Works by 40 Contemporary Artists to Open This Fall at Jewish Museum

This fall, the Jewish Museum will upend museum conventions with Take Me (I'm Yours), an exhibition featuring artworks that visitors are asked to touch, participate in, and even take home. On view from September 16, 2016 through February 5, 2017, Take Me (I'm Yours) will feature 40 international and intergenerational artists, many of whom are creating new and site-specific works for the exhibition. Selected artists include Uri Aran, Christian Boltanski, Andrea Bowers, Andrea Fraser, General Sisters, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jonathan Horowitz, Alison Knowles, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, Rachel Rose, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Haim Steinbach, Amalia Ulman, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.

Take Me (I'm Yours) will create a democratic space for all visitors to participate in the creation and ownership of an artwork, questioning the politics of value, consumerism, and the hierarchical structures of the art market. The exhibition encourages shared experiences and direct engagement with works of art, suggesting alternative ways that artists can live in, contribute to, and gain from society at large.

First mounted by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski in 1995 at the Serpentine Galleries, London, Take Me (I'm Yours) featured works by 12 artists that explored concepts of value and participation in the arts. Over twenty years later, Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Jewish Museum will be the first U.S. presentation, featuring an expanded roster of artists and projects specific to both New York City and an institution of art and Jewish culture, including several from the original exhibition. In addition, the Jewish Museum's presentation marks the first time that Take Me (I'm Yours) will be on view in a collecting institution, examining the role of museum collections by giving works away rather than holding them.

Take Me (I'm Yours) was originally conceived by Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1995. Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Jewish Museum, New York is curated by Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs, the Jewish Museum; Hans Ulrich Obrist; and Kelly Taxter, Assistant Curator, the Jewish Museum.
A limited edition publication in conjunction with the exhibition will feature a postcard set of images selected by the artists and new texts written by the exhibition curators, distributed by D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers.