Thursday, March 16, 2017
8 – 9:30 am
Think Coffee, Union Square, 123 4th Ave, NYC

A breakfast salon for the 21st century that takes place in the early hours of the day at Think Coffee, Union Square, hosted by the Jewish Museum. Artist Nicolás Guagnini discusses his recent projects with Jens Hoffmann, Director of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs.

Nicolás Guagnini was born in 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived and worked in New York since 1998.  Recent exhibitions include Union Gaucha Productions, with Karin Schneider, Artists Space, New York, NY; Nicolás Guagnini / Leigh Ledare, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany; Ana and Carl and some other couples, with Leigh Ledare, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY; Heads, Lars Freidrich Gallery, Berlin; Nicolás Guagnini: Seven, Miguel Abreu Gallery and Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York.  Recent group exhibitions include Bad Conscience, Metro Pictures, New York; 140 Characters, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo; Descartes’ Daughter, Swiss Institute, New York; A Drawing Show Curated by Dan Graham, Micheline Swajcer, Antwerp; and Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York.

From 1997 through 2010, together with Karin Schneider, Guagnini produced films under the moniker Union Gaucha Productions; their works have been screened in numerous institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Jeau de Paume, Paris; and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Guagnini was a founding member of the cooperative gallery Orchard, where, among other projects, he organized the exhibition September 11, 1973 (the title referring to the date of Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat in Chile.) A prolific writer, Guagnini’s texts have appeared in publications such as October, Texte Zur Kunst, Mousse, Kaleidoscope, and Artforum, as well as numerous books.

Coffee and conversation are free