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Abundant Futures in Troubled Times

Works from the TBA21 Collection

October 19, 2022 – March 5, 2023

Víctor Barrios

Regina de Miguel, Abrazo Simbionte, 2022 Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Ai Weiwei, "Traveling Light", 2007.
Beatriz Milhazes, "Maresias", 2002-2003.
Tomás Saraceno, "Solitary semi-social mapping of Ceginus bya duet of Nephila senegalensis – four weeks, a triplet of Cyrtophora citricola – three weeks", 2018.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, "untitled 2016 (where do you fit into all of this) (six)", 2015-2016.
Photo: Roberto Ruiz.

Ernesto Neto, "Esqueleto Glóbulos", 2001.
"Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection".
Photo: Roberto Ruiz.

Olafur Eliasson,
"Reversed waterfall", 1998.
Photo: Roberto Ruiz.

Rivane Neuenschwander, Eu desejo o seu desejo, 2003. Exhibition view: “Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21 Collection” Photo: Rafael Suárez

Daniel Steegman Mangrané, Incomplete Infinity. Exhibition view: “Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21 Collection” Photo: Rafael Suárez

Matthew Ritchie, The Family Farm, 2001. Exhibition view: “Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21 Collection” Photo: Rafael Suárez

Víctor Barrios

Tomás Saraceno

Thomas Struth

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We invite you to delve into the TBA21 Collection with a new selection of works in the second chapter of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times. Celebrating the foundation’s twentieth anniversary, works by Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Domínguez, Olafur Eliasson, Rivane Neuenschwander, Tomás Saraceno, and Teresa Solar enter the exhibition’s vivid path, joining artists including Ai Weiwei, Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elena Damiani, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Mathilde ter Heijne, Camille Henrot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Miler Lagos, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Regina de Miguel, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai, Plata con Semillas Silvestres I Belén Rodríguez I Víctor Barrios, Diana Policarpo, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Simon Starling, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Janaina Tschäpe and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Abundant Futures in Troubled Times weaves together the voices of artists from different generations and multiple geographies in an attempt to imagine ecological futures through the prism of abundance and fullness. Curated by Daniela Zyman, the exhibition offers insights into the collecting and commissioning practices developed at TBA21 over the years and to encounter some of the most important works in the collection.

The opening of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times will be accompanied by a series of public activities, including commented visits to the exhibition, workshops, and performances by Rivane Neuenschander, Patricia Domínguez, on October 19, 2022 and Allora & Calzadilla, and Tarek Atoui on October 22, 2022.

12 pm – Rivane Neuenschwander, Espécie bandeira (Flagship species). An artist-led public workshop project revolving around the intersections of the rights of nature movement, extractivism, and nation building leading towards the design of a series of flags and banners. Presentation by the workshop participants.

1 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, mains hum, performance. Conceived in collaboration with the conductor Donald Nally and the composer David Lang and performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba, mains hum is a series of vocal actions that explores the mains hum—the continuous, low humming that buzzes from old or improperly grounded electrical transformers.

4 – 7 pm – Patricia Domínguez, Vegetal Matrix. Ethnobotanical drawing workshop exploring the multidimensional representation of plants. The workshop proposes a series of critical readings and exercises to deconstruct botanical scientific language and its Western lineage, reconsidering the depiction of plants from an artistic, indigenous, and spiritual point of view.

12 – 2 pm – Commented visit to the exhibition Abundant Futures in Troubled Times.

6 pm – Allora & Calzadilla, main hums, performance.
The performance is presented by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.

8 pm – Tarek Atoui, Al Qabali, performance. Venue to be confirmed.
"Al Qabali" is a new research and performative project that Tarek Atoui started in 2015 and will premiere in Córdoba with a first solo performance. In "Al Qabali", Atoui layers and conjures sounds according to the Tarab–a trance-inducing Arab musical tradition–, based on a collection of musical recordings of rural traditions from tribes and villages across the Atlas to the Persian Gulf, following the road of the Tuareg people. On his intimate journey, Atoui combines recordings from souks and shops in Essaouira or Marrakech, from weddings in Bahrain, music salons, and diwan majlises in Kuwait, Sharjah, and Oman.

EXHIBITION BOOKLET

CURATORIAL NOTES ON ABUNDANT FUTURES 2022 DANIELA ZYMAN

CURATOR

Daniela Zyman

LOCATION

C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba

ARTISTS

Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Domínguez, Olafur Eliasson, Rivane Neuenschwander, Tomás Saraceno, Teresa Solar, Ai Weiwei, Allora & Calzadilla, Dana Awartani, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elena Damiani, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Mathilde ter Heijne, Camille Henrot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Miler Lagos, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Regina de Miguel, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai, Plata con Semillas Silvestres I Belén Rodríguez I Víctor Barrios, Diana Policarpo, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Simon Starling, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Janaina Tschäpe y Cerith Wyn Evans

PRESS AREA

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PROXIMITY PROGRAM

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DANIELA ZYMAN ABOUT ABUNDANT FUTURES

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