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Summer ’22
Esther Schipper July 21 – August 27, 2022 www.estherschipper.com
Summer ’22
With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui
July 21 – August 27, 2022
www.estherschipper.com
Opening Thursday July 21, 6–9pm
Special opening hours August 1–14, Wed–Fri 12–6pm
This summer Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer '22, an exhibition of works from Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.
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Julia Scher, Wonderland
Maison Populaire May 25 – July 15, 2022 www.maisonpop.fr
Exhibition view: Julia Scher, Wonderland, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
Julia Scher
Wonderland
Maison Populaire
9 bis Rue Dombasle
93100 Montreuil
May 25 – July 15, 2022
www.maisonpop.fr
Opening: Tuesday May 24, 6pm–9pm
Between 1996 and 1997, Julia Scher photographed seven children wearing pink uniforms: Lena, Grace, Andy, Andre, Brandon, Jodi and Zoë. Some of them held up batons or gas masks, others just stared defiantly at the camera. In the following months, Scher enlarged these images and integrated them into an installation which traveled and evolved in time: 1997, Chicago; 1998, New York; 2000, Bordeaux ; 2018–2019, Berlin. Over the years, the principle has remained the same: a child-sized control desk surrounded by distorting mirrors bathed in twilight-colored lights. The recorded voice of the artist warns the audience: “There are live cameras filming you [...] Attention. Your size may change”. This is Wonderland, an upside-down world where children watch over adults downsized in the reflections of mirrors.
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Julia Scher, Planet Greyhound
Kunsthalle Gießen February 18 – May 1, 2022 www.kunsthalle-giessen.de
Julia Scher, Info screen at bus station somewhere near Planet Greyhound, 2022 (still). © the artist
Entitled Planet Greyhound, Julia Scher's solo exhibition of all new sculptural, video and installation works transforms the space of the Kunsthalle Gießen into a temporary bus station for humanoid and extraterrestrial life forms.
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Esther Schipper at Art Cologne 2021
Koelnmesse November 18–21, 2021 www.artcologne.com
Booth view: Esther Schipper, ART COLOGNE, 2021. Photo © Andrea Rossetti
ART COLOGNE
Booth A5, Hall 11.2
Koelnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln / Cologne
November 18–21, 2021
www.artcologne.com
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Julia Scher – MAMCO, Geneva
MAMCO, Geneva October 6, 2021 – January 30, 2022 www.mamco.ch
Julia Scher, Hidden Camera (Architectural Vagina), 1991/2018, JVC camcorder, bracket, organic fronds, (optional: monitor output, archival video footage), dimensions variable, unique in a series of three variations. MAMCO Collection, Geneva. Photo © Julien Gremaud
The work of Julia Scher, which first appeared in the 1980s, is noteworthy for its systematic use of surveillance techniques, particularly CCTV. Scher’s technical background provided her with in-depth knowledge of a range of surveillance systems. She worked at a well-known security firm for a period of time before setting up her own company, Safe and Secure Productions.
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Spotlight: Julia Scher
Photo © Jörg von Bruchhausen
For our Spotlight this month we present Julia Scher's Security Landscape of the Year, 2002.
Julia Scher’s Security Landscape of the Year consists of a pink foam board connected to a surveillance camera and a small monitor. The camera is directed at what is happening in front of the artwork and transmits it to the monitor: When standing in front of the work, viewers can watch themselves in the monitor.
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"The Challenge: We are in this together" – Esther Schipper for The New Institute
Photo © Kristian Schuller
For its December newsletter, titled "The Challenge: We are in this together", The New Institute asked Esther Schipper – among other thinkers and practitioners – to share her insights and analysis on the current global pandemic. For the occasion, Esther Schipper selected artworks by the gallery artists showing that the questions of viruses and pandemics have been among us for a long time.
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Artist Talk with Julia Scher
Freie Universitat, Berlin January 30 2019, 6 – 8pm www.fu-berlin.de
Photo © Albrecht Fuchs
On Wednesday January 30, from 6–8pm, Julia Scher will give a talk titled “Databound Vaginal Architectures” at the Freie Universitat, in Hörsaal 1B (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
