Artists
Michael Rakowitz
- Born 1973 in New York, USA. Based in Chicago, USA.
Michael Rakowitz is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of problemsolving and troublemaking. Rakowitz explores the displacement of cultural artifacts and people caused by colonialism, geopolitical conflicts, and other forms of forced removal, activating everyday objects and employing unconventional approaches. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square. In 2020, he was the recipient of the Public Art Dialogue Award and the Nasher Prize. He was recently granted a commission for a public project on the topic of Archaeology and Migration Flows for the Municipality of The Hague.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2021
- England’s Creative Coast, Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
- 2020
- Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France)
- 2019–20
- Solo exhibition, Legatura imperfetta, Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK)/Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Italy)/Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai, UAE)
- 2019–20
- Solo exhibition, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, Malmo Konsthall (Sweden)
- 2012
- dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, Germany)
- “The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)” 2018
- Photo: Gautier DeBlonde ©
- Courtesy of the Mayor of London.