Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Renée Green
Inevitable Distances

Opening
23.09.22

Exhibition
24.09.22 – 08.01.23

Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992 - 1993, Installation. Mixed media: metal shelf structure, books, magazines, newspapers, ephemera, BETA video cases, 25 hours of digitized video, two monitors, one video projection, cassette cases, sound, acrylic signs [COLLECTANEA, IMPORT/EXPORT FUNK OFFICE, FUNK STATION (1-4)], four wooden structures [Funk Stations] acrylic signs on four shelves with four cassette players [LEXICON; LOCAL (EAST?); LOCAL (WEST?); IMPORT], 30 wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text [LEXICON]. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992 - 1993, Installation. Mixed media: metal shelf structure, books, magazines, newspapers, ephemera, BETA video cases, 25 hours of digitized video, two monitors, one video projection, cassette cases, sound, acrylic signs [COLLECTANEA, IMPORT/EXPORT FUNK OFFICE, FUNK STATION (1-4)], four wooden structures [Funk Stations] acrylic signs on four shelves with four cassette players [LEXICON; LOCAL (EAST?); LOCAL (WEST?); IMPORT], 30 wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text [LEXICON]. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992 - 1993, Installation. Mixed media: metal shelf structure, books, magazines, newspapers, ephemera, BETA video cases, 25 hours of digitized video, two monitors, one video projection, cassette cases, sound, acrylic signs [COLLECTANEA, IMPORT/EXPORT FUNK OFFICE, FUNK STATION (1-4)], four wooden structures [Funk Stations] acrylic signs on four shelves with four cassette players [LEXICON; LOCAL (EAST?); LOCAL (WEST?); IMPORT], 30 wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text [LEXICON]. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992 - 1993, Installation. Mixed media: metal shelf structure, books, magazines, newspapers, ephemera, BETA video cases, 25 hours of digitized video, two monitors, one video projection, cassette cases, sound, acrylic signs [COLLECTANEA, IMPORT/EXPORT FUNK OFFICE, FUNK STATION (1-4)], four wooden structures [Funk Stations] acrylic signs on four shelves with four cassette players [LEXICON; LOCAL (EAST?); LOCAL (WEST?); IMPORT], 30 wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text [LEXICON]. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Fear, Flight, Fate; Matrix; Loophole of Retreat), 1990, Installation across three locations in the museum. Mixed Media: wooden table, chair, typewriter, lamp, stack of blank paper, paper with typed text, wooden ladder, telescope, cotton string, muslin drape, silkscreen, rubber-stamped wooden slats, vinyl type and puzzle pieces on vellum, jars with varied colored contents on wooden shelf with vinyl type, plaques with rubber-stamped text with puzzle pieces, jars and wheelbarrow filled with coal, rubber-stamped sourcebook, rubber-stamped wooden shelf, rotating red light, sound. Collection of the artist; Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Mise-en-Scène, 1991, Installation. Mixed media: table, painted wooden structures, 117 rubber-stamped painted wood plaques, vinyl type, 79 documents (color photographs, b/w photographs, postcards) magnifying glass, cotton gloves, three metal basins, three mechanical elements, three mounted postcards on wood, three hanging textiles with collage, two topiaries, sound. Courtesy Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Mise-en-Scène, 1991, Installation. Mixed media: table, painted wooden structures, 117 rubber-stamped painted wood plaques, vinyl type, 79 documents (color photographs, b/w photographs, postcards) magnifying glass, cotton gloves, three metal basins, three mechanical elements, three mounted postcards on wood, three hanging textiles with collage, two topiaries, sound. Courtesy Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Idyll Pursuits, 1991, Installation. Mixed media: wooden structure, three plaques with rubber-stamped text, three prize ribbons, photographic print, mud footprints, acrylic sign [El Dorado], portable easel, kaleidoscope, palette with rubber-stamped text, canvas with rubber- stamped text, climbing rope, eleven wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text and image reproductions, engraved brass plate. Courtesy Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Idyll Pursuits, 1991, Installation. Mixed media: wooden structure, three plaques with rubber-stamped text, three prize ribbons, photographic print, mud footprints, acrylic sign [El Dorado], portable easel, kaleidoscope, palette with rubber-stamped text, canvas with rubber- stamped text, climbing rope, eleven wooden plaques with rubber-stamped text and image reproductions, engraved brass plate. Courtesy Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997, Installation. Mixed media: 16 color photographs, six b/w photographs, three lithographs, vinyl type on wall (Attempted Time Travel Variable Sites Continuing Circuit “Complex Fate”), five videos (Partially Buried, 1996; Conversation with Janice and Lonnie “Lumumba” Turner, 1996; Übertragen/Transfer (Samir Alschausky, Henrietta Schroeter, Simin Farkhondeh), 1996; Super 8 Footage, 1996; Underground, 1976, a film by Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler), sound, one hanging appliqué, two paper ball lamps, two window roller shutters, sisal carpet, pillows, wall treatment. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Köln / Ankauf mit Unterstützung der Ludwig Stiftung 2001. Photo: Flavio Karrer.
Renée Green, Übertragen/Transfer, 1997, Installation. Mixed media: 16 color photographs, six b/w photographs, three lithographs, vinyl type on wall (Attempted Time Travel Variable Sites Continuing Circuit “Complex Fate”), five videos (Partially Buried, 1996; Conversation with Janice and Lonnie “Lumumba” Turner, 1996; Übertragen/Transfer (Samir Alschausky, Henrietta Schroeter, Simin Farkhondeh), 1996; Super 8 Footage, 1996; Underground, 1976, a film by Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler), sound, one hanging appliqué, two paper ball lamps, two window roller shutters, sisal carpet, pillows, wall treatment. Courtesy Museum Ludwig, Köln / Ankauf mit Unterstützung der Ludwig Stiftung 2001. Photo: Flavio Karrer.

Artist
Renée Green

Curators
Mason Leaver-Yap, Sofie Krogh Christensen, Dr. Michael Birchall

Location

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
Switzerland
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Website
https://migrosmuseum.ch

Published on: 09.12.21