INFORMATION (Today)

Intended as a loose response to the iconic INFORMATION show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, curated by Kynaston L. McShine in 1970, INFORMATION (Today) examines how contemporary artists deal with the relentless flow of information and data that inflects the present.

INFORMATION (Today) features a selection of international artists loosely culled from the two generations since 1970—which is to say, born after the original INFORMATION exhibition—for whom the processing and formalizing of data is among the central tenets of their work.

The current exhibition presents a range of artistic positions, including recent work and new commissions in diverse media (from sculpture and painting, to video and performance, and from the undeniably material to the wholly immaterial), thus providing an overview of some of the most promising and challenging practices grappling with data, technology, and information today.

More info: www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en/exhibition/information-today/

Picture: Installation view, INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, 2021, view on Gabriel Kuri, Balance of the Invisible and the Foreseeable, 2014 (front) and Nora Turato, your bed is a magical place where you remember all the things you forgot during the day / your vanity is powerful enough to defeat anything, 2021 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel