Sarah Charlesworth, Albert Oehlen and Jim Shaw Set for New Museum Exhibitions in 2015

The New Museum has announced its upcoming 2015 exhibitions and initiatives. Details below!

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CLOSING SOON:

On view through January 25, 2015
"Chris Ofili: Night and Day"
"Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Live Through That?!"

EXHIBITIONS:

2015 Triennial: "Surround Audience"
February 25-May 24, 2015
Museum-wide

A signature program of the New Museum, the Triennial is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to early-career artists from around the world. It provides an important platform for an emergent generation of artists that is shaping the discourse of contemporary art. The 2015 Triennial is organized by Lauren Cornell, Curator at the New Museum, and iconic artist Ryan Trecartin, who was featured in the inaugural 2009 Triennial. This third iteration of the Triennial is titled "Surround Audience" and will feature fifty-one artists and artist collectives from over twenty-five countries; for many of the participants, this will be their first inclusion in a museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition will encompass a variety of artistic practices, including sound, dance, comedy, poetry, installation, sculpture, painting, video, and one online talk show. "Surround Audience" is inspired in part by Trecartin's own artistic practice, which, as Cornell describes, "vividly manifests a world in which the effects of technology and late capitalism have been absorbed into our bodies and altered our vision of the world." A tension between the newfound freedoms and threats of today's society animates and anchors the exhibition: We are surrounded by a culture replete with impressions of life, be they visual, written, or construed through data. We move through streams of chatter, swipe past pictures of other people's lives, and frame our own experiences as, all the while, our digital trails are subtly captured, tracked, and stored. "Surround Audience" explores how artists are currently depicting subjectivity, unpacking complex systems of power, and claiming sites of artistic agency.

"Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden"
June 10-September 6, 2015
Third and Fourth Floors

The New Museum will present the first major New York exhibition of the German artist Albert Oehlen (b. 1954). Demonstrating his immeasurable influence on contemporary painting, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, and prints from several of his most important bodies of work. "Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden" will include a selection of the artist's early self-portraits, his "Computer Paintings" and "Switch Paintings" from the 1990s, and more recent works fusing appropriated advertising signage and aggressive brushstrokes. Rather than following a chronological path through Oehlen's prodigious thirty-year career, the exhibition is divided into sections devoted to works evoking domestic spaces and the natural environment. Exploring contrasts between interior and exterior, nature and culture, and irony and sincerity, the exhibition demonstrates Oehlen's commitment to continually expanding the language of painting in surprising ways. The exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator, with Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator. Further details.

"Sarah Charlesworth"
June 24-September 20, 2015
Second Floor

Over the course of a thirty-five-year career, conceptual artist and photographer Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013) investigated pivotal questions about the role of images in our culture. Her influential body of work deconstructed the conventions of photography and illuminated the medium's importance in mediating our perception of the world. The exhibition at the New Museum will center on the recently completed series "Stills" (1980), a poignant group of fourteen large-scale images, along with other key works that illustrate her trenchant approach to mining the language of photography. This presentation will be the first major museum survey in New York of the artist's work, encompassing an innovative career that has taken on shifting significance with time as it continues to inspire contemporary artists drawing from our increasingly image-saturated culture. The exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, and Margot Norton, Assistant Curator. The "Stills" series is presented in association with the Art Institute of Chicago. Further details.

"Jim Shaw"
October 7, 2015-January 10, 2016
Second, Third, and Fourth Floors

Over the past thirty years, Jim Shaw (b. 1952) has become one of America's most influential and visionary artists, moving between painting, sculpture, and drawing, while building connections between his own psyche and America's larger political, social, and spiritual histories. Shaw's imagery is mined from the cultural refuse of the twentieth century, using comic books, record covers, conspiracy magazines, and obscure religious iconography to produce a portrait of the American subconscious. Although a recognized icon of the Los Angeles art scene since the 1970s, Shaw has never had a museum show in New York. This exhibition will reveal the breadth and inventiveness of his art. A comprehensive selection of his works will be presented alongside a selection from his collection of thrift store paintings and pedagogical materials, including religious pamphlets and propaganda posters, which he has been amassing for decades. The exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator, with Margot Norton, Assistant Curator. Details forthcoming.

