Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis, Paraíso Ocupado, 2010-
Artist: Wouter Osterholt (born 1979 in Leiden, the Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Elke Uitentuis (born 1977 in the Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: “[Paraíso Ocupado] (Portuguese for ‘Occupied Paradise’) is a reconstruction of a failed modernist plan for an urban center located in the West […]
Isa Melsheimer, Dachgarten/Raum, 2010
Artist: Isa Melsheimer (born 1968 in Neuss, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Concrete, metal, and cypress Description: “Using very different mediums such as concrete, embroidery, and gouache, the artist strives to bring to the forefront a rather surprising result, for the apartment made by Le Corbusier is actually close to a surrealistic […]
José Dávila, Lo universal bajo la forma del concreto, 2011
Artist: José Dávila (born 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico). Materials: Archival pigment prints. Description: “Dávila’s practice has explored spatial occupation and the transitory nature of physical structures. Drawing on his formal training as an architect, Dávila creates sculptural installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to […]
Luis Úrculo, Covers/Versions, 2011
Artist: Luis Úrculo (born 1978 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: HD video; color; 6 min 41 sec. Description: “Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of […]
Michael Wesely and Lina Kim, Archive Utopia: Project Brasilia, 2012
Artist: Michael Wesely (born 1963 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Lina Kim (born 1965 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Color and black and white photographs and archival images. Description: “Brasília, the capital of Brazil, formally dedicated in 1960, seems more like an architectural myth, a […]
Xavier Veilhan, “Architectones,” 2012-14
Artist: Xavier Veilhan (born 1963 in Lyon, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: “The site-specific exhibition follows installments at two icons of French concrete culture, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’ Habitation and the L’église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, as well as Konstantin Melnikov’s seminal but […]
Dionisio González, Le Corbusier: The Last Project, 2013
Artist: Dionisio González (born 1965 in Gijon, Spain; lives and works in Seville, Spain). Materials: Digital photographs. Description: “‘This exhibition intends to show a work of restitution of omitted vestiges’, explains González. It is therefore an archival task ‘based on processing the object so that it does not become corrupted by oblivion and may be […]
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, 2014
Artist: Christopher Herwig Materials: Color photographs. Description: “Christopher Herwig’s obsessional project posthumously illumines the Soviet empire’s taste for the utterly fantastical. It restricts itself to one building type, the bus stop or shelter, which tends in Western Europe to be meanly utilitarian. There is a certain amount of that here. But it is atypical. The […]
Simon Starling, “Bowls, Plates, and El Eco,” 2015
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Description: An exhibition held at the Casa Estudio Luis Barragán and the Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, DF in 2015. “A new photographic project specifically developed by Starling, for the context of the Luis Barragán House and Studio, consisting of […]
Isaac Julien, The Ghost of Lina Bo Bardi, 2012-
Artist: Isaac Julien (born 1960 in London, UK; lives and works in London, UK). Material: Poster Description: “In 1996, while I was on holidays in Bahia, Brazil, I saw Lina Bo Bardi’s work for the first time. I was at the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia and had the opportunity to see her powerful […]
