UC Regents' Lecture: Monika Baer
Art + HAMMER | 7:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
Monika Baer is a Berlin-based painter whose work engages with both the legacy and present state of painting at the threshold of figuration and abstraction. Her complex, multi-layered paintings unfold fields of conflicts and reflect on questions of authorship, painting’s relationship to objecthood, and its scenic character. Formally and technically, they negotiate traditional motifs, gestures, and the contemporary condition of the praxis.
Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Pinakothek der Moderne in München, the mumok in Vienna, and the Documenta 12 in Kassel. She is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, Richard Telles in Los Angeles, and by Greene Naftali in New York. Monika Baer is a Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and will be teaching at UCLA this fall as a UC Regents’ Lecturer and Lecturer in the Department of Art.
This event is co-presented by the UCLA Department of Art and the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Date: Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free*
*Free tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before the program on a first come, first served basis.
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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