Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger / Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream / Start Making Sense

The Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard college presents three new exhibitions all opening on Saturday, June 22:

Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger
June 22–December 1, 2024

Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities.

Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream
June 22–December 1, 2024

Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens.

Start Making Sense
June 22–October 20, 2024

Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections (part of the CCS Bard library), and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives, and classrooms with the new 12,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing (opening 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers.

Visitor information
Exhibition summer hours are Wednesday through Monday, 12–6pm. All Hessel Museum  exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public - advance reservations are not required but can be made at ccs.bard.edu.

For a seat on the free roundtrip-chartered bus from New York City for the opening on June 22 please call T +1 845 758 7593 or email alaracuente@bard.edu. Reservations are required for the bus.