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Still Points of the Turning World

Peter Doig, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Cristina Iglesias, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Carsten Nicolai, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Wangechi Mutu, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Stephan Dean, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Miroslaw Balka, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Wolfgang Laib, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006
Catherine Opie, Still Points of the Turning World Installation view, 2006

Intensity, experimentation, and visceral presence were the hallmarks of 13 significant one-person installations – some of them newly commissioned, all of them never-before seen in the U.S. – that constituted SITE SANTA FE’s Sixth International Biennial. Ottmann’s exhibition both concentrated and amplified these singular works, empowering them to speak for themselves without the common filter of a prescriptive curatorial theme. As Ottmann explained, “I want this Biennial to be about the artists, not about the curator.” Ottmann envisioned a bold concept for this timely, groundbreaking Biennial. Eager to steer away from the now ubiquitous mega-biennials, he dramatically reduced the quantity of artists to 13 and the exhibition to approximately 40 works. Each artist had separate rooms, designed to encourage as well as seduce their audiences with a purer, unmediated experience. The exhibition covered the full spectrum of contemporary art media and comprised photography, installation, painting, performance art, soundscapes, sculpture, and video. All the work was new, and four artists were commissioned to create works expressly for the Biennial

Exhibited Artists:
Mirosław Bałka
Jennifer Bartlett
Patty Chang
Stephen Dean
Peter Doig
Robert Grosvenor
Cristina Iglesias
Wolfgang Laib
Jonathan Meese
Wangechi Mutu
Carsten Nicolai
Catherine Opie
Thorns Ltd.

Curator:
Klaus Ottmann

Artists

Mirosław Bałka

Mirosław Bałka is a sculptor also active in the field of experimental video and drawing. In 1985 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw,...LEARN MORE

Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Bartlett was known for her room-sized installations ranging in medium, that explored her immediate environments including houses, mountains, ...LEARN MORE

Patty Chang

Patty Chang has cited the work of the seminal performance artist Marina Abramovic and the films of Jean Cocteau as inspiration. Chang is a performance...LEARN MORE

Stephen Dean

Stephen Dean is a French American artist based in New York City. His time-based works, installations and watercolors summon physiological and anthropo...LEARN MORE

Peter Doig

One of the most accomplished artists of the last decade, Peter Doig has introduced a new spirit into the genre of narrative painting. His work emanate...LEARN MORE

Robert Grosvenor

Robert Grosvenor’s formative years coincided with those of the leading Minimalist sculptors Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Morris. In...LEARN MORE

Cristina Iglesias

Cristina Iglesias’s work evolved in the context of European and American sculpture during the 1980s and 1990s, whereby the object of sculpture was exp...LEARN MORE

Wolfgang Laib

Wolfgang Laib creates sculptures and installations that seem to connect past and present, the ephemeral and the eternal. He employs simple, yet highly...LEARN MORE

Jonathan Meese

Jonathan Meese is known for his liturgical performances and his Dionysian installations of paintings and sculptures that create complex worlds of clos...LEARN MORE

Wangechi Mutu

A native of Kenya, Mutu mixes her cultural heritage with Western sources that range from high fashion and pornography to the past and present history ...LEARN MORE

Carsten Nicolai

Carsten Nicolai is a German artist and musician based in Berlin. He is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area bet...LEARN MORE

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie is known for her powerfully dynamic photography that examines the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American drea...LEARN MORE

Thorns Ltd.

Thorns Ltd. was founded in 2003 by the experimental musicians Snorre Ruch, Finn Olav Holthe, and Jon Wesseltoft. Its name is derived from Thorns, a Bl...LEARN MORE
Curators

Klaus Ottmann

Klaus Ottmann is an independent curator, writer, and translator based in New York City. He is the Adjunct Curator of the Collection at the Parrish Art...LEARN MORE