From climate change to vinyl records, here are the latest exhibitions.
If you’re after your next culture fix, then check out The New York Abu Dhabi Art Gallery 2023 programme. The art institution has announced its upcoming events, and there are plenty of cool exhibitions – a show all about vinyl records, anyone?
At The New York Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, there are exhibitions covering topical themes, from technology to climate change. The Only Constant runs from 22 February to 4 June. The exhibition explores how humans change landscapes and landscapes change humans. Artists include Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Patty Chang, Gil Heitor Cortesão, Sharon Lockhart, Taus Makhacheva, Haroon Mirza, Clifford Ross, Thomas Struth and Vivek Vilasini.
Maya Allison, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery and University Chief Curator, explains: “My thinking for our spring exhibition began with Tarek Al-Goussein’s Al Sawaber photo series from 2017, in which he captures the tension between a decaying sci-fi housing complex architecture, and its residents’ posters of a lost natural paradise. I have selected a series of works in a range of media that speak to our fantasies and terrors around landscape: as refuge and paradise, as sustenance, as property, as energy source, as a threat, and as a register of our threat.”
In the autumn, the American artist Blane De St Croix has a solo exhibition of new work, which explores the relationship of between the desert to the arctic. The large-scale installations look at the landscape through the lens of climate change. We’re excited to see his latest sculptures, as his previous powerful pieces include Dead Ice, which was inspired by melting glaciers.
Maya Allison, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery and University Chief Curator, adds: “We humans have a complicated relationship to our landscape, particularly in an era of catastrophic climate events, and our ever-growing need for energy. Both exhibitions in our main gallery this year continue my curatorial exploration of this ripe and active subject in contemporary art today.”
Other exhibitions include James Kelly’s Phonography, from 3 to 16 February, and Sandra Peters Performing the City, from 27 February to 12 March. Phonography looks at the use of vinyl records in music composition, performance and sound art. Visitors can browse through the curator’s own personal records, from the grooves to etches. Performing the City is an outdoor sculpture, which includes photographs and texts. The installation aims to explore the relationship between architecture and the public space.
GO: Visit www.nyuad-artgallery.org/ for more information.
