“The name “Société,” according to Daniel Wichelhaus, fit the bill for “something that said ‘brand,’ but that almost meant nothing.” Yet it’s not such an inappropriate name for a place whose projects often merge art with everyday life. Read more on Cultured.
A Milano la prima grande personale italiana di Trisha Baga, un viaggio multimediale profondamente femminile sulla memoria, lo spazio, la tecnologia e il tempo. Read in Italian on Vogue.it
Sometimes romances are born of charming chance encounters and novelistic meet-cutes. Other times, they begin with two people drunk in a hot tub. The latter was the case for Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, two LA-based artists who have been together for seven years, married for four, and who recently welcomed a newborn baby. Read full interview on artnet news.
With her Oscars performance last week, Billie Eilish’s captivating sensibility—hypersensitive, at once guarded and vulnerable, defiantly self-determined—may have reached its biggest mainstream audience to date. That sensibility—which one might describe as a generational thing—is also alive and well in art, specifically in the work of the artist Bunny Rogers. Read more on artnet news.
Rogers reflektiert über die Endlichkeit mit einer erstaunlichen Zurückhaltung, ruft Vorstellungen von Reinigung und Fragen nach der Zuverlässigkeit der Erinnerung auf, ohne sich den kleinsten Anflug von Effekthascherei und Kitsch zu erlauben. Dafür wiegt die Last des To- des zu schwer. Read in German in F.A.Z 01.02.2020 issue, page 12.
Die Stimmung ihrer Arbeiten ist düster und schwermütig. Die 30-jährige Künstlerin setzt sich mit Trauerfällen und deren Verarbeitung auseinander. So stellt sie sich auch in ihrer Ausstellung im Bregenzer Kunsthaus im obersten Geschoss die Frage: “Kann man Trauer abwaschen?”. Read and watch in German on VOLT.at.
In der Kunst von Bunny Rogers geht es um den Tod, Traumata und die Frage, wann kollektive Trauer zum Teil der globalen Unterhaltungsindustrie wird. Read in German on Der Standard.
Bunny Rogers ist eine US-amerikanische Künstlerin und Poetin, straft das Vorurteil lügen, junge Künstlerinnen würden nicht beachtet. Die Kunstwelt nennt sie “Shooting Star”. Rogers hat keine Angst vor großen Formaten. Watch now on zdf.de.
Das Kunsthaus Bregenz trifft mit der jungen, U.S.-amerikanischen, multimedial agierenden Künstlerin Bunny Rogers (geb. 1990 in Houston, Texas, USA) mitten in ein Thema, das im medialen Diskurs weitgehend tabuisiert wird. Read in German on artmagazine.cc.
Die junge US-amerikanische Künstlerin Bunny Rogers verwandelt das Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) mit ihrer Schau «Kind Kingdom» in ein modernes Memento mori, in dem sich über kollektive Trauer und individuellen Verlust sinnieren lässt. Read in German on Blewin.
In der neuen Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Bregenz geht es um Trauer, Verlust und Vergänglichkeit. Die junge US-amerikanische Künstlerin Bunny Rogers beschäftigt sich in Bregenz mit dem Ausdruck kollektiver Trauer, etwa nach dem Columbine-Schulmassaker oder dem Tod Prinzessin Dianas. Watch now at ORF.at.
Die junge US-Künstlerin Bunny Rogers nähert sich der Unausweichlichkeit des Grauens – und zeigt, wieso wir besser zweimal hinsehen sollten. Read in German on kulturnews.de.
Diese Woche eröffnet im Kunsthaus Bregenz die bislang größte Ausstellung der US-Künstlerin Bunny Rogers. Ein Treffen in ihrem Lieblingsgeschäft in New York, wo bei der Suche nach dem perfekten Stoffband der Gesprächsfaden nicht abreißt. Read in German on monopol-magazin.de.
The artist, very much alive and turning thirty this month, has channeled her affective fixation on mourning and melancholia into an exhibition that will occupy the Kunsthaus Bregenz’s four mausoleum-like concrete floors—an appropriate setting for installations inspired by American funerals. Read more on Artforum.
Next month, the Henie Onstad Art Center in Norway will hold its first triennial for photography and new media. The exhibition will feature new work by thirty-one international artists and will fill the entire ground floor of the museum. Read more on Artforum.
Limp bodies lined the hallways of Essex Street Academy, a public high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during Bunny Rogers’s Sanctuary. It was the first live performance by the artist, who is known for videos and installations that often employ cute objects with dark twists, complicating notions of innocence. Read full review on Art in America.
Intersecting lines on the painting’s surface form crosshairs that emphasize the congruence of the center of the canvas with the gymnast’s center of gravity, the point around which she spins. Mundt’s paintings, despite their loose brushwork and hazy details, are ultimately precise: they stick the landing. Read more in Art in America.
At 39 years old, Lu Yang has created a compelling body of work around sexuality, mortality, religion and neuroscience. And she isn’t known for pulling her punches or skirting around taboos. Buy the issue here.
Last night at the Essex Street Academy the millennial artist, best known for video animations and sculptures that orbit around the 1999 Columbine massacre, unveiled Sanctuary. Read more on Garage.
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Among the biennial’s less conventional venues is a high school overtaken by artist Bunny Rogers, who has repeatedly turned to these fraught spaces for her installations and video pieces (she made a trilogy based on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre). Read more on artnet news.
In her installations, videos, poetry, and performances, Bunny Rogers not only evokes teen angst and depression, but also the emo icons through which she channeled those emotions at a younger age. These include the melancholic singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, the goth-punk version of Joan of Arc from the animated TV show “Clone High” (2002–03), and the jaded character Gaz from another cartoon series, “Invader Zim” (2001–06). Read more on Art in America.
What to Look Out For: She may be best known for the work that she debuted at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, which showed Olympic gymnasts in various freeze-frames. At Frieze, her gallery is showing earlier works, yellow green landscapes from 2014, that are no less stunning. Read more on artnet news.
According to Timur Si-Quin’s Transformers posters, there is a film and it is COMING SOON. Atop the generic graphics, which could advertise any number of iterations of the franchise, the artist has pressed bruised petals or littered the surface with delicate green leaves. The uncanny juxtaposition, adds a sense of play onto the deadening economic determinism of the modern Marvel corporation. Read more on TANK MAGAZINE.
本次展览的参展艺术家为来自中国的艺术家曹斐（1978）、陆扬（1984）、方迪（1987）和张培力（1957）。“微纪元——中国媒体艺术”特别展是对2001年汉堡火车站柏林当代美术馆举办的中国当代艺术家群展“生活在此时”的呼应和延续，都在探讨不同时期中国经济、政治、思想、科技上发生的巨大变化。Read in Chinese on Action Media.
“Selbstbildnis” examines the evolution of self-portraiture from the 1970s to today amid contradicting movements. While most of the artworks in the exhibition are pulled from the gallery’s roster of contemporary artists—Trisha Baga, Petra Cortright, and Ned Vena, among others—the show’s selection of historical pieces weaves a curatorial thread that deploys a meditative rather than disputative tone to complicate static notions of identity. Read full review on ARTFORUM.
随着艺术活动的密集进行和发展，身处艺术行业的人身份变得多元，“艺术家-策展人”（Artist- Curator）的身份，能够让艺术创作与策展规划之间的关系，如何获得更多开创性？Read more in Chinese on The Art Newspaper.
