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Barbara Kruger

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b. 1945, USA

Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, Barbara Kruger began her career as an editorial designer, followed by a picture editor at Condè Nast Publications. She started making art in the early 1970s and gradually developed her unmistakable and unique formal language using a powerful combination of image and text.

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Since the mid 1990s, Barbara Kruger has diversified her practice and embraced a series of aesthetic expansions which includes working with film and audio installations. This progression into large-scale immersive installations is fuelled by the artist’s longstanding interest in architecture and desire to address the viewer directly within whole environments.

Barbara Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She was awarded The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Solo shows include the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1983, Kunsthalle Basel, 1984, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, 1985, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1986, the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1994, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000, and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2010-2011. Group shows include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1987, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1988, Tate Liverpool, 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2004, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2006, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007. Upcoming group shows include That’s the Way We Do It: The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation at the Kunsthaus Bregenz from April 16 to July 3, 2011.

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Current Exhibition | Los Angeles
19 March–16 July 2022
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Exhibition view: Barbara Kruger, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (19 March–16 July 2022). Courtesy Sprüth Magers. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
Exhibition view: Barbara Kruger, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (19 March–16 July 2022). Courtesy Sprüth Magers. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.

Current & Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA Open Now 19 March–16 July 2022 Barbara Kruger Los Angeles
Contemporary art exhibition, Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Who?) at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA Closed 15 October 2020–26 February 2021 Barbara Kruger Untitled (Who?) Los Angeles
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Eau de Cologne at HART Hall, H Queen's, G/F, 80 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong, Berlin, Germany Closed 26 March–12 April 2019 Group Exhibition Eau de Cologne Berlin
Contemporary art exhibition, Barbara Kruger, FOREVER at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Closed 16 September 2017–20 January 2018 Barbara Kruger FOREVER Berlin

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Untitled (Are there animals in heaven?) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork photography
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Are there animals in heaven?), 2011 Archival pigment print
81.3 x 127 cm
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Untitled (It's new, it's you) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork photography
Barbara Kruger Untitled (It's new, it's you), 2014 Archival pigment print
121.9 x 139.7 cm
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Untitled (Your life is a perpetual insomnia) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork photography
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Your life is a perpetual insomnia), 1984 Gelatin silver print
182 x 117 cm
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Untitled (Is there a perfect mate for everyone?) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork print
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Is there a perfect mate for everyone?), 2011 Archival pigment print
81.3 x 127 cm
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Untitled (Your devotion has the look of a lunatic sport) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork photography
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Your devotion has the look of a lunatic sport), 1982 Gelatin silver print
180.3 x 124.5 cm
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Untitled (We will no longer be seen and not heard) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork print
Barbara Kruger Untitled (We will no longer be seen and not heard), 1985 9 prints, photo-offset lithograph and screenprint
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Untitled (You will never wake up from this beautiful dream) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork photography
Barbara Kruger Untitled (You will never wake up from this beautiful dream), 2006 C-print, Diasec mounted on aluminium
122.4 x 152.4 cm
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Untitled (Stripe 2) by Barbara Kruger contemporary artwork print
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Stripe 2), 2019 Digital print on vinyl
243.8 x 197.5 cm
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Performa 2021 Will Broadcast Free From Empty Retail Store Ocula News Performa 2021 Will Broadcast Free From Empty Retail Store New York, 8 October 2021

The biennial devoted to performance art begins with the second annual Performa Telethon on 12 October.

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Kiaf Seoul Marks 20th Anniversary with an International Outlook Ocula Insight Kiaf Seoul Marks 20th Anniversary with an International Outlook By Sherry Paik, Seoul

As Seoul cements itself as one of the world's most attractive art hubs, Kiaf Seoul celebrates its 20th anniversary edition.

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Art World Remembers ‘Complex’ L.A. Art Patron Eli Broad Ocula News Art World Remembers ‘Complex’ L.A. Art Patron Eli Broad Los Angeles, 4 May 2021

Broad helped found MOCA Los Angeles in 1979 and opened The Broad across the street in 2015.

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Performa Unearths the Telethon for 2020 Gala Ocula News Performa Unearths the Telethon for 2020 Gala New York, 10 November 2020

The homage to obsolete TV formats will also allow viewers to shop Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger from their sofas.

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Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, and Charles Atlas Dissect Modernity Related Press Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, and Charles Atlas Dissect Modernity 7 May 2018, Hyperallergic

LOS ANGELES — Art is humanity's attempt to articulate life's intangible experiences. That idea is reflected in the title of Unspeakable, a new exhibition at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Museum director An

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Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art Related Press Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art 27 May 2017, Hyperallergic

Like the Baltimore Museum of Art's books, Louise B. Wheatley's textiles and Pendelton's mixed-media ventures pack a punch (actually, hers is more of a lingering touch). With her, you don't see it comi

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Barbara Kruger: back to the futura Related Press Barbara Kruger: back to the futura 12 October 2016, Dazed Digital

Barbara Kruger’s art hits you like a punch to the jaw. You’ve seen her work, even if you’ve never been to one of her shows – photography overlaid with coloured boxes filled with bold white Futura Oblique, or caps locked sans serif text that bears down at you from gallery walls and the sides and roofs of buildings. It’s...

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A celebration of women who made it to the top of the art world Related Press A celebration of women who made it to the top of the art world 19 August 2016, Hyperallergic

The current show at Sprüth Magers gallery, Eau de Cologn e, has a title that might seem like a play on the words (that’s what I initially thought), but it is actually quite straightforwardly unironic. It is simply the name of the art magazine published by Monika Sprüth between 1985 and 1989 that presented interviews with and essays about...

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