Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon: Zidane, a 21st century portrait →

Philippe Parreno
June 11 – July 19, 2026 | The Guggenheim, New York

In its first public presentation at the Guggenheim New York, Zidane, a 21st century portrait will be shown on the occasion of the artwork’s twentieth anniversary and the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted in North America, with matches in the New York metropolitan area. The two-channel video projection by Douglas Gordon (b. 1966, Glasgow, Scotland) and Philippe Parreno (b. 1964, Grenoble, France) follows the legendary French soccer star Zinédine Zidane in real time over the course of a single match played on April 23, 2005, at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. Created by the artists and acquired by the Guggenheim in 2006, the ninety-minute piece will be screened on a continuous loop during museum hours in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater.

Assembled from footage shot by seventeen synchronized cameras placed around the stadium, the film captures Zidane from multiple angles and remains fixed on him even when the central action of the match shifts elsewhere. By splicing in footage from the live television broadcast, Gordon and Parreno challenge viewers’ perception of spectacle and modern celebrity.

This video installation—one of seventeen unique versions of the work—introduces a further layer to the viewing experience. While one large projection displays the theatrical version of Gordon and Parreno’s film, raw footage from one of the seventeen cameras plays beside it on a second screen. At moments, the two streams synchronize and show the same image. This doubling, a recurrent feature in Gordon’s work, echoes the mass dissemination of the contemporary celebrity-hero and the role of collective memory in shaping iconic images from popular culture.

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Diana Thater in Inaugural Installation of LACMA's Collection at the New David Geffen Galleries →

Diana Thater
Opening April 19, 2026 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Visitors in the David Geffen Galleries, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's David Geffen Galleries will open on April 19 with a ribbon-cutting celebration, marking the beginning of two weeks of priority member access to the galleries as well as a series of events. From April 19 through May 3, LACMA members and donors will have the opportunity to see the inaugural installation of the museum’s collection. 

Visitors will enjoy seeing artworks spanning the entirety of art history, including museum favorites: Georges de La Tour’s The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame (1640); Henri Matisse’s La Gerbe (1953); Antonio de Arellano and Manuel de Arellano’s Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe) (1691); and more. Notable recent acquisitions will also be on view, including Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) and Vincent van Gogh’s Tarascon Stagecoach (1888). Adding to the presentation of art from around the world and across time are special commissions by Todd Gray, Lauren Halsey, Sarah Rosalena, Do Ho Suh, Diana Thater, and others. 

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Rirkrit Tiravanija: The House that Jack Built →

Rirkrit Tiravanija
March 26 – July 26, 2026 | Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s career retrospective The House that Jack Built, presented at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca and curated by Lucia Aspesi and Vicente Todolí, introduces the public to the artist’s thirty years of research into spatial and architectural practices.

The title refers to the famous 19th-century English nursery rhyme of the same name, which has a repetitive and cumulative structure. Contrary to what the title suggests, the rhyme does not recount the story of the house or its builder. Rather, it reveals how the house is indirectly connected to, and interacts with, the people and things around it. By evoking the rhyme, Tiravanija highlights a solid relationship with issues of authorship, a prevalent theme in his work. The artist conceives buildings as platforms, whose value is determined by their use and the people who inhabit them rather than by their form.

The exhibition will showcase the largest collection of the artist’s architectural works to date, many of which are inspired by iconic buildings of celebrated architects associated with Modernism, including Sigurd Lewerentz, Le Corbusier, Rudolf Michael Schindler, Frederick Kiesler, Jean Prouvé, and Philip Johnson.

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Ana Prvački in 'Iliggocene: The Age of Dizziness ' →

Ana Prvački
March 22 – July 26, 2026 | KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin

João Onofre, Untitled (leveling a spirit level in free fall feat. Dorit Chrysler's BBGV dub), 2009, Video still, © João Onofre

In times of polycrisis, the acute experience of a continuous state of exception leads to a confusing and frustrating condition, characterised by an inadequacy of language and other forms of connective possibility and contextualisation. Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness proposes artistic positions that seek new vocabularies for these states of dizziness.

