MATTHEW BARNEY et al.
TechnoCool. New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties (1989–2001) (group show)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
27 October 2023 – 11 February 2024
Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5 is included in Technocool. New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties (1989–2001). The exhibition explores the ways in which the revolutionising spirit of electronic music, DJ culture, and the new visuality of parties served as key inspiration for a generation of artists who started their career in the 1990s. Alongside Hungarian artists, Technocool also presents work by foreign artists who exerted a major influence in Hungary in this period. The displayed works showcase the development of different media – paintings, readymades, photographs, prints, videos and, to a lesser extent, computer-based art – as a new opportunity for self-expression during the nineties.
Hungarian National Gallery
MATTHEW BARNEY
The Cremaster Cycle (film screening)
Christine Cinéma Club, Paris
29 and 30 June 2024
The Fondation Cartier and Christine Cinéma Club, Paris, present an exceptional retrospective of The Cremaster Cycle, a collection of five films made by Matthew Barney between 1994 and 2002.
Directed and co-produced by Matthew Barney over an eight-year period, the epic Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002) is an autonomous aesthetic system, comprising five feature films that explore the creative process. A veritable 'total artwork', the cycle unfolds not only on a cinematic level, but also through the photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations produced by the artist in conjunction with each film.
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MATTHEW BARNEY
SECONDARY (solo show)
Fondation Cartier, Paris
8 June – 8 September 2024
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents an exhibition by Matthew Barney, showing his latest video installation: SECONDARY. With this exhibition, the Fondation Cartier celebrates its collaboration with the American artist which began thirty years ago with the co-production of Barney’s first film, Cremaster 4, 1994, in what would become the artist’s iconic body of work, The CREMASTER Cycle.
The SECONDARY exhibition will take place throughout all of the Fondation Cartier’s galleries, and will show for the first time a new sculpture created for the occasion. In addition, the exhibition will include an installation of the earliest DRAWING RESTRAINT video works, providing further context for the new work.The exhibition at the Fondation Cartier is part of a sequence of unique SECONDARY shows scheduled for 2024 at the artist’s representing galleries.
Fondation Cartier
MATTHEW BARNEY
Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024
We congratulate Matthew Barney on becoming an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Matthew Barney has been elected into the Department of Arts and will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial in May 2024.
American Academy of Arts and Letters