Hugo Boss Prize 2020

E' partita la nuova edizione del progetto Premio Hugo Boss che si realizza col Guggenheim di New York.

Ecci i sei artisti che sono stati selezionati per l'Hugo Boss Prize 2020, il premio biennale per risultati significativi nell'arte contemporanea.

 La breve lista è selezionata da una giuria di curatori e critici internazionali in riconoscimento di artisti il cui lavoro sta trasformando il campo. 

Fin dalla sua istituzione nel 1996, il premio ha costantemente funzionato come una piattaforma per l'arte più rilevante e influente del presente ed è diventato una pietra miliare della programmazione contemporanea del Guggenheim.

I seguenti artisti sono finalisti per il premio Hugo Boss Prize 2020:

Nairy Baghramian (n. 1971, Isfahan, Iran)

Kevin Beasley (nato nel 1985, Lynchburg, Va.)

Deana Lawson (n. 1979, Rochester, N.Y.)

Elias Sime (1968, Addis Abeba, Etiopia)

Cecilia Vicuña (1948, Santiago, Cile)

Adrián Villar Rojas (n. 1980, Rosario, Argentina).

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“On the occasion of the thirteenth Hugo Boss Prize, I’m delighted to announce the finalists for the 2020 cycle,” said Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and jury chair. “After a rigorous examination of today’s artistic landscape, the jury identified a group of artists whose practices are beacons of cultural impact. While diverse in their approaches and themes, they each exemplify the spirit of experimentation and innovation that the prize has always championed.”

“The Hugo Boss Prize is our most prestigious engagement in the field of arts,” said Mark Langer, CEO and Chairman of HUGO BOSS AG. “We are excited about this diverse and distinguished short list for 2020 and looking forward to the announcement of the winner next fall.”

The Hugo Boss Prize recognizes the achievements of both emerging and established artists, and sets no restrictions in terms of age, gender, nationality, or medium. The winner, who will receive a $100,000 honorarium, will be announced in the fall of 2020 and will present a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in spring 2021.

HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2020 SHORT LIST

Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971, Isfahan, Iran) lives and works in Berlin. In an oeuvre that probes the boundaries between the decorative, the utilitarian, and the art object, Baghramian has illuminated new possibilities for sculpture. The artist’s disarming biomorphic forms, made with a range of materials including steel, silicon, resin, and leather, elicit various unexpected art-historical and sociopolitical references, reimagining the workings of the body, gender, and public and private space.

Baghramian’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Privileged Points, Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2019), Breathing Spell (Un respire), Palacio de Cristal del Retiro, Madrid (2018); Déformation Professionnelle, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017); S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2016); Nairy Baghramian: Scruff of the Neck (Supplements), Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2016); Hand Me Down, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2015); Fluffing the Pillows, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. (2013), and Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2012); and Class Reunion, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012).

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Va.) lives and works in New York. Working at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and performance, Beasley constructs revelatory formal and sonic experiences. In works that embed found objects in substances such as resin, foam, and tar, or incorporate unconventionally manipulated audio equipment, he amplifies the cultural resonances of his materials to excavate personal and shared histories of class, race, and institutional power.

Beasley has presented and performed in solo exhibitions such as ASSEMBLY, The Kitchen, New York (2019); a view of a landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); Kevin Beasley, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); Movement V: Ballroom, CounterCurrent Festival, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston (2017); Hammer Projects: Kevin Beasley, Hammer Museum at Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2017); Rubbings, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia (2017); and inHarlem: Kevin Beasley, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016).

Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, N.Y.) lives and works in New York. Her large-format photographs channel vernacular, art-historical, and documentary traditions within the medium, in compositions that valorize black diasporic culture. Picturing individuals she encounters over the course of her everyday life within carefully staged domestic settings, Lawson choreographs every nuance of scenery, lighting, and pose to create tableaux that powerfully evoke the agency of her subjects.

Lawson’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions including Deana Lawson, Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam (2019); Deana Lawson: Planes, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Deana Lawson, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2018); Deana Lawson, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2017); Deana Lawson, The Art Institute of Chicago (2015); and Corporeal, Light Work, Syracuse, N.Y. (2009).

Elias Sime (b. 1968, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in Addis Ababa. Forged from salvaged e-waste, organic matter, and objects sourced from local markets, the artist’s absorbing collages and assemblages explore the relationship between society, nature, and technology. Sime’s repurposing of materials aligns with his long-standing practice of community engagement, in which he asserts the potential for human connection and ecological renewal.