Curated by Sergio Edelsztein, Ruth Anderwald, & Leonhard Grond, features Amanda Beech, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Davide Deriu, Cao Fei, Tim Etchells, Christian Falsnaes, Julia Fiedorczuk, Dani Gal, María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, William Gibson, Alexandra Grant, Eiko Grimberg, Jack Halberstam, Anna Kim, Daniel Meir, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Warren Neidich, João Onofre, Ana Prvački, Lucy Railton, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, John Smith, Liv Schulman, Stefanie Schwarz & Dirk Wachowiak, Alexander Stahn, Marcus Steinweg, Dimitri Venkov, Catherine Yass, & Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond.

On 22 March, Prvački will present a lecture/performance entitled How Sex Keeps Us from Floating Away as a part of the exhibition’s discursive program, held in cooperation with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art at the KW Institute, Berlin.

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Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: Every Word Unmade →

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press
March 21 – April 25, 2026 | The Common Guild, Glasgow

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Every Word Unmade, 2006-2007 (detail). Artwork courtesy the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.

The Common Guild’s first exhibition of 2026 is the first in a new, annual series, entitled ‘Studies’, developed in conjunction with the Roberts Institute of Art. Each exhibition will draw from the collection to present key works by major artists. ‘Studies’ centers upon well-established artistic practices and works made in the 1990s – 2000s that particularly connect with present. The first exhibition in the series is focused on a work by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press. 

‘Every Word Unmade’ (2006–2007) is a neon alphabet, very evidently hand-made by the artist, who bent hot glass into the 26 letter forms of the alphabet. The struggle against and with the medium, and with language itself is evident. As Banner has said, “words are extensions of our physical selves, so I started to explore the physicality of words.”

It is a work, like many of Banner’s, about communication and the building blocks of language: here the fragile and faltering letter forms are combined, in its use of neon, with the seductive language of the street and commerce. Every Word Unmade represented a departure from Banner’s densely verbal work that addressed the myths and narratives of conflict – a playful attempt to denude language of its manipulative power. Every Word Unmade is accompanied by a small selection of related works by the artist.

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Philippe Parreno in 'New Humans: Memories of the Future' →

Philippe Parreno
Opening March 21, 2026 | The New Museum, New York

New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures.

Presenting new and recent works by artists including Sophia Al-Maria, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Andro Wekua, and Anicka Yi in the context of works by twentieth century artists and cultural figures such as Francis Bacon, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Salvador Dalí, Ibrahim El-Salahi, H.R. Giger, Kiki Kogelnik, Hannah Höch, Tatsuo Ikeda, Gyula Kosice, El Lissitzky, Lennart Nilsson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Carlo Rambaldi, Germaine Richier, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, New Humans illuminates artists’ evolving visions of the future. The exhibition surveys the myriad shapes that humanity might take, from robots and cyborgs to haunting, seemingly alien life forms, and moves beyond the field of art by bringing together utopian architects, sci-fi filmmakers, and eccentric writers who imagine physical, virtual, and even post-human worlds. In an age when technological advancements and their unintended consequences seem to be accelerating at uncontrollable rates, New Humans proposes art as a collective form of creative prognostication—a vital self-portrait of the humans we may become.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija: SAY YES TO EVERYTHING →

Rirkrit Tiravanija
March 7 – May 9, 2026 | STPI, Singapore

Rirkrit Tiravanija has had a long relationship with STPI, resulting in multiple residences in 2012, 2015, 2020 and 2022. His 2012 residency culminated in the exhibition Time Travelers Chronicle (Doubt): 2014 – 802,701 A.D. (2014), while his 2015 residency led to the group exhibition Exquisite Trust (Blindly Collective Collaborations) (2017) with artists Carston Höller, Tobias Rehberger and Anri Sala. His 2020 and 2022 residencies resulted in the exhibition We Don’t Recognise What We Don’t See (2023), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Petra Cortright in 'Maqueta para un lugar que no existe' →

Petra Cortright
March 6 – April 20, 2026 | Proyecto Reme – La Caja, Madrid

An exhibition that begins with a simple yet deeply architectural question: how is a place constructed before it exists? The works operate as a model without fixed scale — an open system in which tests and suspended forms coexist. A place conceived even as it is observed.

