Visual Language: The Art of Protest
Group Exhibition
Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
Through March 25, 2023

Subliminal Projects is pleased to present, Visual Language: The Art of Protest, a group exhibition and survey of the symbiotic relationship between art and activism. Visual Language is an ongoing project curated in collaboration with Coates & Scarry, that aims to investigate and spark dialogue about how art acts as a vehicle of communication.

The House of Dust
Group Exhibition
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMC), Saint-Etienne
Through April 10, 2023

Echoing its programming, attentive to women artists, the MAMC+ proposes a new hanging from its collections that strives to improve the visibility of women’s creation, which represents only about 4% of its 20 000 artworks.

Protest gestalten: Symbole, Gesten, Signale
Group Exhibition
Museum Ulm
Through April 16, 2023

On the occasion of this year’s centenary of the birth of Otl Aicher (1922-1991), one of the most influential communication designers of the 20th century, the Museum Ulm is presenting an exhibition project in both public and museum spaces that focuses on the visual design of resistance and protest in international contemporary culture.

Broken Music Vol. 2.
70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Group Exhibition
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Through May 15, 2023

In 1989, a travelling exhibition started in West Berlin, which had its finger on the pulse of the time. The person behind it: Ursula Block, owner of ‘gelbe MUSIK’ (1981 – 2014), a small yet world-famous record store in Berlin-Wilmersdorf: everyone visiting the city would drop by, including influential artists and musicians such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth and Björk. It was the golden age of records, and Block’s exhibition Broken Music. Artists’ Recordworks was enthusiastically received by an interested audience. Since then, the vinyl record has been regarded as a key medium for the multifaceted exchange of art and music.

Following this influential exhibition, Broken Music Vol. 2 looks at artists' engagement with the vinyl record over the past seven decades. The exhibition presents 700 records, arranged in ten chaptersas well as sound works from the National Gallery's extensive collection.

With works and records from various artists, including Hanne Darboven, Barbara Kruger and Anne Imhof.

Phraseology
Group Exhibition
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
Through June 11, 2023

The Bass announces the opening of Phraseology, a new exhibition that explores language in modern and contemporary art.
The term “phraseology” references the specific choice of words that a communicator, in this case the artist, uses to highlight certain topics. With the rise of the Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s, many artists began to create art that valued an idea or concept over the finished work. Artists wanted to redefine what art could be and the topics it addressed beyond visual aesthetics. In Phraseology artists merge form and idea by creating works that contain text, familiar phrases and poetry.

Reaching for the Stars. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection
Group Exhibition
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Through June 18, 2023

The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo are coming together to celebrate some of the luminaries of contemporary art in the exhibition Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye. Over 70 works by leading Italian and international contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Lara Favaretto, William Kentridge, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sarah Lucas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye celebrating the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection’s 30th anniversary, one of the world’s most celebrated and prestigious collections of contemporary art.

Day Jobs
Group Exhibition
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Through July 23, 2023

One of the typical measures of success for artists is the ability to quit their day jobs and focus full time on making art. Yet these roles are not always an impediment to an artist’s career. This exhibition, which includes the work of Richard Artschwager, Gretchen Bender, Barbara Kruger and Frank Stella, among many others, illuminates how day jobs can spur creative growth by providing artists with unexpected new materials and methods, working knowledge of a specific industry that becomes an area of artistic interest or critique, or a predictable structure that opens space for unpredictable ideas.

Language in Times of Miscommunication
Group Exhibition
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Through August 27, 2023

Language in Times of Miscommunication presents artworks by nineteen American artists that incorporate various forms of language (poetry, speculative fiction, and slang), modes of communication (propaganda, protest, social media, and advertising), and research (archives, political documents, and the news). The assembled works form a timely exchange about the slippery relationship between opinion, fact, and fiction in order to address the socio-political ramifications of divisive language and alternative narratives that have unraveled society since 2016—a year that marked a shift in recognizing the fallibility of communication in the United States. The exhibition and artworks do not ignore the polemical and rarely posit either fact or truth; rather they attempt to incite a critical and expansive discourse about the complexities of social reality in times of rampant miscommunication.

The F*word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design
Group Exhibition
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Through September 17, 2023

In the exhibition The F* word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the activist group Guerrilla Girl's posters will form the starting point for a group show encompassing some 400 works dating from 1870 to the present day.

Long Story Short
Group Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles
Through December 10, 2023

This exhibition demonstrates the myriad ways contemporary artists have addressed aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns in the last fifty years, whether by reclaiming public space in guerilla-style street performances, innovating new forms, commemorating loves and losses, challenging the hierarchy of art and craft, or rethinking the conventions of portraiture. By exhibiting artworks that are widely regarded as hallmarks of the museum’s collection, alongside lesser-known pieces, recent acquisitions, and artworks that have never previously been on view at MOCA, Long Story Short reminds us that art history, and history more broadly, is made in the present.

