Currently closed due to renovation work. Re-opening on June 6, 2024.
March 31, 2023 to January 7, 2024
Adam Pendleton
Blackness, White, and Light
Blackness, White, and Light was the first extensive European solo exhibition of the New York-based artist Adam Pendleton (* 1984, Richmond, VA). His multifaceted work—which includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and film—recognizes the complicated sensorial experience of moving through the world in the twenty-first century. As an immersive work of art, his exhibition aimed to transform the museum into a space for conversation, creating a dialogue between artworks and viewers, and multiplying monophonic voices into a polyphony of ideas. Pendleton investigates Blackness as a color, an identity, a method, and a political subject—in short, as a multitude. He also poses urgent yet open questions about the legacy of modernism in the present day, reactivating ideas from historic avant-gardes across mediums and moments in time. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the idea of Black Dada, an ever-evolving inquiry into the relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. It’s a visual philosophy that confounds the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange, reminding us that meaning always develops through difference.