Press Kit (August 30th/31st, 2012) - Goldmann Public Relations ...

NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights
Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels
01.09. – 10.12.2012
and works in Paris, France.
Esther Shalev-Gerz investigates the nature of democracy, citizenship,
cultural memory and spatial politics. Her works challenge the notion and
practice of portraiture and consider how its qualities may contribute to
contemporary discourse about the politics of representation. Her
installations, photography, video and public sculpture are developed
through active dialogue, consultation and negotiation with people and the
institutions they are affiliated with.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Der letzte Klick, Museum for Photography,
Brunswick (2010/1); Ton Image Me Regarde!?, Jeu de Paume, Paris
(2010); Still/Film, Galerija Akademija, Vilnius (2009); Sound Machine, Art
Museum and Holmbron Bridge, Norrköping (2008); Portraits of Stories, The
Public, West Bromwich (2008); Echoes in Memory, the Queen’s House,
London (2007/8). Recent group exhibitions include:
VANCOUVER/VANCOUVER, Gallery 1965, Vancouver (2011); The
Moderna Exhibition 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Fran plats
till plats, Skissernas Museum, Lund University, Lund (2009); Zur Tektonik
der Geschichte, ISCP, New York, and Motorenhalle, Dresden (2008/9);
Augenblicke, Kunstiftung Poll, Berlin (2008/9); Être présent au monde,
MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2007). www.shalev-gerz.net
TARYN SIMON was born in 1975 in New York, USA. She lives and works
in New York.
Taryn Simon’s works are the result of a long-term process of research and
investigation. Her photographs and writing underscore the invisible space
between language and the visual – a space in which translation and
disorientation continually occur. Stylistically, Taryn Simon works on the
borderline between fine art and documentary photography. Frequently
relying on text to avoid any ambiguities in content, she creates carefully
staged photographic tableaux that gain their force from the friction between
their visual perfection and the unsettling subject matter which revolves
around social and political issues and contested, marginalized or
suppressed narratives.
Recent solo exhibitions include: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other
Chapters, MoMA, New York, Tate Modern, London, and Neue
Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011/2); Taryn Simon, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee, Multimedia Art Musuem, Moscow, and Helsinki Art Museum,
Helsinki (2011/2); Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and
Unfamiliar, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Institute of
Modern Art, Brisbane, Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Museum für
Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York (2007/10). Recent group exhibitions include: Remote Control: Art, TV
and mass consumerism, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2012);
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