the Wind sings
September 5 — October 12, 2024
Seoul
Gladstone presents Joan Jonas: the Wind sings, the artist’s first solo exhibition in South Korea. Composed of recent and historic works, the exhibition showcases Jonas' ongoing multidisciplinary approach to art-making, bridging boundaries between video, performance, installation, sculpture, and drawing for over five decades. Drawing inspiration from her diverse travels and the natural world, Jonas has produced an extensive oeuvre that explores the significance of humanity's relationship with the environment and its inhabitants. Spanning from one of her early video works, Wind (1968), to the installation of kites that recently debuted at the artist’s career retrospective, Good Night, Good Morning, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wind sings offers a dynamic reflection on the ubiquitous and ever-evolving presence of ritual, physicality, and natural vitality within Jonas’ work.
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Photo by Toby Coulson
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas' experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Jonas has exhibited and performed extensively around the world. Her notable exhibition history includes Documenta 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13; the 28th São Paulo Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at the United States Pavilion for the 56th Edition of the Venice Biennial; Tate Modern, London; Museu Serralves, Porto; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Dia Beacon; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and The Drawing Center, New York. Most recently, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a retrospective of Jonas's work. Jonas is the recipient of many awards including The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon (2016); the Maya Deren Award given by the American Film Institute (1989); and the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009). In 2024, she was presented the Nam June Paik prize, awarded to artists who have contributed to the development of contemporary art, mutual understanding, and world peace; and in 2018, Jonas was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, given to those individuals who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind.
