Neïl Beloufa: HUMANITIES

Neïl Beloufa: HUMANITIES

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago

Neïl Beloufa, 2024.

September 13, 2024
Neïl Beloufa
HUMANITIES
September 14–November 10, 2024
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Opening celebration and artist talk: May 4, 2024, Swift Hall
1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Exhibition walk-through: September 24, 6–7pm, with curator Myriam Ben Salah
Discussion: October 16, 1pm, Neïl Beloufa with Patrick Jagoda and Gary Kafer
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Neïl Beloufa is an artist whose polymorphous practice spans film, sculpture, installations, as well as social and collective experiments. In a constant flirtation with failure, his work insistently interrogates the art field: its institutions and formats, its capacities and limitations. His critical stances, experimental openness, and ongoing search for alternative solutions have led him to explore the digital world and the novel forms of community that coalesce there.

For his exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Beloufa considers the power of individual storytelling in building large-scale propaganda. While riffing on the gamification of society and the trend of immersive art experiences, he developed a custom, interactive multimedia system that guides each visitor through the process of becoming the center of their own success story, creating a company, a cult, or a political party and thus highlighting the incongruous likeness between those.

Curated by Myriam Ben Salah. HUMANITIES is presented in conjunction with a related project at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, October 4, 2024–January 19, 2025.

Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris, France) studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts and at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA; Cooper Union, New York; and Le Fresnoy National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing, France. He has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Secession, Vienna; Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Schirn Künsthalle, Frankfurt; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2019, the Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale in 2014, and the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2013. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; François Pinault Collection; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, among others. He lives and works in Paris.

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