Ed Atkins with Steven Zultanski
November 17, 2023 — January 6, 2024
New York: 21st Street & 64th Street
Gladstone is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by British artist Ed Atkins. The dual-venue installation is mounted in our 21st and 64th Street locations and marks the artist’s first New York show with the gallery. Known for creating videos in which computer-animated proxies reflect on themes of loss, intimacy, abjection and melancholy, the artist’s multidisciplinary approach to artmaking examines the increasingly permeable boundaries that separate life from its digital simulations. Addressing contemporary culture’s fetish for media that painstakingly mimics the aesthetic contours of reality but fails to accommodate the burden of its subject, Atkins mines performance, theater, cinema, literature, and himself to examine the alive/dead dichotomy that ricochets between all bodies and their cybernated doppelgangers. A new booklet featuring an excerpt of the artist’s recent writings accompanies the exhibition.
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About
Ed Atkins (b. 1982, Oxford, United Kingdom) lives and works in Copenhagen. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including TANK, Shanghai; Espace Louis Vuitton München, Germany; New Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and K21 Düsseldorf, Germany; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; MMK Frankfurt, Germany; DHC/ART, Montréal); Castello di Rivoli and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; The Kitchen, New York; SMK, Copenhagen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; and MoMA PS1, Queens, New York. Atkins was included in the 56th and 58th Venice Biennales, the 13th Lyon Biennial, and Performa 13 and 19.
