aZarouhie Abdalian Dennis Adams Saâdane Afif Jennifer Allora Carlos Amorales bNicolas Bacal Eric Baudelaire Barbara Bloom Martin Boyce Kennedy Browne Matthew Buckingham cStéphane Calais Guillermo Calzadilla Etienne Chambaud Marcelo Cidade Abraham Cruzvillegas dMatthew Darbyshire Jason Dodge fGeoffrey Farmer Omer Fast Hans Peter Feldmann Ceal Floyer Claire Fontaine gRyan Gander Dora Garcia Lydia Gifford Felix Gmelin Pascal Grandmaison Igor Grubic Loris Gréaud kBen Kinmont Szabolcs Kisspál Kitty Kraus Gabriel Kuri lPierre Leguillon nRivane Neuenschwander Eko Nugroho pSheung Chuen Pak Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Dominique Petitgand Pratchaya Phinthong Pablo Pijnappel sJoe Scanlan Goldin+ Senneby Amie Siegel Jonas Staal Simon Starling Mladen Stilinovic tColectivo Tercerunquinto vNicoline Van Harskamp Danh Vo wNatasha Wheat zYANG Zhenzhong
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Hans Peter Feldmann Teapot with shadow The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Against authorship and the... Pablo Pijnappel Felicitas In Felicitas, we follow the converging routes of three characters: Felicitas, Michael and Andrew (the artist's father-in-law who also features elsewhere). Felicitas is thedaughter of a... Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla The Nature of Conflict This installation combines the display of real objects with the deceptively painterly amalgamation of their content as the subject of a photograph. Here Allora & Calzadilla condemn the... Hans Peter Feldmann Pair of shoes / Shoes with eggs The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Verging on a form of fetichism,... Hans Peter Feldmann Hat with photograph The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist's books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Hats and photographs are... Mladen Stilinovic Exploitation of the Dead 1985 The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of... Dominique Petitgand Le bout de la langue 1994 A woman pronounces parts of sentences. Via rigorous editing, the artist creates anticipation with the silences, rhythm by the repetitions, temporal ellipses with music. The recording is... Barbara Bloom The Bedroom 1997 In the 1980's, while browsing Parisian fleamarkets, Barbara Bloom stumbled into an anonymous watercolor (dating to around 1960) in one of Paris' fleamarkets, probably a study made by an interior... Ryan Gander Travelogue lecture with missing content 2001 This work is meditative and fragile. These abstract forms are projected slides belonging to another lecture, Travelogue, where the images have been removed. What is left is the hole of... Matthew Buckingham The six grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the year 502 002 2002 Matthew Buckingham presents a narrative directly connected with a highly symbolic site in the United States, the Mount Rushmore Memorial*. He elaborates a historiographic narrative of this place... Omer Fast A Tank Translated 2002 For Immersion, Harun Farocki went to visit a research centre near Seattle specialized in the development of virtual realities and computer simulations. One of their projects consists in... Pascal Grandmaison Solo 2003 Solo (2003) is a video exhibited as a video/sound installation depicting shots of drum, voice, guitar, clavier/synthesizer, and a melodica player cut into segmented fragments from the... Martin Boyce Our love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours 2003 In the installation Our Love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Martin Boyce uses common elements from public gardens – trees, benches, trashbins– in a game which... Loris Gréaud CFL 2004 The acronym "CFL" stands for an existing light standard (Compact Fluorescent Light) as well as a standard nutrient (Cognitive Fooding Laboratory). "CFL" is a mobile laboratory for growth of... Felix Gmelin Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009 Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body... Dennis Adams Make Down 2004 The video Make down is a 34 minute sequence shot that shows the artist removing make-up in front of a mirror. The peculiarity of the scene consists in two symbolic details: first, the... Loris Gréaud Dream Machines 2004 This work refers to the "Dream Machine", an experimental object invented by the painter and writer Brion Gysin and the scientist Ian Sommerville, and which is composed of a light bulb with light... Ben Kinmont Digger Dug 2004 The archive proposes to examine the difference between helping others in the context of an artistic project and in the context of social work in order to question authorship. The first part of... Abraham Cruzvillegas Improvisación escrita para lectura a primera vista 2005 Amie Siegel Berlin Remake 2005 Berlin Remake (2005) combines extracts of East German films with images filmed by the artist in Berlin. While staying in Berlin, the artist found the locations where the official films... Felicitas 2005 3 synchronised slide projections Saâdane Afif Lyrics: Edition 2006 Claire Fontaine Foreigners Everywhere (Italian) 2006 John Kelsey: Claire Fontaine's practice seems to revolve around the word « foreigner »... could you say something about this concept, if indeed it is one, and how it informs (infects) your... Colectivo Tercerunquinto Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey 2006 Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey is a public sculpture on the periphery of the city of Monterrey. It consisted of a concrete foundation that was free to use by the... Carlos Amorales Useless Wonder 2006 The animation is composed of digital vector drawings drawn from the artist's image archive. Figurative and abstract silhouetted motifs, in a palette of red, black and white, are combined to create... Danh Vo Good Life 2007 Good life (2007) is an installation displaying letters, documents, photographs and objects from a man named Joseph Carrier, and appropriated by artist Danh Vo. The installation... Pratchaya Phinthong If I dig a very deep hole 2007 In order to make If I dig a very deep hole (2007) the artist looked for the extreme geographical opposite of Paris when drawing a straight line throughout the globe.Then, he went to this... Stéphane Calais L’herbier (petit Trianon) 2007 L'herbier (petit Trianon) consists of four "realistic" drawings of plants, screenprinted on transparent PVC. Relying on drawing as a study, this work resembles many sketchbook drawings of... Jason Dodge Above the Weather 2007 In Algeria, Djidjiga Meffre has woven a fabric with a string, a length equal to the distance from the earth to troposphere. Several works by Dodge, with the same title, follow this principle of... Rivane Neuenschwander Mapa Mundi BR (postal) 2007 Mapa-Mundi BR (postal) is a set of wooden shelves holding postcards that depict locations in Brazil named for foreign countries and cities. When installed, viewers are invited to fill out and mail... Joe Scanlan Travel Drawing 2007 Travel Drawing is a piece shown for the first time in his solo exhibition at the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne in 2007. It pays homage to the work of the famous conceptual... Ceal Floyer No Position Available 2007 NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist. The "billboard sign," like a ready-made, plays with... Nicolas Bacal Light Years 2008 Jonas Staal Art, Property of Politics III, Closes Architecture 2008, 2011 Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”. The paper, written by the second most important person of Geert Wilderds' Freedom Party,... Kitty Kraus Untitled 2008 This work emphasises Kitty Kraus's involvement with process, with alchemical transformations associated with Post-Minimalist aesthetics, Arte Povera, Joseph Beuys and Robert Smithson. The loss of... Pierre Leguillon Diane Arbus: A printed retrospective, 1960-1971 2008 End of 2008, Pierre Leguillon presented at Kadist Art Foundation the first retrospective of the works of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) organized in France since 1980, bringing together all the images... Nicoline van Harskamp Character Witness 2008, 2011 The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political... Pak Sheung Chuen New York Public Library Projects (NYPLP) 2008 Igor Grubic 366 Liberation Rituals 2008, 2009 Geoffrey Farmer Ongoing Time Stabbed with a Dagger 2009 Ongoing Time Stabbed with a Dagger was Farmer’s first kinetic sculpture that added a cinematic character to an “ever-reconfiguring play presented in real time.” The assembly of various... Pratchaya Phinthong What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed 2009 Phinthong provided 5,000 Euros to exchange for Zimbabwean dollars, the most devalued and worthless currency in the world. The ZWD has no legal status outside Zimbabwe. The exchange took place... Eko Nugroho Its Always Fun to Live in This Country 2009 Nugroho’s installations and performances have their roots in the shadow puppet rituals in Indonesia, particularly the Javanese Wayang tradition whose essence is in the representation of the... Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Salomania 2009 For several years now, artists Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been conducting research on the heritage of cultural and gender studies, concentrating primarily on gender discourses and the... Felix Gmelin Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009 Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body... Kennedy Browne Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil 2009 Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil is an installation based on 42 blank pages. On the first page, one can read the original version in English of the liberal speech... Igor Grubic 366 Liberation Rituals 2008, 2009 Matthew Darbyshire Untitled: Furniture Island No. 3 2009 In Kan’s four-channel video Island, a series of objects like nail clippers, hairbrush, toothpaste, and house decorations are shot in close-up. These highly polished and aestheticized... Szabolcs Kisspál Lifesize Draft (Utopia Battery) 2009 Lifesize Draft is the second of two sculptures on a similar theme, the... Gabriel Kuri Untitled (Ticket Roll) 2010 Gabriel Kuri has created a series of works in which he juxtaposes perennial and ephemeral materials. Untitled (Ticket Roll) belongs to this group of sculptures and consists of three... Marcelo Cidade Adição por subtração - 4 2010 Adição por subtração (2010) is an intervention into the white cube with both beautiful and intimidating results. The installation is a large rectangular frame created out of shards of... Zarouhie Abdalian Flutter 2010 The first iteration of Flutter was specifically conceived for the Pro Arts Gallery space in Oakland in 2010, and the version acquired by the Kadist Collection is an adaptation of it. The... Goldin+Senneby The Decapitation of Money 2010 In this installation, you are standing at the heart of a bicephalous space reflecting Goldin+Senneby's main research led during their residency in Paris. Here, two historical events from the late... Nicoline van Harskamp Character Witness 2008, 2011 The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political... Natasha Wheat Be Oblivion, in Disconnect 2011 Be Oblivion in Disconnect (2011) is a sculpture and an intervention. Two cardboard boxes house white neon letters that collectively have the potential to spell 'Be Oblivion.' The... Jonas Staal Art, Property of Politics III, Closes Architecture 2008, 2011 Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”. The paper, written by the second most important person of Geert Wilderds' Freedom Party,... Eric Baudelaire The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images. 