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PAST EXHIBITION::::
Jens Haaning
Exhibition Dates: January 23- March 8, 2008
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 to 7:30pm
The reception is free and open to the public
For this project, Haaning will extend his ongoing examination of the living and working conditions of immigrants in the West by importing scenes from their everyday reality into the space of the Walter and McBean Galleries. In mediums that include installation, photography, and performance, he challenges conventional Western perceptions of the “other” in order to create dialogue on the kinds of cultural misunderstandings such perceptions engender. Following previous work that critically questions the definition of Western nations (for example, France), Haaning will be constructing a site-specific project that addresses the problematic notion of the United States of America—a project that emphasizes as indispensable the organic relation between the artist’s work and its local context. During his on-campus residency, Haaning will also lead workshops on the nature of his praxis for SFAI students and faculty. Additionally, SFAI and the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will jointly organize a related panel discussion on immigrant life in the Bay Area (please see the SFAI website for the day, date, and time). An extension of World Factory, Haaning’s project is part of the New Models of Production component of SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs.
Haaning lives and works in Copenhagen. He has recently had solo exhibitions at Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne (France); Secession in Vienna; Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen; Goodwater Gallery in Toronto; Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Group exhibitions include Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen; Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux (France); Apexart in New York; Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in New York. He participated in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Documenta 11 in Kassel (Germany), and the 2006 Gwangju Biennial.
Visit Jens Hanning's website
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Panel Discussion on ART AND THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE:
Saturday, February 16, 4pm
SFAI and the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will jointly host a panel discussion on both the immigrant experience in the Americas and visual representations of such experience. The panel will be made up of local artists, activists, and thinkers whose work examines the relation between visual culture and the issues faced by immigrant communities. This collaborative project is a response to the exhibition currently on view in the Walter and McBean Galleries—Jens Haaning’s UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and Other Works—as well as to the exhibition currently showing at the Chinese Culture Center, In Search of Roots (for more information on the In Search of Roots program, click here).
Panel participants are Hou Hanru, director of SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs and curator of the Jens Haaning exhibition; Carlos Villa, associate professor in SFAI’s Painting department; Abby Chen, program director of the Chinese Culture Center; and Kristina Lim, curator of the Chinese Culture Center’s In Search of Roots program.
SFAI’s exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. Additional funding for the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series has been provided by Bob and Betty Klausner. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and Other Works, as well as Haaning’s Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture, is also supported by the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art
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