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About
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).
Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweeden (2019) and SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021).
The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020.
His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide. -
Works
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Selected Works
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST
Alfredo Jaar 24 June TO 19 August 2023 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe exhibition The Temptation to Exist by Alfredo Jaar will be on show at Galerie...View Exhibition -
LAMENT OF THE IMAGES
ALFREDO JAAR 14 November TO 23 December 2020 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThis fall, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents the installation Lament of the Images by Alfredo Jaar....View Exhibition -
LISTEN TO A HEART BEAT
GROUP SHOW 23 May TO 11 July 2020 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe group exhibition Listen to a heart beat at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works...View Exhibition -
SHADOWS
ALFREDO JAAR 11 February TO 15 April 2017 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEFrom February 11 to April 15, 2017 Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Shadows, a solo exhibition...View Exhibition -
(Kindness) of (Strangers)
ALFREDO JAAR 5 December 2015 TO 5 March 2016 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEAlfredo Jaar’s new work (Kindness) of (Strangers) confronts visitors with a large-scale complex arrangement of...View Exhibition -
Teach us to outgrow our madness
GROUP SHOW 22 November 2014 TO 17 January 2015 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEOn Friday the 21st of November, 2014, Galerie Thomas Schulte opens the group exhibition Teach...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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Alfredo Jaar / Galerie Thomas Schulte Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin
Façade installation 16 September 2024A new, site specific iteration of Alfredo Jaar’s Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, rendered in red neon, now adorns the façade of Galerie Thomas...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Sorry Square, Wiener Platz, München, Germany
Public Intervention 7 to 22 September 2024Salta art presents a public intervention by renowned Chilean artist Alredo Jaar curated by Espacio Temporal at Sorry Square, Munich as part of Various Others....Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / KINDL – Contemporary Art Center, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition 15 September 2024 to 1 June 2025Alfredo Jaar (* 1956 in Santiago de Chile, lives in New York) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker. For over 40 years, he has examined...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize
May 2024The jury of the IV Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize has decided to unanimously award Alfredo Jaar the IV Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize. A universal artist...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Oregon, USA
Group Exhibition 23 February to 19 May 2024Policing Justice is an exhibition guest curated by Nina Amstutz, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, and...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Fassade Project 23 March to 30 June 2024The Kestner Gesellschaft is delighted to announce a new façade project: BE AFRAID OF THE ENORMITY OF THE POSSIBLE. The title of this work is...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR + DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS / Online Sale by CIRCA
Until 30 November 2023Throughout November, proceeds from the sale of each print by Alfredo Jaar will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / PIN. Benefit Auction 2023, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Auction 18 NovemberThe highlight of Munich's artistic fall, the PIN. Benefit Auction, will take place once again. After an interruption due to the pandemic, the Rotunda of...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Solo Exhibition 14 September 2023 to 17 March 2024The renowned Chilean artist, winner of the 2013 National Arts Award, presents a series of works never before presented in Chile, as part of the...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, MUNICH, GERMANY
Solo Exhibition 29 March to 27 August 2023In the Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Chilean-born, New York-based artist, architect, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar demonstrates why he is considered one of the...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / Ennetbaden, Switzerland
Installation / public space 15 December 2022 to 27 February 2023Alfredo Jaar’s neon installation between the hot springs and the Limmat River addresses the profound processes of change in the spa town. As part of...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / PHOTOVOGUE FESTIVAL 2022, BASE MILANO, MILAN, ITALY
OPENING TALK WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER AT 6.30 PMAfredo Jaar will open this year's edition of PhotoVogue Festival, which is dedicated to the contradictions that arise from the overexposure to images typical of...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico
Solo Exhibition from 3 September 2022Presented at the gallery Planta Alta of the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa), the exhibition ¿Qué hacer? (What to do?) is part...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / the Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Group Exhibition 21 may to 25 SeptemberFeaturing over twenty artists, the special exhibition This Is Not America’s Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the flag of the...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / Deichtorhallen Hamburg—Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITION - TALK ON FRIDAY, 20 MAY 20 MAY TO 18 SEPTEMBER12 exhibitions present their interpretations of the Hamburg Photography Triennial’s theme of Currency to explore the many ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG, GERMANY
Group exhibition 12 March to 10 July 2022Global economic and cultural development would hardly have been conceivable without artificial light. On the one hand, artificial light sources are a basic requirement of...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR / Istituto Gramsci Siciliano, Palermo, Italy
Conversation 15 February 2022, 6.30 PMCulture = Capital ? is the name of the conversation which inaugurates ZACentrale's schedule of meetings, debates and exchanges between the territories of narration, the...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / STATE REPRESENTATION OF LOWER SAXONY, BERLIN, GERMANY
Urban light installation 2 DECEMBER TO 6 JANUARYFrom December, Alfredo Jaar's installation Kultur = Kapital on the façade of the state representation of Lower Saxony in Berlin is a prelude of the...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / ZAC – Zisa Arti Contemporanee, Fondazione Merz, Palermo, Italy
Group exhibition 26 October 2021 to 27 March 2022The title of the exhibition, L’altro, lo stesso, (‘The other, the same’) is taken from a collection of poems by Jorge Luis Borges, dedicated to...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden
Solo exhibition 15 October 2021 to 23 January 2022Alfredo Jaar is the 40th winner of the Hasselblad Award. The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden and an exhibition of Alfredo Jaar’s...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
Solo Exhibition 28 August 2021 to 9 January 2022In our image-saturated and media-obsessed world, what stories remain untold? Employing images, lights, and mirrors, Alfredo Jaar asks us to acknowledge subjects who are often...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / Lamento das Imagens, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo exhibition 26 August to 5 December 2021The exhibition Lamento das Imagens (Lament of the Images) is the first extensive presentation of Jaar’s work in Brazil. The show in the SESC Pompeia’s...Read more -
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Alfredo Jaar / Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Group exhibition 15 July to 19 December 2021As the main gallery venue for Toward Common Cause, the Smart Museum presents a group show that foregrounds issues of the natural and built environments:...Read more -
Alfredo Jaar / MAK Vienna, Austria
Solo exhibition 9 June to 5 September 2021In his exhibition Das Rote Wien (Red Vienna) Alfredo Jaar deals with the socio-political and urban developments in the city of Vienna in the interwar...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR/ZEITZ MOCAA, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Solo exhibition 19 NOVEMBER 2020 TO 23 MAY 2021Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project has been shown in galleries and museums across the world, but this is its first viewing on the African continent....Read more -
Alfredo Jaar/Billboard Project on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, United States, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands
Project 12 October 2020Artist-led consortium For Freedoms have erected billboards in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands. Some of the billboards...Read more
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