Exhibitions
Performing Arts
Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg March 26–July 31
Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 May 19–August 5
The Builders Association* HOUSE / DIVIDED October 6–8
Organized by the Wexner Center. Brochure published by the Wexner Center.
Organized by WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
World Premiere. Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project for 2010–11 and 2011–12. Commissioned by the Wexner Center. Creative Campus Innovations Grant project via the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, with the support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Selected by Ohio State for inclusion in the First Year Experience program. The production subsequently traveled to The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois March 26–July 31 Organized by the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in cooperation with the Wexner Center. Brochure published by the Wexner Center.
Omer Fast: 2001/11 May 19–August 5, 2012 Gallery guide published by the Wexner Center.
Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room March 26–July 31
ON TOUR 2011–2012
Organized by the Wexner Center. Catalogue published by the Wexner Center.
Mark Bradford
Rineke Dijkstra: Annemiek May 13–August 14
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 26–September 18, 2011
Organized by the Wexner Center.
Wexner Center Artist Residency Award 2009–10 recipient/project.
Paula Hayes* September 16–December 30, 2011 Hayes also designed the Wexner Center Roof Garden, which was commissioned by the Wexner Center.
Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae* September 16–December 30, 2011 Organized by the Wexner Center. Catalogue published by the Wexner Center.
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow* September 16–December 30, 2011 Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, with generous support from the Cowles Charitable Trust, Kara and Wayne Fingerman, Dorothy Tapper Goldman, Barbara and Jonathan Lee, Nion McEvoy, Pamela K. and William A. Royall Jr., Holly and Nick Ruffin, Betty A. and Lloyd G. Schermer, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, and an anonymous donor. The C. F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.
Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae
L’A./Rachid Ouramdane* World Fair October 21–October 22 Presented in conjunction with “A Conversation on Immigration,” which began the Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) initiative launched by Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values.
Nasher Sculpture Center, January 28– April 22, 2012
Joel Harrison Septet Search October 23
WEXNER CENTER ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD RECIPIENT 2011–12
Jérôme Bel* Cédric Andrieux November 1
Ernst Caramelle
Presented by the Wexner Center in association with BalletMet.
*The featured artists, curators, or other specialists associated with these exhibitions participated in discussion sessions and other programs for Ohio State students.
Diana Thater: Peonies August 20–December 30, 2011 Gallery guide published by the Wexner Center.
David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy January 28–April 15, 2012 Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by Alice and Nahum Lainer, the National Endowment for the Arts, Gagosian Gallery, and the Steven F. Roth Family Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Steaven K. and Judith G. Jones Foundation, Myron Laskin, Agnes Gund, Dorothy R. Sherwood, Terri and Michael Smooke, the Dedalus Foundation, Ellie and Mark Lainer, and the Lipman Family Foundation.
Sarah Morris: Points on a Line January 28–April 15, 2012 Ernst Caramelle* January 28–August 26, 2012 Site-specific installation at the Wexner Center. Wexner Center Artist Residency Award 2011–12 project. Gallery guide published by the Wexner Center.
Programs from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012
Pan Pan* The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane November 17–20 Performed with Ohio State students and local high school students as part of the cast; the students were participants in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stand Up for Shakespeare educational program in conjunction with the university’s multiyear partnership with the RSC. Programmed in conjunction with Ohio State’s Year of Shakespeare initiative, organized and supported by the Arts Initiative at Ohio State with partners across the university in conjunction with the university’s multiyear partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba November 18 Mariano Pensotti* El pasado es un animal grotesco (The past is a grotesque animal) January 19–January 22 Donny McCaslin Group February 23 Vijay Iyer Prasanna Nitin Mitta Tirtha March 3 Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM* The You Show March 29