Rirkrit Tiravanija nr. 2 in Art Review lijst’Most infuential’

Kunstenaar Rirkrit Tiravanija, lid van de selectiecommissie van The Mondrian Initiative, is door ArtReview uitgeroepen tot nummer 2 in de lijst van ‘Most influential people in 2024 the Contemporary Art World’.

Rirkrit Tiravanija. Foto: Daniel Dosa

“During his close-to-40-year engagement with what has been characterised as relational aesthetics, the Thai artist has become known for his participatory events, from cooking pad thai for gallery goers to providing them with ping-pong tables. You’d think it might be tricky to encapsulate such a career in a retrospective, but his MoMA PS1 survey, which closed in March, before moving to LUMA Arles in June, had a go, as did a second retrospective at Gropius Bau, Berlin, which opened in September, serving curry and Turkish coffees, and providing hangout spaces where the interactions are the work.”

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