Mary Heilmann Hauser Wirth
#62 Winter 2020
In the roundtable in this issue, artist John Hill notes that if 2010 seemed like a time of abundance, 2019 feels like a time of scarcity. The 10s was a decade in which the bottom fell out of politics, and the art system lost its credibility. The wealthy got wealthier and disproved trickle-down economics. Communicating did not just mean talking with friends, it was also a way of creating new forms of community. A few people – artists, musicians, writers, activists, poets – gave us the tools we needed to survive. It’s time to look back, in neither anger nor judgement, at the decade on which we just shut the door. Peering through the peephole, we’ll likely see a few naked selfies, but we just might get a glimpse of ourselves.
View Tel Aviv
"7 Minutes in Heaven" at Ventilator by Arnon Ben-Dror
View Hong Kong
"Café do Brasil" at Para Site by Jaime Chu
View Irvine
Lutz Bacher at University Art Galleries at UC Irvine by Keith J. Varadi
View Los Angeles
Nayland Blake at the Institute of Contemporary Art by Ariella Wolens
Views New York
Armerican Artist at the Queens Museum by Harry Burke. Rachel Harrison at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art by Adina Glickstein. Andro Wekua at Gladstone Gallery by Jeppe Ugelvig
Views London
Lucy McKenzie at Cabinet by Alexander Scrimgeour. Honey-Suckle Company at the Intitute of Contemporary Arts by Alexandra Leake Germer
View Zurich and Bolzano
Peter Wächtler at Kunsthalle Zürich and Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano by Roxanne Hunter
View Hamburg
Oscar Murillo At Kunstverein in Hamburg by Dominikus Müller
Views Berlin
Carrie Mae Weems at Galerie Barbara Thumm by Geoffrey Mak. Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann at Schinkel Pavillon by Laurie Rojas
Views Vienna
"Alfred Schmeller: The Museum as a Source of Unrest" at mumok by Klaus Speidel. "Time is Thirsty" at Kunsthalle Wien by Victoria Dejaco. Anne Speier at Galerie Meyer Kainer by Maximilian Geymüller