Sime’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Elias Sime: Tightrope, Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, N.Y. (2019); Elias Sime, Zoma Museum, Addis Ababa (2019); Tightrope, GRIMM, Amsterdam (2018), and British Council, Goethe Institute, Italian Cultural Institute and Alliance Éthio-Française, Addis Ababa (2013); Eye of the Needle, Eye of the Heart, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (2012), and Santa Monica Museum of Art, Calif. (2009); and What Is Love?, Alliance Éthio-Française, Addis Ababa (2008).

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in New York and Santiago. Vicuña’s multivalent practice as an artist, poet, filmmaker, and activist spans five decades. Weaving together form, language, and ritual, her diverse body of what she terms arte precario (“precarious art”) elucidates obscured histories in Latin American culture as well as her personal experiences of displacement, tracing a return to the body and the earth, and to indigenous ways of being.

Vicuña has been featured in solo exhibitions such as Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2019); Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario | The Precarious, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2019); Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2019), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2018), and Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2017); Quipu desaparecido, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2018), and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2018); Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago (2014), and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago (2014); Les Immémoriales, 46 nord 6 est—Frac Lorraine, Metz, France (2013); Water Writing: Anthological Exhibition, 1966–2009, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (2009); DIS SOLVING: Threads of Water and Light, The Drawing Center, New York (2002); and Thread Mansion, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colo. (2002).

Adrián Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Rosario, Argentina) lives and works in Rosario and New York. The artist’s densely imagined, context-specific installations and environments negotiate new paradigms for the institutional presentation of works of art. Constructed from organic and synthetic substances that evolve or decay over the course of their exhibition, Rojas’s entropic forms summon a mutable world untethered from humanity’s past, present, and future.

Rojas has presented solo exhibitions including Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who is dreaming who?, Tank Shanghai (2019); The Theater of Disappearance, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2017), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2017), and NEON Foundation, Athens (2017); Fantasma, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2015); Rinascimento, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2015); Today We Reboot the Planet, Serpentine Gallery, London (2013); Films Before Revolution, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2013); Before My Birth, Arts Brookfield with the New Museum, New York (2012); and Poems for Earthlings, SAM ART Projects, Musée du Louvre, Paris (2011).

HUGO BOSS PRIZE JURY

The 2020 jury is chaired by Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The jurors are Naomi Beckwith, Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Julieta González, independent curator; Christopher Y. Lew, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Nat Trotman, Curator, Performance and Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

HISTORY OF THE PRIZE

Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to twelve influential contemporary artists: American artist Matthew Barney (1996); Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (1998); Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrč (2000); French artist Pierre Huyghe (2002); Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004); English artist Tacita Dean (2006); Palestinian artist Emily Jacir (2008); German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010); Danish artist Danh Vo (2012); American artist Paul Chan (2014); American artist Anicka Yi (2016); and American artist Simone Leigh (2018). The related exhibitions have constituted some of the most compelling presentations in the museum’s history.

Previous finalists include Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Stan Douglas, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Alÿs, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-A, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Rivane Neuenschwander, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong in 2004; Allora & Calzadilla, John Bock, Damián Ortega, Aïda Ruilova, and Tino Sehgal in 2006; Christoph Büchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Joachim Koester, and Roman Signer in 2008; Cao Fei, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2010; Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell in 2012; Sheela Gowda, Camille Henrot, Hassan Khan, and Charline von Heyl in 2014; Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, and Wael Shawky in 2016; and Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang in 2018.

To see a timeline and video on the first twenty years of the Hugo Boss Prize, as well as an overview of past prize catalogues, visit guggenheim.org/hugobossprize.

ABOUT HUGO BOSS AG

HUGO BOSS is one of the leading companies in the upper premium segment of the apparel market and focuses on the development and marketing of premium fashion and accessories for men and women. Since 1995 the company has provided critical support to many Guggenheim programs. In addition to the Hugo Boss Prize, the company has helped make possible retrospectives of the work of Matthew Barney (2003), Georg Baselitz (1995), Ross Bleckner (1995), Francesco Clemente (1999–2000), Ellsworth Kelly (1996–97), Robert Rauschenberg (1997–98), and James Rosenquist (2003–04); the presentation Art in America: Now (2007) in Shanghai; the Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2007) and Ed Ruscha (2005) exhibitions in the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; and the exhibition theanyspacewhatever (2008–09) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, HUGO BOSS was the lead sponsor of the Allora & Calzadilla exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion. Further information on the company and its extensive arts program can be found at group.hugoboss.com.

ABOUT THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international constellation of museums includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. In 2019 the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates 60 years as an architectural icon and “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet. The museum is among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the museum and the Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org.

