
Eva Birkenstock
1 ISA GENZKEN (STEDELIJK MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM; CURATED BY BEATRIX RUF AND MARTIJN VAN NIEUWENHUYZEN) The first show I saw in 2016 was Genzken’s arresting survey. This comprehensive presentation of her radical, inventive oeuvre of the past four decades was expressed through an intriguing curatorial concept: Rather than following a strict chronological order, the presentation expanded into an open course of carefully arranged constellations dispersed throughout the Stedelijk’s generous space. This allowed for captivating juxtapositionsof recent and early works, of well-known and rarely seen