Barbara Kruger
David Zwirner | New York
Barbara Kruger
June 30–August 12, 2022
519, 525, and 533 West 19th Street, New York
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by renowned American artist Barbara Kruger (b. 1945). Spanning the gallery’s three locations on West 19th Street in New York, this will be Kruger’s first presentation at the gallery since the announcement of her representation in 2019.
Kruger powerfully and directly engages with viewers through her distinctive visual language, utilizing images, text, and technology as tools of communication to reveal and question established power structures and social constructs. The exhibition will feature eleven large-scale works and installations by the artist, many of which reconfigure in new digital formats some of the most well-known examples from her oeuvre, transforming these previously static images into dynamic video works that engage with the visual paradigm of the current moment. Similarly, an immersive three-channel video installation combines text and images with a barrage of memes and other internet mainstays. Seen in a new way, these works not only reaffirm the cultural prominence of Kruger’s iconic visual language but reveal the radical inventiveness and lasting relevance of her incisive work with pictures and words.
The exhibition will coincide with a large-scale site-specific installation by the artist titled Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. in the Marron Family Atrium of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view from July 16, 2022 to January 2, 2023. Kruger’s atrium commission is presented in conjunction with a major solo exhibition devoted to the artist’s work that was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago in the fall of 2021 and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it is now on view through July 17, 2022.
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