ISA GENZKEN

With a career spanning over five decades, Genzken has pursued a multidisciplinary practice that considers the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, media, technology, and subjectivity. Attuned to both the legacies of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the materials and forms of twenty-first-century global society, Genzken’s work viscerally interrogates the impact of an increasingly commodified and interconnected culture on our everyday lives. Shown at the gallery’s downtown location in Tribeca, VACATION will feature a selection of work spanning the late 1970s to the 2010s, including little-seen film, sculpture, and photography. The exhibition will present collaborations with artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans and Kai Althoff, as well as a focused selection of Genzken’s concrete forms from the 1980s that reference architecture and building fragments, and a grouping of her Weltempfänger (World Receiver) sculptures. VACATION will delve into Genzken’s proclamation that “the entire art system urgently needs a vacation,” offering a respite and moment of reflection.

This will be David Zwirner’s sixth exhibition of the artist’s work since 2004, and follows Isa Genzken: Sky Energy, which was shown at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in 2018. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented Isa Genzken: Retrospective, a major survey of her work, in 2013–2014.

On March 11, Galerie Buchholz will inaugurate its new New York gallery, located at 31 West 54th Street, with a solo exhibition of works by Isa Genzken.