Amy Sillman’s artistic practice has extended outward from the studio in many different directions over the years, and has included lecturing, writing, publishing, and more recently, curatorial projects and interventions with museum collections. For the occasion of this show, the artist has constructed a special installation chosen from the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection. This includes a group of approximately fifty works, including paintings, prints, drawings and videos, with a few of Sillman’s own works embedded into this group. Guided by considerations of form, color, scale and site-specific relationships, Sillman has installed all of the works together against the activated ground of her own improvisatory wall paintings made on site specifically for this exhibition. Thus, she has re-thought abstraction not chronologically or thematically, but with a greater and more daring interweaving of epochs, continents and media, and between art objects and the architecture of the Kunstmuseum itself.

Let’s talk about painting!
Guided tour with Amy Sillman. In conversation with Kathleen Bühler, the artist talks about her work, her artistic practice in general, and the way she curated the dialogue between her work and the art collection of Kunstmuseum Bern.  
Saturday, 21. September 2024, 14:00

Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock!
Kunstmuseum Bern
20.9.2024–2.2.2025

Curator: Kathleen Bühler
Curatorial assistant: Nina Liechti

Exhibition catalogue: Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock!, edited by Eva Birkenstock, Kathleen Bühler and Nina Zimmer, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2024. With contributions from Eva Birkenstock, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Kathleen Bühler, Sabeth Buchmann, Rose Higham-Stainton, Michelle Kuo and Jenny Nachtigall

Digital guide:
Implementation: NETNODE AG
Project: Andriu Deflorin, Cédric Zubler

With the support of:

Kunstmuseum Bern
Hodlerstrasse 8–12, 3011 Bern
+41 31 328 09 44
info@kunstmuseumbern.ch
kunstmuseumbern.ch/AmySillman

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