PERFORMANCE-RELATED EXHIBITIONS:

R&D SEASON: CHOREOGRAPHY

The Fall 2014 R&D Season, CHOREOGRAPHY, culminates in two exhibitions by the artist duo Gerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) and the Brooklyn-based artist community AUNTS. The New Museum's R&D Seasons are spearheaded by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement.

"AUNTSforcamera"
December 16, 2014-February 15, 2015
Various non-gallery spaces around the Museum

Originating in Brooklyn, AUNTS is both a growing community of artists and a choreographic structure for organizing simultaneous performance and art activities in shared spaces. The New Museum, by invitation from the Stedelijk Museum and the arts space and nightclub TrouwAmsterdam, has organized a special international dance-for-camera edition of AUNTS as part of the "Trouw Invites..." exhibition series. "AUNTSforcamera" presents nine dance-for-camera works that were created simultaneously through a shared open-studio process in the New Museum Theater (September 10-14, 2014). Originally presented as an immersive moving-image installation at TrouwAmsterdam (November 6-30, 2014), these works return to the New Museum where they are installed in a dispersed exhibition format in various interstitial non-gallery spaces throughout the building. With multiple aspects of this project taking place in various forms at TrouwAmsterdam and the New Museum, "AUNTSforcamera" reveals a community representing itself differently for different kinds of spaces, while embracing how different spaces enable different kinds of community experiences to occur. "AUNTSforcamera" is organized by Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance and Manager of Public Programs, New Museum, in collaboration with Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman, organizers of AUNTS. Watch a video about the project here.

"Gerard & Kelly: P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange)"
Fall 2014 R&D Season Artists in Residence
February 4-15, 2015
Lobby Gallery

"P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange)" culminates a six-month residency with a two-week exhibition combining sculptural objects and live performance in the New Museum Lobby Gallery. An exploration of the choreography of relationships and the movement of cultural transmission, this ten-day pop-up exhibition distills a publicly engaged research process that has taken the form of classes, workshops, talks, and live "reverberations" organized around an installation in the Museum's Fifth Floor Gallery (October 8, 2014-January 25, 2015). During the Lobby Gallery exhibition this February, multiple temporalities and states of being converge-objects and bodies, history and the disappearing present, rehearsal and performance, repetitions and the intervals between-to articulate pole dance as the ground for intimate exchange. A highly charged choreographic form, pole dancing is utilized here in an effort to reconcile forces of suspension and gravity and the assumptions of high and low cultural embodiment. "P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange)" is organized by Johanna Burton.

FIRST LOOK: NEW ART ONLINE:

First Look: New Art Online is an ongoing series of innovative online projects and new commissions co-curated and copresented by the New Museum and Rhizome. Presented on both the New Museum and Rhizome websites, it features eight digital projects yearly that capitalize on both institutions' expertise in digital art and broaden the audience for the program, with an additional aim to preserve each work through Rhizome's singular online archive of digital art, ArtBase. First Look was launched in 2012 by New Museum curator Lauren Cornell with "Image Atlas" by artist Taryn Simon and developer Aaron Swartz and has since showcased twenty-five new digital projects by artists such as Xavier Cha, Jon Rafman,Casey Jane Ellison, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Recent 2014 projects include artists Perry Chen, Amalia Ulman, Miranda July, and Frances Stark and David Kravitz, among others. First Look is curated by Lauren Cornell, Curator, 2015 Triennial, Museum as Hub, and Digital Projects, and Michael Connor, Editor and Curator, Rhizome.

IDEAS CITY

IDEAS CITY Festival
May 28-30, 2015
(Schedule to be announced in early 2015)

IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that art and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers. Founded by the New Museum in 2011 and led by newly appointed Director Joseph Grima, IDEAS CITY is a major collaborative initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and community organizations. The biennial IDEAS CITY Festival takes place every other May in New York City, while IDEAS CITY Global Conferences are organized in key cities around the world. This May, the New Museum will present the third IDEAS CITY Festival in downtown New York that will include a conference, workshops, activities on the street around the Bowery, and dozens of independent projects and public events that function as forums for exchanging ideas, proposing solutions, and accelerating creativity. The theme for the next IDEAS CITY: NY is The Invisible City, and the full program will be announced in early 2015. Visit ideas-city.org.