ExhibitionOctober 30, 2023
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Lot of People. MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 presents the first US survey and largest exhibition to date dedicated to Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961, Buenos Aires). The show traces four decades of Tiravanija’s career and features over 100 works, from early experimentations with installation, film, drawings, works on paper, ephemera, sculpture, and newly produced “demonstrations” of key participatory works.
The exhibition gathers rarely-seen early works from the late 1980s and 1990s, a period in which the artist was developing a post-studio practice and introducing biographical references to highlight his experiences as an immigrant with a palpable sense of “otherness” in a Western-centric art world. From the start of his practice, a critical material for Rirkrit Tiravanija has been the presence of “a lot of people”—a purposefully broad and expansive term that stands as an open invitation to everyone and anyone, present and future. Critical to the evolution of recent art in New York City and worldwide, Tiravanija’s interdisciplinary practice has been transnational in scope, engaging notions of cultural difference, interrogating the parameters of place, and negotiating how people can come together.
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE is organized by Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1, and Yasmil Raymond, Rector, Städelschule and Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, with Jody Graf and Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curators, MoMA PS1.
Central to the exhibition is a newly conceived presentation of five historical interactive pieces on a stage as a series of plays. Tiravanija describes the ongoing development of his works: “Like a good recipe, everyone knows what it is, what it tastes like and even how to make it again—perhaps even differently, following their own interpretation; or perhaps it would be a base for something completely different, a possibility.”
The following five plays unfold chronologically throughout the exhibition on Fridays and Saturdays:
1.untitled 1990 (pad thai), 1990
October 13 through November 11, 2023
2.untitled 1991/2008 (shall we dance), 1991/2008
November 17 through December 9, 2023
3.untitled 1992-1995 (free/still), 1992/1995/1997/1998/1999/2003/2007/2011–
December 15, 2023 through January 6, 2024
4.untitled 1994 (angst essen seele auf), 1994
January 12 through February 3, 2024
5.untitled 2011 (t-shirt, no t-shirt), 2011
February 9 through March 2, 2024
The exhibition gathers rarely-seen early works from the late 1980s and 1990s, a period in which the artist was developing a post-studio practice and introducing biographical references to highlight his experiences as an immigrant with a palpable sense of “otherness” in a Western-centric art world. From the start of his practice, a critical material for Rirkrit Tiravanija has been the presence of “a lot of people”—a purposefully broad and expansive term that stands as an open invitation to everyone and anyone, present and future. Critical to the evolution of recent art in New York City and worldwide, Tiravanija’s interdisciplinary practice has been transnational in scope, engaging notions of cultural difference, interrogating the parameters of place, and negotiating how people can come together.
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE is organized by Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1, and Yasmil Raymond, Rector, Städelschule and Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, with Jody Graf and Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curators, MoMA PS1.
Central to the exhibition is a newly conceived presentation of five historical interactive pieces on a stage as a series of plays. Tiravanija describes the ongoing development of his works: “Like a good recipe, everyone knows what it is, what it tastes like and even how to make it again—perhaps even differently, following their own interpretation; or perhaps it would be a base for something completely different, a possibility.”
The following five plays unfold chronologically throughout the exhibition on Fridays and Saturdays:
1.untitled 1990 (pad thai), 1990
October 13 through November 11, 2023
2.untitled 1991/2008 (shall we dance), 1991/2008
November 17 through December 9, 2023
3.untitled 1992-1995 (free/still), 1992/1995/1997/1998/1999/2003/2007/2011–
December 15, 2023 through January 6, 2024
4.untitled 1994 (angst essen seele auf), 1994
January 12 through February 3, 2024
5.untitled 2011 (t-shirt, no t-shirt), 2011
February 9 through March 2, 2024
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