Featuring works by Erika Hock, Nicholas Szymanski, Petra Cortright, Marc Badia, Sofía González, Miki Leal and Stephen Felton and curated by Óscar Florit, the exhibition is part of the ongoing collaboration between Proyecto REME and La Caja.

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Petra Cortright in 'Sizzler' curated by Grant Edward Tyler →

Petra Cortright
March 1 – April 12, 2026 | The Former Sizzler Building, 6145 Wilshire Blvd.

Grant Edward Tyler has curated a group show at the abandoned Sizzler on 6145 Wilshire Blvd.

Petra Cortright is featured alongside Adam Alessi, Jonathan Apgar, Ida Badal, Bjarne Bare, Nora Berman, Connor Camburn, Ánima Correa, Phil Davis, Jake Fagundo, Joe Fastiggi, Christian Franzen, Maggie Friedman, Jackson Hunt, Parker Ito, Justin John Greene, Lara Joy Evans, Aaron Jupin, Friedrich Kunath, Chris Lux, Orion Martin, Calvin Miceli Nelson, Johann Mun, Justin Ortiz, Lauren Quin, Jon Rafman, Dogperson39, Anja Salonen, Asha Schechter, Noah Schneiderman, Nicolas Shake, Ross Simonini, Michelle Song, Kate Spencer Stewart, Naoki Sutter Shudo, Marika Thunder, Julia Yerger, and Haniko Zahra.

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Pae White Unveils Ring Collection for Vhernier →

Pae White | Cultured Magazine

Pae White for Vhernier. Photo: Erdna Creative.

by Mila Diaz-Szymczak

During LA Art Week, multidisciplinary artist Pae White and Milanese jeweler Vhernier unveiled a limited edition ring collection that makes the case for jewelry as serious sculpture.

The Scene: Another Frieze LA descended on Southern California this week, and with it came a slew of coveted invitations, including Vhernier’s elegant private reception unveiling of its new collection designed by LA-based multidisciplinary artist Pae White. The worlds of contemporary art, high jewelry, and serious collecting converged with the kind of easy chemistry that only LA, at its very best, can produce.

The Crowd: The evening was hosted by esteemed collector and founder of Museo Jumex Eugenio López, as guests were welcomed by Pae White, Vhernier CEO Gianluca Brozzetti and Vhernier US President Carlo Traglio. Meanwhile, a truly global slew flocked to the event including MOCA board chair Carolyn Powers, gallerist Francesca Kaufmann of Kaufmann Repetto, French curator and Galerie XII founder Valérie-Anne Giscard d’Estaing, power stylist Petra Flannery, Syrian-Swedish visual artist Jwan Yosef, houseware entrepreneur Zoe de Givenchy, Belgian photographer Guillaume Roemaet, Brazilian supermodel Daniela Braga, luxury communications founder Cristiana Viganò, collector Graham Steele, Chanel’s President of Arts, Culture & Heritage Yana Peel, painter Marco Lorenzetto and more.

The Occasion: The collection, designed by White and crafted by Vhernier, is inspired by the architecture of a crab’s exoskeleton, rendered in white gold, abalone, jade, sapphires, and rock crystal. Rarity is the name of the game here: only two iterations of each design will be produced. 

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Uta Barth and Pae White in 'Destiny is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection' at Hauser & Wirth →

Uta Barth and Pae White
February 24 – April 26, 2026 | Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles

Pae White and Brian Eno
Oblique Strategies, 1996
Printed cards in Corian container
4 × 11 × 9 in. (10.2 × 27.9 × 22.9 cm)
Norton Family Christmas Edition

Renowned for her generosity to artists and institutions, Eileen Harris Norton has built a collection and philanthropy actively focused upon the work of women, artists of color and her native California. Marking fifty years since Harris Norton’s first acquisition—a print purchased directly from Los Angeles artist Ruth Waddy in 1976—‘Destiny Is a Rose’ presents more than 80 works that together reflect Harris Norton’s prescient vision and commitment to social justice and learning.

