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TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

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Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq
A Journey into the Rural Music Traditions of North Africa and the Arab World

Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq | Public Program

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Independent study program, Year One

Organismo | Public program
Independent study program, Year One

The Ecologies of Peace II

The Ecologies of Peace II - Winter Mediation program

Otras montañas las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

Echoes of the Sanctuary

Webs of Water
An Online Activations Series

TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space Wins Flash Art Italia Award for Innovation and Sustainability

A first look at our 2025 exhibition program

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Commissions & Productions

Mirna Bamieh
Bitter things: The Kitchen, 2024

Commissions

Courtney Desiree Moris

Courtney Desiree Morris
Sopera de Yemaya, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Loans

Digital

Center for Spatial Technologies
A City Within a Building: The Russian Airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater, 2024

C3A Córdoba

Cristina Lucas
Round Around, 2022-2024.

C3A Córdoba

Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano
Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas, 2023

Commissions

Simone Fattal
Young Boy, 2023

Ocean Space Venice

Ocean Space Venice

Commissions

Collection

Simone Fattal
Pearls, 2023

Ocean Space Venice

Ocean Space Venice

Commissions

Collection

Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom, 2023

Commissions

Collection

Regina de Miguel
Nekya. Una película río | Nekya. A film river, 2022

Commissions

Collection

Rivane Neuenschwander
Espécie bandeira (Flagship species), 2022

Commissions

Seba Calfuqueo
Ko ta mapungey ka (Water Is Also Territory), 2020

Commissions

Collection

Diana Policarpo
Cigua Tales, 2022

Collection

Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive, 2022

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Una cita a ciegas con Ibn Zaydun, entre el aceite y el agua, 2022

Past

Plata
Boeticus Salon, 2022

Abraham Cruzvillegas
El Campo de la Verdad, 2022

Collection

Plata
Vegetal Acupuncture: Plants for a Future without Petroleum, 2022

Past

SUPERFLEX
Vertical Migration, 2021

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

May 11 – August 22, 2021

Past

TBA21–Academy

MNTB Madrid

The Day that Wood and Matter Wanted to Become Salt Water

Programming

MNTB Madrid

Taloi Havini
Answer to the Call, 2021

TBA21–Academy

Exhibitions

Commissions

Asunción Molinos Gordo

Asunción Molinos Gordo
Barruntaremos, 2021

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

st_age
Season 02
Online

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Diana Policarpo

Diana Policarpo

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Walid Raad
Epilogue II: The Constables, 2021

Commissions

Collection

Walid Raad
Epilogue VII: The Gold and Silver;
Epilogue VIII: The Crates, 2021

Commissions

Collection

Hylozoic / Desires
(Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser)
As Grand As What, 2021

Commissions

Collection

st_age
Season 1
Online September 28 – December 20, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

Past

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Eduardo Navarro with BaRiya (Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini), Octo-Durga, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

Past

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Dream Dreaming a Dream Dreaming, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

Past

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Patricia Domínguez
Gaiaguardianxs, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Commissions

Himali Singh Soin
with David Soin Tappeser
Three experimental sound chapters from we are opposite like that, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Collection

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Huertos de los ch’olti, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Collection

Christian Salablanca
Geometría del Centro, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Collection

Yeo Siew Hua
An Invocation to the Earth, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

Past

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Patricia Domínguez
The Ballad of the Dry Mermaids, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Commissions

Patricia Domínguez
The Hanging Testicles and the She-Spirit of Water, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Commissions

Sissel Tolaas
Smell 3_4 2020, 2020

Past

Dana Awartani
Come, Let Me Heal Your Wounds, 2020

TBA21 on st_age

TBA21 on st_age

Digital

Collection

Cecilia Bengolea, Tryptique – Oneness, 2019-2020

Rirkrit Tiravanija | The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Past

SUPERFLEX
Hunga Tonga, 2019

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

SUPERFLEX
Dive-In, 2019

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Armin Linke
Prospecting Ocean, 2018

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Mario García Torres
The Way They Looked at Each Other, n.d.

