Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams

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Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams is the largest US presentation of time-based work in fifteen years by internationally renowned artist Renée Green. A San Francisco-based artist, Green creates works of art that critically assess the intersection of ideas, processes and creativities around a range of topics including contemporary culture, history, transnational travel, dislocation and migration, as well as feminism and biography.

This exhibition presents two large and complex installations and related new works that together offer audiences a chance to view many of the major works produced throughout her exceptional career.

Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009), a commission from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, makes its US premier at YBCA. Based on a script written by the artist and connected to a memoir written by French novelist George Sand, the installation includes banners with "space poems," audio works, a feature length experimental film, three short films and printed ephemera.

United Space of Conditioned Becoming (2007) allows visitors to perceptually travel to Berlin, Los Angeles, Kent State University, Kwangju, Barcelona, Lisbon and Naples at different historical times dating from the 19th through the 21st Centuries. The installation explores passages of time, various lacuna, locations and forms of living via a selection of films, videos, websites, sound works and live events produced over a 15-year span.

New features in this exhibition include a work where audiences can listen to texts read aloud from Green's writings. In the evening, visitors can view outdoor projections of several video works.

Curator: This exhibition is organized by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director of Visual Arts at YBCA.

RELATED EVENTS

Sat, Apr 17: The Writings of Renée Green: live reading with sound by Eamon Ore-Giron
Sat, Apr 24: The Last Angel of History: film and Q&A with John Akomfrah
Fri, May 7: The Writings of Renée Green: live reading with sound by Greg Tate
Thu, May 27: Renée Green leads members' tour through the exhibition. Welcome to Curator's Circle and above.
Sat, Jun 19: Florian Hecker in Performance
Sat, Jun 19: New Humans in Performance

Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams is made possible, in part, by The Grace Trust

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Renée Green

Renée Green’s exhibitions, videos and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. Some of these include one-person exhibitions at Portikus (Frankfurt), Centro Cultural de Bélem (Lisbon), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), Vienna Secession, Stichting de Appel (Amsterdam) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). Other venues include Documenta XI, Johannesburg Biennial, Kwangju Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Aperto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Louisiana Museum of Art (Copenhagen), Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MACBA (Barcelona), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

She has contributed writings to Texte zur Kunst, Spex, October, Transition, Public Culture, Frieze, Flash Art and many other publications. Her books include, Negotiations in the Contact Zone (editor, Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2003), Between and Including (Secession/Dumont, Vienna, Germany, 2001), Shadows and Signals (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2000), Certain Miscellanies (DAAD, Berlin/De Appel, Amsterdam, 1996), After the Ten Thousand Things (Stroom, The Hague, 1994), Camino Road, (Free Agent Media/Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,1994), World Tour (Museum of Contempary Art, Los Angeles, 1993).

Her grant residencies have included the DAAD (Berlin) and Arts International (Lisbon). Commissions have included work for the Architectural League of New York/Minetta Brook, FRAC Pays de Loire (Clisson, France) and the American Federation of the Arts with (D.A.P.) Distributed Art Publishers, New York and Caltrans/Morphosis in Los Angeles. Galleries that represent her work are Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan and Gallerie Christian Nagel, Berlin/Cologne.

Green is currently Dean of Graduate Studies and full professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. Previously she was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna between 1997 to 2002, director of Studios at the Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York from 1996-97 and continues as a guest faculty member of the Independent Study Program since 1991. She was appointed distinguished artist/professor in the Art Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002 and is a guest faculty member of the Escola de Artes Visuais Maumaus in Lisbon.

Photo credits:
1, 2: Renée Green, Free Agent Media, Elizabeth Dee Gallery
3, 4: Free Agent Media; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne and Berlin; Elizabeth Dee Gallery

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