Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 5 – September 9, 2015. (Photo: David Heald). Detail image features Kevin Beasley’s Strange Fruit commissioned for the exhibition and collection, as well as works by Mariana Castillo Deball, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, and Haegue Yang.
Guggenheim Museum, 2015Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Co-curatorStorylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim brought together over one hundred collection artworks, opening with key examples of work from the 1990s, when artists embraced the concept of storytelling to articulate the politics of identity and difference, investing both abstract and representational forms with narrative content. Most of the work on view was created after 2005, offering an expansive view of the new paradigms for storytelling forged to communicate ideas about race, gender, sexuality, history, and politics, among other trenchant themes.
It was curated by Carmen Hermo (then Assistant Curator, Collections), and Katherine Brinson (then Curator, Contemporary Art), Nancy Spector (then Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator), Nat Trotman (then Associate Curator), and Joan Young (then Director, Curatorial Affairs).
Artists: Paweł Althamer, Julieta Aranda, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, John Bock, Carol Bove, Ernesto Caivano, Mariana Castillo Deball, Maurizio Cattelan, Trisha Donnelly, Shannon Ebner, Simon Fujiwara, Ellie Ga, Gerard & Kelly, Simryn Gill, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Camille Henrot, Juliana Huxtable, Rashid Johnson, Matt Keegan, Agnieszka Kurant, Mark Leckey, Lee Bul, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Lockhart, Nate Lowman, Mark Manders, Ryan McGinley, Josephine Meckseper, Zanele Muholi, Iván Navarro, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Katie Paterson, R.H. Quaytman, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Xaviera Simmons, Taryn Simon, Alexandre Singh, Agathe Snow, Ryan Trecartin, Danh Vo, Sharif Waked, Jonas Wood, and Haegue Yang.