Renée Green
Inevitable Distances
23 October 21 – 9 January 22

 

 

<p>Image: Renée Green, <em>Sites of Genealogy: Loophole of Retreat</em>, installation view, PS1 Museum, New York 1990. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Photo: Tom Warren</p>

Image: Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy: Loophole of Retreat, installation view, PS1 Museum, New York 1990. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Photo: Tom Warren

 

Since the late 1980s, Renée Green’s multifaceted practice has imagined and expanded the ways in which art can surface and give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and circuits of cultural exchange. Her writing, installations, films, digital media, and sound works continue to trace and interrogate the power of cultural institutions and their relationships with language, knowledge, and constitutions of selfhood, while at the same time indicating other ways of being and becoming.

 

Green’s work came to prominence 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. Her work continues to investigate the distribution and relay of art and ideas, and how these are braided with histories of migration and legacies of displacement, and the aesthetic forms and poetics that stem from these.

 

Inevitable Distances, a comprehensive survey of Renée Green’s practice from the early 1980s until now, is simultaneously taking place at daadgalerie and KW Institute for Contemporary Art. In one of the largest exhibitions of her work since 2010, Inevitable Distances presents recent productions in conversation with some of Green’s earliest and rarely exhibited works. Indicating the encounters and distances travelled in a life’s journey, the exhibition puts her artistic production into a speculative and, at times, fictional constellation.

 

Curator: Mason Leaver-Yap
Assistant Curators: Kathrin Bentele, Sofie Krogh Christensen

 

Exhibition leaflet (PDF)

 

 

The Berlin Sessions: Conversation between Renée Green, Iman Issa and Mason Leaver-Yap about the exhibitions Renée Green: Inevitable Distances and Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing

 

 

 

Trailer Renée Green: Inevitable Distances in German Sign Language. Concept and moderation: Andreas Döltgen, Camera: Frank Sperling

 

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Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Commemorative Toile, 1992–1993 and Mise-en-Scène, 1991. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Commemorative Toile, 1992–1993 and Mise-en-Scène, 1991. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992–1993. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992–1993. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992–1993. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992–1993. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Detail. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Detail. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Idyll Pursuits, 1991. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz, Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Idyll Pursuits, 1991. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz, Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992-1993, Details. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992-1993, Details. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Photo: Frank Sperling
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997. Installation view of the exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Photo: Frank Sperling

 

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<p>This exhibition is shown in collaboration with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.</p>

This exhibition is shown in collaboration with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

 

<p>The exhibition <em>Renée Green: Inevitable Distances</em> is made possible through support from the Capital Cultural Fund.</p>
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<p>With generous support from Marguerite Steed Hoffman Collection, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich</p>

 

The exhibition Renée Green: Inevitable Distances is made possible through support from the Capital Cultural Fund.

 

With generous support from Marguerite Steed Hoffman Collection, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich

 

<p>The exhibition is produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, in collaboration with Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich (CH), where it will be presented in 2022. </p>

 

The exhibition is produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, in collaboration with Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich (CH), where it will be presented in 2022. 

 

Inevitable Distances is accompanied by a book of the same name, co-published by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Hatje Cantz Verlag and KW. 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. It will be available from the KW Bookshop in early 2022.