2011 In a society saturated by images, Eric Baudelaire is interested in political events that have not found their representation. For the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako... Lydia Gifford Warder 2011 Lydia Gifford composes her work between pictorial expression and its inscription within an exhibition space. This particular approach implies the performative aspect of her in situ painting. The... YANG Zhenzhong Pleasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh - 3 2012 Dora Garcia Klau Mich 2012 KLAU MICH is a TV and performance project by Dora García with Ellen Blumenstein, Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, TheaterChaosium, and Offener Kanal Kassel, during the 100 days of dOCUMENTA (13). Ryan Gander Epiphany...learnt through hardship 2012 A bronze figurine of a young female ballerina resembling Degas' model kneeling on the floor in the same pose as the model in Edward Weston's photograph "Nude", 1936. 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Nicolas Bacal Light Years 2008 Rodney Graham Ponderosa Pine IV 1991 Ponderosa Pine IV belongs to a series of large-scale photographs of trees taken by Graham and depicts a particular species that live in Northern California. The photograph is framed upside down; these “inverted trees” follow Graham’s early... Christiane Baumgartner Formation I + II 2006 Baumgartner's own excursion into war imagery is the diptych Formation. She was watching a television documentary on the Second World War, was struck by the extraordinary nature of the colour film and decided to video it. The two frames she isolated... Clare Rojas Untitled (Bird and Eyes) 2008 Rojas’s two pieces in the Kadist Collection—Untitled (four-legged…) and Untitled (Bird’s Eyes)—are representative of her pictorial style which uses bold colorful blocks of paint and female and animal characters. While Untitled (Bird’s Eyes) does not... Sergio De La Torre Nuevo Dragon City 2008 Nuevo Dragon City is a reenactment of a historical event from 1927 in which six Chinese were either trapped or voluntarily hid themselves inside a building in northern Mexico. Working with this unsettled mystery, De La Torre’s video inquires into... Tony Labat I Want You 2008 Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and riffing on the “I Want You” army recruitment campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, Labat asked Bay Area residents to interpret the slogan and make their own demands of the public in a series of... Michael Craig-Martin Untitled (violet) 2005 Mladen Stilinovic Exploitation of the Dead 1985 The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of objects”, with images whose historical role has been suspended or... Michelle Handelman Dorian, a cinematic perfume 2009, 2012 Lin Yilin Safely Maneuvering Across Lin He Road 1995 For his action, Safely Maneuvering across Lin He Road, Lin built a brick wall on one side of a busy main street in the city of Guangzhou. He then took bricks from the sidewalk end of the wall and moved them to the street side, slowly extending the... Kristen Morgin Jeep Comics 2008 Jeep Comics is based on the second of only two issues published by RB Leffingwell and Company in 1944–45. Though largely unknown, their protagonists, Jeep and Peep, embody the ethos of “Golden Age” comic books in which magically empowered heroes... Kelley Walker Black Star Press 2004, 2005 The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series 'The Black Star Press project' initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo essay on the struggle for civil rights in Alabama, directed... Michael Landy H.2.N.Y Skeleton of the Dump 2007 H.2.N.Y Skeleton of the Dump revolves entirely around the performance "Homage to New York" (1960), of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), during which the machine built by the artist in the gardens of the Museum of Modern... Francis Alÿs The Nightwatch 2004 The Nightwatch, which is an ironic reference to the celebrated painting by Rembrandt, follows the course of a fox wandering among the celebrated collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The path of the fox, from galleries containing... Clemens von Wedemeyer Muster 2012 Clemens von Wedemeyer has imagined a trip back in time at Breitenau. Starting with events that happened there from 1933 to 1945, the German artist has composed three stories that reach the years of the women’s reformatory, in the 1970s, with a... Julius Koller Demonstrative Cultural Situation 1,2 (U.F.O.) 1989 Wordplay was a central focus of Koller’s work, in particular the acronym U.F.O, which he adapted in his diagrammatic drawings to stand variously for Univerzálna Futurologická Organizácia (Universal Futurological Organization, 1972–3), Univerzálny... Felix Gmelin Ambiguous Gestures 2004, 2009 Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body painting with a woman unknown to Felix Gmelin. The discovery of... Toby Ziegler The Fifth Quarter 2005 The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. Various vanishing points and interior perspectives, like in another painting dated the... Jeffry Mitchell Man and Pet 2012 In Man and Pet (2012), two benign ceramic figures smile sweetly upward. The man wraps his small companion in a hug, his arms extending in round arcs all the way to his feet. Though the characters’ expressions are strikingly similar— suggestive of... Shaun O'Dell Temple Creek, a branch of Escalante River, Aquarius Plateau Utah n.d. (Stereoscopic view) 2011
