Düsseldorf
Roman Ondák
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - K20
Grabbeplatz 5
December 3, 2011–April 29, 2012
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street
March 12–May 20, 2011
Kunsthaus Zurich
Heimplatz 1
June 10–August 28, 2011
Curated by Michael Stanley
Slovakian neo-Conceptualist Roman Ondák creates powerful works of art through seemingly simple shifts. During the 2009 Venice Biennale, he famously turned his country’s pavilion inside out, allowing the surrounding garden to occupy the building’s interior. In another recent piece, he transformed viewers into subject matter, directing gallery attendants to mark visitors’ names and heights on the museum wall in an ever-expanding drawing. For this show, his first major solo in the UK, Ondák will present two new installations that refer specifically to recent world events, prompting a reconsideration of cultural and societal relations. During the run of the show, Ondák will also complete the final leg of a separate three-venue European tour, winding up at the Fondazione Galleria Civica in Trento, Italy.