Past Exhibitions

<span class="wac_title">Wind Chime (After Dream)</span> Commentary
Wind Chime (After Dream) by Pierre Huyghe
Peter Eleey
Monday, July 6, 2009

Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Pierre Huyghe's Wind Chime (After Dream) and the Walker's exhibition The Quick and the Dead.  read more »
Prototype for <span class="wac_title">Iridescent Planet</span> Exhibition
Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air
Medtronic Gallery,  May 14 - August 30, 2009

Tomás Saraceno pushes the conventions of art and architecture and their capacities to invoke inventive solutions to complex questions about how we inhabit and coexist in the world. The Walker Art Center exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air, on view May 14...  read more »
All your last week's desires by Tobias Rehberger Commentary
All your last week's desires by Tobias Rehberger
Peter Eleey
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Tobias Rehberger's All your last week's desires and the Walker's exhibition The Quick and the Dead.  read more »
<span class="wac_title">Bicho</span> by Lygia Clark Commentary
Bicho by Lygia Clark
Peter Eleey
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Lygia Clark's Bicho and the Walker's exhibition The Quick and the Dead.  read more »
Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe Commentary
Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe
Peter Eleey
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Pierre Huyghe's Timekeeper and the Walker's exhibition The Quick and the Dead.  read more »
What Will Become of Me by Adrian Piper Commentary
What Will Become of Me by Adrian Piper
Peter Eleey
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Adrian Piper's What Will Become of Me and the Walker's exhibition The Quick and the Dead.  read more »
Kris Martin, <span class="wac_title">Still alive</span> Exhibition
The Quick and the Dead
Galleries 4, 5, 6,  April 24 - September 27, 2009

Surveying art that tries to reach beyond itself and the limits of our knowledge and experience, The Quick and the Dead seeks, in part, to ask what is alive and dead within the legacy of conceptual art. Though the term “conceptual” has been applied to myriad kinds of...  read more »
Elizabeth Peyton, <span class="wac_title">Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008</span> Exhibition
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
Target Gallery,  February 14 - June 14, 2009

A vanguard voice in the return to narrative figuration in contemporary painting and a brilliant colorist with a razor-sharp graphic sense, Elizabeth Peyton creates small, jewel-like portraits that capture an artistic zeitgeist using a visual vocabulary that could only have been produced in late...  read more »
Kcho, <span class="wac_title">Obras Escogidas (Selected Works)</span> Exhibition
Text/Messages: Books by Artists
Medtronic Gallery,  December 18, 2008 - April 19, 2009

Go ahead—judge an artist’s book by its cover. Artists who make books give as much thought to the front and back as to the contents. While literature is often a point of departure, artists’ books often bear little resemblance to conventional volumes. Many are sculptural, multidimensional, or made...  read more »
Tetsumi Kudo, <span class="wac_title">Cultivation</span> Exhibition
Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis
Galleries 4, 5, 6,  October 18, 2008 - March 22, 2009

The first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s work includes more than 100 works of diverse media and scale—objects, sculpture, installation, drawing, and painting—covering the entire trajectory of his career, from the late 1950s through the late 1980s. Also featured...  read more »