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The Complete Parkett Collection at Artspace @ Helutrans
The Complete Parkett Collection
A Chronicle of Contemporary Art
March 8-31, 2024
Featuring a talk with Bice Curiger: The Art of Collaboration
Thursday March 7 2024
4-5pm
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Ikkan Art and STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Complete Parkett Collection: A Chronicle of Contemporary Art at Artspace @ Helutrans, presenting the Parkett project in its entirety for the very first time.
Parkett, a beacon in the world of contemporary art publications, has been an influential force in shaping and documenting the landscape of international contemporary art since its founding. This retrospective exhibition, presented chronologically, offers a unique opportunity for visitors to delve into the rich history of Parkett, exploring its evolution over the course of four decades.
The exhibition will feature a comprehensive display of all 101 volumes of Parkett magazine as well as all 270 editioned artworks, made in direct collaboration with contemporary artists from all over the world from 1984 to 2017, including El Anatsui, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Cao Fei, Tracy Emin, Anish Kapoor, Yang Fudong, Gerhard Richter, Beatriz Milhazes, Danh Vo, Trisha Donnelly, Urs Fischer, Theaster Gates, and many more.
Based in Switzerland and New York, Parkett created a new and groundbreaking model for how an art publication could collaborate with artists. Each issue, published in both English and German, presented a deep dive into artists’ work, featuring texts by internationally distinguished art critics, art historians, authors, poets, curators, and artists. Like a Kunsthalle on paper, the editorial collection acted as a bridge between disparate circles of art – beginning with Europe and the United States, and eventually extending in directions across the globe. With a spirit of experimentation and collaboration, the anthology of over 1500 texts contains not only critical insights into contemporary artistic practices, but conversations between artists, poetic ruminations, and celebrations of the plurality of art within its highly designed spreads.
Working in close collaboration with Parkett, the featured artists were commissioned to create editioned artworks that took on many forms, ranging from prints, photographs, and sculptural objects, to installations, videos, and multi-media works. By working within the format of a multiple, artists created works that encapsulated their practice, or were propelled to experiment and create something entirely new. Early works were bound directly into the pages of Parkett in ‘Deluxe Editions’, such as etchings by Jannis Kounellis (1985) and Mario Merz (1988) – the very first etchings either artist had ever done, and Meret Oppenheim’s handstitched pair of light blue goatskin gloves with blood red veins, which were tucked away into the magazine itself (1985 - realized from a 1936 design). As time went on, the artist’s projects jumped from Parkett’s pages into an expansive array of media and scale – from Felix Gonzalez Torres 8-meter-long outdoor billboard Untitled (1994), to Nicolas Party’s 6cm tall bronze sculpture Cat’s Head (2017).
The one-on-a-kind collection has been presented in museums on three continents including MoMA/New York, Whitechapel Art Gallery/London, Centre Pompidou/Paris, Kunsthaus/Zurich, Kanazawa/Japan, SAC/Seoul, UCCA/Beijing, TFAM/Taipei, and will finally be on view in its entirety in Singapore. This will be a first and rare opportunity to get up close and personal with this unique, dynamic, and diverse survey of contemporary art history.
Presented jointly by:
Ikkan Art LLC and STPI
Supported by:
Parkett, Zurich & New York
Sponsored by:
Helu-Trans (S) Pte Ltd
Venue:
Artspace @ Helutrans, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore 089065
Public exhibition (free admission):
Friday, 8 March to Sunday 31 March 2024, 10 am to 7 pm
For Keeps: Selected Parkett Editions @ David Zwirner
On view at David Zwirner through August 5 on the second floor of the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York, with a concurrent online presentation, featuring work by more than forty artists created in collaboration with Parkett.
New Immersive 360° Tour of all Works Made by Women for Parkett
All works made by women for Parkett are on view for the first time in a museum exhibition, as part of this year’s Triennale at MBAL, Le Locle.
View the 360° panorama presentation of this show, with detailed background information on each work & artist, at the link above.
Click the white arrows to move around the room and get closer to the works, until you see the small white info hotspots, showing the artist’s name & title. Click hotspots for details on each work.
Find full information on the exhibition here.
