Alfredo Jaar: Things Fall Apart  Alfredo Jaar: Things Fall Apart 

Alfredo Jaar: Things Fall Apart 

  • Thu, 18 Jul 2024

  • SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, #03-07, EX-SITU

  • 7PM – 8.30PM

  • Free, by registration

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Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker whose works are known to engage with social and political issues around the world. Join us as he presents his most recent projects. 

This talk will be followed by a QnA session with the artist.

About the Artist 
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021)
 as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002). He has realised more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018, the Hasselblad Award in 2020, and the Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize in 2024.

His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide. 

Photographer: Jee Eun Esther Jang