Summary
- Artists Anicka Yi and Josh Kline open a new group exhibition Studio Visit at Hauser & Wirth in New York
- The show gathers work and early studio reflections from over two dozen international artists
- An exhibition and curatorial project, the works on view explore ideas of labor, technology, community and privacy
An artist’s studio is never just a physical workspace, but a psychological and conceptual site for identity, creation and economy. Artists and co-curators Anicka Yi and Josh Kline unpack the many studio’s many lives in a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York. Presented by the gallery and arts nonprofit Performance Space New York, the aptly-titled Studio Visit invites 27 artists to reflect on the innermost places and practices that made their career.
Dancing between the private and public, the show features work by American Artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Huma Bhabha, Cecily Brown, Farah Al Qasimi, Tschabalala Self, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Ambera Wellmann. Alongside presenting work, each artist was tasked to submit writing on their early studios, which were later, with AI, created into full-color “machine-generated memories,” as the gallery calls.
The curatorial project takes cues from Circular File, the art collective Yi and Kline formed with Jon Santos back in 2007 and 2010. Like Studio Visit, the group used experimental performance and television to probe into ideas of artistic labor, deepening an understanding of artist’s lives and lifestyles outside of the white cube.
By centering the communities that form through the process of artmaking, the exhibition urges us to consider the technologies and infrastructure that allow for dialogues between young artists, brought together by proximity and chance.
Studio Visit is now on view in New York through April 11. Read on for the full list of featured artists.
Exhibiting artists
American Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Huma Bhabha
Black Quantum Futurism
Cecily Brown
Nicole Eisenman
Jason Fox
Nikita Gale
Georgia Gardner Gray
Josh Kline
Ella Kruglyanskaya
Carolyn Lazard
Guadalupe Maravilla
Paul McCarthy
New Red Order
Monira Al Qadiri
Farah Al Qasimi
Jesús Hilario-Reyes
Alicia Riccio
Tschabalala Self
Avery Singer
Tavares Strachan
Sung Tieu
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Ambera Wellmann
Anicka Yi