Titled after a painting by Kerry James Marshall, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ includes work by such artists as Mark Bradford, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Marshall, Lorraine O’Grady, Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Whitten, among others. In conjunction with ‘Destiny Is a Rose,’ Hauser & Wirth Publishers will release a catalogue featuring texts by Dr. Kellie Jones and curator Ingrid Schaffner, celebrating a collector who continues to be an agent of cultural change and growth.

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Kerry Tribe in 'Hollis Frampton: From Form to Idea to Form of Idea' →

Kerry Tribe
February 19, 2026 at 6pm | The University of Chicago Center in Paris

Kerry Tribe, Critical Mass, 2013, Single channel video with sound, 25 min approx (Edition of 5)

A segment of Kerry Tribe’s Critical Mass (2010-2013) is included in Axioms of Vision: Echoes of Hollis Frampton, part of the larger symposium Hollis Frampton: From Form to Idea to Form of Idea organized in partnership between Service de la collection film, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou / CERILAC, Université Paris Cité / IRCAV, Sorbonne Nouvelle / LESA, Aix-Marseille Université / The University of Chicago Center in Paris / Université de Montréal / UQAM / York University (Toronto) / IUF (Institut Universitaire de France).

Axioms of Vision: Echoes of Hollis Frampton features a selection of moving image works that approach Hollis Frampton’s films as a set of propositions that test the limits of the formal systems he developed. The screening is curated and introduced by Clint Enns. Frampton’s rigorous investigations into the material and conceptual limits of cinema—film as language, as system, as thinking—provide both the scaffolding and the provocation for the program. Some works adopt his structural clarity with near-devotional precision, while others answer with satire or mischief, pulling at the threads of his seriousness to expose its comic underside. In this oscillation between homage and parody, the program resists the stability of a single reading, instead staging a field of echoes, ruptures, and counterpoints. What emerges is not a monument to Frampton but a living dialogue, where his axioms become function as invitations—coordinates for reimagining the possibilities of vision itself.

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How Artist Diana Thater and CMACC’s Cass Fino-Radin Are Rebuilding an Archive After Disaster →

Diana Thater | The Observer

Installation View: Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2016

by Dan Duray

A year after the Los Angeles wildfires destroyed her studio, Diana Thater is working with CANYON to trace the scattered remnants of her work across institutions and private collections.

DD: Diana, I want to begin by talking about your losses in last year’s fires in Los Angeles. What was your experience in that tragedy?

DT: It all burned down. We lost everything […]. My entire archive was lost, except for what my husband grabbed on his way out of the house. Luckily, I have a very good database, so I was able to determine which works are gone forever and which ones I might be able to locate by borrowing from collectors or institutions.

I’m not a person who casually uses the word trauma. I actually object to how it’s used in culture right now; everything is labeled a trauma. But this truly qualified as a severely traumatic event in my life. In one night, I lost everything I’ve ever had. The next day, all we owned were toothbrushes in a plastic bag. That was it. We kept our three cats—I rescued the cats, and my husband rescued the server. It was horrific. It was terrifying. We fled the fire, and a month later, we found an apartment and settled in for a year, but now we’re moving again. It’s been a real struggle, not just with my work but with my life and my life as an artist.

In 2025, I received the Trellis Foundation Milestone Award—one of ten unrestricted $100,000 grants given to artists. In addition to the funding, they also provide resources and support. They offered me an advisor, Heather Bhandari. She was younger than me and very funny—she said, “I don’t know what I can tell you, you’ve been in the art world for 35 years.” But she did help me.

She asked me what the worst loss was, and I said my archive. She immediately said she had an idea and connected me with Cass at CANYON. Cass thought it was an incredibly interesting project, and we’ve been working together ever since. Out of over 200 artworks, I’ve identified 5 that need to be located. We’re now working to find those pieces in institutions and private collections and digitize them so that I at least have a digital copy of the work.

