 6:30PM
Led by Karsten Lund
Performance Lecture: Day & Night with Sarah & Joseph Belknap
Sun, Jun 21, 12PM & 10PM
12PM Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room
10PM Midway Plaisance Winter Garden
Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
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Karsten Lund, Senior Curator at the Renaissance Society, will bring participants through a tour of the Part 1 of Palomar, touching on key ideas and inviting conversation.
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Decades ago, after the launch of the first satellite into orbit, humans had big dreams of leaving the Earth. Politicians, poets, and scientists made public comments in this spirit. Today it’s mostly billionaires who talk of escape, or of mining the planets out there. The rest of us look to the sky from the ground as life carries on. An earlier age of optimism around space exploration and human progress has given way to a new era, as the stars fade from view in our cities, new technologies emerge with unsettling effects, and those in power surveil from above. Through it all, the sky is a steady presence. The sun rises and sets. The moon, too. The stars come out, where you can see them. We organize our lives by these patterns. They infuse our concepts, our sense of time, and our language, even when they’re not on our minds.
Part 1 of Palomar introduces certain celestial rhythms and cycles, while thinking about astronomy and other forms of observation in everyday life. It also begins to draw out experiences of time, as it is marked, measured, and perceived. Part 2 brings into view changing relationships with technology and the militarization of the skies. Both parts are shadowed by the question of what one sees and what one doesn’t, and the roles that images play, especially photographs, often wrapped up with the comforts and discomforts of distance.
The exhibition borrows its title from the name of an observatory on a California mountaintop, which once had the largest optical telescope in the world. It lost that distinction in 1976, but it is still used to study the stars. In the eighties, Italo Calvino wrote a book about a man who shares his name with that place: Mr. Palomar, a seeker of the cosmic in the commonplace and an unflagging, if absentminded, observer. Taken together, these two touchstones evoke different kinds of observation and attention.
Looking overhead can be a way to understand one’s place in the world, as it has been for thousands of years. Given the many ways people watch the sky or look to the cosmos, from scientific study to the habits of daily life, there are just as many different things to think or feel. The movement of the heavenly bodies offers a measure of continuity in the face of destabilizing change; the view above can be a source of solace, a realm of startling beauty, a reminder of something larger than oneself. The sky can also be a dark premonition, a site of violence or grief, a reminder of what there is to lose, or for many what is already gone. Sometimes it’s all of this at once.
Curated by Karsten Lund.
Artists featured:
Part 1 (May 2–June 7, 2026)
Darren Almond, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Paul Fägersköld, Pierre Huyghe, Rinko Kawauchi, Jason Lazarus, Tony Lewis, Aspen Mays, Eadward Muybridge, John Opera, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Kathleen Ryan, Carrie Schneider, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff
Part 2 (June 10–July 13, 2026)
Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Cynthia Daignault, Paul Fägersköld, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sebastian Jefford, Jordan Kantor, Tony Lewis, Eadweard Muybridge, John Opera, Trevor Paglen, Torbjørn Rødland, Kathleen Ryan, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff, Alec Soth, Shomei Tomatsu, Samira Yamin
Videos online (Parts 1 & 2)
Allora & Calzadilla, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Simon Starling, Alice Wang
Credits
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by School Museum Fund, The Hees Family.
Friends of Palomar Patron Circle: Maria Christina & Guy-Karim Caland Puymartin, and Zach Smith.
Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Events
Opening Reception (Part 1)
Sat, May 2, 4–7pm
Talk at 4PM between curator Karsten Lund and Steven L. Bridges (MSU Broad Art Museum)
Walkthrough (Part 1)
Sun, May 17, 1PM
Led by Karsten Lund
Workshop
Sun, May 17, 3PM
Led by Karsten Lund and Joshi Radin Flores
Performance: Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart
Sat, Jun 13, 4PM
Opening Reception (Part 2)
Sat, Jun 13, 5–7PM
Walkthrough (Part 2)
Thu, Jun 18, 6:30PM
Led by Karsten Lund
Performance Lecture: Day & Night with Sarah & Joseph Belknap
Sun, Jun 21, 12PM & 10PM
12PM Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room
10PM Midway Plaisance Winter Garden
Visit renaissancesociety.org for more information.
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(RESCHEDULED FROM JUNE 18)
For this informal tour of Part 2 of Palomar, Karsten Lund, Senior Curator at the Renaissance Society, talks about the latest evolution of this multi-part exhibition and shares some thoughts about various works on view. A group exhibition that begins by looking up to the sky, Palomar is ultimately about many other things, too: time and technology, beauty and loss, the moment we’re living in and the long arc of humankind beneath the sun and the stars.
Trevor Paglen, CLOUD #865 Hough Circle Transform, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery.
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SUN, JUL 26: 7–9PM
Tomoko Sauvage is a Paris-based artist best known for her long-time musical practice on the Waterbowls, an original array of water-filled porcelain bowls and hydrophones that function as an aqueous electroacoustic instrument. In her amplified waters, Sauvage plays with water drops, bubbles, and waves, as well as clay, stones, shells, and glass objects, combining their idiophonic sounds with crystalline subaquatic feedback tones. As a composer, her work centers on tactile materiality of vibrant objects, metaphorical listening, and the use of chance. For her first-ever appearance in Chicago, as part of the Renaissance Society’s Intermissions series, Sauvage occupies the museum’s resonant gallery space in an exploratory one-week mini-residency, culminating in two nights of public performances.
Curated by Michael Harrison.
For two decades, Sauvage has been performing internationally at institutions and festivals such as Barbican Centre (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Maerz Musik (Berlin), Musée d’art moderne (Paris), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Nyege Nyege Festival (Uganda), and Wonder Cabinet (Palestine). Her installation and video works have been shown at Sharjah Art Foundation and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
Launched in 2017, Intermissions is an ongoing programming series devoted to performance and other inventive time-based works, staged in the Renaissance Society’s empty gallery in between exhibitions. This recurring platform features two artists every year, supporting a wide variety of live projects.
Image: Tomoko Sauvage, Full of Noises, photo by Stephen Harvey.