Permanent Installation
David Adjaye
Asaase III
Sir David Adjaye has been commissioned to create his first permanent public artwork, Asaase III (2023), which will debut during Counterpublic, a triennial exhibition that weaves contemporary art into the daily life of St. Louis, and then be donated to the Griot Museum of Black History. The second edition of Counterpublic, which was founded in 2019 by the Luminary, will run from April 15 to July 15, 2023. The exhibition will consider St. Louis’s complex histories, charged present, and many possible futures, following the footprint of Jefferson Avenue as it charts the pulses of the city from the southern riverfront through the Brickline Greenway at Market Street to St. Louis Avenue in North St. Louis.
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Rendering of David Adjaye’s Asaase III (2023) installed outside the Griot Museum of Black History, St. Louis. Artwork © David Adjaye
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David Adjaye
Kwaeε
May 20–November 26, 2023
Arsenale, Venice
David Adjaye’s Kwaeε (2023) has been installed in Venice as part of the 18th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, organized by La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Lesley Lokko, this year’s exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, which comprises six parts and includes eighty-nine participants, focuses practitioners from Africa and the African diaspora whose work engages directly with the twin themes of decolonization and decarbonization. Of his new sculpture, Adjaye explains, “Acting as an inverted sun dial with shadow patterns that track the position of the sun throughout the day, Kwaeε aims to cultivate and renew celestial, human, and cultural connections across time.”
David Adjaye, Kwaeε, 2023, installation view, Arsenale, Venice © David Adjaye. Photo: Michelle Äärlaht
In Conversation
David Adjaye, Frida Escobedo, Julian Rose
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 6pm
New School, New York
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Join Gagosian and Judd Foundation for a conversation between architects David Adjaye and Frida Escobedo, moderated by architect and critic Julian Rose. The trio will closely examine some of Donald Judd’s rigorously developed architectural projects while considering the question “What does it mean for an artist to make architecture?” They will discuss the agency of art and architecture alike—confronting their potentials and their limits—and the significance of taking art outside the museum and into the city or landscape. Adjaye’s current projects include the design of the new Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, while Escobedo is the architect for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Left: David Adjaye. Photo: Alex Fradkin, courtesy Adjaye Associates. Middle: Frida Escobedo. Photo: Carlos Torres. Right: Julian Rose
In Conversation
David Adjaye and Rick Lowe
Moderated by Thelma Golden
Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 2pm edt
Join Gagosian for a conversation between Sir David Adjaye and Rick Lowe, moderated by Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, on the occasion of Social Works at Gagosian, New York. Livestreaming from the exhibition in Chelsea in advance of the opening on June 24, the trio will explore Adjaye and Lowe’s shared interests in architecture, community building, and the relationship between space and the Black body. Featuring work by twelve artists, the exhibition includes Asaase (2021), Adjaye’s first large-scale autonomous sculpture, and Black Wall Street Journey (2020–), a new series of paintings by Lowe memorializing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma. To join the online event, register at eventbrite.com.
Left: David Adjaye. Photo: Alex Fradkin, courtesy Adjaye Associates. Middle: Thelma Golden. Photo: Julie Skarratt. Right: Rick Lowe. Photo: Brent Reaney
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