A big exhibition dedicated to Barbara Kruger at The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago will be presenting Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., a major solo exhibition devoted to the work of renowned artist Barbara Kruger. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 19, 2021 through January 24, 2022, the exhibition will encompass four decades of the artist’s practice—the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Kruger’s work in twenty years. Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. is organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition will explore the full range of Kruger’s unparalleled practice, offering an unprecedented opportunity to reconsider the work of this groundbreaking artist whose influence and vital presence in our culture is now indelible, and whose voice remains resonant, courageous, and crucial.
Developed in close collaboration with the artist, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. encompasses the full breadth of the artist’s career, from her early and rarely seen paste-ups of the early 1980s, which reveal her analog process, to her digital productions of the last two decades. Most notably, the exhibition upends the conventions of the typical retrospective in which loaned works are assembled as static artifacts of various moments in an artist’s career, by also featuring new works that reevaluate and reanimate earlier works for the current moment.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a generously illustrated catalogue designed by Inventory Form & Content (IN-FO.CO) in partnership with Kruger, published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and distributed by DelMonico Books/Prestel. The catalogue will feature essays by exhibition curators from Chicago, New York, London, and Los Angeles, as well as reprinted texts specially selected by the artist.
Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. is co-organized by James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director, and Robyn Farrell, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. At LACMA, the exhibition will be presented from March 20, 2022 to July 17, 2022 and is organized by Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and Rebecca Morse, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will be on view July 18, 2022 to January 2, 2023 and is organized by Peter Eleey, former Chief Curator, MoMA PS1.
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