New Museum Triennial (United States)

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Organisation: The New Museum
Year founded: 2009

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum,

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum, with a curatorial program known for its global scope and adventurousness. In its building on the Bowery, the New Museum has continued its mission of exploring new art and new ideas with a major triennial that gives participating artists their first museum exposure.

The initiative of the New Museum Triennial (2009) is the first recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of global culture.

The first edition of the triennial titled The Generational: Younger Than Jesus occupied the entire New Museum building on the Bowery. The name of the exhibition was inspired by the fact that some of the most enduring, influential, and radical changes in art and history have been carried out by young people.

The New Museum Triennial aspires to capture the signals of an imminent generational change, exploring how artists belonging to the same age group can develop similar interests and express similar concerns across geographies and nationalities

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York. Photo: Courtesy of New Museum.

Rita Ponce de León, Untitled, 2009. India ink on paper, approximately 1.6 x 0.6 in (4 x 1.5 cm). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Amáury Gutiérrez

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Eungie Joo, curator next Triennial 2010-01-15

Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, will be the next curator of 'The Generational,' opening in the spring of 2012.
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"The Generational" 2012

On view from February 15-April 22, 2012, the second New Museum "Generational" triennial will examine the practices of emerging artists born since the mid-1970s. Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, who was appointed Curator of the 2012 "Generational" last year, will reflect her primary curatorial research in cities rich in cultural production, but often overlooked by US museums.

To facilitate meaningful dialogue with participating artists and audiences during the development of the exhibition, "The Generational," for the first time, includes residencies and public programs that support the production of new works--enabling artistic investigation, experimentation, and exchange on both formal and informal levels. The New Museum embarked on a concentrated period of residency and public programming activities in June and July 2011 with featured triennial artists Wu Tsang (b. 1981 in Worcester, MA; lives and works in Los Angeles) and Shaina Anand (b. 1975 in Bombay; lives and works in Mumbai) and Ashok Sukumaran (b. 1974 in Sapporo; lives and works in Mumbai) of CAMP and PAD.MA. Additional residencies began this past February with Public Movement (established 2004, Tel Aviv) and Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Rosario; lives and works in Buenos Aires) focusing on research for triennial projects, and other residencies will follow in the months leading up to the opening.

Exploring the potential of museums to support contemporary art activity beyond the exhibition of works, the residencies set in motion core ideas that will propel new projects for the triennial and beyond. This year's "Generational" expands on the model developed by the Museum as Hub initiative, a laboratory for art and ideas realized through a partnership of six international arts organizations in Cairo, Egypt; Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Mexico City, Mexico; Seoul, Korea; and New York (New Museum, founding partner) that supports experimentation, ideas in development, and contemporary art activity from around the world.

“The Generational” features two publications including The International Art Spaces Directory, to be co-published by Art Asia Pacific as well as an exhibition catalogue.
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Participants of 2012 New Museum Triennial announced.

The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.
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