Exhibitions
YBCA's exhibitions feature works that tap into timely ideas and topics, are unabashedly individualistic, and empower the viewer to feel and experience the world more fully. Gallery hours and admission
Feb 20–Jun 20, 2010
The largest US presentation in 15 years of internationally renowned artist Renée Green. For more than 20 years, Green has been creating works of art around a range of topics including cultural history, transnational travel, feminism and biography. While widely acclaimed internationally, Green's work has rarely been exhibited in the US in its full magnitude …
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Mar 5 – Renée Green In Conversation
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An exciting new series of process-based exhibitions with artists in residence from the Bay Area and around the world. YBCA's galleries act as a laboratory in which artists are commissioned to develop, experiment and translate new and existing bodies of visual artwork. These works include lectures, performances and workshops that transform the exhibition space into a fluid and active experience for gallery visitors.
Mar 20–Apr 25, 2010
A collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Marco Rios and Kara Tanaka, avid fanatics of literature and cinema who have based their exhibition on a 21st century self-invented mythological narrative inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger. Rios and Tanaka translate the film through a series of sculptures, drawings and re-appropriated video …
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Mar 20–Mar 27 – YBCAlive! Rios & Tanaka
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May 8–Jun 13, 2010
YBCA, in collaboration with the Kadist Art Foundation, presents a new project by French artists Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin titled Singing the Net. Interested in the position of the traveler that navigates the Internet, and how that movement might be translated into song, Singing the Net explores Web navigation using the history tool to create texts that eventually become songs …
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May 8–14 – YBCAlive!
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The Viewing Corridor features work that acts as a counterpoint to other exhibition programming throughout YBCA and highlights the mezzanine's unique corridor space.
Feb 13–Jun 20, 2010
Taravat Talepasand combines elements of traditional Eastern and Western art forms to explore conflicting Iranian and American mores. Using the stylistic language of Persian miniature painting and conventions associated with Early Renaissance painting, Talepasand takes these classical art practices, formerly used to illuminate historical or religious subject matter, and turns them to her own ends, depicting modern characters and injecting her personal history …
CrossFade is dedicated to the distinctive practice of the video mixtape. Guest curated by international curators and artists from Latin America and Asia, CrossFade will introduce Bay Area audiences to innovative and challenging video art in the form of compilations.
Feb 19–Jun 20, 2010
For the first installment of CrossFade Video Lounge, YBCA adjunct curator Julio Cesar Morales, unveils a new compilation of experimental video works by artists from Latin America and beyond with a special new compilation by Daniela Pérez, associate curator at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City …
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
EmcArts Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
Koret Foundation
LEF Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
YBCA Exhibitions 09–10 is made possible in part by:
Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, Meridee Moore and Kevin King, and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