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Hugo Boss Prize 2018

Torna una nuova edizione del Hugo Boss Prize realizzato in collaborazione con prestigioso Guggeneheim di New York, ecco gli artisti selezionati per la nuova edizione sono sei alquanto poco visti qui in Italia, per cui tutti da scoprire:

• Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca)
• Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago)
• Teresa Margolles (b. 1963, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico)
• Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Enugu, Nigeria)
• Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach, CA)
• Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester, MA)

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(NEW YORK, NY—December 13, 2017)—Six finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2018, the biennial award established in 1996 to recognize excellence in the visual arts, were announced today by Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and jury chair for the prize. The short list of artists is selected by a panel of international critics and curators based on each artist’s contribution to the expansion of cultural, intellectual, and artistic boundaries with no restrictions regarding age, gender, nationality, or medium. In addition to their significant aesthetic and conceptual contributions to the field of contemporary art, the finalists’ practices collectively reflect the rich diversity of artistic production today.

The following artists are finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2018:

• Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca)
• Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago)
• Teresa Margolles (b. 1963, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico)
• Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Enugu, Nigeria)
• Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach, CA)
• Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester, MA)

“The Hugo Boss Prize remains a cornerstone of the Guggenheim’s contemporary programming, and we are thrilled to highlight the work of these six deserving artists, who are working at the vanguard of contemporary art practice, exploring urgent social issues, and providing new artistic vocabulary through which to examine personal and universal themes,” said Nancy Spector. “We are pleased to join with Hugo Boss in this long-term commitment to celebrating the most important and impactful artists of their time.”

In a statement, the jury noted, “Each of the nominated artists selected for the Hugo Boss Prize 2018 short list represents a wholly unique voice in the field of contemporary art. Though their mediums and methods range widely, each pursues deeply existential inquiries into individual struggles as well as those with broader social resonances. Keenly attuned to their surroundings and today’s present moment, these six artists have demonstrated a commitment to bringing art to the center of timely debates in society.”

The prize, administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, includes a $100,000 cash prize for the winner, who will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Hugo Boss Prize 2018 winner will be announced in the fall of 2018, with the exhibition to follow in 2019.

“Building on the 20-year history of the Hugo Boss Prize, we are looking forward to celebrating its 2018 edition. The award is a very special and unique project in our arts program and we are extremely excited about this year’s short list,” said Mark Langer, CEO and Chairman of HUGO BOSS AG. “Our sincerest congratulations go out to the six nominees chosen by the jury.”

THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2018 SHORT LIST

Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca) lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Khalili’s works in film, video, and photography foreground individual narratives around topics such as migration, language, place, and belonging. Khalili often engages nonprofessional performers to portray either themselves or little-known historical figures in works that examine the legacies of colonialism, the permeability of borders, and the complexities of cross-cultural translation, locating issues of global impact in personal histories.

Solo exhibitions of Khalili’s work have been presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2015); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2013–14); Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin (2012); and Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil (2007). Her work has also been included in such group exhibitions as Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Marrakech Biennial (2016); Between Myth and Fright: The Mediterranean as Conflict, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (2016); Telling Tales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2016); Europe: The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich (2015); Here & Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); Venice Biennale (2013); Moscow Biennial (2013); Résonances, Marrakech Art Museum (2010); El Sur de Nuevo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009); and Too Much Freedom?, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2006).

Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) lives and works in Brooklyn. Encompassing sculpture, video, and socially engaged performance and programming, Leigh’s oeuvre extends from her research in the fields of ethnography, political history, feminism, and folklore. Her social-practice projects center black female subjectivity with a focus on community, healing, and self-care. The artist’s sculptures and installations, which often make symbolic reference to the black body, utilize vernacular materials associated with the African diaspora to address collective histories.

Leigh’s work has been presented in solo and two-person exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK (2016); Tate Exchange and Tate Modern, London (2016); New Museum, New York (2016); Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2014); and The Kitchen, New York (2012). Leigh’s work has also been included in such group exhibitions as Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, MO (2017); Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York (2017); Unconventional Clay: Engaged in Change, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (2016); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens (2015); Dakar Biennial, Senegal (2014); Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2013–14); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Grey Art Gallery, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2012–15); and The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York (2008).

Teresa Margolles (b. 1963, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. Margolles’s practice confronts issues of violence, death, and poverty in sculptures, installations, and actions that often incorporate visceral material residue, including bodily fluids, sourced from sites of bloodshed or trauma. The artist’s deceptively minimal objects belie the fraught corporeal reality of their materials and prompt viewers to consider the role that society and governments play in both condoning and ignoring pervasive violence and inequality.

