Sandra Mujinga: Worldview
May 5–August 29, 2021
Jan Vorisek: No Sun
May 5–August 29, 2021
No Sun is the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States by Jan Vorisek, composed of new works commissioned by Swiss Institute. Vorisek works across sculpture, performance and sound to create autopoietic, site-specific installations that examine formal hierarchies through feedback, distortion and the delineation of space. In assemblages of accumulated found materials and sound-producing devices, he explores the fluctuation of noise as a medium for information. Split into two interrelated architectural interventions, the exhibition at SI is organized with experiences in mind that crossfade from corporeal to cerebral, increasing an awareness of the body in situ while evoking associative memories from the collective unconscious.
On the occasion of No Sun, Swiss Institute together with Czarnagora is pleased to present Erratic Shine, the first music record by Jan Vorisek, which is released as a double 7” vinyl in an edition of 100.
Jan Vorisek (b. 1987, Basel) lives and works in Zurich. Recent solo exhibitions include Collapse Poem at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2020); Crisis Instrument at Observation Society presented by Bottom Space, Guangzhou, Hong Kong (2018); and Total Fragmented Darkness at Hard Hat, Geneva (2017). Recently he has shown in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (2020); Luma Westbau, Zurich (2019); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, (2017); and Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (2017).
SI gratefully acknowledges the support of Pro Helvetia, Canton Basel-Stadt, Florian Gutzwiller, and Teo Schifferli. Production support for the exhibition is kindly provided in part by Galerie Bernhard.
This exhibition is organized by Alison Coplan, Curator, Swiss Institute.
Sandra Mujinga: Worldview
May 5–August 29, 2021
Worldview is the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States by Sandra Mujinga. Mujinga’s works, which move between physical and digital spaces, are concerned with visibility and the avoidance of surveillance or capture. Drawing on Afrofuturist fiction and posthuman thought, several recent bodies of work have imagined speculative worlds in which hybrid characters have adopted technologies and techniques from forms of nonhuman life, such as nocturnality, mutability and camouflage, to evade threat or simply to live.
Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo) lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Recent solo exhibitions include Midnight, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands (2020); SONW – Shadow of New Worlds, Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen, Norway (2019); AMNESIA? AMNESIA? Noplace, Oslo (2019); Hoarse Globules, UKS, Oslo (2018); Calluses, Tranen, Copenhagen (2018); and ILYNL (It’s Like You Never Left), Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (2018 screening). Recent group exhibitions include The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); STUDIO BERLIN, Berghain, Panorama Bar, Säule and Halle, Berlin (2021); Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020); Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2020); Beyond the Black Atlantic, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2020); Subjektiv, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2017); and Subjektiv, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2017). Forthcoming exhibitions include Soft Water Hard Stone, The New Museum Triennial, New York (2021).
SI gratefully acknowledges the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and Carlos Marsano.
This exhibition is organized by Laura McLean-Ferris, Chief Curator, with Alison Coplan, Curator.
SI Programming is made possible in part with public funds from Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Main sponsors include LUMA Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Friends of SI. Exhibitions at SI are made possible in part by the Swiss Institute Annual Exhibition Fund with leadership support provided by the LUMA Foundation, Max and Monique Burger, the Garcia Family Foundation, the Kevin Wendle Foundation, and the Freedman Family Foundation. SI gratefully acknowledges Swiss Re as SI ONSITE Partner, Vitra as Design Partner, Crozier Fine Arts as Preferred Shipping Art Logistics Partner, and SWISS as Travel Partner.
Critical operating support has been provided to SI in 2020-21 as part of a collective fundraising effort. We thank the following supporters: The David Teiger Foundation, The Willem De Kooning Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Arison Arts Foundation, The Blavatnik Family Foundation, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Robert Lehman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.
