Il Whitney Museum di New York ha svelato i nomi dei 69 artisti e dei i 2 collettivi che parteciperanno alla Whitney Biennal 2024, in programma dal 20 marzo.
Torna l’appuntamento con la Whitney Biennal, uno degli appuntamenti più attesi del calendario statunitense. Giunta alla sua 81a edizione, l’evento segna un’importante occasione per fare un punto sulla scena artistica americana, attirando le attenzioni del sistema artistico internazionale, che ovviamente guarda con interesse a quel che accade in U.S.A..
A curarla sono Chrissie Iles e Meg Onli, che tornano ad occuparsi dell’evento dopo le edizioni del 2004 e del 2006. Intitolata Even Better Than the Real Thing, la Biennale si concentrerà sulla concezione di realtà, alla luce del momento storico in cui si trova la nostra società, tesa tra lo scioglimento dei confini e i cambiamenti provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale.
Rispetto alla Biennale del 2022, che presentava tanti artisti a metà o fine carriera, questa edizione si concentra su artisti più giovani (che per il mondo dell’arte significa avere meno di 40 anni), a inizio carriera. Tra le figure più storicizzate ci sono i pittori Suzanne Jackson, Mary Lovelace O’Neal e Harmony Hammond, oppure l’artista concettuale Pippa Garner.
Altri, seppur giovani, sono già entrati a far parte del giro delle biennali, come Isaac Julien, che l’anno scorso ha realizzato un’installazione per la Biennale di Sharjah; oppure Carolyn Lazard, Dora Budor, P. Staff e Tourmaline che hanno partecipato alla Biennale di Venezia dello scorso anno. Lazard, in particolare, era tra gli artisti invitati alla Whitney Biennal del 2019. Questa edizione è inoltre molto attenta alle istanze contemporanee, quali l’identità e la fluidità di genere. Solo 13 artisti usano i pronomi lui/lui, mentre 15 usano i pronomi loro/loro. La maggior parte degli artisti invitati non sono bianchi.
L’elenco degli artisti:
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (he/him)
Born 1990 in Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Dora Budor (she/her)
Born 1984 in Zagreb, Croatia
Lives in New York, NY
Seba Calfuqueo (she/her/they/them)
Born 1991 in Santiago, Chile
Lives in Ngulumapu, Wallmapu (Chile)
Demian DinéYazhi’ (they/them)
Born 1983 in Gallup, NM, (Diné Bikéyah [Navajo Nation])
Lives in Portland, OR, and elsewhere
Torkwase Dyson (she/her)
Born 1973 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Beacon, NY
JJJJJerome Ellis (any/all)
Born 1989 in Groton, CT
Lives in Norfolk, VA
Jes Fan (he/him/they/them)
Born 1990 in Scarborough, Canada
Lives in Brooklyn, NY, and Hong
Nikita Gale
Born 1983 in Anchorage, AK, Dënéndeh and Dena’ina Ełnena
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
ektor garcia
Born 1985 in Red Bluff, CA
Lives in Mexico City, Mexico, and elsewhere
Pippa Garner (she/her)
Born 1942 in Evanston, IL
Lives in Long Beach, CA
Harmony Hammond (she/her)
Born 1944 in Chicago, IL
Lives in Galisteo, NM
Sharon Hayes (she/her)
Born 1970 in Baltimore, MD
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst
Holly Herndon (she/her)
Born 1980 in Johnson City, TN
Mat Dryhurst (he/him)
Born 1984 in Birmingham, UK
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (she/her)
Born 1987 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Suzanne Jackson (she/her)
Born 1944 in St. Louis, MO
Lives in Savannah, GA
Isaac Julien
Born 1960 in London, UK
Lives in London, UK, and Santa Cruz, CA
Lotus L. Kang (she/her)
Born 1985 in Toronto, Canada
Lives in New York, NY
Mary Kelly (she/her)
Born 1941 in Fort Dodge, IA
Lives in New York, NY
Carolyn Lazard (they/them)
Born 1987 in San Bernardino, CA
Lives in New York, NY
Dionne Lee (she/her/they/them)
Born 1988 in New York, NY
Lives in Columbus, OH
Ligia Lewis (she/her)
Born 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (she/her)
Born 1942 in Jackson, MS
Lives in Oakland, CA, and Merida, Mexico
Cannupa Hanska Luger (he/him)
Born 1979 in Fort Yates, ND (Standing Rock Reservation)
Lives in Glorieta, NM
K.R.M. Mooney (he/him)
Born 1990 in Seattle, WA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Dala Nasser
Born 1990 in Tyre, Lebanon
Lives in Beirut, Lebanon, and London, UK
Diane Severin Nguyen (she/her)
Born 1990 in Carson, CA
Lives in New York, NY
Karyn Olivier (she/her)
Born 1968 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
B. Ingrid Olson