Solo exhibitions of Margolles’s work have been held at such institutions as the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico (2017); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2016); Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2012); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2010); and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2004). Group exhibitions featuring Margolles’s work include Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2016); Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2014); América Latina, 1960-2013, Photographs, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2013); In The Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2013); Berlin Biennial (2012); No Lone Zone, Tate Modern, London (2012); and Venice Biennale (2009).

Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Enugu, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos and Berlin. Using sound as a sculptural medium, Ogboh’s transportive soundscape installations capture the culturally specific auditory environment of a particular city, emphasizing the importance of aural sensation in experiencing the world. Ogboh also transforms appropriated songs and compositions by rerecording them with new performers and presenting them in contexts that encourage a reconsideration of their meanings, often highlighting issues such as nationalism and xenophobia.

Ogboh’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (2016); Modern Art Museum, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2016); ifa-Galerie Berlin (2015); Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2015). Ogboh has also been featured in such group exhibitions as Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Skulptur Projekte 2017: Münster, Germany; Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2015); Disguise: Masks & Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum (2015); Venice Biennale (2015); Mikromusik: Festival Experimenteller musik und Sound art, Berlin (2014); The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston (2012); and Green Summary, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2010).

Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Stark’s interdisciplinary practice includes works in drawing, collage, painting, video, performance, and digital projects that collectively address the nuances of the human condition in all of its complexity and banality. Stark activates language and imagery to contemplate the rich interiority of the self, exploring subjects such as vulnerability, hubris, ambivalence, and satisfaction, among a multitude of others.

Stark has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015–16); Art Institute of Chicago (2015); Hayward Gallery, London (2014); MoMA PS1, Queens (2011); Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2010); and Portikus, Frankfurt (2008). Stark’s work has been featured in major group such exhibitions as the Venice Biennale (2017); The New Human, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2016); Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); Secret Surface: Where Meaning Materializes, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016); Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2015); In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2013); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); and Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (2007).

Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester, MA) lives and works in Los Angeles. With a focus on nightlife, club culture, and historically marginalized queer and transgender communities, Tsang’s work in film, video, and performance explores the narrative potential of the body in motion. Collaboration is central to Tsang’s mode of working, as exemplified in the live performances of Moved by the Motion, a collaboration between Tsang and the artist boychild, as well as in works Tsang creates in dialogue with poet and theorist Fred Moten.

Tsang has been the subject of solo exhibitions at FACT Centre, Liverpool (2017); Antennae Space, Shanghai (2017); 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles (2016); and Migros Museum, Zürich (2014). The artist’s work has been included in such group exhibitions as Spectrosynthesis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2017); Ten Days Six Nights, Tate Modern, London (2017); Bergen Assembly Triennial, Norway (2016); America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Discordant Harmony, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art (2015); Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Don’t You Know Who I Am?: Art After Identity Politics, MuHKA, Antwerp (2014); Blues for Smoke, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2012); and First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2012).

HUGO BOSS PRIZE JURY

The 2018 jury is chaired by Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The jurors are Dan Fox, writer, editor, AV Director, Frieze magazine; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Curator of Contemporary Art, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, and incoming Director, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Bisi Silva, Artistic Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Joan Young, Director, Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

HISTORY OF THE PRIZE

Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to eleven innovative and influential contemporary artists: American artist Matthew Barney (1996); Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (1998); Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrč (2000); French artist Pierre Huyghe (2002); Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004); English artist Tacita Dean (2006); Palestinian artist Emily Jacir (2008); German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010); Danish artist Danh Vo (2012); American artist Paul Chan (2014); and American artist Anicka Yi (2016). The related exhibitions have constituted some of the most compelling presentations in the museum’s history.

Previous finalists include Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Stan Douglas, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Alÿs, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-A, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Rivane Neuenschwander, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong in 2004; Allora & Calzadilla, John Bock, Damián Ortega, Aïda Ruilova, and Tino Sehgal in 2006; Christoph Büchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Joachim Koester, and Roman Signer in 2008; Cao Fei, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2010; Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell in 2012; Sheela Gowda, Camille Henrot, Hassan Khan, and Charline von Heyl in 2014; and Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, and Wael Shawky in 2016.

To see a time line and a video on the first twenty years of the Hugo Boss Prize, as well as an overview of past prize catalogues, visit guggenheim.org/hugobossprize.

