Sentences with phrase «biennial exhibition designed»

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon visits the first exhibition of designs submitted to the biennial LAGI design competition.

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, CA (2009).

It also departs from the biennial's value system as rooted in the empire building world's fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries — many call London's Great Exhibition of 1951 held in a dramatic crystal palace the «first» biennial — designed to give viewers a deeply overwhelming «great mass and jumble of things» (commodities, mostly) as «a challenge to make sense of... unimaginable diversity; to find or invert a «perspective» on the whole so that objects could be made to «stay and lie orderly.»

Select group exhibitions featuring his work include Foreign Gods: Fascination Africa and Oceania, Leopold Museum, Vienna (2016); But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2015); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited, The Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2014 - 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); Performing Histories, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2011); and multiple biennial exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2011); Lyon Biennial (2005); dOCUMENTA, Kassel, Germany (2012); and Marrakech Biennial (2014 and 2016).

Heavy Metal: Women to Watch is NMWA's fifth biennial exhibition in the series designed to increase the visibility of, and critical response to, women artists who deserve greater national and international attention.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon visits the first exhibition of designs submitted to the biennial LAGI design competition.