Congratulations to Richard Wright for winning the prestigious Turner Prize for his piece from Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. Wright talks about his work here. The Turner Prize, awarded annually by Tate Britain to an artist under 50, ...
life on
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55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Life on Mars ends Jan. 11.
HELP US!!
Take a small Life on Mars web site survey and help us answer the big
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Additional screening Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Running time: 138 min.
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On Tuesday, September 9th, from 6:00-7:00 p.m in the Carnegie Lecture Hall, Thomas Hirschhorn and Life on Mars curator Douglas Fogle will unravel some of those questions, and discuss both Hirschhorn’s past work and his piece in the 2008 Carnegie...
On Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 Pittsburgh Filmmakers will screen the fifth installment of Life on Mars: New Perspectives – a series co-sponsored by Carnegie Museum of Art.Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 black and white film Alphaville is a science fiction film noir...
On Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008 Pittsburgh Filmmakers will screen the fourth installment of Life on Mars: New Perspectives – a series co-sponsored by Carnegie Museum of Art.Jacques Tati's 1967 film Playtime follows the director's famous Monsieur Hulot, played by Tati...
Thursday nights, the museum is open late (with 2-for-one admission to boot) – and tonight Attack Theatre will present Remainder, Phase One, the first installment of an evolving three-part work inspired by Life on Mars. The event begins at 6pm...
At Carnegie Museum of Art, we are fortunate to have the Charmed Lab/Gigapan group at Carnegie Mellon University as next door neighbors. They’re developing Gigapan, a robotic camera mount that works with a simple digital camera, to take multi-gigapixel shots...
Here is a sampling of the media coverage on Life on Mars in the past week: A flyover shot of Mark Bradford's "HELP US" on the roof and more about the International on WTAE-TV (also in our Video/Audio Library) Carnegie...
Installation views of Aitken's Migration (projected images on museum building) and images of viewer participation in Neuenschwander's I Wish Your Wish installation.
[I started this entry last week before the exhibition opened and never got around to finishing it.]
Walking around the museum you would never know that less than 48 hours remain before the gala opening. Several artists are still busy creating and installing their work, and some areas of the museum look much like an artist's studio, or even a construction work site...
Although it's now been quite a few years since the carefree days of high school, I can't help but think back on some of the most exciting times for me in those days which were preparing for both the spring musicals and prom. Both, while equally exciting, are quite different and are obviously not nearly as great a magnitude of event as the Carnegie International, but to those involved in any of those events they are extremely important none the less...
While the long-awaited opening of Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International is now just days away, it's been the talk of the town for months, with coverage really heating up...
If you have not read Mary Thomas's interview of Life on Mars curator Douglas Fogle in the April 27 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it is well worth checking out. Where Fogle finds the time to sleep these days, let alone talk to the press, is beyond me. Fogle says alot in the interview about the nature of an exhibition like this, and about how he hopes visitors will approach it...
It's 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday, and all is quiet at Carnegie Museum of Art, except for the desk of Karin Campbell, who is on the phone with a travel agent, attempting to book an international flight for three days from now
If you think you know what it's like to multitask, consider what it would be like to put on 39 art exhibitions simultaneously, all opening on the same day. That is more or less what the Carnegie International calls for....
When the final list of artists included in Life on Mars was announced just over 2 months ago, we had not yet closed our contemporary art galleries to make way for the exhibition and the entire affair seemed quite abstract indeed. Since then there has been a relentless flurry of activity on all fronts....
Kathie over at Eleventh Stack has a great post about Life on Mars, full of links to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh catalogue listings of titles related to the history of the Carnegie International, contemporary art, art criticism, and even Martian...
In David Bowie's song, "Life on Mars," he sings about a world spinning out of control. Bowie poses the question of whether Mars is a place to escape to, or whether we're on Mars already, because this world we live in has become so strange and unfamiliar to us.
Although every exhibition has an organizing principle, for the first time in its history, this installment of the Carnegie International has a title -- "Life on Mars." The title —appropriated from the Bowie song...
I may have been thinking too much about Life on Mars, or just not getting enough sleep, or befuddling myself looking at and trying to understand a lot of computer code as part of my job. Whatever, I had something of an insight while trying to articulate what this Carnegie International web site is trying to accomplish, why I care about it, and what it has to do with the exhibition itself...
Anytime you temporarily remove yourself from a situation, you receive a new perspective. In many ways, sharing my thoughts on the process of CI08 has provided me with an enlightening way of stepping back from what has been my central focus over the past several months. As rights & reproductions coordinator in the publications department, I have been looking at hundreds of pictures of work...
If museums competed only with other museums for people's attention, this job would be much easier. Instead we compete with movies, football, chain restaurants, and car companies. It's disheartening to realize that Applebee's probably spends more on one day of...