Commissions

Collection

Jana Winderen
bára, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Laura Anderson Barbata
Ocean Calling, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Camille Henrot
Saturday, 2017

Santiago Roose
Tierra ebria, 2017

Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad
Golden Days (Remedios, Colombia, 2012), 2013

Commissions

Collection

Santiago Roose
Determinaciones soco territoriales: Colonia, 2017

Sissel Tolaas
Ocean SmellScapes, 2017
03.2017 : 10.5438700 / 84.4537700 / 10.5 / 84.5

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Tue Greenfort
Tamoya Ohboya, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Alexander Lee
ME-TI'A - An Island Standing, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Marine Hugonnier
ART FOR MODERN ARCHITECTURE - Österreichische Zeitung, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Em'kal Eyongakpa
Gaia beats/bits III-i/
doves and an aged hammock, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
May 13–November 26, 2017 | La Biennale di Venezia

Past

John Akomfrah
Purple, 2017

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Suzanne Treister
Rare Earth Project, 2014

Commissions

Collection

Mario García Torres
The Day Mankind Faded Away, n.d.

Commissions

Collection

Mario García Torres

Mario García Torres
The Day Mankind Faded Away, n.d.

Ernesto Neto
BasnepuruTxanaYubé, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Ariel Guzik
The Nereida Capsule, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
World Light - The Life and Death of an Artist, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Arseniy Zhilyaev
Cobblestone Weapon of the Proletariaty, 2015

Arseniy Zhilyaev
Cobblestone Weapon of the Proletariaty, 2015

Ai Weiwei
Rare Towel, 2015

Ai Weiwei
Rare Towel, 2015

Erick Beltrán
Hephaestus’s Dream, 2015

Erick Beltrán
Hephaestus’s Dream, 2015

Réquiem for Harley Warren (Screams from Hell), 2015

Marguerite Humeau
Réquiem for Harley Warren (Screams from Hell), 2015

Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Voyant, 2015

Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Voyant, 2015

Stankievech
Anbarium, 2015

Collection

Stankievech
Anbarium, 2015

Collection

Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière
The Third Element, 2015

Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière
The Third Element, 2015

Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
b/NdAlTaAu, 2015

Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
b/NdAlTaAu, 2015

Ursula Mayer
Luminous Lining, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Gelatin
A Vase is a Vase is a Base, 2015

Commissions

Collection

Carsten Höller
Giant Multiple Mushrooms (Large and Small), 2014

Commissions

Collection

Carsten Höller
Half Clock, 2014

Commissions

Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
The Palace of the Summerland, 2014

Commissions

Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato queriendo ser Fray Tomás González y escuchando abajeños con la banda de Zacán,

incapaz de comunicar la frustración de no poder reconocerme como un narciso iracundo, pobre, obediente, castoy para acabarla de chingar, desplazado, 2014

Commissions

Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato fronterizo y chispeante abrazando el retrato de Gilberto Bosques, escuchando pirekuas y tragando esquites afuera de la catedral, 2014

Commissions

Collection

Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Past

Chris Watson
Deep Blue Notes, 2013

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Tony Myatt, Paul Modler, Peter Worth, Pascal Wyse

Underwater Ambisonic Recordings, 2013

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson
Stars Exploding, 2013

Jonathas de Andrade
O Levante, 2013

Commissions

Collection

Cerith Wyn Evans
A Community Predicated on the Basic Fact Nothing Really Matters, 2013

Commissions

Collection

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs, 2011

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Cevdet Erek
Calendar 1, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Prediction, 1991/2012

Commissions

Collection

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs: Departure Iceland, 2012

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Simon Starling
Prouvé (Road Test), 2012

Past

JG Thirlwell
Euthanasia, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Omer Fast
Continuity, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Zavoloka & Kotra
Graftal, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Peter Zinovieff
Good Morning Ludwig, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Richardas Norvila / Benzo
Reappearance (Part V and Part VI), 2012

Commissions

Collection

Kollektiv/Rauschen
Entrapment, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Constitution, 2012

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
272 Varieties of Indigenous Organic Rice Seeds, n.d.

