Elsewhere
Special Presentation
Julie Mehretu Artwork Featured on Obama Presidential Center Museum Building
World-renowned Ethiopian-American artist and activist Julie Mehretu’s vision is now part of a public art display at the center to inspire visitors and the surrounding south side community. The piece, titled “Uprising of the Sun,” is now featured on the north facade of the future Obama Presidential Center’s Museum Building. Inspired by President Obama’s remarks at the 50th anniversary of the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Mehretu’s “Uprising of the Sun“ is a vibrant series of 35 abstract, painted glass panels. The piece reflects on the historical context of President Obama’s legacy, and will inspire viewers and draw visitors to the Center on the South Side of Chicago.
Solo Exhibition
Pakui Hardware | Virtual Care
Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius
The historic hall of Radvila Palace is transformed into an environment that resembles a clinical surgery or hospital room, where human presence, with the exception of the visitors’ own physicality, is replaced by technology. Suspended between the physical and the virtual, the bodily and the digitised, the space is inhabited by transparent thermoformed ‘bodies’ abstracted into sculptural biomorphic shapes. Influenced by Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė’s paintings from the 1970s and 80s, the sculptures merge technology, draperies, organic and synthetic materials into abstracted states.
Solo Exhibition
Julie Mehretu | Ensemble
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Presented at Palazzo Grassi from 17 March 2024 to 6 January 2025, “Ensemble” is the largest exhibition of Julie Mehretu’s work to date in Europe. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection, with Julie Mehretu, the exhibition brings together a selection of more than fifty works, between painting and printmaking, that the artist produced over the timespan of 25 years, including several of the artist’s recent paintings from 2021-2024. Presented over two floors of Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition unites 17 works from the Pinault Collection, as well as loans from international museums and private collections. Mehretu’s work will be presented alongside the artists and writers Nairy Baghramian, Huma Bhabha, Robin Coste Lewis, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Paul Pfeiffer and Jessica Rankin, bringing the field of painting into dialogue with poetry, sculpture, film, voice, and music. Mehretu’s practice has always engaged in various forms of collaboration and sustained conversation with fellow artists.
Group Exhibition
Nida Sinnokrot | untranquil now
Hamburger Kunsthalle
In the exhibition untranquil now, attention is focused on artworks, artefacts, performances, figures and events, that authorize complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories. Nida Sinnokrot’s works Flight – Jalazone (2016), When Her Eyes Lifted (1998/2016), Ya Ghanamati (Billboard No. 02) (2014) and Exquisite Rotation (Fakir Fans) (2015) are included in the exhibition. Sinnokrot’s work is informed by cinema, colonial history, narrative structures, and the politics of technology. Through tactical acts of technical and conceptual détournement, his work aims to subvert various technologies of control that give rise to shifting social, political, and geographic instabilities.
Duo Exhibition
Pakui Hardware | Inflammation – Biennale Arte 2024
The Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice
Pakui Hardware represent Lithuania at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, together with the works by modernist Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, opening on Saturday, 20 April 2024. The immersive joint exhibition of Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė will address the ‘inflammations’ currently affecting humanity and the world. The Lithuanian pavilion is organized by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (commissioner: Arūnas Gelūnas) and curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia. The installation’s architecture will be made by Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora. Inflammation is commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, presented by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, and financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.