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.
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Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, Barbara Kruger began her career as an editorial designer, followed by a picture editor at Condé Nast Publications. She started making art in the early 1970s and gradually developed her unmistakable and unique formal language using a powerful combination of image and text.
Since the mid 1990s, Barbara Kruger has diversified her practice and embraced a series of aesthetic expansions which includes working with film and audio installations. This progression into large-scale immersive installations is fuelled by the artist’s longstanding interest in architecture and desire to address the viewer directly within whole environments.
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 3–October 23, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Barbara Kruger
The Globe Shrinks, 2010
4-screen video installation
13 min
Das große Du
Texte zur Kunst, review by Susanne von Falkenhausen, December, 2010
„Zweifel ist etwas Gutes“
Welt am Sonntag, interview by Tim Ackermann, September 12, 2010
Barbara Kruger
Zitty, review by Matthias Reichelt, September 23–October 6, 2010