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Angela Bulloch in 'YBA&BEYOND: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection' →

Angela Bulloch
February 11 – May 11, 2026 | The National Art Center, Tokyo

Angela Bulloch
West Ham - Sculpture for Football Songs, 1998
4 belisha beacons, 4 light bulbs and light control unit
166 x 300 cm
Collection of Tate, London

Angela Bulloch's 'West Ham – Sculpture for Football Songs' (1998) is featured in YBA&BEYOND: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection at The National Art Center in Tokyo.

This exhibition explores the dynamic evolution of British art from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. After going through the Thatcher era (1979-1990), a charged and uncertain social climate gave rise to a new generation of artists who challenged traditional norms and embraced bold, experimental practices. Many of the newer generation of artists who came to prominence in the 1990s were referred to in the art and popular media under the title Young British Artists (YBAs). Alongside other artists active at the time, these artists explored themes such as popular culture, personal identity, and shifting social structures.

'West Ham – Sculpture for Football Songs' is one of many works by Bulloch that are activated or altered in some way by the presence of gallery visitors.

Bulloch has made a number of works using Belisha beacons, which are more commonly used to illuminate pedestrian crossings. Here they are linked to a microphone in the gallery space and respond to sound, which initiates a sequence of flashing lights. The colors of the lights reflect the colors of the West Ham football strip, and the work’s title suggests that football anthems are a particularly appropriate trigger to speed up the light display. The unpredictable interactive element of this work is typical of Bulloch’s practice.

In 1997, Bulloch stated that she is interested in acknowledging the viewer’s role as an active participant in co-producing her works, saying that in her practice "the viewer is a collaborator in the sense that she defines, perceives the meaning in her own terms. This would happen anyway with any work, provided there is a viewer. What I try to do is make the fact of interpretation, understanding or perceiving part of purpose of the work itself."
(Angela Bulloch in Bussel 1997, p. 31)

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A performance that cherishes time: Ann Veronica Janssens →

Ann Veronica Janssens | Bozar Center for Fine Arts

by Guillaume De Grieve & Cedric Feys

Four and a half hours. That’s how long it usually takes to perform ‘Notes for Philip Guston'. Time and space blur in this meditative work by Morton Feldman. The visual artist Ann Veronica Janssens is intimately familiar with such experiences. Her own works also refuse to adopt a fixed form. For the next Staging the Concert, she will create a movement of colour with HERMESensemble in which you can come and go as you please.

What appealed to you in Notes for Philip Guston, a piece for flute, piano and percussion?  

Ann Veronica Janssens: It was the fact that the duration of the piece gradually immerses the audience in softness and apparent simplicity. It is intended as an ‘open’ work. You can walk away from it and then come back again. You get the feeling that you are undergoing several variations of an experience you believe you’ve had before, but that no two iterations are ever quite the same. The piece reminds me of listening to birds having a conversation: you don’t understand what they’re saying, but it’s wonderful to hear. What interests me are impalpable forms, elusiveness, and that is something you can experience fully by listening to Notes for Philip Guston. My intention with this performance is to bring the musicians and the audience together as highly sensitive actors. 

Absolutely. And it’s true, Feldman is playing a game with perception. Sometimes he repeats motifs for an hour, even two hours. 

Ann Veronica: It’s a disconcerting experience, an idea that stimulates us. Is our memory playing tricks? Have we experienced this moment before? Have we heard this motif before? 

Do you apply that principle to your own work? 

Ann Veronica: Much of my work has to do with perception, with change caused by apparently very simple gestures. One thing I want to do, for example, is to make an experience of duration tangible. 

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Ann Veronica Janssens & Michael François →

Ann Veronica Janssens
February 2 – April 18, 2026 | Galeria Mascota, Mexico City

Ann Veronica Janssens
Swings, 2023
Rope, wood, heat-reactive film
dimensions variable

Bringing together major figures of contemporary European art, Ann Veronica Janssens & Michael François at Galeria Mascota in Mexico City explores perception, materiality, and embodied experience through distinct yet resonant practices. Janssens and François share a longstanding artistic dialogue, marked by collaboration, contrast, and mutual influence. The exhibition unfolds as a choreography of light, movement, and subtle intervention, inviting viewers into heightened states of awareness.

