"The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" Inaugural Triennial Exhibition
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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For “Younger Than Jesus,” the first edition of “The Generational,” the New Museum’s new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will offer a rich, intricate, multidisciplinary exploration of the work being produced by a new generation of artists born after 1976. Known to demographers, marketers, sociologists, and pundits variously as the Millennials, Generation Y, iGeneration, and Generation Me, this age group has yet to be described in any way beyond their habits of consumption. “Younger Than Jesus” will begin to examine the visual culture this generation has created to date. Inspired by the fact that some of the most influential and enduring gestures in art and history have been made by young people in the early stages of their lives, “Younger Than Jesus” will fill the entire New Museum’s building on the Bowery with approximately 145 works by artists all of whom are under the age of thirty-three years old. Hailing from countries including Algeria, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Lebanon, Poland, Turkey, and Venezuela, many are showing in a museum for the first time. The exhibition will span mediums and encompass painting, drawing, photography, film, animation, performance, installation, dance, Internet-based works, and video games.
[Image: Mohammed Bourouissa "La fenêtre" (2005) Lamda print mounted on aluminum]
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Schedule
from April 08, 2009 to July 05, 2009
Artist(s)
Shilpa Gupta, Ryan Trecartin, Tanba Auerbach, AIDS-3D, Mohammed Bourouissa, Haris Epaminonda, Ziad Antar, Cory Arcangel, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Kerstin Brätsch, Wojciech Bąkowski, Carolina Caycedo, Liu Chuang, Keren Cytter, Mariechen Danz, Faye Driscoll, Ida Ekblad, Mark Essen, Cao Fei, Brendan Fowler, Luke Fowler, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tris Vonna-Michell, Kateřina Šedá, Chu Yun et al.
Reviews
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
A photo report from the opening of the New Museum's inaugural Triennial.
OMG it's YTJ: A Triennial for the Millenials
"The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" features the work of 50 artists from 25 countries, all born after the year 1976.
I like video works incorporating with multi medium installations. They interface viewers visually and physically.