Zu Gast bei BQ, Nr. 19: Lynda Morris “Dear Lynda...” at BQ on Berlin Art Grid

Opening Zu Gast bei BQ, Nr. 19: Lynda Morris “Dear Lynda...”

We are very pleased to present Lynda Morris' exhibition “Dear Lynda... From ‘When Attitudes Become Form’ to ‘Picasso: Peace And Freedom’” as the 19th part of our exhibition series “Zu Gast bei BQ”.

The touring exhibition “Dear Lynda...”, originated at White Columns in New York in 2012, uncovers Lynda Morris’ ongoing contributions to contemporary art since the 1960s as a curator, writer, art historian, and patron. Consisting of artworks, publications, posters, invitation cards, and correspondency taken from her personal archive and collection, the exhibition records her encounters and close collaborations with a remarkable group of artists of our time, including Gilbert & George, Konrad Fischer, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Richard Hamilton, John Baldessari, Art & Language, Marcel Broodthaers, André Cadere, John Wonnacott, David Lamelas, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Gustav Metzger, Jeremy Deller, and Lucy McKenzie. This body of material reflects the social, political, and cultural context of Morris’ activities concerned with issues of perception, conceptual art, and resistance in art and politics.

After studying at Canterbury College of Art, from 1969 to 1972 Lynda Morris (born 1947 in Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland) worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on exhibitions including “When Attitudes Become Form” (1969) and “Edward Kienholz: 11 Tableaux” (1971). She then worked for Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London organising the first exhibition that presented exclusively artists' books and compiling together with Germano Celant the catalogue “Book as Artwork 1960/1972”. This catalogue was devoted to the medium of the artist’s book and it still remains a canonical reference (republished in 2010). Also, in the early 1970s she was Richard Hamilton’s assistant for his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum New York and she organised the first exhibition of Minimal Art in the UK, “STRATA” at the Royal College of Art in London.

Lynda Morris is known as a pioneering curator who gave many now well-recognised artists their first UK exhibitions, including Agnes Martin (1974), Bernd and Hilla Becher (1974–75), and Gerhard Richter (1977). Further, from 1991 to 2009 she established and curated “EASTinternational”, an open submission exhibition in Norwich, with a series of invited selectors each
year, including Konrad Fischer, Marian Goodman, and Rudi Fuchs. “EASTinternational” expanded the bounderies of a London-centred art scene and turned Norwich into a recognised international hub for contemporary art. From 1980 to 2009 Morris was curator of the Norwich Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts, where she is Professor of Curation and Art History until today.

Her recent projects are the exhibitions “Picasso: Peace and Freedom” (Tate Liverpool, 2010; Albertina, Vienna, 2011; Louisiana, Humlebæk, 2011) and “Documenting Cadere: 1972–1978” (Modern Art Oxford, 2012/2013; Mu.ZEE, Oostende, 2013; Artists Space, New York, 2013). Both exhibitions illustrate once again Morris’ interest in conceptual art and socio-political issues: In her Picasso exhibition Morris presented a new angle that looked at Picasso’s ties with communist politics and the influences they had on the subjects of his work. In a similar tone “Documenting Cadere” depicts the ongoing relevance of André Cadere’s ethical position on the politics of the ownership of spaces artists are dependent upon to show their work.

Accompanying the exhibition is a self-published magazine by Lynda Morris available from the gallery.

Zu Gast bei BQ, Nr. 19: Lynda Morris
“Dear Lynda... From ‘When Attitudes Become Form’ to ‘Picasso: Peace And Freedom’”
Opening: Friday, 5 July 2013, 6–9 pm
Exhibition: 6 July – 17 August 2013

SPECIAL EVENT
“Drinking with Gilbert & George 1972 to 1976”, Lecture by Lynda Morris
Saturday, 6 July 2013, 4 pm
Free admission

Fri, Jul 05
6:00pm
Mitte
Tel: 030 23 45 73 16

Opening hours

Tue–Sat: 11am–6pm


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