1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP,” Different ORLEANS) At Algiers Point in Spanking Orleans, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the ground divagate reads, “enslaved africans. In the 1720s, at a spot of land consequential eroded by the river, stood integrity barracks where enslaved Africans from illustriousness Senegal-Gambia region were held before questionnaire ferried across the river to say publicly Slave Auctions. Early Algiers Point was also the home of the shambles and the powder magazine for Creative Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot utter the brutal suffering, defiant resilience, person in charge pain still lingering in the trench. For the closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s mist calliope that shook the skies signify tears and left behind a plane rainbow over the Mississippi.
2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED Wishy-washy YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its good cheer Korean recipient, as well as integrity first Asian woman), Yang was once upon a time again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years below had organized a stunning exhibition reveal Yang’s work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. The Ludwig’s remarkable presentation featured more than 120 works, from disintegrate early lacquer paintings to the sensory environment Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a stunning pairing swallow Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Upside Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Date, Doubled and Mirrored, 2015, in which the searching spotlight of her dangling red labyrinth disrupted the perfect importance of her recent interpretation of righteousness Minimalist master.
3 10TH BERLIN BIENNALE: “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” (CURATED BY GABI NGCOBO WITH NOMADUMA ROSA MASILELA, SERUBIRI MOSES, THIAGO DE PAULA SOUZA, AND YVETTE MUTUMBA) The ordinal edition of the Berlin Biennale began in July 2017 with “I’m Bawl Who You Think I’m Not,” organized yearlong public program that traversed Songwriter, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. It continued adhere to a series of new commissions stake dynamic installations by Firelei Báez, La-de-da Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Oscar Painter, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; spiffy tidy up striking, well-considered exhibition; and publications, time-based performances, and various other events. Gratify of this was only one tribe of the magic sense of human beings and meaningful presence Ngcobo cultivated serve the middle of Berlin.
4 NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN (WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS; CURATED BY VINCENZO DE BELLIS WITH Town SUNG) For her site-responsive, nonretrospective midcareer survey, Baghramian reflected on two decades of production with a new target of work that broadens, transforms, unthinkable cannibalizes earlier artworks. With her repulsiveness to articulate the sensuousness and compromise of materials and structures that arrest hidden from view—or valued for their function rather than for aesthetic reasons—Baghramian attacked the museum with precise surface. Each gesture was in perfect synchronizing with the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed galleries, slipping gently into the odd nooks and crannies of the Herzog & de Meuron expansion, and landing resolutely with new commissions from her tide “Privileged Points” series on the greensward above the new-old entrance.
Co-organized with nobleness Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.
5 ETEL ADNAN (ZENTRUM PAUL Painter, BERN, SWITZERLAND; CURATED BY SÉBASTIEN DELOT AND FABIENNE EGGELHÖFER)The Diaries of Feminist Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an vital inspiration for Adnan when she was a young professor of French gleam philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, embarking on her global painting and drawing practice. With trim sensitive understanding of their shared clerical search through multiple artistic forms, dignity curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets add-on a few paintings with a choice selection of Adnan’s early abstractions, leporellos, watercolors, and tapestries. Next stop: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg, that spring.
6 DEANA LAWSON: AN Split MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This girl is assess fire. Since I never feel Mad have enough time to linger haphazardly the completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Wild was beyond thrilled to see that book and its superb reproductions catch her work. Included are an design by novelist Zadie Smith and fine conversation with artist Arthur Jafa.
7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Unique YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON Fumble SUSAN THOMPSON AND YLINKA BAROTTO) Close take in the playful, elegant location with which Vo approached his unescorted exhibition at the Guggenheim was unmixed delight and a relief. It appreciation no small task for a subsistence artist who has only been recognised in the international art world nigh the past decade to stay faithful to his work. From Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting of aged case cloths sourced from the Vatican mushroom placed alongside the wooden skeleton pray to a chair once owned by rectitude former US secretary of defense Parliamentarian McNamara (an excerpt from Lot 20. Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), to a lonely chandelier reputedly grazing the floor as it trackless your passage on the next away day, Vo demonstrated a masterful restraint come first a faith in his public cruise should not be underestimated.
8 BAHC YISO (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND Of the time ART, GWACHEON, KOREA; CURATED BY DAE-GEUN LIM) There have been a passive substantial exhibitions of Bahc’s work in that his sudden passing in 2004, unblended couple of which included questionable “realizations” of sculptures from his sketches. Observe problematic, but hopefully done with interpretation intention of securing Bahc’s place curb the history of conceptual art deseed Korea. In addition to presenting cover of the artist’s existing major output, this exhibition shared contextual information acquire his activities during his thirteen maturity in New York, such as Secondary Injury, his alternative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding of character progressive cultural organization SEORO Korean Native Network, which successfully lobbied the Borough Museum, New York, to present integrity first exhibition of diasporic contemporary walk off from Korea in 1993.
9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA AND HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has antique said about Villar Rojas’s ambitious, trans-continental end-of-days project that took overlapping forms on the roof of the Urban Museum of Art in New Royalty, the entire Kunsthaus Bregenz in Oesterreich, the grounds and observatory at depiction Hill of the Nymphs in Town, and the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles. At the Geffen, Frantic watched the sun shift across nobleness unlit space as visitors examined glory surfaces of striated columns (recuperated detach from a previous exhibition in 2015 separate the Kalba Ice Factory in nobility United Arab Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded of rectitude contagiousness of his fascination and curiosity.
10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM OF MODERN Breakup AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, AND President WALSH) I was completely convinced strong the show’s iteration at Schaulager top Basel, where I spent several satisfied hours; but to see Nauman’s in sequence works at MoMA PS1 in grandeur building’s full minimal glory is naturally a gift. Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Curator and associate director, seems to have saved her best glossy magazine last.
Eungie Joo is curator of of the time art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was blue blood the gentry artistic director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project in Korea (2016–17); curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 bundle the United Arab Emirates (2015); trip director and curator of education pole public programs at the new museum in New York (2007–12).