Events
Performance
Piero Golia
Sunday, September 22, 2019, 3pm
Centennial Mall, Lincoln, Nebraska
www.lincolnpops.com
Piero Golia has been selected to participate in Lincoln PoPs, a contemporary art festival on P Street in downtown Lincoln. The festival will reflect on the voices and sounds of the world and how the auditory can create dialogue and community. Golia is creating a new performance piece titled EMOTIONAL, SPECTACULAR, BLOCKBUSTER! for the event.
Piero Golia’s performance for Art Club at the French Academy at Villa Medici, Rome, 2016. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
Installation
Piero Golia
Manifest Destiny
June 3–November 11, 2018
Broeltoren Noord, Kortrijk, Belgium
www.playkortrijk.be
As part of Play: City Circuit for Contemporary Art, Piero Golia is presenting Manifest Destiny, an installation that invites the visitor to leap from the top of a platform, in a kind of trust fall, onto a thick stunt pad.
Piero Golia, Manifest Destiny, 2008 © Piero Golia
Museum Exhibitions
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Piero Golia
Solutions to Mortality
January 20–April 1, 2018
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
webs.wichita.edu
Solutions to Mortality is the result of Piero Golia’s Grafly commission at the Ulrich Museum. This commission invites artists to respond to the museum’s large collection of artwork by Charles M. Grafly. For his exhibition Golia has placed three works in the sculpture park of the museum: a cast of George Washington’s nose copied from Mount Rushmore, an upside-down statue of Garibaldi, and a section of the wall that separates Los Angeles from Orange County.
Piero Golia, Solutions to Mortality (George Washington Nose), 2018. Photo by Manfredi Gioacchini
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99 Cents or Less
May 19–August 6, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
mocadetroit.org
A major group exhibition of ninety-nine artists based in the United States addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy. Four years after a federal judge approved Detroit’s bankruptcy-exit plan, the city’s financial present and future are still in flux. This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country’s wealthiest and most diverse. Work by Piero Golia, Alex Israel, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, and Sterling Ruby is included.
Sterling Ruby, 99/MK, 2017. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
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Piero Golia
April 28–July 16, 2017
Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
www.kunsthausbaselland.ch
From the outset of his career, Piero Golia’s principal focus has been the theatrical and the conceptual in art, specifically supreme gestures and the completion of seemingly impossible acts. For this first institutional showing of his work in Switzerland, Golia will realize a new work developed specially for the Kunsthaus Baselland.
Piero Golia, The Painter, 2016. Photo: Daniele Molajoli