The Dispossessed, 2018. Steel, aluminum and chromaflair paint, 87 x 84 x 51 inches (221 x 213.4 x 129.5 cm). Commissioned for the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, 2018.
Survivor's Remorse, 2018. 9-channel video installation (3 x 3 grid of eight wall-mounted HD 55” LED displays, one empty wall mount, exposed cables and foam lined wood shipping crate housing one HD 55” LED display), 20 min 11 sec. Edition of 3, with 2 AP. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2018. Photo by Adam Sherkanowski, copyright President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2018.
You're Fired, 2017. Cement hydrocal mix, rebar, steel wire, 41 x 15 x 9 1/2 inches (104.1 x 38.1 x 24.1 cm)
Known Known, 2016. Sandblasted steel, 80 x 43 1/4 x 5 inches (203.2 x 109.9 x 12.7 cm)
Untitled (Shirt), 2014. Aluminum, 33 x 30 inches (83.8 x 76.2 cm)
Community Action Center (2010), a video by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, will be included in Friendship as a Way of Life, an exhibition opening at UNSW Galleries, Australia, May 8–November 21, 2020.
Globster Soot, Medium Rare is the second solo exhibition by A.K. Burns at Michel Rein Gallery, Paris.
A.K. Burns will be in conversation with A.L. Steiner and Paul B. Preciado at the Centre Pompidou following a screening of Community Action Center (2010).
In accordance with A.K. Burns: NEGATIVE SPACE, the Julia Stoschek Collection (JSC) will host the following events:
Artist talk with curator, Lisa Long: November 16, 3–5pm
Screening, Community Action Center (2010, with A.L. Steiner): November 15–17 (11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, 5pm)
Queer | Art and The Museum of Modern Art team up for their first co-presentation on Wednesday, November 13th at 7pm with “The Hammer Mix: Decades,” a special evening of screenings and conversation organized in honor of legendary artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), whose prolific creative career spanned more than six decades. The program includes a screening of short films made across those decades and will explore some of Hammer's many diverse creative interests, including love and intimacy, travel and human connection, and the art and politics of dying. N. Scott Johnson will perform a special live accompaniment to Hammer’s 2018 film Evidentiary Bodies. A post-screening conversation with film historian Sarah Keller, artist A.K. Burns, and 2018 Hammer Grant Winner Miatta Kawinzi, moderated by program curator Vanessa Haroutunian, will consider Hammer's influence on past, present, and future generations of artists.
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S 36th St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
RSVP required.
The Julia Stoschek Collection presents NEGATIVE SPACE, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by New York–based artist A.K. Burns. Embedded within new materialist, queer, and feminist theories, Burns’s interdisciplinary practice explores the body as a contentious domain where social, political, and material forces collide.
A museum of the present must always be a different one. In a time of constant change and the attending sense of powerlessness, the exhibition Museum seeks to open up and occupy new spaces. Rather than critically questioning the institution, the focus is on exploring its possibilities. With works from the collection, new productions and loans, the exhibition Museum strives to unfurl the current liberties of art and thus of the present museum. Gestures of configuration, transformation and transgression here aid in the endeavour to conceive of—and make perceivable—the Other.
Opening: 16 August 2019, 7.30 pm
A.K. Burns is included in For Information, the first group exhibition in "The Scalability Project," a year-long programming initiative that considers technologies and their implications for gendered, racialized, and class violence.
zero: A.K. Burns on Nancy Holt can be purchased online.
This volume was published as a part of Overture, an exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (March 31–May 5, 2019). The text was derived from Burns' "Artists on Artists Lecture," Dia: Chelsea, November 27, 2018.
A Gentle Excavation includes Keenon Brice, Janea Kelly, Nicole Ringel, Wickerham & Lomax, Agustine Zegers, and Lu Zhanga. The exhibition was curated by Allie Linn in coordination with MICA’s MFA in Curatorial Practice program.
Tissue is an exhibition that includes Dachi Cole, Hannah Levy, Linnéa Sjöberg, Ser Serpas, Sophie Stone, and Troy Michie, taking place at 88 Eldridge Street & 73 Allen Street, NYC.
99 Cents or Less is a group exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann, including a diverse range of 99 artists making work from items purchased at America’s ubiquitous 99 Cent stores.
