Barbara Kruger

June 30 – August 12

Installation view, Barbara Kruger, David Zwirner, New York, 2022.

“I work with pictures and words because I think they have the ability to tell us and remind us where we’ve come from and where we’re going. They have powers and pleasures and desires and disgust.”

All quotes by Barbara Kruger.

Installation view, Barbara Kruger, David Zwirner, New York, 2022.

"Direct Address has been the motor of my practice from the very beginning, whether it appears through the gaze of an image looking back at you or whether it is a text forthrightly addressing you.”

Installation view, Barbara Kruger, David Zwirner, New York, 2022.

"Humor has always been a driver of my work, whether you want to call it irony, or whether you want to call it parody, or commentary, or even satire, or just a simple grasp of the goof, I always say I try to make work about how we are to one another."

Installation view, Barbara Kruger, David Zwirner, New York, 2022.

Thinking of You . I Mean Me. I Mean You. , a solo exhibition devoted to the artist’s work was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago in the fall of 2021 and is now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through July 17, 2022.

In Europe, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is currently presenting the solo exhibition Barbara Kruger: Bitte Lachen / Please Cry. The artist is also included in The Milk of Dreams, Cecilia Alemani’s central exhibition in the Venice Biennale.

This exhibition at David Zwirner coincides with a large-scale site-specific installation by the artist in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opening July 16, 2022.

Installation photograph, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of ~~You~~. I Mean Me. I Mean You., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20, 2022–July 17, 2022. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. This exhibition was previously at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Installation photograph, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of ~~You~~ . I Mean Me. I Mean You. , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20, 2022–July 17, 2022. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. This exhibition was previously at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Installation view, Barbara Kruger: Bitte lachen / Please cry, April 29–August 28, 2022, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Courtesy the artist / Mies van der Rohe, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Timo Ohler

Installation view, Barbara Kruger, The Milk of Dreams, April 23–November 27, 2022, Venice Biennale

Barbara Kruger, Thinking of ~~You~~ . I Mean Me. I Mean You. , 2019. In conjunction with Kruger’s survey, The Museum of Modern Art will present a site-specific installation in its Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium, opening July 16, 2022.

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