Barbara Kruger
ART WALL 13 – Barbara Kruger
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Through January 21, 2024

For more than 40 years, Barbara Kruger has been a consistent, critical observer of contemporary culture. In the early 1980s, Kruger perfected a signature style of words and images extracted from mass media and recomposed into memorable, graphic artworks. Rigorously composed, her works have occupied a range of media and spaces, including walls, billboards, video projections, and an array of consumer products. Since the 1990s, Kruger has also created large-scale installations of her text-based art, transforming lobbies, elevators, and buildings with her signature aesthetic and pointed content. Continuing in this vein, Kruger will create a brand-new work for the ICA that speaks, as her work has done for more than four decades, to contemporary social and political dynamics.

Barbara Kruger
March 19–July 16, 2022
Los Angeles

Timed with her major survey exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, traveling from the Art Institute of Chicago and opening in March 2022, the Los Angeles gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent and historical works by Barbara Kruger.

Based in Los Angeles and New York, and celebrated internationally for her powerful, gut-wrenching words and images, Kruger continues to use strategies borrowed from mass media to call into question values and belief systems long engrained within contemporary culture. 

Barbara Kruger
Questions
November 12, 2020–February 26, 2021

The online exhibition Questions surveys some of Kruger’s most important text-based, large-scale installations in the US and across the world. Starting with Untitled (Who?) (2020), her most recent work installed on the facade of the Los Angeles gallery until January 15, 2021.

Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Who?)
October 15, 2020–February 26, 2021
Los Angeles

Untitled (Who?) (2020), a new work by Barbara Kruger, installed on the facade of the Los Angeles gallery. This work extends a long and celebrated history of public projects by Kruger across the world, including many in Los Angeles, that pose direct and pressing questions to viewers.

Eau de Cologne
Marlene Dumas, Jenny Holzer, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker
March 27–April 12, 2019
Hong Kong

Barbara Kruger
FOREVER
September 16, 2017–January 20, 2018
Berlin

Sprüth Magers presents FOREVER, a new site-specific work by Barbara Kruger. For this installation, which occupies all four walls and the floor of the Berlin gallery’s main exhibition space, the artist has created one of her immersive room-wraps and several new vinyl works. Their boldly designed textual statements on the nature of truth, power, belief and doubt embody the distinctive visual language that Kruger has developed over the course of her forty-year career.

Eau de Cologne
Rosemarie Trockel, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jenny Holzer / Lady Pink
June 28–August 20, 2016
Los Angeles

The group show Eau de Cologne at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles features work from the late 1970s to 2016 by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. The exhibition at Sprüth Magers’ recently-opened Los Angeles gallery is a follow–up to its predecessor in Berlin last year. It sheds light on key topics in these artists’ works, but also the specific history of the gallery and its connection to these important female figures of an art that subtly addresses women’s roles in very different ways.

Eau de Cologne
Rosemarie Trockel, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler
September 17–October 21, 2015
Berlin

This group exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin shows works from the early 1980s to 2015 by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. These five artists have been working with Monika Sprüth since the foundation of her gallery in Cologne in the early 1980s and have been closely connected to the gallery ever since.

Barbara Kruger
The Globe Shrinks
April 21–May 21, 2011
London

This solo exhibition by American artist Barbara Kruger will feature a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks, 2010, that continues the artist’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the duet of images and text and the resonance of direct address.

Barbara Kruger
September 3–October 23, 2010
Berlin

The first solo exhibition in Berlin by American artist Barbara Kruger features a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks (2010) that continues the artist’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the duet of images and text and the resonance of direct address.

Barbara Kruger
Paste Up
November 21, 2009–January 23, 2010
London

Paste Up presents a survey of early work by acclaimed American artist Barbara Kruger. Using contrasting layers of text and image, Kruger’s work has for almost three decades probed the nature of a media-saturated society in late capitalism, and the significance of highly evolved cultures of consumerism and mass politics to the experience and making of social identities.

Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles
Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Patterson Beckwith, Lecia Dole-Recio, Jack Goldstein, Richard Hawkins, Patrick Hill, Sister Corita Kent, Norman M. Klein, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, John McCracken, Matthew Monahan, Lari Pittman, Sterling Ruby, Allen Ruppersberg, Lara Schnitger, Kim Schoenstadt, Paul Sietsema, Catherine Sullivan, Robert Therrien, Pae White
curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen
September 14–November 3, 2007
Munich

Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles is a thematic exhibition comprising the creative production of contemporary artists, writers, and filmmakers living and working in Los Angeles. In light of Umberto Eco’s and Jean Baudrillard’s notion of hyperreality, the exhibition perceives Los Angeles as just such a place—with unclear boundaries separating reality and the imaginary.

Barbara Kruger
September 10–October 30, 2004
Munich

In her solo exhibition Barbara Kruger shows the film installation TWELVE, in which the viewer becomes an observer and involuntary participant in twelve conversations.

Barbara Kruger
May 29–July 31, 2003
London

In an installation layering expansive wall images and large scale digital color photography, Kruger continues to visualize the possibilities, powers, and consequences that construct and contain us.

Barbara Kruger
March 23–April 26, 1990
Cologne

Barbara Kruger
April 30–June 2, 1987
Cologne

Eau de Cologne
Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
November 15–December 12, 1985
Cologne