Koo Jeong A:
Constellation Congress
Dia at the Hispanic Society
November 5 – June 26, 2010
Dia:Beacon
November 5 – June 26, 2010
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
November 5 – September 4, 2010
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York City
Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm, Sun, 1-4pm
Free Admission
Koo Jeong A’s immersive installation at the Hispanic Society will comprise new multimedia works that were commissioned by Dia, including architectural interventions guided by feng shui principles, an olfactory element, and a video projection, among other works.
Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY
Through November 8, 2010, Thurs-Mon, 11am-4pm
November 12, 2010 – April 11, 2011, Fri-Mon, 11am-4pm
At Dia:Beacon, Koo Jeong A will present a new iteration of the outdoor sculpture A Reality Upgrade & End Alone (2003/2010) consisting of approximately five thousand glittering stones.
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, NY
Sat-Sun, 12-6pm
Free Admission
Koo Jeong A has created a selection of new works on paper for The Dan Flavin Art Institute’s first-floor gallery.
Koo Jeong A
Koo Jeong A was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1967, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 1994, her work has been shown internationally, including solo presentations at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (1994); the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1994); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998); Secession, Vienna (2002); CCA Kitakyushu, Japan (2002); Portikus, Frankfurt (2004); and Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2008). She has participated in the Venice Biennale (1995 and 2009); the Gwangju Biennial (1997); the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokyo (2000); Manifesta 1, Rotterdam (1996), and Manifesta 3, Slovenia (2000); the Biennale of Sydney (2004); Performa05, New York (2005); the Torino Triennale, Italy (2008) and the Aichi Triennale, Japan (2010). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at such venues as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1998), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2000), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2009) and is on view until February 2011 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010). In 2004, she was invited, along with Urs Fischer, to create an inaugural in situ installation of new works to launch the exhibition program at the Centre Pompidou’s Espace 315 gallery and in 2007 Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière, France, mounted a major exhibition of her work. She also participated in the internationally touring exhibition Cities on the move, curated by Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (1997–1999). She now lives and works in London.
Funding
Special thanks to The Hispanic Society of America. Major exhibition support has been provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Councilmember Robert Jackson; and by Jill and Peter Kraus. Additional support has come from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; agnès b. Endowment Fund; Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art (a program of FACE); Sylvie Winckler; and the Korean Cultural Service. “Before the Rain” (2010) at the Hispanic Society was developed in collaboration with International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.
Dia Art Foundation
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for enabling artists’ visions by initiating, supporting, and preserving extraordinary art projects. Dia presents public and education programs, exhibitions, and its collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries in New York’s Hudson Valley. Dia introduces commissions and projects by contemporary artists and parallel education programs at The Hispanic Society of America in Washington Heights, while Dia develops a new site for these initiatives in New York City. Additionally, Dia maintains long-term, site-specific projects in New York City, Long Island, the Western United States, and Germany.
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*Image above:
Photo courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery.