Commissions

Collection

Carsten Nicolai
morning line quanta, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Zavaloka
Volution, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Terre Thaemlitz
TML #25, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Franz Pomassl
Sonax, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
June 7, 2011–2012 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna

Past

Exhibitions

Commissions

Gelatin
Gelatin Pavilion – Some Like It Hot, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Alexei Borisov, Olga Nosova and VTOL
Player 0-8-0, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Christian Fennesz
follow blind, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Zsolt Olejnik
Spin, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Counting Sisters and Other Stories, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Scene of Crime, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Finnbogi Pétursson
Angelica, 2011

Commissions

Collection

Carsten Höller
Aufzugbett, 2010

Commissions

Collection

Yasunao Tone
Raining, 2010

Collection

Japanther
It Never Seems to End, 2010

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
May 22–September 19, 2010 | Istanbul

Past

Exhibitions

Commissions

Carl Michael von Hausswolff
No Rest Even for the Static (Matter II), 2010

Commissions

Collection

Peter Zinovieff
Bridges from Somewhere and Another to Somewhere Else, 2010

Commissions

Collection

Jana Winderen
Between Dry Land, 2010

TBA21–Academy

Commissions

Collection

Cevdet Erek
Neither the time nor the place for dancing (NTNPD), 2010

Commissions

Collection

Ghostigital
Cannibal in Tuxedo (internal/external), 2010

Commissions

Collection

Hernan Diaz Alonso / Xefirotarch
TBA21 Patagonia, 2010

Commissions

Collection

Nevin Aladağ
Colors, 2008/2010

Commissions

Collection

Erdem Helvacıoğlu
Timeless Waves, 2010

Commissions

Collection

Olaf Nicolai
Mourning and Melancholia

Past

Olaf Nicolai
Trauer und Melancholie, 2009/2012

Past

Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker – No night No day
June 4–6, 2009 | Teatro Goldoni, Venice

Past

Jorge Otero-Pailos
The Ethics of Dust: Doge's Palace, Venice, 2009

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
October 2, 2008–January 11, 2009 | Seville

Past

Exhibitions

Commissions

Nikolaus Hirsch / Michel Müller and Cybermohalla Ensemble
Cybermohalla Hub, 2008

Jónsi & Alex
All Animals, 2008/2010

Commissions

Collection

Bryce Dessner, David Sheppard, Evan Ziporyn
Propolis, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Thom Willems
Das Gewicht von Licht, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Chris Watson
Snaefellsnes, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam
Middle Way or Independence?, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie
The Midnight Line, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Bruce Gilbert
ab intra, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Florian Hecker
Rotating psychoacoustic tuning curves, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Torn First Pages, 2004-2008

Commissions

Collection

Lee Ranaldo
Maelstrom, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Želimir Žilnik
Soap in Danube Opera, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line, 2008

Past

Commissions

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Evening Line, 2008

Commissions

Collection

Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam
Some Questions on the Nature of Your Existence, 2007

Commissions

Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line Scale Model, 2007

Commissions

Collection

Gregor Schneider 7–8:30 PM, 05.31.2007
May 31, 2007 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Past

Sanja Iveković
Mohnfeld, 2007

Commissions

Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
God, 2007

Commissions

Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Lightning Testimonies, 2007

Commissions

Collection

John Bock – Malträtierte Fregatte
September 2006 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Past

Emanuel Danesch & David Rych
Minority Logbox: multiple degrees of representation, 2006

Commissions

Collection

Nedko Solakov
A BG Bar, 2006

Commissions

Collection

Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová
After the Order, 2006

Commissions

Collection

Renata Poljak
All One Knows, 2006

Commissions

Collection

László Csáki & Szábolcs Pálfi
Agár - The Hungarian Greyhound Project, 2006

Commissions

Collection

Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph-Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament/House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005

Commissions

Collection

Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion, 2005

Commissions

Collection

Olafur Eliasson
Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010

Commissions

Collection

Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph-Namibia-Edition. (Utgard - The African Twintowers), 2005

Commissions

Collection

Olaf Nicolai
Welcome to the Tears of St. Lawrence, 2005

Commissions

Collection

Doug Aitken
no history, 2005

Commissions

Collection

Janet Cardiff
The Walk Book (Edition), 2005

Publications

Commissions

Collection

Dan Graham, Tony Oursler & Laurent P. Berger
Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty: The Storyboard, 2004

Commissions

Collection

Julian Rosefeldt
Stunned Man / Trilogy of Failure (Part II), 2004

Commissions

Collection

Julian Rosefeldt
The Soundmaker / Trilogy of Failure (Part I), 2004

Commissions

Collection

Kutluğ Ataman
Küba, 2004

Commissions

Collection

Cristina Lucas
Tuftings, 2017-2024

C3A Córdoba