Fall 2008 Programs

Tania Bruguera
September 7 to 21, 2008

Tania Bruguera is a political and interdisciplinary artist working primarily with installation, drawings and live art. Her work is a response to her cultural environment, whether that is the relationship between art and power in Cuba, emigration as a phenomenon, memory, or -- more recently guilt and fear. Since 2002 she has embarked on a series of projects in which she works towards appropriating the structures and resources of power rather than just the language.

Bruguera has exhibited internationally, including the Sao Paolo (Brazil), Johannesburg (South Africa), Shanghai (China), Santa Fe, and Havana Biennales, Documenta 11, and in spaces such as the Whitechapel Art Gallery (England), Museo de Cultura Contemporania (Spain), Museo de Bellas Artes Museum (Netherlands), where she was the first Cuban artist to ever be presented. Bruguera was featured in ³Performance: Live Art Since 1060¹s² by Roselee Goldberg (Ed. Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, England; Abrams Books, New York, 1998), considered by many the definitive history of performance art. She has been written about in Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, and reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Art News, Flash Art, Art Nexus and Kunstforum, among others. She is a Guggenheim fellow and her work is in the collections of the Museum Moderne Kunst (Germany), Daros Foundation
(Switzerland), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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