Renée Green: Inevitable Distances

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents Inevitable Distances, a comprehensive survey of Renée Green’s practice from the early 1980s to the present day. Since the late 1980s Green’s practice has expanded the ways in which art can surface and give form to unwritten histories, collective memory, and cultural exchange. Her work initially came to prominence in the early 1990s and circulated within the social and political flows between the world and the Americas—a concept that includes the United States, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean, and one which exists in Europe’s various imaginings and projections. Her installations, writings, films, digital media, paintings, drawings, and sound continue to navigate and interrogate the power of cultural institutions and their relationship with language, knowledge, and structures of selfhood, while simultaneously presenting other ways of being and becoming. 

Inevitable Distances is accompanied by a book of the same name, co-published by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Hatje Cantz Verlag, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Designed by Carolina Aboarrage, the publication includes contributions from the artist Renée Green, Kathrin Bentele, Howie Chen, Emma Hedditch, Katherine McKittrick, Taylor Le Melle, Ima-Abasi Okon and others, and is edited by Mason Leaver-Yap.

The exhibition is produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, in collaboration with Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

Curators: Mason Leaver-Yap with Assistant Curator Sofie Krogh Christensen (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin), in collaboration with Dr. Michael Birchall (Curator, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst), Curatorial assistant: Joel Spiegelberg (Trainee, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst)