VALIE EXPORT, ABRUNDUNG II, 1976. Black and white silver gelatin print on baryta paper laid on chip board, 80 x 135 cm. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, © VALIE EXPORT / Bildrecht, Wien 2024
Join Jia Yi Gu, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and organizer of the exhibition, on a tour of VALIE EXPORT: Embodied. She will discuss EXPORT’s early artist explorations, expanding on the production of meaning and materiality in film, photography, and performance, while challenging the social function of women and the ideologies of space and the built environment.
JIA YI GU
Jia Yi Gu joined MAK Center in 2021 as Director and Curator. She is an architectural curator, scholar, and designer working at the intersections of art and architecture. Over the past decade, she has developed a pedagogical and curatorial practice centering on research-based exhibitions and the production of situations and environments, alongside the critique and transformation of institutional practices.
VALIE EXPORT: Embodied is organized by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu with Seymour Polatin, Exhibitions and Programs Manager, Brian Taylor, Curatorial Assistant, and Maeve Atkinson, Education and Engagement Coordinator.
The performance series In Their Own Image is curated by Chloë Flores and features new work by performing artists Zackary Drucker, Sierra Fujita, Emily Lucid, Lara Salmon, Andrea Soto, and Dorian Wood.
The exhibition is made possible with support from Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Betsy Greenberg, the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Arts and Culture Department, and MAK Center’s Centennial Council.
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