Isa genzken moma scholarship

Seen side-by-side, one would hardly guess that the colorfully accessorized mannequin sculptures and the architectural models made with mathematical precision were created by the same artist.

Isa genzken moma scholarship

Yet, both are prominent parts of Isa Genzken: Retrospective currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Representing distinct periods in the artist’s forty-year career to date, both are also indicative of the artist’s incessant investigation of form across media – a practice encompassing sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, and film, resulting in a variable and diverse oeuvre.

The exhibition was a collaborative project that represents the efforts of multiple departments at MoMA – as evidenced by the variety of media included – and was jointly organized with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

It opens with a room of works linked by Genzken’s early interest in sound, and mathematical equations and machines used to documen