Thomas Hirschhorn

Exhibition:
"French Window. Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize"
Mori art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
26 March to 28 August 2011

For ten years, an elite association of contemporary art collectors known as ADIAF has hosted what has become one of France’s most prestigious art awards, the Marcel Duchamp Prize. To celebrate the award’s first decade, this exhibition presents the work of 28 artists, including all of the winners of the Grand Prix, selected finalists and also Duchamp himself.

The exhibition’s title refers to Duchamp’s well known work Fresh Widow, which depicts a French window, and a similar theme is continued through the show’s five sections: "Duchamp's Window," "The View from the Window," "The Window of Time and Space," "The Window of the Inner World" and "Inside the Window." Together, they provide a comprehensive view of the contemporary French art scene. The exhibition begins with important works by Duchamp himself, and then presents the esprit of contemporary French art through a selection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos made by artists of diverse ages and cultural backgrounds. The final section includes a re-creation of a French collector's apartment, complete with artworks.

The exhibition provides an opportunity to experience contemporary French art as it exists today – a unique expression of the nation’s psychological landscape – and at the same time it provides insight into how the collectors of this art incorporate it into their own lives. We hope visitors are inspired to contemplate for themselves the nature of art and life as well as the role that collectors can play in any art scene.

Dear Friend,
would like to announce you that the website www.crystalofresistance.com has just been launched today:

- This website has been created to inform on my work «Crystal of Resistance» exhibited at the Swiss Pavilion on the occasion of the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, June 4 (public opening) – November 27, 2011,
- You can find there all kind of documents: texts, interviews, photos, sketches, and videos about «Crystal of Resistance»,
- The website will be updated continuously before and after the opening of the Biennale, and is time-limited: it will stay online for several months only (closing end January 2012),
- This website is neither an artwork, nor part of the artwork: «Crystal of Resistance»,
- This website has a "press-kit" section where everybody can download a zip archive which contains pictures and texts that they can (freely) use for publication

Take care, Take care
Thomas Hirschhorn

"Kunst und Philosophie"
n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
3 September - 30 October 2011
Opening 2 September 2011

"Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance"
Dublin Contemporary 2011
6 September - 31 October 2011

"ERRE Variations Labyrinthiques"
Centre Pompidou-Metz
10 September 2011 - 5 March 2012

"The Uncanny Familiar. Images of Terror"
C/O Berlin. International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Berlin
10 September - 4 December 2011

"September 11"
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
11 September 2011 - 9 January 2012

Solo show
La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
22 September - 25 November 2011

Inhotim, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
6 October 2011 -

Solo show
Kurt-Schwitters Preis
Sprengel Museum Hannover
20 November 2011 -

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:

Schaulager Basel
18 November 2011

Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
1 December 2011

Princeton
December 2011

ARNDT represents at this year's abc - art berlin contemporary Thomas Hirschhorn. We will show works from his series "Des Larmes" (tears) from 1998 as well as a very special single work titled "Ingeborg Bachmann" also from 1998. Please click here, to view the works.

abc - art berlin contemporary
7 - 11 september 2011
ARNDT is in hall1, wall 20a

"Art and Philosophie"
n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Group exhibition
3 September – 30  October 2011

The work „Das Auge (The Eye)” by THOMAS HIRSCHHORN will be sown at The Power Plant in Toronto from 9 March. The work, which was co-produced by us in 2008 for the Wiener Sezession, will be on view until 29 May – Thomas Hirschhorn will hold an artist talk in Toronto on 23 February.

We are pleased to congratulate Thomas Hirschhorn for representing Switzerland at the 54th edition of the Venice Biennial.
His work "Crystal of Resistance" will be on view until 24 November 2011. 

“Perpetual Battles”, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, 2010
Group exhibition with works by Thomas Hirschhorn until 25 July 2010

Exhibiting Poetry Today : Manuel Joseph
Until 26 September 2010
At CNEI (Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprimé), Chatou, France
A catalogue is accompanying the exhibition:
Exhibiting Poetry Today : Manuel Joseph - Format 21 × 29,7 cm - 512 pages – contributions by Alexandre Costanzo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Manuel Joseph, Olivier Quintyn, Marcus Steinweg – edited by: cneai= / Xavier Barral  

10 July 2010 – 04 September 2011
K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
The Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz will reopen its refurbished and expanded building. An opening celebration will take place on 10 July 2010 at the Ständehaus, where the presentation Intensif-Station – 26 Artist's Rooms in the K21 will be on view until 04 Septembre 2010. In 26 different rooms, installations and ensembles of works owned by the Kunstsammlung will be supplemented by new rooms.
This exhibition was named after an installation by Thomas Hirschhorn which bears the same title, and whose theme is the intensity of the art experience.

Too Too - Much Much - solo show by Thomas Hirschhorn at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
3 October - 5 December 2010