Curated by Philipp Kaiser

Simon Starling, master of productive detours and delays, is up for a mid-career retrospective and wants to slightly alter the museum itself. The exhibition not only displays nine important works made since 1993 but remains true to the artist’s way of working by featuring two large, site-specific installations that involve architectural interventions (in one instance, Starling even cuts into the walls of the newly renovated building). The show, accompanied by a catalogue that includes a long interview with the artist, also contains an appropriated photographic work by American artist Christopher Williams. Everything, the artist seems to promise, will be different yet remain exactly the same.

Travels to the Power Plant, Toronto, Dec. 10, 2005–Mar. 5, 2006.

— Daniel Birnbaum