Park McArthur

This exhibition of artist Park McArthur (born 1984, North Carolina, US) brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.

This exhibition serves as an occasion to consider McArthur’s practice and presence among a recent generation of artists whose materialist and institutionally-responsive strategies refuse to separate critique from imagination.

Introduced to a wider public with her solo exhibition of temporary ramps, disabled parking signage, and Wikipedia entry on disabled writer and activist Marta Russell (Ramps, 2014), McArthur’s work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions. Since then, processes of degeneration and dependency, as experiences filled with aesthetic possibility and formal invention, have been central to McArthur’s practice.

The impossibility of experiencing the exhibition in its entirety is one of this multi-sited project’s propositions. By closely aligning each museum’s presentation and attempting to make the same show in more than one place at once, the exhibition confronts hierarchies of singularity, individuality, independence, and personhood.

Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach

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