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Tubology
Our Lives in Tubes
April 21–December 30, 2018
FRAC Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
www.fracnpdc.fr
Tubology: Our Lives in Tubes offers a totally new reading of the FRAC Grand Large collection from the 1960s up to the present day, and speculates about the prerequisites for rendering art and design relevant to a society mutating at high speed. Work by Marc Newson and Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Research Marijuana Crop Grow Room, National Center for Natural Products Research, Oxford, Mississippi, 2007 © Taryn Simon
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Zeitspuren: The Power of Now
September 9–November 18, 2018
Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel, Switzerland
www.pasquart.ch
Zeitspuren: The Power of Now demonstrates how the passage of time can be expressed visually by artistic processes and how the duration of an action or the aura of memory can be represented. The exhibition uses video, film, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, as well as ephemeral and site-specific works to show how perspectives are being developed that make time perceivable as a relative and subjective dimension. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Finding Pursuant to Section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended, Concerning Operations in Foreign Countries Other than Those Intended Solely for the Purpose of Intelligence Collection, White House, Washington, D.C., United States, 1981, from the series, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015 © Taryn Simon
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The Future Starts Here
May 12–November 4, 2018
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk
The Future Starts Here brings together groundbreaking technologies and designs currently in development in studios and laboratories around the world. Visitors are guided by a series of ethical and speculative questions to connect the subject matter to the choices that we all face in our everyday lives. Work by Arakawa and Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Cryopreservation Unit, Cryonics Institute, Clinton Township, Michigan, 2004–07 © Taryn Simon
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Nothing Stable under Heaven
March 3–September 16, 2018
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org
Nothing Stable under Heaven reflects on the contested past, the turbulent present, and the unpredictable future, examining how individual and collective voices can be heard in an uncertain world. This exhibition explores the ways that artists inform our understanding of urgent social, ecological, and civic issues—including security and surveillance, evolving modes of communication, and political resistance. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Chapter XVIII, from the series A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, 2008–11 © Taryn Simon
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The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art
April 13–September 2, 2018
Pérez Art Museum Miami
www.pamm.org
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art brings together works by more than forty artists who participate in diverse and intersecting dialogues formed around the sport. Featuring a variety of mediums—including painting, sculpture, photography, and video—the exhibition aims to create an experience in which the viewer employs the universal game to engage with the works of contemporary artists from around the world. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Decision of general principle to ban third-party ownership of players’ economic rights, Zurich, Switzerland, September 26, 2014, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015 © Taryn Simon
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Hold Still: The Photographic Performance
May 12–July 29, 2018
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Hold Still deconstructs the gestures we habitually adopt while looking into a lens and proposes that the instant of capture is itself a performance. The exhibition explores the way the camera serves as a silent choreographer dictating our movements and presents incisive commentary about the way photography pervades contemporary life. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
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Taryn Simon
Shouting Is under Calling
February 24–June 17, 2018
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
This survey show includes works from 2008 to 2017, covering most of the artist’s best-known series. For Simon, visual media has always been a vehicle for larger conceptual ideas. Paired with text, her works reveal the structures behind controlling systems, from ancestry and borders to botany and diplomacy.
Installation view, Taryn Simon: Shouting Is under Calling, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, February 24–June 17, 2018 © Taryn Simon. Photo: Marc Latzel
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The Innocents
July 30, 2017–June 17, 2018
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
www.guildhall.org
Taryn Simon’s earliest body of work, The Innocents (2002), documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography’s function as credible witness and arbiter of justice. First exhibited at MoMA PS1 in 2003, the work is being re-presented at a historical moment when the lines between truth and falsehood are being continuously manipulated and redrawn. This exhibition coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal organization that works to reform the criminal justice system.
Taryn Simon, Charles Irvin Fain; Scene of the crime, the Snake River, Melba, Idaho; Served 18 years of a Death sentence for Murder, Rape and Kidnapping, from the series The Innocents, 2002 © Taryn Simon
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Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11
October 26, 2017–May 28, 2018
Imperial War Museum, London
www.iwm.org.uk
This exhibition examines the complex issues surrounding the global response to 9/11 through fifty works of art spanning film, sculpture, painting, installation, photography, and printmaking. These works highlight the crucial role of artists in representing contemporary conflict. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum Revolver Frame, Smith & Wesson Headquarters, Springfield, Massachusetts, 2007 © Taryn Simon
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Eat Me
September 23, 2017–May 21, 2018
Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design, Denmark
www.trapholt.dk
Eat Me makes the case that food is a metaphor of our time. In this exhibition, more than sixty artists present work that takes food as its focal point. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Contraband Room, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York, 2007 © Taryn Simon
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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today
February 6–May 20, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
www.icaboston.org
This exhibition examines how the Internet has radically changed the field of art, especially its production, distribution, and reception. The show comprises a broad range of works across a variety of mediums that all investigate the extensive effects of the Internet on artistic practice and contemporary culture. Work by Nam June Paik and Taryn Simon is included.
Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994 © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Steffan Harms
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Inside Out
Photography and Psychology
February 7–May 12, 2018
DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt
www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de
Photography and psychology are two very distinct fields that have significantly shaped our cultural modern age. The exhibition explores the correlation between the two areas and poses the question, In what ways has modern psychological inquiry influenced artistic and wider cultural production? And also, in counter to this, what potential does photography have to expose the capacities of the contemporary human psyche? Exhibits from the disciplines of both science and art will be on display. Work by Gregory Crewdson and Taryn Simon is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2001 © Gregory Crewdson
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Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose/A Crack in Everything
November 9, 2017–April 9, 2018
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
macm.org
This multidisciplinary exhibition combining visual art, virtual reality, installations, performances, music, and writing offers the public a collection of brand-new work commissioned from and created by local and international artists who have been inspired by Leonard Cohen’s style and recurring themes. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, New York Times, Friday, November 11, 2016, 2017 © Taryn Simon
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The Face: A Search for Clues
August 19, 2017–February 25, 2018
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
www.dhmd.de
We encounter human faces in personal interaction but also on the Internet, in the memory of digital cameras and smartphones, in databases of institutions, on posters, cinema walls, and TV screens. This exhibition explores the relationship between the face and society, and whether it is a commodity, a data set, or a central reference point that connects people. Work by Cindy Sherman, Taryn Simon, and Andy Warhol is included.
Taryn Simon, Charles Irvin Fain, Scene of the crime, the Snake River, Melba, Idaho, Served 18 years of a Death sentence for Murder, Rape and Kidnapping. The Innocents, 2002 © Taryn Simon
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I Am a Problem
September 23, 2017–February 18, 2018
MMK 2, Frankfurt
mmk-frankfurt.de
A gloomy and at the same time provoking parallel world unfolds in the exhibition space, in which works from the Museum für Moderne Kunst’s collection become protagonists of a narrative and enter into a dialogue with one another. The starting point for the staging is a myth about Maria Callas (1923–1977). Work by Douglas Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Taryn Simon, and Andy Warhol is included.
Douglas Gordon, going out, 2005 © Studio lost but found and VG Bild-Kunst 2018. Photo by Axel Schneider
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MOMENTA: Biennale de l’image
September 7–October 14, 2017
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
www.momentabiennale.com
Drawing on the theme What Does the Image Stand For?, this biennial probes the concept of photographic evidence in all its guises. It features works that question the status of the photograph as a recording of the real, and examines the fantastical and sublimated character of reality. Work by Taryn Simon is included. The museum will also present additional works from her series Paperwork and the Will of Capital on the occasion of the biennial.
Taryn Simon, Bratislava Declaration, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 3, 1968, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015 © Taryn Simon
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Gutes Sterben–Falscher Tod
May 27–September 24, 2017
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
www.freiburg.de
Artists often engage with the topic of death within the scope of their work. The exhibited works variously reveal a revulsion toward and a fascination with death, the tendency to gloss over it all, and the desire to get “up close and personal” with death—the last in the form of a decaying body. Work by Damien Hirst and Taryn Simon is included.
Damien Hirst, With Dead Head, 1991. Photo by Bernhard Strauss
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Le spectre du surréalisme
July 3–September 24, 2017
Atelier des Forges, Arles, France
www.rencontres-arles.com
Drawing from the photographic collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, this exhibition returns to a few of the themes born of the interaction between Surrealism and photography. It shows the ways in which artists of the postwar years drew on the Surrealist sensibility, and illustrates how they adapted their relationship to reality to their ends, abolishing the rules of art, taking the absurd to extremes, and addressing contemporary political issues. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Cryopreservation Unit, Cryonics Institute, Clinton Township, Michigan, 2004–07 © Taryn Simon
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Scenographies of Power: From the State of Exception to the Spaces of Exception
June 16–September 10, 2017
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
www.lacasaencendida.es
This exhibition proposes a reflection on the spaces that materialize the “state of emergency” and that are representative of power structure’s of today’s globalized world. Work by Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Television Series (Pirated), 2010
© Taryn Simon
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The Flower Show
June 15–August 15, 2017
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
arts.brown.edu
This exhibition examines the history of artists creating works involving flowers and will include Taryn Simon’s recent series, Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015), depicting bouquets at historical events, as well as work by Andy Warhol.
Taryn Simon, Agreement between the Government of the State of Eritrea and the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Algiers, Algeria, December 12, 2000, Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015 © Taryn Simon
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The Arcades:
Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
March 17–August 6, 2017
Jewish Museum, New York
thejewishmuseum.org
Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project is about Paris’s nineteenth-century vaulted iron-and-glass shopping passages. With their labyrinthine architecture and surrealistic juxtapositions, the arcades offer an ideal prism through which to examine the era’s capitalist metropolis. This exhibition will explore The Arcades Project and its ongoing relevance through works of contemporary art representing the subjects of each of the book’s thirty-six chapters. Work by Chris Burden, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Taryn Simon is included.
Chris Burden, Tower of London Bridge, 2003 © 2017 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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56th Biennale di Venezia
All the World’s Futures
May 9–November 22, 2015
Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
www.labiennale.org
All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor for the 56th Biennale di Venezia, forms a unitary itinerary with over 136 artists from fifty-three countries, of whom eighty-nine are showing in the Biennale for the first time. The world before us today exhibits deep divisions and wounds, pronounced inequalities, and uncertainties as to the future. The exhibition aims to investigate how the tensions of the outside world act on the sensitivities and the vital and expressive energies of artists, on their desires and their inner songs. Work by Georg Baselitz, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Carsten Höller, Tetsuya Ishida, and Taryn Simon is included.
Tetsuya Ishida, Recalled, 1998 © Tetsuya Ishida Estate. Photo: Martin Wong