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Ann Veronica Janssens & Michael François: Zeitgeber →

Ann Veronica Janssens
Sunday, February 1 at 2pm | 164VANVOLXEM, Brussels

Photograph Courtesy of The Artist, Photo by Anne Van Aerschot

Zeitgeber, a collaboration between Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, was created and conceived for the forecourt of 164VANVOLXEM, a creative hub in Brussels. The work inaugurates and celebrates this new space as a social sculpture that brings people together. Zeitgeber is comprised of a monumental tree trunk from a century-old American oak placed on the meadow, creatinh a site of gathering.

Zeitgeber will be inaugurated on Sunday, 1 February at 2pm. Following an introduction by Katrien Laenen (Platform Kunst in Opdracht) Dirk Snauwaert (Director, WIELS), Boštjan Antončič will perform his solo Bernabo at the site.

Rosas, P.A.R.T.S., and Ictus are celebrating the opening of their renewed space 164VANVOLXEM in Brussels with an almost month-long festival (30 January–22 February 2026), featuring over 45 makers, each connected to the site.

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Jack Goldstein: Pictures, Sounds and Movies →

Jack Goldstein
January 24 – May 31, 2026 | Beim Stadthaus, Kunst Museum Winterthur

Jack Goldstein (1945–2003), who was born in Montreal and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, became a key figure of the Pictures Generation, the artist movement that shunned traditional art forms and appropriated images from advertising, television, and popular culture.

His work is characterized by radical reduction, technical brilliance, and conceptual focus. At the beginning of his career, he created Post-Minimalist sculptures and performances. In the 1970s, he made experimental 16mm films such as The Jump (1978) in which a diver from Leni Riefenstahl’s film Olympia seems to jump into a void—a symbol for Goldstein’s own grappling with presence and erasure. Other videos, too, such as Shane (1973) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1975) explore the power of film images. 

In the same period, Goldstein began doing sound pieces and produced the series A Suite of Nine 7-Inch Records (1976), in which he combined sound effects from feature films to create sound artworks. Starting in 1980, he produced noteworthy large-format Photorealist paintings of natural phenomena, war scenes, and technological pictures, which consisted of illustrations from newspapers and magazines that his assistants had painted according to his directions. It was important for him to have as much distance to the work as possible and to minimize personal artistic style.

Whether sculpture, film, sound, or painting, Goldstein’s art revolves around transience, invisibility, and the mechanisms of reproduction through the media. He cleverly achieves a balance between spectacle and vacuousness. His suicide in 2003 marked the end of an oeuvre that had a considerable influence on an entire generation of younger artists—however, in Switzerland it was largely overlooked. Together with MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain), private lenders, and thanks to a permanent loan from the Jochen Kienzle Foundation, the Kunst Museum Winterthur presents a representative selection of paintings, films, and records for the first time.

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Uta Barth in 'MoCP at 50: Collecting Through the Decades' →

Uta Barth
January 22 – May 16, 2026 | The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago

Uta Barth, Field #3, 1995

This year, the Museum of Contemporary Photography turns 50 years old. Since opening in 1976 and initiating collecting in 1979, the MoCP has acquired over 18,000 objects by more than 2,000 artists, representing a broad scope of aesthetics, technologies, and processes. The variety of work collected has allowed the museum to engage in conversations across political, social, and cultural landscapes.

To celebrate this milestone, MoCP at 50 examines the evolving practice of building a dynamic collection, presenting a range of rarely exhibited and newly acquired works. Together, these selections question and reflect on the role of cultural institutions in shaping the photographic canon.

MoCP at 50 honors the museum’s ongoing dedication to collecting as a deliberate, mercurial, and educational process that contributes to keeping photography’s many narratives alive and in dialogue with the present.

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