Mike Nelson, Barker Ranch, 1996
Artist: Mike Nelson (born 1967, Loughborough, UK). Material: Sculptural installation with wood and lights. Description: “Like the tip of an iceberg, the shape of the spiral has emerged at intermittent moments throughout Nelson’s career. It is central to the structure of works such as Barker Ranch (1996), which brought together Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the […]
Paul Thek, Uncle Tom’s Cabin with Tower of Babel, 1976
Artist: Paul Thek (born 1933, Brooklyn, New York City; died 1988) Material: Sculptural installation with wooden shack, bathtub, globe, stuffed red bird. Description: A two-storey version Tatlin’s Monument houses a sculpture of a wooden shack (the eponymous Uncle Tom’s Cabin), inside of which is a bathtub, a globe, and a stuffed red bird. But as […]
Mauricio Rocha, Intervention in the Torre de los Vientos, 1998
Top: photo-collage of installation Bottom: maquette Artist: Maurcio Rocha (born 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Description: An architectural intervention in La Torre de los Vientos, a 1968 sculpture by Gonzalo Fonseca, at the invitation of Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Rocha built a ladder similar to the framework used when […]
Kader Attia, Untitled (Ghardaïa), 2009
Artist: Kader Attia (born 1970 in Dugny, France; lives and works in Paris and Berlin). Materials: Cooked couscous on wooden table and digital prints on paper. Description: “Untitled (Ghardaïa) 2009 is a scale model of the ancient city Ghardaïa in the M’zab Valley in Algeria. The model is made from cooked couscous, a staple food […]
Isaac Julien, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2019
Artist Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London; lives and works in London) Materials Nine screen installation, super high definition (4k), color, 9.1 surround sound, 39’08” duration View the trailer here. Description A video installation reflecting on Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) and her approach to Brazilian culture. It was filmed on location in hree of […]
Ian Kiaer, Endless House, 2013
Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: A solo exhibition at International Centre for Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island (CIAP) in 2013 that presented Kiaer’s ongoing research project ‘Endless House’, a reference to the Austrian architect and designer Frederick Kiesler. “Kiesler’s proposal for a single-unit family dwelling remained unbuilt […]
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 […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Flooded Modernity, 2018
Artist: Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Description: A faithful 1:1 mock-up of a corner of Le Corbusier’s 1927 Villa Savoye, submerged in Vejle Fjord. Conceived for the Floating Art Festival, Vejle Art Museum, Denmark. “Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s appropriation of the Villa Savoye alights with the sunken dreams of Le Corbusier and […]
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tropicale modernité, 1999
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Description: An installation in Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, attempting to ‘tropicalise’ this paradigm of early twentieth-century European modernism by inserting an aquarium, a soundtrack, a rug, a neon, a video, white towels and what […]
Katarina Burin, HOTEL NORD-SUD 1932-34: Design and Correspondence, 2013
Artist: Katarina Burin (born Bratislava, Slovakia; lives and works in Cambridge, MA, USA). Description: “This exhibition presents a body of work attributed to the Czechoslovakian architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár, an overlooked (in fact, fictional) figure active in Eastern and Central Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition presents a diverse range of […]
