Richard Artschwager, Tracey Emin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Christopher Wool in Start Making Sense
22 June—20 October 204
Group exhibition at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA
Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections – part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 12,000-square- foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists, and others, who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty, and outside researchers, who form the CCS Bard community.
Artists included: John Ahearn, Ida Applebroog, Richard Artschwager, Ed Atkins, Steven Ausbury and Todd Alden, John Baldessari, BANK (Simon Bedwell, John Russell, Milly Thompson and Andrew Williamson), Matthew Barney, Ross Bleckner, Jonathan Borofsky, Glenn Brown, Sophie Calle, Francesco Clemente, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Urs Fischer, Eric Fischl, Andrea Fraser, General Idea, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, Guerrilla Girls, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mary Heilmann, Damien Hirst, Isaac Julien, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, Robert Mapplethorpe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Allan McCollum, Takashi Murakami, Cady Noland, Christopher Ofili, Catherine Opie, Tony Oursler, Laura Owens, Philippe Parreno, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Charles Ray, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Sherman, Roman Signer, Jessica Stockholder, Thomas Struth, Elaine Sturtevant, Philip Taaffe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Chris Verene, Kara Walker, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Wool, and Cerith Wyn Evans.