International Exhibitions
From the Archives: Artist Awards and Acquisitions, 1956–1987 on view now in the Sackler Center.
Architects’ model, New York City site. View from Houston Street, showing a workshop BMW Guggenheim LabUpcoming: May 24–July 29, 2012Berlin The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboratory that will travel to nine major cities worldwide over six years. After a ten-week residence in New York, the Lab is on its way to Berlin, where it will reopen on May 24, 2012. 
Jackson Pollock Untitled (Green Silver), ca. 1949. Enamel and aluminum paint on paper, mounted on canvas, 57.8 x 78.1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Sylvia and Joseph Slifka 2004.63. © 2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945–1980February 7–May 6, 2012Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome This exhibition examines major developments in American art during the transformative postwar era, which witnessed a rich proliferation of aesthetic practices, from Pop art's irreverent embrace of vernacular imagery to Conceptualism's intellectual meditations on meaning, and from the spare aesthetic of Minimalism to the lush visuals of Photorealism. 
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirror Architecture (Architettura dello Specchio), 1990. Mirror and golden frame. 360 x 800 cm; 2 mirrors: 325 x 184 cm; 2 mirrors: 325 x 200 cm; 2 frames: 360 x 201.5 x 10.5 cm. © MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia Art Fund The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBAJanuary 31–September 2, 2012Guggenheim Museum Bilbao With works by 52 artists from two of the largest contemporary art collections in Europe, this thematically organized survey of art since the late 1940s includes painting, sculpture, video, and photography. 
Siemon Allen, Land of Black Gold II, 2004 (detail). Printed paper with correction fluid, mounted on foam board panels, 248.9 x 510.5 x 1 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Collectors Council 2004.88 Found in TranslationJanuary 28–April 4, 2012The Deutsche Guggenheim Taking the concept of translation as a model and a metaphor, this exhibition brings together recent works that investigate the ways cultural difference is negotiated through written or spoken text. Through videos, installations, photography, and other media, the artists in this exhibition explore intersections of language, politics, history, and fantasy, critically commenting on the past while producing richly imagined possibilities for the present. 
Pablo Picasso, On the Beach (La Baignade), February 12, 1937. Oil, conté crayon, and chalk on canvas, 40.64 x 193.04 cm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 76.2553.5. © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Avant-Garde. From Picasso to PollockJanuary 11–February 19, 2012Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice During the renovation of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, masterpieces from the permanent collection are on view in the galleries usually dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The installation chronicles the avant-gardes that made an indelible mark on the history of 20th-century art, from Picasso to Pollock, traversing cornerstones of Modernism, including Futurism, European abstraction, and Surrealism (Boccioni, Kandinsky, Dalí, and others). 
Gerhard Richter, Seascape (Seestück), 1998. Oil on canvas. 290 x 290 cm. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection IINovember 15, 2011–October 28, 2012Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Featuring works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection, this exhibition examines the artistic debates of the 1970s and 1980s initiated by European artists whose careers began in the early 1960s. The return to a more personal style of reflection was expressed using various formal means and mediums, from the materiality of Anselm Kiefer to the romanticism of Gerhard Richter and the installations of Jannis Kounellis.  Richard Serra. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1987. Hot-rolled steel, eight plates, 184.8 x 400 x 5.1 cm each. Collection of the artist © 2011 Richard Serra. Photo © 2011 FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa Brancusi-SerraOctober 8, 2011–April 15, 2012Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Brancusi-Serra, organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland, features approximately thirty works by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi, as well as nine sculptures and numerous drawings by American artist Richard Serra. Viewed together, their work illustrates the development of 20th-century sculpture in a dynamic presentation that interacts with the irregular volumes and singular gallery spaces of the Frank Gehry–designed building. Organized thematically, the exhibition presents an open dialogue about artistic and sculptural possibilities, displayed through the juxtapositions of each artist’s work and in sequences of galleries devoted solely to Brancusi or Serra. |