Image: Helmut Lang, fist IV, 2015–17. © Courtesy of the artist
Join Neville Wakefield, curator of Helmut Lang: What remains behind, for an in-person walkthrough of the exhibition.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents What remains behind by Helmut Lang in the artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House. The historic house designed by fellow Austrian Rudolph Schindler provides the spare, proto-minimalist frame for a series of freestanding sculptures. As with all of Lang’s work, the visible and the invisible are put in direct play. Stating his preference for materials “with a past, elements with irreplaceable presence and with scars and memories of a former purpose,” Lang impregnates the architecturally hallowed space with the powerful but ghostly presences of collective pasts and unknown futures.
**This program is at capacity. Please email office[at]makcenter.org to be placed on the waitlist.
NEVILLE WAKEFIELD
Neville Wakefield is a postmodern writer and curator interested in exploring the ways in which art behaves outside of institutional contexts. As senior curatorial advisor for PS1 MoMA and curator of Frieze Projects, he gained a reputation for challenging the conditions that shape art in both commercial and noncommercial contexts. Explorations of time and space have been a signature part of his practice. He has worked extensively with international institutions, including the Schaulager in Switzerland, where he curated the Matthew Barney retrospective Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail, one of the first shows to juxtapose the work of a contemporary artist with that of half a millennium before. Space as it relates to landscape and land art led him to co-found Elevation1049, a site-specific biennial in Gstaad, Switzerland, while also shaping the recurring Desert X exhibitions in the Coachella Valley region of Southern California of which he is Founding Artistic Director. He has also been instrumental in the development and success of Desert X AlUla, taking place in AlUla northwest Saudi Arabia, home to the country’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra along with numerous other initiatives aimed at promoting art in the Gulf region.
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Helmut Lang: What remains behind
February 19, 2025 — May 4, 2025
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Opening Reception for Helmut Lang: What remains behind
February 19, 2025
6:00 PM—8:00 PM
The exhibition is presented with the support of Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.
