Concretos, 2022
[Installation shots and Jane and Louise Wilson’s Monument (Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee), 2003] Curator: Gilberto González and Pablo León de la Barra Description: Exhibition at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2022–23. Estas muestras […] parten de la idea de que los proyectos ideológicos de la modernidad se han convertido en la infraestructura de nuestro presente, […]
Nairy Baghramian and Janette Laverrière, La lampe dans l’horloge, 2008
Artist: Nairy Baghramian (born 1971 in Isfahan, Iran; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: La lampe dans l’horloge shows works by the French designer Janette Laverrière (1909-2011) and exhibition architecture by Baghramian, working in cooperation with Laverrière. The exhibition architecture comprises shelves with a little library arranged inside. Outside, different mirror objects of Laverrière […]
El Museo de las Máquinas, 2017
Curator: Abel González Fernández (lives and works in Havana, Cuba). Description: “El Museo de las Máquinas: arquitectura de espacios cerrados en las décadas del 60 y 70 de la Revolución cubana” [The Museum of Machines: Architecture of Closed Spaces of the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s] was held in the studio of art […]
“In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After”, 2008
Curators: Marion von Osten (b.1963, Berlin, Germany; lives and works in Berlin), Serhat Karakayali and Tom Avermaete in collaboration with Mogniss Abdallah, An Architektur, Wafae Belarbi, Madeleine Bernstorff, Casamémoire Casablanca, Elsa de Seynes, Jesko Fezer, Kanak Attak, Brigitta Kuster, La Scource de Lion Casablanca, Labor k3000, Andreas Müller, Remember Resistance, Peter Spillmann, Anna Voswinkel, Daniel […]
“The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work”, 2015
Curator: James Voorhies (lives and works in U.S.) Description: Modern architecture had high aspirations—no less than a radical change in the structure of society, or so was the hope of modernist architects. Figures such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Adolf Loos pursued ideals of progress, rationality, and purity in their architecture, design, […]
“Display Show”, 2015
Curator: Gavin Wade (b. 1971, lives and works in the U.K.) with Céline Condorelli and James Langdon Description: This exhibition project will be unfolded through an enquiry into forms of display, including an ongoing survey of radical display practices from the twentieth century, such as those of Franco Albini, Lina Bo Bardi, Frederick Kiesler, El […]
“Condemned to be Modern”, 2017
Curator: Clara Kim (lives and works in London, U.K.). Description: “Condemned To Be Modern” is an exploration of the lives of buildings and an interrogation of our built environment-the structures we inherit, the cities we live in. Taking its title from the preeminent Brazilian critic Mario Pedrosa’s infamous statement about Brasília, this exhibition brings together the works of […]
Ryan Gander, “The Artists Have The Keys”, 2014
Artist: Ryan Gander (born 1976 in Chester, England; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Exhibition at the house of Ernö Goldfinger, 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London Description: Inspired by the furniture and fittings that Ernö Goldfinger designed for 2 Willow Road, Gander created new works to be interspersed with the collection inside the […]
Terence Gower, “Havana Case Study,” 2016
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Description: “‘Havana Case Study’ is the second in a series of installations that use American diplomatic architecture as a tool to analyze US international relations (the first work in the series is Baghdad Case Study), and is based on two […]
“31º Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Mamõyguara opá mamõ pupé,” 2009
Curator: Adriano Pedrosa (lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil). Description: “One of the most important exhibitions in Brazil, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Panorama da Arte Brasileira’ (Panorama of Brazilian Art) celebrates its 40th birthday. The controversial edition entitled ‘Mamõyguara opá mamõ pupé’ is curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Instead of exhibiting Brazilian artists […]
