Artists
Daisuke Ida, Xu Bing, Trevor Paglen, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Maiko Jinushi, Tina Enghoff, Jeamin Cha, Evan Roth, Natsuko Kiura
Daisuke Ida, For Whom the Bell Tolls?, 2021. Video (loop) © Daisuke Ida
Courtesy of the artist
Daisuke Ida
Born in Tottori, Japan in 1987. Lives and works in Tokyo. He earned an MFA in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015 and completed MAD Art Practice in 2016.
Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes, 2017. Video, surveillance camera footage taken from public live-streaming websites, 81min
© Xu Bing Studio
Courtesy of the artist
Xu Bing
Born in Chongqing, China in 1955. Lives and works in Beijing and New York. He earned an MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 1987.
*Scheduled to be shown four times a day at the museum studio
*Click hereto see the trailer and making of Dragonfly Eyes.
Trevor Paglen, NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States, 2015. C-Print, 121.9×152.4 cm © Trevor Paglen
Courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, New York
Trevor Paglen
Born in Maryland, USA in 1974. Lives and works in New York and Berlin. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
Giorgi Gago Gagozhidze, Hito Steyerl, Miloš Trakilović, Mission Accomplished: Belanciege, 2019
3 channel HD video (color, sound), environment (47min 23s)
Exhibition view Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.): Hito Steyerl, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BELANCIEGE, 2019, video installation, environment, written and co-produced by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović
Courtesy the artists; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo © Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Hito Steyerl
Miloš Trakilović
Hito Steyerl
Born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Lives and works in Berlin. She studied documentary film at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and the University of Television and Film Munich. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2003.
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Born in Kutaisi, Georgia in 1983. Lives and works in Berlin. He studied fine arts at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi (2001–07) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (2008–10), as well as experimental film and video with Hito Steyerl at the Berlin University of the Arts (2012–16).
Miloš Trakilović
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1989. Lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. He studied fine arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (2009–12) and experimental film and video with Hito Steyerl at the University of the Arts in Berlin (2012–16).
Maiko Jinushi, A Distant Duet, 2016. HD video, 40min © Maiko Jinushi
Courtesy of HAGIWARA PROJECTS
Maiko Jinushi
Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1984. Lives and works in Tokyo. She earned an MFA from the Tama Art University, Tokyo, in 2010 and participated in the Jan van Eyck Academie residency in 2019-20.
Tina Enghoff, Possible Relatives / Man born 1954, deceased, found in home February 14, 2003, 2004. Archival pigment print, 120×160×5cm © Tina Enghoff
Courtesy of the artist
Tina Enghoff
Born in Denmark in 1957. Lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.
Jeamin Cha, Chroma-key and Labyrinth, 2013. Single channel HD video (color, sound), 15 min © Jeamin Cha
Courtesy of the artist
Jeamin Cha
Born in South Korea in 1986. Lives and works in Seoul. She earned a BFA from the Korea National University of Arts in 2010 and an M.A. from the Chelsea College of Design and Arts, London, UK, in 2011.
Evan Roth, Since You Were Born, 2023. Custom wallpaper, dimensions variable
Installation view of Since You Were Born at MOCA Jacksonville, 2019 © Evan Roth
Courtesy of the MOCA Jacksonville. Photo by Doug Eng
Evan Roth
Born in Michigan, USA in 1978. Lives and works in Berlin. He holds a B.S. in architecture from the University of Maryland and an MFA in Design & Technology at Parsons.
Natsuko Kiura, Park, 2021
Oil on canvas, 97×145.5cm © Natsuko Kiura
Courtesy of the artist. Photo © EUREKA
Natsuko Kiura
Born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1985. Lives and works in Kagoshima. She earned an MFA from Onomichi City University in Art & Design in 2010.
Related Video
Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes, 2017, Trailer
Xu Bing, The Making of Dragonfly Eyes, 2017
About the Exhibition Title
This exhibition is a look back, through the lens of contemporary art, at the three years of the pandemic, which abated so recently but is already fading from our collective memory day by day.
Living in these globally interconnected times, it is difficult for us to perceive distance, but spatial and geographical distances can never be negated. During the pandemic, a two-meter distance between people was mandated, this being considered far enough to prevent aerial transmission of the virus. Meanwhile, the imposition of entry restrictions and travel bans revived our awareness of the distance between countries. Slowdowns in logistics reacquainted us, the inhabitants of Earth, with the reality of the planet’s vast distances. The pandemic forced us to recognize how far apart things are, a truth unnoticed or unacknowledged by so many in advanced nations. Many of us adopted remote work, which seemed to resolve or at least mask the distances between us, and as the pandemic waned, we rapidly lost our sense of distance once more.
The title Universal / Remote was devised to encourage us not to forget the perpetually distant realities of the present day. The phrase “universal remote” originally signifies a multi-functional remote control, but dividing it with a slash disrupts the implication of “universal effectiveness” and lays bare the dual aspects of universal (i.e. global) and remote (i.e. distant, contactless). This title conveys the conviction that is vital to remain aware of the sense of distance that came to the foreground during the pandemic, as well as the unchanged reality that we are all living separate lives.
