SHEILA HICKS
Current Museum Exhibition
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
Bottrop
Germany
12 Oct 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
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In the fall/winter of 2024/25, the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will present the first major solo exhibition of the US-American artist Sheila Hicks (*1934) across cities and for the first time in Germany. Sheila Hicks’ unique oeuvre unfolds in the interplay between material, color and space: In large and small-format wall works, tapestries, reliefs, sculptures and installations, the seemingly infinite possibilities of these three dimensions unfurl. “What can you do with thread?” is the question that the artist has tirelessly explored since studying with Josef Albers at the Yale School of Art in the 1950s. In her pursuit, she has developed a wide spectrum of techniques that constantly challenge and surprise our perception and our concepts of art and textile, color and structure, work and space. Sheila Hicks’ unique oeuvre unfolds in the interplay between material, color and space: In large and small-format wall works, tapestries, reliefs, sculptures and installations, the seemingly infinite possibilities of these three dimensions unfurl. “What can you do with thread?” is the question that the artist has tirelessly explored since studying with Josef Albers at the Yale School of Art in the 1950s. In her pursuit, she has developed a wide spectrum of techniques that constantly challenge and surprise our perception and our concepts of art and textile, color and structure, work and space. Comprising a total of 140 works from all creative periods, the collaborative exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the 90-year-old artist’s multifaceted oeuvre for the first time in Germany. The show follows numerous extensive international exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou Malaga (2023), the Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen (2023), the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2020), the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago, Chile (2020) and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA (2019).
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- Philipp Ottendörfer
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