TRIENNALE
Elles - de A à Z
Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle (MBAL)
October 22, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Works by Women @ Triennale MBAL, Le Locle, Switzerland
TRIENNALE
Elles - de A à Z
Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle (MBAL)
October 22, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Six Exhibitions Including All Works Made by Women for Parkett
Find full information on the exhibition here.
Browse all 90 Works Made by Women for Parkett here.
Read the full announcement here.
MBAL on the works made by women for Parkett:
“… This unique collection of objects includes prints, sculptures, installations, digital art, photographs, paintings, drawings, sound pieces and many other surprising objects … Besides the fact that the publications and editions are collected by major museums and collectors worldwide, Parkett’s website presents all their books and editions and offers new perspectives for the research, study and acquisition of contemporary artworks. A Time Capsule shows how joyful, inventive and innovative art can be.”
Parkett @ Art Basel - A Special Preview of Parkett’s 33 Year Project
A special preview of the complete Parkett project, presenting over 100 rare and selected works made by artists for Parkett, and all 101 volumes, in a multimedia display.
Browse the artworks on view here.
Hall 2.0, Booth T2
(Main entrance lobby next to Basel Museums & Taschen books)
With new video presentations introducing Parkett’s Time Capsule with all artworks and books made by and with artists for Parkett.
Parkett @ Luma Arles
Parkett’s permanent archive room at LUMA Arles is now open, with a first special focus on Sigmar Polke’s three collaborations with Parkett.
Luma Arles, the new one-of-a-kind cultural center in Arles, France, founded by Maja Hoffman, is now open. Around twenty exhibitions and artists’ projects explore multiple aspects of art, culture, environment, education and research on the twelve hectares “Parc des Ateliers” with ten buildings including the stunning twisted tower by Frank Gehry.
On view in Luma’s Living Archives section is Parkett, with a special first focus on its three collaborations with Sigmar Polke spanning ten years. The archive section includes further presentations on Annie Leibovitz, Derek Jarman, Diane Arbus, and Nan Goldin.
Other Luma exhibitions on view feature artists including Philippe Parreno, Christian Marclay, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Isa Genzken, Fischli/Weiss, Mike Kelley, Anri Sala, Pierre Huyghe, Franz West, Kerstin Brätsch, Liam Gillick, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others, who have also collaborated over time with Parkett.
More details are online here.
Preview images from new eBook series
Explore newly published images from upcoming eBooks illustrating works made by artists for Parkett.
Preview selected images from fifty upcoming eBooks documenting for the first time the diversity and range of artists’ projects featuring elements of uniqueness and variations.
Each eBook additionally includes all three to five texts published on the artist, forming a new digital series of monographs focusing on one artist a time.
Read the full newsletter here.
Pipilotti Rist - A Selection of Favorite Works
Pipilotti Rist has collaborated with Parkett multiple times, beginning in 1996 with vol. 48, in 2004 for vol.71, and again in 2017 for Parkett vol. 100/101. She also created a special artists’ insert for Parkett vol. 37.
View the three works she made for Parkett and browse more content from her collaborations below.
Following is her selection of favorite works made by artists for Parkett.
Laurie Anderson
Gillian Wearing
Sophie Calle
Cao Fei
Nathalie Djurberg
Mai-Thu Perret
Pamela Rosenkranz
Shirana Shahbazi
Katharina Fritsch
Eija Liisa Ahtila
Pipilotti Rist’s Editions:
I’ve Only Got Eyes for You -(Pin Down Jump Up Girl) (for Parkett 48)
The Help (for Parkett 71)
Dry Water (for Parkett 100/101)
Read the full newsletter here.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - A Selection of Favorite Works
Curator, critic, historian of art, and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, Hans Ulrich Obrist has collaborated with Parkett multiple times, beginning with some of his first ever published texts, including an essay on Roman Signer (in Parkett 28 in 1990), and on his ‘kitchen exhibition’ (in Parkett 31 in 1992).
Following is his selection of favorite works made by artists for Parkett.
Alighiero e Boetti
Richard Artschwager
David Hammons
El Anatsui
Trisha Donnelly
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Fischli/Weiss (“Bucket”)
Fischli/Weiss (“Record”)
Gerhard Richter
Julie Mehretu
Louise Bourgeois
Julie Mehretu
Meret Oppenheim
Sigmar Polke
Read the full newsletter here.
