2009 Exhibitions at the Guggenheim

Museumgoers have much to look forward to concerning next year's offerings at the Guggenheim, which was recently meticulously renovated. The museum just announced the following exhibitions:

THE THIRD MIND: AMERICAN ARTISTS CONTEMPLATE ASIA, 1860-1989
January 30-April 19, 2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 is an interpretative survey exhibition illuminating the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices of the late nineteenth century (ca. 1860-1900), early modern (ca. 1900-1945), postwar avant-garde (1945-1970), and contemporary periods (1970-1989). The exhibition features approximately 250 objects in array of media, including painting, works on paper, books and ephemera, sculptures, video art, installations, film, and a live performance program, representing the work of 108 artists. The Third Mind is a masterpiece show featuring works by canonical and lesser-known figures of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. The exhibition and related materials trace how the classical arts of India, China, and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist, and Zen Buddhist thought were known, reconstructed, and transformed by American cultural and intellectual forces. The project examines the history of the construction of Asia as an imaginary, the enduring aspirations to know and internalize Asian art and thought among American and Asian-born artists working in the U.S., and the geopolitical conditions that made America's engagement with Asia unique. The exhibition is organized by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Third Mind is made possible by a Chairman's Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Generous support is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Rosenkranz Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation. The Leadership Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008
February 6-April 15, 2009
The Guggenheim presents an exhibition of Emily Jacir, seventh winner of the Hugo Boss Prize, an award established in 1996 by Hugo Boss and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. A jury comprising an international panel of museum directors and curators selected Jacir from a group of six short-listed finalists including Swiss artists Christoph Büchel and Roman Signer, Americans Patty Chang and Sam Durant, and Danish artist Joachim Koester. The exhibition will feature selections from Jacir's work which spans a diverse range of mediums including photography, video, performance, and installation-based work-and addresses repressed historical narratives, resistance, political land divisions, movement (both forced and voluntary) and the logic of the archive. This exhibition is organized by Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: FROM WITHIN OUTWARD
May 15-August 23, 2009
Fifty years after the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic work, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have partnered to develop Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, an original exhibition which examines Wright's concepts of space and its impact upon the organization of modern life, highlighting the Guggenheim's famed spiral as a culmination of the continuous spatial experiences that defined Wright's 70-year career. The exhibition explores how Wright's forms, designed from within outward, showcase the positive effects that architecture can exert on the human psyche. Through the presentation of over eighty of Wright's projects, from privately commissioned homes to office, civic and government buildings to religious and performance spaces as well as unrealized urban megastructures, the exhibition elucidates his visionary projection of the modern lifestyle-initiating open, communal spaces and stimulating social exchange. It also examines his ability to organically unite people, buildings, and nature in physical and spiritual harmony. Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward will be presented through a range of media including over 200 original drawings, newly commissioned and historic models, one-to-one scale replicas, newly created video and digital renderings, photography, and ephemera such as correspondence and blueprints. The curatorial team includes Thomas Krens, Senior Advisor of International Affairs for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with Philip Allsopp, President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; Oskar Muñoz, Assistant Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; and Margo Stipe, Curator and Registrar of Collections of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.

KANDINSKY
September 18, 2009-January 10, 2010
No other artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim quite like Vasily Kandinsky-his history is closely entwined with the history of the museum and his work has been collected in-depth for the museum's permanent collection since its founding. Presented to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum, this full-scale retrospective of Kandinsky's oeuvre is the first in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim completed its trio of groundbreaking exhibitions on the artist's life and work in Munich, Russia, and Paris. This presentation of more than 100 paintings brings together works from the three partner institutions that own the greatest concentration of the artist's work in the world: the Guggenheim, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich-as well as significant loans from private and public holdings. Kandinsky offers a chronological survey of the artist's work through a selection of his most important canvases, including examples from his series of Improvisations, Impressions and Compositions, and presents a reexamination of the geographically and time-based periods traditionally applied to his work. The unprecedented collaborative efforts of the Guggenheim, Pompidou, and Lenbachhaus have brought together works that rarely travel and offer new contexts and comparisons for those works that have been apart. The exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

ANISH KAPOOR: MEMORY
October 9, 2009-March 21, 2010
With the inauguration of the Deutsche Guggenheim in 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank launched a unique and ambitious program of contemporary art commissions that has enabled the Guggenheim to act as a catalyst for artistic production. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the fourteenth commission project to be completed since the program's inception and is the Guggenheim Foundation's first collaboration with the artist. The commission will travel to New York after its Berlin debut, demonstrating Kapoor's ability to create a site-specific work that engages with two very different exhibition scenarios. Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, India. He has lived in London since the early 1970s and quickly rose to prominence in the 1980s. Best known for his explorations of "the void", and for his use of color and scale, he has redefined contemporary sculpture since then. Memory is a remarkable new work in industrial Cor-Ten steel that transforms the galleries through shifts in physical, mental, and architectural scale. Curated by Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

TINO SEHGAL
January-February 2010
London-born, Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal constructs "staged situations" that often defy the traditional contexts of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties that define lived experience rather than the material aspects of conventional artmaking. His unique practice has been informed by his studies in dance and political economics, yielding totally ephemeral works that consist entirely of the interactions between their participants, and are not documented visually. Organized as part of the Guggenheim's fiftieth anniversary celebrations, Tino Sehgal sets the artist's projects within the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, offering visitors a unique opportunity to engage with the architecture as a purely social space.

photo: Frank Lloyd Wright during construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959. Photograph © David Wheatley.

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