The 21c Museum Collection
21c Museum is dedicated to collecting the art of today. Founders Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson have been acquiring and commissioning dynamic contemporary art for the last two decades.
The 21c Collection, which now includes works in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography, to film, video, and digital-based art, reflects the global nature of contemporary culture, featuring works by artists from all over the world. Identity, community, the environment, and the artistic imagination are prominent subjects in the Collection. As the Collection grows, 21c Museum will continue to create innovative exhibitions and other programming exploring the breadth of the human experience, lived and imagined, through contemporary art.
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LouisvilleChristyl Boger Sculptures
Oct 2012
As a social animal, humans continuously shift between seemingly contradictory states – impulse and control, individual versus group, suppression and openness, transition versus boundary. Christyl Boger is interested in the intersections between these states, and how their limits are defined…
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LouisvilleWhat the Flock?!
Apr 2012
Dozens of near-life-size seagulls are flying or falling throughout the dining areas, the bar, and toward the front door windows, as if attempting escape. What cataclysm is occurring here? The artist says the piece is inspired by the urban myth…
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CincinnatiUntitled
As part of 21c’s mission to integrate contemporary art into daily life, thought-provoking works are installed both indoors and out. Adjacent to the Walnut street entrance is Austrian artist Werner Reiterer’s enormous, ornate, brass chandelier, which illuminates and animates the…
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LouisvilleBlind Spot: The Customized Art Car
A convertible covered in mirrors, this art car by Monica Mahoney comments on the cultural blind spots of society and asks how we can fill the gaps with pertinent meaningful information.
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CincinnatiLightmail
The shimmering, shifting spectrum of color emanating from the nine-story interior solarium is Astrid Krogh’s Lightmail, a three-part fiber optic tapestry woven on a loom in the artist’s Copenhagen studio. Renowned as a leading innovator in the intersecting fields of…
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CincinnatiUros
Uros, a light sculpture by interdisciplinary artist Grimanesa Amorós, is installed in a corridor just off the lobby gallery, visible from both the elevator lobby and the reception lobby gallery. Part of a series of works originally commissioned by the…
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LouisvilleWallpaper commission (Marti)
In this site-specific installation for 21c Museum Hotel, Virgil Marti explores relationships between art and decoration. Using fluorescent ink and dyes on a landscape scene, the viewer is placed in an unfamiliar relationship to familiar objects. The recognizable landscape icons…
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LouisvilleUntitled (Navarro)
The untitled light box installation by Ivan Navarro comes frome the artists holeway series which utilize lights within a one-way mirror. Installed in the ceiling of each elevator at 21c, viewers may look in and see lightbulbs continuing upwards in an…
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LouisvilleCloud Rings
Set in the sunken courtyard of 21c, Cloud Rings is an installation that shoots rings of fog up into space, taking inspiration from atmospheric physics, geology, astronomy and fluid motion.
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LouisvilleArillated: The 21c Pip Mobile
Seen outside of 21c and beyond, the 21c Pip Mobile is a limousine made to resemble the interior of a pomegranate by utilizing thousands of red glass arilloid gems.
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LouisvilleIn the Absence of Voyeurism 6 and 7
Displayed on small LCD monitors in the bathrooms at 21c, In the Absence of Voyeurism #6 and #7 are site-specific videos that show the eyes of seven individuals from a blind dart throwing group.
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LouisvilleRed Penguin
Need we say more?
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LouisvilleText Rain
Text Rain is an interactive installation in which participants use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical—to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist.
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CincinnatiRefraction
“Refraction is the change in the direction of a wave when it enters a medium, for instance, a ray of light entering water. Hypermnesia is a state of highly developed memory, based on registering experiences by associating them to mentally…
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CincinnatiTime Capsule
The site for Brooklyn-based artist Anne Peabody’s commission at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is the elevator cabs. To transform these spaces into unique, interactive works of art, Peabody engaged in a process both research- and labor-intensive: she gathered information and…
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BentonvilleHide and Seek
“After being approached to create a drawing for glass bathroom walls and partitions, my mind kept going back to the notion of hiding,” says Anne Peabody. “The prospect of being seen by others while enclosed in a traditionally sacred and…
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BentonvilleTree of 40 Fruit
The Tree of 40 Fruit is quite literally a fruit tree that will grow forty varieties of fruit from the family of stone fruits, including peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, cherry and the hybrid species therein. Blossoming in variegated tones of…
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BentonvilleA Sudden Gust of Wind in Bentonville
Serkan Özkaya’s A Sudden Gust of Wind, Bentonville is comprised of 400 sheets of metal that emulate a scattered stack of 8.5″ x 11″ papers, frozen in motion across the ceiling and walls and descending to the floor. Alluding to the beauty…
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BentonvilleFLOW 5.0
This interactive sculpture by Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that respond to visitors. As viewers approach, sensors located within the sculpture are activated as fans, blowing air onto passersby and…
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BentonvilleOrange Tree
Orange Tree, Alexandre Arrechea’s large-scale sculpture of a metal tree sprouting basketball hoops and surrounded by basketballs, has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Shanghai. Pepsi-Cola incorporated Orange Tree as part of the company’s “Bronx Flavor Campaign,” an initiative…
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BentonvilleElevator Lobby Wallpapers
Chris Doyle (American) Unfolded, 2010-13 Wallpaper Elevator lobby, fourth floor Referencing paper currency in shape and design, Chris Doyle’s Unfolded belongs to the same body of work as Waste_Generation (2010), the animation featured in the video lounge as part of the inaugural exhibition, Hybridity: The…
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BentonvilleFat Bat
Through drawings, collages, and life-size figurative sculptures, she combines the whimsical with the macabre. In Fat Bat, Barré transforms the comic-book character Batman into a humorous hybrid both fantastical and familiar, effectively deflating the power and idealization of the cartoon superhero while…
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CincinnatiField of Grass
San Francisco-based Ryan Wolfe describes himself as a “device artist and interaction designer” whose works explore spatial and kinetic patterns. Wolfe’s Field of Grass, which spreads across the stairway wall up to the 21c spa, distills and recreates the feel…
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CincinnatiFloor Module Table
Best known for intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Do Ho Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. To experience the artist’s floor sculptures, viewers are encouraged to walk on surfaces…
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CincinnatiYellow Penguin
“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…
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BentonvilleGreen Penguin
“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…
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CincinnatiHealing Tiles
A new media artist working with cutting-edge science and technology, Brian Knep is artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, where he works side-by-side with scientists, adapting their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world.…
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