Born 1987 in Denver, CO
Lives in Chicago, IL
Eamon Ore-Giron (he/him)
Born 1973 in Tucson, AZ
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
People Who Stutter Create
Founded 2023
Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart
Julia Phillips (she/her)
Born 1985 in Hamburg, Germany
Lives in Chicago, IL
Mavis Pusey (she/her)
Born 1928 in Retreat, Jamaica
Died 2019 in Falmouth, VA
Maja Ruznic (she/her)
Born 1983 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
Lives in Placitas, NM
Ser Serpas (she/her)
Born 1995 in East Los Angeles, CA
Lives in New York, NY
Rose B. Simpson (she/her)
Born 1990 in Santa Fe, NM
Lives in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM
P. Staff (they/them)
Born 1987 in the UK
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Clarissa Tossin (she/her)
Born 1973 in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Tourmaline (she/her)
Born 1983 in Boston, MA
Lives in New York, NY
Charisse Pearlina Weston (she/her)
Born 1988 in Houston, TX
Lives in New York, NY
Kiyan Williams (they/them)
Born 1991 in Newark, NJ
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Carmen Winant (she/her)
Born 1983 in San Francisco, CA
Lives in Columbus, OH
Takako Yamaguchi (she/her)
Born 1952 in Okayama, Japan
Lives in Santa Monica, CA
Constantina Zavitsanos (any/all)
Born 1977 in Reading, PA
Lives in New York, NY
Film Program Artists:
Siku Allooloo (she/her)
Born 1986 in Yellowknife, Canada
Lives in Bowser, Canada
Seba Calfuqueo (she/her/they/them)
Born 1991 in Santiago, Chile
Lives in Ngulumapu, Wallmapu (Chile)
Christopher Harris (he/him)
Born 1962 in St. Louis, MO
Lives in Coralville, IA
Miranda Haymon
Born 1993 in Boston, MA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Ho Tzu Nyen (he/him)
Born 1976 in Singapore
Lives in Singapore
Yasmine Anlan Huang (she/her)
Born 1996 in Guangzhou, China
Lives in London, UK, and
New York, NY
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (she/her)
Born 1987 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY
Aron Kantor (he/him/they/them)
Born 1978 in San Francisco, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Kite (she/her)
Born 1990 in Sylmar, CA
Lives in Ancram, NY
Gbenga Komolafe and Tee Park
Gbenga Komolafe
(they/them/he/him/she/her)
Born 2000 in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
Tee Park
(she/her)
Born 1999 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Jenni Laiti (she/her)
Born 1981 in Anár, Sápmi (Inari, Finland)
Lives in Jåhkämåhkke, Sápmi (Jokkmokk, Sweden)
Shuang Li (she/her)
Born 1990 in Wuyi Mountains, China
Lives in Berlin, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland
Simon Liu (he/him)
Born 1987 in Hong Kong
Lives in Brooklyn,NY
Nyala Moon (she/her)
Born 1992 in New York, NY
Lives in the Brooklyn, NY
Niillasaš-Jovnna Máreha Juhani Sunná Máret – Sunna Nousuniemi (they/them)
Born 1993 in Anár, Sápmi
Lives in Anár, Sápmi
Edward Owens (he/him)
Born 1949 in Chicago, IL
Died 2010 in Chicago, IL
Sydney Frances Pascal (she/her)
Born 1993 in Nanaimo, Canada
Lives in Vancouver, Canada
Raqs Media Collective
Founded 1992 in Delhi, India
Jeebesh Bachi, Monica Marula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Riar Rizaldi (he/him)
Born 1990 in Bandung, Indonesia
Lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Penelope Spheeris (she/her)
Born 1945 in New Orleans, LA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Lada Suomenrinne (they/them)
Born 1995 in Murmansk, Russia
Lives in Espoo, Finland, and Njuorggán, Sápmi
Alisi Telengut (she/her)
Born 1989 in Inner Mongolia (Telengut and Mongolian nations)
Lives in Berlin, Germany, and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada
Chanelle Tyson (they/them)
Born 1989 in Greensboro, NC
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Zulaa Urchuud (she/her)
Born 1991 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Performance Program Artists:
Holland Andrews (they/them)
Born 1988 in Orange, CA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY
Debit (she/her)
Born 1986 in Monterrey, Mexico
Lives in New York, NY
JJJJJerome Ellis (any/all)
Born 1989 in Groton, CT
Lives in Norfolk, VA
Sarah Hennies (she/her)
Born 1979 in Louisville, KY
Lives in Red Hook, NY
Alex Tatarsky (they/them)
Born 1989 in New York, NY
Lives in New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA
