American Artist Jenny Holzer opens Her Major Exhibition at The Fondation Beyeler

Written by Carson Steele Friday, 30 October 2009 22:23

BASEL.- American artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is one of the major artists of our times. She has presented exhibitions and art projects around the world, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. The Fondation Beyeler is hosting Holzer’s first large exhibition in a Swiss museum, composed of important works from various phases of her career since the 1980s. The focus is on recent works, some of which will be seen for the first time in Europe. Paintings, sculptures, and her renowned LED installations will be on view, compelling pieces that combine overwhelming visual effects with messages of a poetic, sociocritical and political nature. Holzer’s art will be supplemented by a selection of works from the Beyeler Collection.

In addition to the museum space, the exhibition will extend to the public space. Spectacular light projections are planned for buildings and sites in Basel and Zurich. On view from Nov. 1 until Jan. 24, 2010.

In collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler and Sunrise, Holzer will create her first project for the mobile phone.

Conceived in close cooperation with the artist and the MCA, Chicago, the exhibition was curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith and Philippe Büttner. It was presented in fall 2008 in Chicago and in spring 2009 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. After the presentation in Riehen, it will travel in spring 2010 to the Baltic Museum in Newcastle, England.

The new documentary film About Jenny Holzer by Claudia Müller, a co-production of “Sternstunde Kunst”, will be broadcast as a TV premiere on the occasion of the exhibition opening on Swiss Television channel SF 1, on November 1, 2009, at 12 noon. The co-producers, ARTE channel, will broadcast a short version of the film on November 13, 2009, at 4 p.m., and again on January 3, 2010, at 11.10 p.m.

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