miart Milan 2024
Booth B55 & B59 (Portal)
11 – 14 April 2024

Returning to miart in 2024, ChertLüdde presents a booth swelling with powerful undercurrents. Many of the artistic positions motivate a figurative retelling of feminist stories. These date as far back as militant Feminist artist Clemen Parrocchetti’s textile work from the 1980s up until the present with Pauline Curnier Jardin’s sculptural installation. The booth also highlights Curnier Jardin’s ongoing collaborations with the transgender sex workers of the Feel Good Cooperative, Rome, whose joint exhibition is currently at MACRO, Rome.

Alongside them, Zora Mann’s watercolor paintings drift through an entanglement of personal memories while Kasia Fudakowski addresses our assumptions of power with sculptural lighting. Identity then gets thrust into a dialogue of cultural inheritance through the work of Monia Ben Hamouda, who is exhibiting soon at MAXXI in Rome for the 2024 MAXXI BVLGARI Prize and was just awarded the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation in Museion, Bolzano. Similar notions are also conveyed by Sol Calero, who will participate in the 60th Venice Biennale this April. Stephanie Comilang, whose solo exhibition is currently on view in Madrid at Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, similarly traces conceptions of origin, longing and displacement.

A more conceptual approach is offered by David Horvitz, who uses the distance between places, people and time in order to disrupt, undermine or even erase notions of distance. At the booth, Horvitz will be showing a photograph of the night sky taken where the artist’s grandmother was held in an internment camp during the Second World War about 75 years ago. Horvitz will also restage his 2016 Frieze New York intervention, in which he will hire a pickpocket to give unsuspecting visitors a small sculpture, rather than taking cash or valuables from people’s pockets. During Miart, Horvitz will also be presenting his largest survey show to date at BiM Milano Bicocca titled Abbandonare il locale, curated by Nicola Ricciardi, open from April 13th.

Finally, in the Portals section of Miart, Franco Mazzucchelli will present his signature inflatable sculptures along with historical works.

Installation views by Andrea Rossetti