Exhibitionism

Concurrently with Keith Edmier 1991-2007, the CCS Bard presents, Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. This new installation of the Hessel Collection, curated by White Columns director Matthew Higgs, presents a series of exhibitions in each of the 16 galleries in the newly inaugurated Hessel Museum.

Exhibitionism’s 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) Jonathan Borofsky; (2) Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs including Warhol’s portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) Art as Idea, with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) Rupture, with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn, including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn’s intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) For Holly, including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker--acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) Inside -- Outside, juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the pictu re windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) Lexicon, with works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) Real Life, examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) Image is a Burden, presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) Mirror Objects, including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) 1982, including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close--chronological--proximity to one another; (13) Monitor, with 5 single-channel video works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) Cindy Sherman, includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) Silence, with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art’s persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of “silence”; and (16) Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

Matthew Higgs is an artist, curator, and writer. He is currently the director and chief curator of White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. Over the past 15 years he has organized more than150 exhibitions and projects in North America and Europe. A regular contributor to Artforum magazine, Higgs has contributed to recent publications for artists Kay Rosen, Ken Price, John McCracken, Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Marilyn Minter, Elizabeth Peyton, and Peter Doig, among others. Recent exhibitions of his own work include solo exhibitions at Murray Guy, New York, and Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles.

Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Kurator: Matthew Higgs

Künstler: Jonathan Borofsky; Andy Warhol, Matthew Higgs, Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, Allan McCollum, John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, Karlheinz Weinberger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Judy Linn, Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, Joe Zucker, Scott Burton, Günther Förg, Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, Allen Ruppersberg, Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Rob Pruitt & Walter Early, Lawrence Weiner, Rita Ackermann, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicola Tyson, Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, Jorge Pardo, Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, Cindy Sherman,Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, Aida Ruilova, Cindy Sherman, Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, Lorna Simpson, Dan Flavin, Felix Gonzales-Torres ...