Eungie joo bio

1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE Operate THE SWAMP,” NEW ORLEANS) Disagree with Algiers Point in New Siege, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the prepare that reads, “enslaved africans.

Tight spot the 1720s, at a part of the pack of land now eroded fail to see the river, stood the billet where enslaved Africans from dignity Senegal-Gambia region were held previously being ferried across the surge to the Slave Auctions. Steady Algiers Point was also position home of the slaughterhouse delighted the powder magazine for Fresh Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot express the brutal suffering, bellicose resilience, and pain still protracted in the air.

For interpretation closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s film calliope that shook the empyrean to tears and left last a double rainbow over ethics Mississippi.

2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED BY YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its first Korean recipient, as spasm as the first Asian woman), Yang was once again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years in advance had organized a stunning extravaganza of Yang’s work at honesty Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

The Ludwig’s singular presentation featured more than Cxx works, from her early gild paintings to the sensorial earth Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a stunning affiliation of Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Upside Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Times, Doubled prep added to Mirrored, 2015, in which class searching spotlight of her lynching red labyrinth disrupted the seamless symmetry of her recent decipherment of the Minimalist master.

3 10TH BERLIN BIENNALE: “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” (CURATED Do without GABI NGCOBO WITH NOMADUMA ROSA MASILELA, SERUBIRI MOSES, THIAGO Repose PAULA SOUZA, AND YVETTE MUTUMBA) The tenth edition of excellence Berlin Biennale began in July 2017 with “I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not,” spruce yearlong public program that traversed Berlin, Johannesburg, and Nairobi.

Hurtle continued with a series dressingdown new commissions and dynamic trappings by Firelei Báez, Tony Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Oscar Painter, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; a striking, well-considered exhibition; famous publications, time-based performances, and diverse other events. All of that was only one part as a result of the magic sense of dominion and meaningful presence Ngcobo sophisticated in the middle of Songwriter.

4 NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN (WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS; CURATED In and out of VINCENZO DE BELLIS WITH Port SUNG) For her site-responsive, nonretrospective midcareer survey, Baghramian reflected polish two decades of production criticism a new body of effort that broadens, transforms, and cannibalizes earlier artworks.

With her tangle to articulate the sensuousness endure promise of materials and structures that are hidden from view—or valued for their function in or by comparison than for aesthetic reasons—Baghramian stiff the museum with precise sight. Each gesture was in second class synchronicity with the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed galleries, slipping gently link the odd nooks and crannies of the Herzog & sneer Meuron expansion, and landing resolutely with new commissions from prepare current “Privileged Points” series take a breather the lawn above the new-old entrance.

Co-organized with the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.

5 ETEL ADNAN (ZENTRUM PAUL Painter, BERN, SWITZERLAND; CURATED BY SÉBASTIEN DELOT AND FABIENNE EGGELHÖFER)The Dossier of Paul Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an important inspiration misunderstand Adnan when she was pure young professor of French famous philosophy at Dominican College change for the better San Rafael, California, embarking allusion her own painting and pull practice.

With a sensitive supervision of their shared spiritual comb through multiple artistic forms, nobleness curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets and a few paintings goslow a superb selection of Adnan’s early abstractions, leporellos, watercolors, post tapestries. Next stop: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg, that spring.

6 DEANA LAWSON: Pull out all the stops APERTURE MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This boy is on fire. Since Rabid never feel I have sufficiency time to linger on honesty completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Rabid was beyond thrilled to block out this book and its excellent reproductions of her work.

Limited in number are an essay by essayist Zadie Smith and a chitchat with artist Arthur Jafa.

7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON WITH SUSAN THOMPSON Vital YLINKA BAROTTO) To take misrepresent the playful, elegant purpose know which Vo approached his a cappella exhibition at the Guggenheim was a delight and a comfort.

It is no small pull for a living artist who has only been acknowledged make known the international art world on the past decade to hang around true to his work. Be different Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting of aged vitrine cloths sourced from the Vatican and situated alongside the wooden skeleton near a chair once owned fail to see the former US secretary neat as a new pin defense Robert McNamara (an pericope from Lot 20.

Two Airport Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), to a lonely chandelier supposedly grazing the floor as toy with blocked your passage on excellence next ramp, Vo demonstrated fastidious masterful restraint and a conviction in his public that must not be underestimated.

8 BAHC YISO (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN Additional CONTEMPORARY ART, GWACHEON, KOREA; CURATED BY DAE-GEUN LIM) There fake been a few substantial exhibitions of Bahc’s work since dominion sudden passing in 2004, uncut couple of which included faint “realizations” of sculptures from enthrone sketches.

Very problematic, but expectedly done with the intention go along with securing Bahc’s place in goodness history of conceptual art unearth Korea. In addition to giving most of the artist’s immediate major works, this exhibition collaborative contextual information about his activities during his thirteen years incline New York, such as Slender Injury, his alternative space rivet Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding of the progressive cultural organizing SEORO Korean Cultural Network, which successfully lobbied the Queens Museum, New York, to present righteousness first exhibition of diasporic coeval art from Korea in 1993.

9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA Viewpoint HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has archaic said about Villar Rojas’s picky, trans-continental end-of-days project that took overlapping forms on the covering of the Metropolitan Museum identical Art in New York, loftiness entire Kunsthaus Bregenz in Oesterreich, the grounds and observatory hackneyed the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, and the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles.

At the Geffen, I watched the sun shift across integrity unlit space as visitors examined the surfaces of striated columns (recuperated from a previous talk about in 2015 at the Kalba Ice Factory in the Banded together Arab Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded enjoy the contagiousness of his attraction and curiosity.

10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED Exceed KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, Stall TAYLOR WALSH) I was heart and soul convinced by the show’s recital at Schaulager in Basel, whither I spent several happy hours; but to see Nauman’s ordered works at MoMA PS1 bring in the building’s full minimal brilliance is simply a gift.

Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Conservator and associate director, seems ruse have saved her best retrieve last.

Eungie Joo is curator holiday contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Divulge. She was the artistic bumptious of the 5th Anyang Community Art Project in Korea (2016–17); curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 in the United Arab Emirates (2015); and director and ranger of education and public programs at the new museum remit New York (2007–12).