ABOUT HUGO BOSS AG

Since 1995, HUGO BOSS has provided critical support to many Guggenheim programs. In addition to the Hugo Boss Prize, the company has helped make possible retrospectives of the work of Matthew Barney (2003), Georg Baselitz (1995), Ross Bleckner (1995), Francesco Clemente (1999–2000), Ellsworth Kelly (1996–97), Robert Rauschenberg (1997–98), and James Rosenquist (2003–04); the presentation Art in America: Now (2007) in Shanghai; the Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2007) and Ed Ruscha (2005) exhibitions in the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; and the exhibition theanyspacewhatever (2008–09) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, the fashion and lifestyle group HUGO BOSS was the lead sponsor of the Allora & Calzadilla exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion. For more information, visit group.hugoboss.com/en/group/sponsoring/art-sponsoring or hugoboss.com/us/magazine/arts.

ABOUT THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The Guggenheim constellation of museums that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has since expanded to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (opened 1997) and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (currently in development). The Guggenheim Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that celebrate contemporary art, architecture, and design within and beyond the walls of the museum, including the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. More information about the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation can be found at guggenheim.org.

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Anicka Yi Hugo Boss Prize 2016 al Guggeheim

Molto suggestivo il lavoro di Anicka Yi, vincitrice del Hugo Boss Prize 2016, in mostra al Guggeheim di New York, che opera con dei materiali speciali e delle culture di batteri, colonie antiche, il tutto immerso in un profumo personalizzato.

L'artista dice: "È molto importante per me conoscere il rapporto tra potere e cultura e percezione attraverso i sensi".

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In 2016 Anicka Yi was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize in recognition of the power and singularity of the experimental body of work she has produced over the past decade. Her installations, which draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, ask incisive questions about human psychology and the workings of society. Yi uses unconventional materials to examine what she calls “a biopolitics of the senses,” or how assumptions and anxieties related to gender, race, and class shape physical perception.

For this exhibition Yi worked with a team of molecular biologists and forensic chemists to create an installation in which natural and technological forces appear as surging, unruly forms that are nonetheless clinically contained. 

Visitors first pass through an entryway, or “holding pen,” where canisters emit a scent conceived by the artist. Yi has consistently sought to generate a sensory immersion that goes beyond visual experience, with an emphasis on smell and its potent link to memory and subjectivity. This aroma, titled Immigrant Caucus, combines chemical compounds derived from Asian American women and carpenter ants. Yi posits the scent as a drug that manipulates perception, offering humans the potential to experience the installation with a new, hybridized perspective.

The gallery’s central space features two opposing dioramas, each providing a view into a self-contained biosphere. 

The first is lined with tiles that hold a gelatinous substance called agar, on which the artist has cultivated various strains of bacteria sampled from sites within Manhattan’s Chinatown and Koreatown neighborhoods. This living composition also blooms across several sculptures, as if an invasive life force has overrun the environment. At the far end of the gallery, a second diorama houses a colony of ants—insects that interest Yi because of their intricate division of labor and matriarchal social structure, as well as the sophisticated olfactory system that guides their behavior. The ants navigate a network of pathways that are reflected infinitely across mirrored surfaces, evoking a massive data-processing unit in which their industrious movement embodies the flow of information. The colony is exposed to the same hybrid scent that fills the corridor leading into the gallery, creating the possibility of a shared psychic experience between ant and human.

The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap is organized by Katherine Brinson, Curator, Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,  and is made possible by HUGO BOSS. 

Premio Hugo Boss 2016

Il prossimo 20 Ottobre  HUGO BOSS e il Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum nomineranno il vincitore del Premio Hugo Boss 2016.

 I sei artisti selezionati dalla giuria internazionale sono: Tania Bruguera (Cuba), Mark Leckey (Inghilterra), Ralph limone (USA), Laura Owens (USA), Wael Shawky (Egitto) e Anicka Yi (Corea del Sud).

Si tratta di un premio di 100.000 dollari, è la possibilità di realizzare un lavoro presso il Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum di New York.

I precedenti vincitori era stati :

2014: Paul Chan

2012: Danh Vo

2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann

2008: Emily Jacir

2006: Tacita Dean

2004: Rirkit Tiravanija

2002: Pierre Huyghe

2000: Marjetica Potrč

1998: Douglas Gordon

1996: Matthew Barney

Danh Vo al Guggenheim di New York

Con un bel party si è inaugurato ieri, al Guggenheim di New York, la mostra di  Danh Vo (1975, Ba Ria, Vietnam) vincitore del premio biennale Hugo Boss Prize. 

Per l'occasione l'artista presente una sua grande installazione dal titolo  IMUUR 2, che è ispirato dal lavoro dell'artista Wong Martin (1946-1999), un pittore visionario della scena artistica di New York downtown degli anni '80 e '90. Di cui Vo utilizza parte della sua raccolta di oggetti recuperati nella casa di San Francisco per l'opera presentata. 

L'evento durerà fino al 27 Maggio.