“…her work accumulates with an insistent force and momentum that will keep you alert…”
—The New York Times
Discover the radically inventive work of Isa Genzken in her first major U.S. retrospective, featuring nearly 150 objects and spanning more than 40 years. From monolithic concrete sculptures to assemblage works with spray-painted parts and blinking lights to astronaut suits floating above the galleries, Genzken’s art is curious, bold, and spectacularly unconventional.
Published in tandem with her first major career survey in the United States, Isa Genzken: Retrospective is the most comprehensive chronicle to date of the artist’s influential work.
This screening series of Isa Genzken’s films, including a recent feature-length venture, offers a cinematic companion to the artist’s diverse and experimental sculptural oeuvre.
Watch a MoMA-produced video featuring artists and friends—including Daniel Buchholz, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Elizabeth Peyton, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Lawrence Weiner—discussing Genzken and her work.
This exhibition is organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art (until January 31, 2013), and Laura Hoptman, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art; Michael Darling, the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Jeffrey Grove, the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art; with Stephanie Weber, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition is made possible by Céline.
Major support is provided by The Modern Women’s Fund, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Lonti Ebers.
Additional funding is provided by the MoMA Annual Exhibition Fund.
