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Hypebeast
3 days ago
- Entertainment
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to Host Barbara Kruger's ‘Another Day. Another Night' Exhibition
Summary TheGuggenheim Museum Bilbaowill presentAnother day. Another night, the first comprehensive survey in Spain of influential American artistBarbara Kruger's work. Since the beginning of her career, Kruger has consistently challenged the function of language in media, politics and internal dialogues. Using bold, declarative phrases rendered in stark black-and-white text, often punctuated with red or green accents, she draws from the visual language of advertising to provoke reflection rather than sell products. Iconic phrases such as 'Your body is a battleground' and 'I shop therefore I am' have become part of the cultural lexicon, prompting critical questions about gender, consumerism, and authority. The exhibition will bring together a diverse range of works spanning Kruger's career, including early paste-ups, large-scale vinyl texts, video installations, audio interventions and site-specific pieces created specifically for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. As visitors move through the exhibition halls, Kruger's art will unfold across floors, walls and screens, immersing them in a charged visual and sonic environment. The exhibition will showcase a wide-ranging selection of Kruger's works, including early paste-ups, monumental vinyl texts, immersive video installations, audio interventions and new site-specific pieces conceived for the Guggenheim Bilbao. Spanning multiple media and decades, the exhibition transforms the museum's spaces – its floors, walls and screens – into an all-encompassing visual and sonic landscape. 'Language is a powerful force — and it defines us,' Kruger notes. In an age of nonstop information and destabilized truths, her work urges viewers to pause, scrutinize and reflect. Barbara Kruger'sAnother day. Another nightwill run from June 24 to November 9, 2025 at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Guggenheim Museum BilbaoAbandoibarra Etorb., 2, Abando,48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Evening Standard
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy: 'Music is like a workout for the soul'
I ask whether they notice the coughs, the wrappers rustling in the hall? 'The energy of the audience is key,' Tsoy says. 'We saw this during Covid, playing for broadcasts from empty venues. It was excruciatingly difficult, almost impossible.' The stage, he adds, 'is not a physical stage. It is the attention of people'. That attention is being reshaped by digital technology — a subject of Tsoy's recent project, an homage to Richard Serra's The Matter of Time installation at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Digital life tends to flatten time, making each moment indistinguishable from the next, but Serra's space, Tsoy says, 'changes the way you feel time. It stretches it, restoring its texture and presence. I want to make music that helps shift your inner clock, to slow you down.' Kolesnikov laughs. 'Art is a kind of harmless drug, a magic mushroom,' he says. 'It can warp time.'
