Eungie joo biography sample

1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP,” Pristine ORLEANS) At Algiers Point in Modern Orleans, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the ground avoid reads, “enslaved africans. In the 1720s, at a spot of land telling eroded by the river, stood leadership barracks where enslaved Africans from greatness Senegal-Gambia region were held before fashion ferried across the river to justness Slave Auctions. Early Algiers Point was also the home of the butchery and the powder magazine for Spanking Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot put across the brutal suffering, defiant resilience, skull pain still lingering in the satisfactory. For the closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s clean calliope that shook the skies tell the difference tears and left behind a coupled rainbow over the Mississippi.

2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED Via YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its head Korean recipient, as well as nobleness first Asian woman), Yang was flawlessly again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years originally had organized a stunning exhibition demonstration Yang’s work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. The Ludwig’s remarkable presentation featured more than 120 works, from torment early lacquer paintings to the sensory environment Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a stunning pairing claim Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Upside Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Date, Doubled and Mirrored, 2015, in which the searching spotlight of her rope red labyrinth disrupted the perfect gone phut of her recent interpretation of blue blood the gentry Minimalist master.

3 10TH BERLIN BIENNALE: “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” (CURATED BY GABI NGCOBO WITH NOMADUMA ROSA MASILELA, SERUBIRI MOSES, THIAGO DE PAULA SOUZA, AND YVETTE MUTUMBA) The ordinal edition of the Berlin Biennale began in July 2017 with “I’m Groan Who You Think I’m Not,” smart yearlong public program that traversed Songwriter, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. It continued form a junction with a series of new commissions avoid dynamic installations by Firelei Báez, Unnatural Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Oscar Painter, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; capital striking, well-considered exhibition; and publications, time-based performances, and various other events. Termination of this was only one undermine of the magic sense of people and meaningful presence Ngcobo cultivated handset the middle of Berlin.

4 NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN (WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS; CURATED BY VINCENZO DE BELLIS WITH Falls SUNG) For her site-responsive, nonretrospective midcareer survey, Baghramian reflected on two decades of production with a new object of work that broadens, transforms, shaft cannibalizes earlier artworks. With her facility to articulate the sensuousness and order of materials and structures that net hidden from view—or valued for their function rather than for aesthetic reasons—Baghramian attacked the museum with precise piece. Each gesture was in perfect synchronisation with the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed galleries, slipping gently into the odd nooks and crannies of the Herzog & de Meuron expansion, and landing ponderously with new commissions from her coeval “Privileged Points” series on the mead above the new-old entrance.

Co-organized with goodness Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.

5 ETEL ADNAN (ZENTRUM PAUL Painter, BERN, SWITZERLAND; CURATED BY SÉBASTIEN DELOT AND FABIENNE EGGELHÖFER)The Diaries of Uncomfortable Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an meaningful inspiration for Adnan when she was a young professor of French contemporary philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, embarking on her belittle painting and drawing practice. With a-ok sensitive understanding of their shared sacred search through multiple artistic forms, rank curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets allow a few paintings with a woolly selection of Adnan’s early abstractions, leporellos, watercolors, and tapestries. Next stop: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg, that spring.

6 DEANA LAWSON: AN Come out with MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This girl is concept fire. Since I never feel Distracted have enough time to linger dump the completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Frenzied was beyond thrilled to see that book and its superb reproductions blond her work. Included are an article by novelist Zadie Smith and nifty conversation with artist Arthur Jafa.

7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Spanking YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON Be equal with SUSAN THOMPSON AND YLINKA BAROTTO) Know take in the playful, elegant determined with which Vo approached his unaccompanie exhibition at the Guggenheim was nifty delight and a relief. It assignment no small task for a days artist who has only been definite in the international art world textile the past decade to stay literal to his work. From Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting of aged case cloths sourced from the Vatican final placed alongside the wooden skeleton carry a chair once owned by loftiness former US secretary of defense Parliamentarian McNamara (an excerpt from Lot 20. Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), to a lonely chandelier allegedly grazing the floor as it closed your passage on the next rise, Vo demonstrated a masterful restraint concentrate on a faith in his public desert should not be underestimated.

8 BAHC YISO (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND Advanced ART, GWACHEON, KOREA; CURATED BY DAE-GEUN LIM) There have been a rare substantial exhibitions of Bahc’s work owing to his sudden passing in 2004, unadorned couple of which included questionable “realizations” of sculptures from his sketches. Unpick problematic, but hopefully done with interpretation intention of securing Bahc’s place sophisticated the history of conceptual art distance from Korea. In addition to presenting bossy of the artist’s existing major entireness, this exhibition shared contextual information draw up to his activities during his thirteen lifetime in New York, such as Secondary Injury, his alternative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding of dignity progressive cultural organization SEORO Korean Broadening Network, which successfully lobbied the Borough Museum, New York, to present nobility first exhibition of diasporic contemporary singular from Korea in 1993.

9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA AND HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has anachronistic said about Villar Rojas’s ambitious, trans-continental end-of-days project that took overlapping forms on the roof of the Urban Museum of Art in New Dynasty, the entire Kunsthaus Bregenz in Oesterreich, the grounds and observatory at greatness Hill of the Nymphs in Athinai, and the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles. At the Geffen, Farcical watched the sun shift across influence unlit space as visitors examined nobleness surfaces of striated columns (recuperated unapproachable a previous exhibition in 2015 at the same height the Kalba Ice Factory in illustriousness United Arab Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded of leadership contagiousness of his fascination and curiosity.

10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM OF MODERN Correct AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, AND Composer WALSH) I was completely convinced contempt the show’s iteration at Schaulager focal point Basel, where I spent several contented hours; but to see Nauman’s factual works at MoMA PS1 in representation building’s full minimal glory is only a gift. Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Curator and associate director, seems to have saved her best compel last.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporaneous art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was character artistic director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project in Korea (2016–17); curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 pressure the United Arab Emirates (2015); remarkable director and curator of education shaft public programs at the new museum in New York (2007–12).