ANNETTE KELM
Knots
April 7 – May 12, 2018
In her work, Annnette Kelm is interested in the function of objects and the nature of their representation, typologies, mass production, design, and technology. Her photographs often conflate several genres into single images, or develop single motifs across serial images to combine a variety of artistic, historical, and cross-cultural references. Annette Kelm’s work will be the subject of forthcoming exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna in 2019, and the Ludwig Foundation, Aachen, Germany in 2018. Past solo exhibitions of Kelm’s work include Annette Kelm: Leaves, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2017, Detroit City/Detroit Affinities: Annette Kelm, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, 2016, Dust, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 2014, Annette Kelm, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, 2009, KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2009, CCA Wattis, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, 2008 and Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2008. In 2013, Kelm participated in New Photography, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in 2011, participated in ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger, the 54th International Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Venice. Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including Tate Modern, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Kunsthaus Zürich, among others.
