Kristin Oppenheim, Night Run: Three Early Works

Kristin Oppenheim, Night Run: Three Early Works

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Opening

May 21, 2021 3:00 PM

Closing

Jun 13, 2021 8:00 PM

Location

suns.works

Zollikerstrasse 249

8008 Zürich

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Curated by Reece Cox

Exhibition: 21 May - June 13 2021
Opening day: Friday May 21, 3-8pm

suns.works is pleased to announce Night Run, the first solo exhibition of New York based artist Kristin Oppenheim in Zürich. Building upon the simultaneous release of a double LP collection of early recordings made between 1992 - 1995, this exhibition will highlight three early voice installations with a different singular piece present in the gallery each week of the three week exhibition. As the sole entity occupying the main room at suns.works, maximal space is provided to emphasise the physical presence of each work.

Over the last three decades, Kristin Oppenheim has composed vocal works not as a musician, but as an artist working in gallery and museum contexts. Oppenheim’s voice is the sole medium, forming repetitious phrases half-sung and half-spoken to compose disciplined but haunting environments that drift back and forth, panning across the stereo field. These immersive sound installations saturate space, touching on fragmented memory that blurs the lines between reality and abstraction. Oppenheim uses the physicality of sound to underscore the emotional tension between the absence and presence of her voice. Kristin Oppenheim is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for installation art based in writing, performance, film, and sound. She is represented by greengrassi in London and 303 Gallery in New York.

Since the early 1990s, Oppenheim’s works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the 45th and 46th Venice Biennale, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions at MAMCO Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva; at Secession, Vienna; KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; at FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oboro, Montréal; the Jewish Museum, New York; and at the Villa Arson, Nice.

Her work has also been seen in exhibitions including “X”, at FRAC Des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2021); “Sound Museum” at D MUSEUM, Seoul (2020); “H(a)unting images. Anatomy of a shot” at Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona (2017); “Never Ending Stories” at MAMCO Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva (2014); “The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias”, (2014); “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”, ‘Nuit Blanche’, in Paris (2013); “NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet, Set Trash and No Star” at New Museum, New York (2013); “Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou” at Seattle Art Museum, (2012); “Volume” at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2011); “Silence. Listen to the Show” at Sandretto Foundation, Turin (2007); “Don’t Call it Performance” at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2003); “Voices” at Witte de With, Rotterdam (1998); “Young and Restless” at Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997); “29’ - 0 / East” at New York Kunsthalle (1996); “Threshold” at Fundação de Serralves, Porto (1995); “Murs du son” at Villa Arson, Nice (1995); and “Encounters with Diversity” at PS1 MOMA, New York (1992).

All works courtesy of greengrassi, London.
With the generous support of Meyer Sound.




Double LP Release 21 May 2021:

Kristin Oppenheim - Night Run (INFO001)
Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995

More information available at https://info-hq.bandcamp.com/

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