Ed Atkins' Favorite Parkett Works
Ed Atkins collaborated with Parkett in 2016 for volume 98. To view the work he made (“Safe Conduct Epidermal”, 2016, pictured left) and to browse more content from his collaboration for Parkett see here.
Following is a selection of his favorite works made by artists for Parkett.
Cerith Wyn Evans
Jeff Wall
Cady Noland
Maria Lassnig
Alex Katz
Wade Guyton
David Hammons
Fischli Weiss
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Daniel Buren
Read the full newsletter here.
Zurich & New York Viewing Rooms Now Open by Appointment & Online
You are welcome to visit Parkett’s Zurich and New York viewing rooms, off and online, to see available works from 33 years and selected rare and sold-out works from the archive.
The Zurich viewing room has moved from the Löwenbräu building to the Parkett offices at Quellenstrasse (5 minute walking distance) with a seven room studio-style survey of over 200 works, and is open by appointment.
Find more info, & browse the works on view in Zurich here
Browse all works on view in New York here.
Read the full announcement here.
Xu Zhen's Favorite Parkett Works
Xu Zhen, one of China’s most influential artists, collaborated with Parkett in 2015 for volume 96. To view the work he made (“The Tribal Chief’s New Clothes”, 2015, pictured left) and to browse more content from his collaboration for Parkett see here.
Following is a selection of his favorite works made by artists for Parkett.
Douglas Gordon
Ed Atkins
Jordan Wolfson
Maurizio Cattelan
Nicolas Party
Bruce Nauman
Francis Alys
Hito Steyerl
Wade Guyton
Wolfgang Tillmans
Read the full newsletter here.
Thematic Highlights - Dogs, Birds, Pigs, Dinos, & Friends
Explore & Collect Thematic Highlights from Parkett’s Time Capsule
An ongoing presentation of works made by artists for Parkett focusing on various themes, and providing context to the artists and their works with texts, conversations, videos, artists’ documents, and more.
Featuring:
Cao Fei
Olaf Breuning
Isa Genzken
Alex Katz
Jean-Luc Mylayne
Jeff Koons
and more.
Read the full newsletter here.
Thematic Highlights - Wearable Works
Explore & Collect Thematic Highlights from Parkett’s Time Capsule
An ongoing presentation of works made by artists for Parkett focusing on various themes, and providing context to the artists and their works with texts, conversations, videos, artists’ documents, and more.
Featuring:
Sophie Calle
Kerstin Brätsch
John Bock
Eija-Liisa Ahtlia
Luc Tuymans
Rirkrit Tiravanija
and more.
Read the full newsletter here.
Thematic Highlights - Fame
Explore & Collect Thematic Highlights from Parkett’s Time Capsule
An ongoing presentation of works made by artists for Parkett focusing on various themes, and providing context to the artists and their works with texts, conversations, videos, artists’ documents, and more.
Featuring:
Rachel Harrison
Marilyn Minter
John Waters
Maurizio Cattelan
Charles Ray
and more.
Read the full newsletter here.
Thematic Highlights - Small is Beautiful
Explore & Collect Thematic Highlights from Parkett’s Time Capsule
An ongoing presentation of works made by artists for Parkett focusing on various themes, and providing context to the artists and their works with texts, conversations, videos, artists’ documents, and more.
Featuring:
Nairy Baghramian
Carsten Höller
Monica Bonvicini
Laurie Anderson
Sherrie Levine
and more.
Read the full newsletter here.
Explore the New Parkett Website
Discover & Collect Artists
from over Forty Countries
A New Online Platform to Explore Parkett Collaboration Artists, Artworks, Books, Texts, Artists’ Documents & Archival Materials, Videos and more.
Parkett Books
Parkett Editions
Read the full announcement here.
UNIQUE @ Parkett Space Zurich Opening Friday Sept 11
Parkett is pleased to announce the opening of UNIQUE at its exhibition space in Zurich. On view are some sixty editions made by artists for Parkett since 1984 with unique elements and variations, including works with hand-painted, drawn, or collaged features, entirely unique sculptural objects, experimentations with printmaking, and more. The works on display defy the traditional notion of editions, wherein all prints and multiples of one project are identical from the first to the last work.
