Gallery talks — Mar 9, 2018

On the occasion of the exhibition Stefan Tcherepnin: The Mad Masters and the recently opened Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents a gallery talk by Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media Karen Archey (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), who organized both exhibitions.
Price
€3 (excl. museum entrance)
Location
introduction entrance hall, tours through exhibition galleries
Time
Mar 9, 2018, 6 pm until 7 pm
Main language
English
Admission
Tickets

Taking place during the Friday night opening hours of the museum, Archey’s gallery talk will guide participants through the two exhibitions. She will introduce the practices of both artists, who work both in music composition and visual art, yet have surprisingly divergent approaches to the creation of meaning in their visual work. While Tcherepnin’s environments work on an experiential level to challenge the conceptual mandate of contemporary art dating from the 1960s, Hennix refers to her own practice as “Concept Art,” placing the core of her work in the concept itself, and its material substrate as secondary. Archey will discuss these varying approaches, their similarities and differences, in this gallery talk.

STEFAN TCHEREPNIN

Stefan Tcherepnin’s first museum solo exhibition comprises four larger-than-life monsters in quotidian diorama environments: one sketches self-portraits while watching television while another passes out from a sugar crash. Their movement is centered around a glass clown face, made to resemble the gate of Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park. This beloved amusement park was purchased and later bulldozed by Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, in the mid-1960s. Like a musical score, Stefan Tcherepnin: The Mad Masters plays with the leitmotifs of good and evil through such embedded visual references. More info.

CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX

The second exhibition of the tour highlights Hennix’s visual art practice. Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme includes a series of paintings, wall works, and found objects originally made between 1974 and 2004, many of which are recreated or restored for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Occupying two galleries inspired by the structure of a psychoanalyst’s office and a waiting room, Hennix’s installation attests to her unique combination of fields normally seen as disparate, including mathematics, poetry, psychoanalysis, music composition, and visual art. More info.

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and organizing curator of the exhibitions Stefan Tcherepnin: The Mad Masters and Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme. She is an American curator and art critic formerly based in Berlin and New York. She joined the Stedelijk Museum in April 2017 after working for the New York-based organization e-flux, where she worked from 2014–2017 as an editor. Archey’s writing and curatorial work often focus on issues relating to society and the individual, such as feminism, identity and technology.