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BRUCE NAUMAN: OK OK OK

11 March 2022 – 12 June 2022

M WOODS Hutong

In collaboration with Tate Modern, London and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, M WOODS Museum presents the first and most comprehensive overview of the work of American artist Bruce Nauman in China. This exhibition spans a period of more than fifty years and departs from previous surveys through its experiential approach to display and its highlighting of Nauman’s interest in performance art, neon ‘signs’, and sound- and moving image-based artworks. 

This exhibition will also include a special display of Nauman’s Tate Turbine Hall commission Raw Materials (2004), which functions as an aural retrospective that brings together 22 sound excerpts taken from works spanning a 40 year period. 

The exhibition also includes key works from museum collections internationally that explore his preoccupation with themes such as the artist’s studio: MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage) (2001), and Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square (1967–8).

This exhibition is organised by Tate Modern, London and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in collaboration with M WOODS, Beijing and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.

The exhibition is curated at M WOODS by Victor Wang, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, and at Tate Modern by Andrea Lissoni, former Senior Curator, International Art (Film), Tate Modern; Nicholas Serota, former Director, Tate, and Katy Wan, Assistant Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. 

'Today, museums and galleries are frequently tempted to adopt a ‘comfortable’ approach to their exhibition programming. However, this strategy often produces shows that fail to fully reflect the wide spectrum of human experience, with its sometimes uncomfortable extremes of humour, confusion, and desire. 

For M WOODS Hutong’s opening show of 2022, we are delighted to present China’s first solo museum exhibition of the work of the American artist Bruce Nauman, whose ground-breaking approach and psychologically charged practice have not only created new modes of artistic expression, but also inspired several generations of artists, Chinese and international. From his early performance pieces to his corridor installation works, Nauman’s work is neither safe nor comfortable: it reminds us not only that mind and body are intrinsically intertwined through our emotions, but also that a momentary loss of control is an important human sensation. 

We are thrilled to be working alongside our institutional partners, Tate Modern, London, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, to bring experiential work from fifty years of Nauman’s career to Beijing. '

Bruce Nauman was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941, and has lived and worked in New Mexico since 1979. After undergraduate studies in mathematics, physics and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis, in 1966. In 1972, at the age of thirty-one, Nauman had his first retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1994 a large retrospective of his work and accompanied by the publication of a catalogue raisonné, was organised by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Over the course of his artistic career, Nauman has held major museum shows in prestigious institutions internationally including Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art New York, Hamburger Bahnhof, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Hayward Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery and Kunstmuseum Basel. He has participated in five editions of the major quinquennial exhibition Documenta (1968, 1972, 1977, 1982 and 1992) and has presented work in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale at least six times, at which he was awarded the Golden Lion twice.

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