Sophie Calle: Overshare – A Restrospective on Five Decades of Art at the Walker Art Center
Exhibition
Sophie Calle, Mother-Father, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery; © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Place
Galleries 1, 2, 3, and Perlman
Minneapolis, MN
October 26, 2024 - January 26, 2025
Starting this fall, the Walker Art Center is presenting the first North American retrospective dedicated to French groundbreaking artist Sophie Calle whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret, and the unsaid.
A French artist with more than five decades of activity, Sophie Calle is known for her provocative and deeply personal work that explores intimacy, identity, and the boundaries between private and public life. Calle’s art consists of using autobiographical elements recorded on various mediums, such as photography, text, and film, juxtaposing ourselves with our voyeuristic tendencies. Sophie Calle was recently awarded the 35th Praemium Imperiale for Painting, a highly prestigious art prize by the Japan Art Association.
Overshare is the first retrospective in North America to recall Sophie Calle’s extensive artistic practice over the past five decades. Featuring photography, video, installations, and texts, the exhibition is driving us through works that examine the human condition while blurring the lines between private and public life. Anticipating on social media and our commodified bond to para-social relationships, Calle’s work shows the complexities of identity as much as it reveals our own judgmental gaze.
The Walker Art Center is hosting a series of events in connection with this retrospective. On October 26, 2024, Sophie Calle participated in a conversation with fellow artist Laurie Anderson. From October 28 to November 11, 2024, WaxFactory presented “TRACES”, a series of individual site-specific performances inspired by her work, staged across downtown Minneapolis. From January 9 to January 11, 2025, Forced Entertainment will present Exquisite Pain, a poignant performance exploring themes of love, loss, and the stories we create about our experiences, inspired by Sophie Calle – and many other related events.
This exhibition is supported by Etant donnés, a grant program of Albertine Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine.
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Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a renowned multidisciplinary arts institution that presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. Guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace and the ability to unite people through dialogue and shared experiences, the Walker engages communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Its multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Garden, a partnership with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, is one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Recognized for its ambitious program and growing collection of more than 15,500 works, the Walker embraces emerging art forms and amplifies the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe. Its broad spectrum of offerings makes it a lively and welcoming hub for artistic expression, creative innovation, and community connection.
Albertine Foundation
Previously known as FACE Foundation, Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and its arts institution Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries thanks to corporate, foundation, and individual support.
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