Andrea Zittel
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U.S. General Sevices Administration
Denver Federal Center
2014
U.S. General Sevices Administration
Denver Federal Center
2014
Installation View:
Andrea Zittel: The Flat Field Works
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
June 6 - September 27, 2015
Installation View:
Andrea Zittel: The Flat Field Works
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
June 6 - September 27, 2015
Installation View:
Andrea Zittel: The Flat Field Works
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
June 6 - September 27, 2015
A-Z Carpet Furniture: Cabin
2012
Nylon carpet
144 x 192 inches
(365.8 x 487.7 cm)
Edition of 3, 1AP
ARG# ZA2012-016
Installation view:
Contemporary Galleries 1980 to Now
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
November 17, 2011 – Ongoing
© The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
Installation view:
Contemporary Galleries 1980 to Now
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
November 17, 2011 – Ongoing
© The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
Installation view:
Andrea Zittel: Critical Space
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
January 26 - May 27, 2006
A-Z West
Joshua Tree, CA
© Andrea Zittel
Photographer: Giovanni Jance
Wagon Station
in situ at A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA, 2015
Photographer: Lance Brewer
© Andrea Zittel
Installation view:
Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska 1:1
Schaulager, Basel
April 26 - September 21, 2008
Installation view:
Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska 1:1
Schaulager, Basel
April 26 - September 21, 2008
A-Z Uniforms 1991-2000
2004
Installation view:
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Gallery 2
January 23-February 21, 2004
© Andrea Zittel
Photographer: Oren Slor
Installation view:
Future Present
Schaulager, Basel
June 13, 2015 – January 31, 2016
Photographer: Tom Bisig, Basel
Videos
Andrea Zittel: High Desert Test Sites on art21
Andrea Zittel: Wagon Station Encampment on art21
Andrea Zittel: Art and design on art21
Biography
Over the last 25 years, Andrea Zittel has developed an unparalleled practice that encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and participate in our culture today. While nurturing a symbiosis of formal abstraction and function, Zittel explores core questions of “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” through an examination of social norms, values, hierarchies, as well as the creation of new systems and structures for living. Bodies of work, such as Wagon Stations, Living Units, Planar Pavilions, and Uniforms, suggest systems that can allow for liberation and creativity through prescribed sets of limitations rather than total freedom, and reshape how we think about our needs and articulated human constructs. Since 2000, Zittel continues to develop her life project A-Z West in the Southern Mojave Desert––an evolution from A-Z East––as well as High Desert Test Sites, as testing grounds for her work and investigations of day-to-day living. The over 50-acre grounds, as well as numerous satellite properties, are sites for experimentation, where environment, structure, and elements shape an intentional context for experience.
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Exhibitions
Past
Space, Mind, Place
curated by John Connelly and Michelle Reyes: Michael Ashkin, Francis Cape, Susan Goldman, Rachel Harrison, Craig Kalpakjian, Calvin Seibert, Andrea Zittel
July 7 – August 9, 1996
Main Gallery
Are You Experienced?
Carsten Holler, Ben Kinmont, Josiah McElheny, Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings, Keith Seward and David Kelleran, and Andrea Zittel
March 11 – April 9, 1994
Main Gallery
Press
Andrea Zittel Press Kit
The Brooklyn Rail
The Gentlewoman
Dream Building In The American West
Spring and Summer 2015
Frieze
High Desert Test Sites
March, 2014
New York Magazine
January, 2006
News
Andrea Zittel in W Magazine
January 18, 2017
W Magazine features Andrea Zittel and A-Z West in "Meet the Artists Behind Desert X, the New Biennial Taking Place Alongside Coachella."
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/desert-x-artists-new-biennial-coachella-valley
Andrea Zittel at the Borås International Sculpture Biennale 2016, Sweden
May 13, 2016
Andrea Zittel is participating in the Borås International Sculpture Biennale 2016, Sweden. On view from May 20 - September 18, 2016, the biennale is curated by Linda Wallenberg and is produced by the Borås Museum of Modern Art / Borås City, Sweden.
Borås Konstmuseum
Kulturhuset, PA Hall's Terrace
Borås City, Sweden
Andrea Zittel at the Whitney Museum of American Art
April 27, 2016
Andrea Zittel's work is included in the exhibition Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, on view until February 12, 2017.
Please visit the museum website for more information.
Andrea Zittel featured on art21
Please click here to watch a video of “Andrea Zittel: ‘Art and Design’"
Please click here to watch a video of “Andrea Zittel: ‘Wagon Station Encampment’”
Please click here to watch a video of “Andrea Zittel: 'High Desert Test Sites'”