The show is a tribute to the ongoing innovations and imaginations with which artists keep pushing the boundaries of past and present, providing viewers and collectors with illuminating approaches and perspectives, with an ever-evolving diversity and range of artistic thoughts and ideas. The works “…offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distil their practices into a single, compact object or image...” (Philip Tinari, director UCCA Beijing).
Find further info on the Parkett Zurich Space
Zurich Space - Reopening May 12 (SELF) PORTRAITS Portraits & Self-Portraits Made by Artists for Parkett Since 1984
Parkett is pleased to announce the reopening of (SELF) PORTRAITS, a survey exhibition of over ninety portraits and self-portraits made by artists especially for Parkett in the last three decades.On view at Parkett’s Zurich Space, the artists included in this retrospective expand, challenge, transform, and push forward the traditional parameters of the portrait and self-portrait.
(SELF) PORTRAITS Portraits & Self-Portraits Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984
Limmatstrasse 268, Opening Friday February 21, 6-8pm
Parkett is pleased to announce (SELF) PORTRAITS, a survey exhibition of over ninety portraits and self-portraits made by artists especially for Parkett in the last three decades.
PHOTO The First Survey of All Photographic Works Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984 Opening Friday June 7, 6-8pm
Parkett is delighted to announce the first survey exhibition of all photographic works made by artists for Parkett in the last three decades. On view at Parkett’s Zurich Space, the show includes some ninety works spanning a rarely seen, vast, and diverse range of photographic positions and ideas.
Read the press release
Pressemitteilung (Deutsch)
Parkett @ Art Basel 2019
Featuring Rare & Selected Portraits & Self-Portraits Made by Artists for Parkett
A TIME CAPSULE CONTINUED Two-Part Survey of All 270 Works Made by Artists for Parkett - 1984 - 2017 Parkett Exhibition Space Zurich, Limmatstrasse 268, Opening Friday Feb 22, 6-8pm
The current exhibition at the PARKETT Space presents selected works made exclusively by artists for Parkett Magazine. On view are a wide variety of 170 diverse works on paper, photographs, prints, objects, paintings, videos and other media, all of which express and render a specific artistic vision and position. The show’s journey across three decades charts the vast changes that have swept through the art world since the 1980s. From the inevitable march of new and old ideas that always surrounds contemporary art, to significant shifts in production including the increasing interconnectedness of artistic centers across the globe, the impact of new technologies on artmaking, and more.
Read a short introduction text on the exhibition
Parkett @ Nomad St. Moritz, February 8 - 11
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
We are thrilled to announce a never-before-presented time capsule of selected small-scale works made by artists for Parkett exploring the borderline between art and design
@ Nomad St. Moritz, Thursday February 8 - Sunday February 11, 2018, 11am-6pm, Chesa Planta, Samedan, Switzerland
Read the full announcement, published February 7, 2018
See images of the works on view in the Parkett booth at Chesa Planta.
Click here to see a video of the works on view in the Parkett booth at Chesa Planta
PARKETT'S DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE
Search and Read Newly Digitized Texts on over 400 Artists from Three Decades Online in Parkett's Signature Double Page Design
We are delighted to introduce Parkett's expanded digital content, now featuring several hundred selected and seminal texts by renowned authors, curators, and artists. Every text is presented in both English and German, in Parkett's one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated double page layout.
Enjoy your own content selections from three decades, which chart the vast changes that have swept through the art world since 1984.
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED - A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett
@ The Temporary New Parkett Exhibition Space, Löwenbräu Zurich
A fresh and expanded look at the ninety diverse works made by women for Parkett over the last three decades
Opening Friday August 24, 6-8pm.
Parkett @ Art Basel 2018
On view at our two booths will be a selection of works made by artists throughout Parkett's thirty-three years, as well as a large wall display of Parkett's library currently featuring 63 available volumes with 208 artists' portraits.
A TIME CAPSULE Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 - 2017
@ Parkett Exhibition Space Zurich
Opening Friday June 8, 6-9pm
The ninety-two works on view illustrate the wealth and diversity of ideas, inspirations and sensibilities, that these artists have brought to Parkett and to art in the past thirty three years and beyond.
View a short video tour of the show here
Read the press release, in English and German, here
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