The Renaissance Society is very excited to announce Solveig Øvstebø as the first new Executive Director in nearly 40 years. Øvstebø is currently the director of Bergen Kunsthall in her native Norway. She is expected to start at The Renaissance Society in June 2013 and we can’t wait to welcome her to Chicago.
Over the next couple months we will be posting highlights from exhibitions curated and organized by Solveig in Norway.
Christopher Williams, 1964 Renault Dauphine-Four (2000). This photograph was included in the 2001 group exhibition Detourism curated by Hamza Walker. Williams will have a solo exhibition at Kabinett fuer aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven opening November 18, 2012.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Chicago Studies: Les Étants Donnés, Installation View (2003). Tuerlinckx currently has a solo exhibition, WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS?, on view at Wiels in Brussels through January 6, 2013.
Keith Rowe, tabletop electric guitar at The Renaissance Society, 10/13/2012. Co-sponsored by LAMPO.
Keith Rowe will be performing at The Renaissance Society on Saturday, October 13th at 8pm.
Our first student event of the 2012-2013 season. Students can sign up for a FREE student membership at www.tinyurl.com/studentmember.
Danh Vo
Untitled (The Collection of Leonard Lyons Letters from Henry Kissinger), detail
14 letters from Henry Kissinger to Leonard Lyons, 2008
Courtesy of Heinz Peter Hager, Bolzano Italy
Danh Vo will be exhibiting this collection of 14 letters sent between Henry Kissinger and New York columnist Leonard Lyons in his upcoming exhibition, Uterus, opening September 23rd from 4-7pm.
Thank you to everyone that reblogged and liked our Benefit Art Auction Item posts. Now back to our regularly scheduled posts on exhibitions, exhibited artists in the news, and upcoming events at The Renaissance Society. Our season opens on September 23 with a solo exhibition by Vietnamese-born, Berlin-based conceptual artist Danh Vo. Earlier this week, our team began installing his project “We the People” around the University of Chicago campus.
AUCTION ITEM - Sophie Von Hellermann
Little Ship, 2011
acrylic on canvas
34 x 43 in
Courtesy of Vilma Gold, London and Greene Naftali, New York
For a complete list of the items available in this year’s benefit art auction, visit the online auction preview here.
AUCTION ITEM - Janaina Tschäpe
For a complete list of the items available in our art auction this year, visit the Auction Preview online here. Now accepting advanced bids.
