Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Lot of People

Titled “A Lot of People“, a frequent material line in many of Tiravanija’s interactive pieces, this exhibition encompasses works that invite the visitor’s participation, as well as sculptures, films, photographs, paintings, and works on paper. This major survey exhibition of Tiravanija’s practice brings together works made over four decades while living between New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai (Thailand), and includes several pieces that have not been seen or experienced since their initial presentation. Critical to the recent evolution of the art scene worldwide, Tiravanija’s interdisciplinary approach engages with notions of cultural difference as well as parameters of place and the ways in which people come together.

Central to the exhibition are multimedia installations that emphasize concerns about politics, while critically reflecting on current social conditions around the world, the struggle to sustain democracy, and proliferating protest movements. Interactive pieces will be enacted during the exhibition in newly conceived presentations. In this manner, Tiravanija continues to reactivate and translate his own works into new pieces that can adapt into the future. He describes this ongoing evolution: “Like a good recipe, everyone knows what it is, what it tastes like and even how to make it again — perhaps even differently, following their own interpretation; or perhaps it would be a base for something completely different, a possibility.”