BARBARA KRUGER

Since the late 1970s, Kruger has established herself as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Beginning with her earliest works, for which she combined language with mass media imagery culled from books and magazines, she has turned a critical eye toward consumerism, desire, political will, and the often-hidden mechanisms of power operating within contemporary society. In the mid-1990s, Kruger produced her first multichannel video works and room-wrappings, tapping into a long-standing interest in architecture and expanding the scale of her installations to envelop viewers in disorienting, but thought-provoking, environments. Her exhibition in Berlin extends these investigations, which are as timely as ever in a moment pervaded by pseudo-facts and alternative realities.

Barbara Kruger (born 1945, Newark) lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Solo shows include National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016, High Line Art, New York, 2016, Modern Art Oxford, 2014, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2013, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2011, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2010, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2005, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1994, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, 1985 and Kunsthalle Basel, 1984. Group shows include those at V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, 2017, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014, Biennale of Sydney (2014), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2013, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, 2009, 2010, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2006, MCA Chicago, 2004, Tate Liverpool, 2002, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1988 and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1987.