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June 7, 2023
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Must See
Rosemarie Trockel, Sabine, 1994, ink-jet print, 7 1⁄8 × 7 1⁄8". © Rosemarie Trockel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Rosemarie Trockel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
In Artforum’s Summer issue, Lynne Cooke discusses the urgent relevance of Rosemarie Trockel’s recursive, rhizomatic, and iterative practice today. “No previous Trockel retrospective has homed in so relentlessly on representations of women as subordinated, disempowered, humiliated, and voided by entrenched religious, social, and cultural structures and ideologies,” she writes. “Nor have attendant shifts in the affective register, between rapier-sharp anger, simmering frustration, desolation, and, less often, tender regard and hard-won empathy been so clearly exposed.”
Through June 18
Myrlande Constant, Still life (detail), ca. 1995, glass seed beads, bugle beads, sequins, cotton fabric, and foamcore, 31 3/4 × 29 1/4".
Myrlande Constant, Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
“Evoking tapestries and mosaics, the artist’s compositions scintillate with thousands of punctiliously stitched glass beads and sequins that change color and reflect light when viewed from different angles.”
—Annabel Osberg
Through July 16
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Highlight: exhibitions and events worldwide
Vallisaari Island, Helsinki. Photo: Matti Pyykkö/Helsinki Biennial.
This week, biennials are back and putting a decidedly un-tropical spin on island hopping, though there is plenty of sun—or at least daylight—to be found in these northern climes.
On June 10, the Liverpool Biennial presents “uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things,” curated by Capetown-based Khaniyisile Mbongwa, who participates as an artist herself, alongside Brook Andrew, Nicholas Galanin, Binta Diaw, Rahima Gambo, Torkwase Dyson, and Gala Porras-Kim, who recently appeared on Artforum’s cover and discussed her work with executive editor Lloyd Wise.
Just across the North Sea, Momentum also opens June 10 in Moss on the island of Jeløya in Norway. Fittingly titled “Together as to gather,” the event’s twelfth edition is a sort of biennial of biennials: Curated by Tenthaus collective, Momentum boasts an eclectic list of artist participants (Diane Severin Nguyen, Morag Keil, and Pablo Helguera among them) alongside other actual biennials Survival Kit, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Bienal del Sur, Bienal de Cuenca, and even the nearby Helsinki Biennial.
The latter has a busy week: On June 11, the Helsinki Biennial returns to Vallisaari Island with its sophomore outing, titled “New Directions May Emerge.” Curated by Joasia Krysa and featuring the work of artists including Adrián Villar Rojas, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Emilija Škarnulytė, Dineo Seshee Bopape, and Zheng Mahler, the exhibition seeks to tackle some of the most pressing issues of the moment, from political and ecological crisis to the advent of ever more alarming technology—topics covered in our current issue’s feature “Getting Smart.”
For more on these and other art events worldwide, visit Artforum’s artguide.
Closing Soon
Jacob Kassay, IT (detail), 2023, direct UV prints on OSB, candle, retort stand, sensor control unit, self-adhesive labels, dimensions variable.
Jacob Kassay, Ivory Tars, Glasgow
“Does something need to be seen to exist? This is an eternal, existential question, one that Kassay addresses through small gestures that evoke significant bodily reactions.”
—Lisette May Monroe
Through June 18
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Tony Feher, Untitled, 1992, aluminum foil, fifty-seven glass marbles, 1.25 x 12 x 7.5".
Tony Feher, Gordon Robichaux, New York
“These sculptures speak to Feher’s concern with objects that function as containers, to be filled and emptied out. While they can be read as vessels holding the massive losses brought about by the AIDS crisis, being filled and emptied out also echoes the process of breathing, and thereby the body itself.”
—Ksenia M. Soboleva
Through June 18
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