Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society is a 1915 founded Kunsthalle in Chicago , for the purpose of contemporary art is dedicated.
In its early years "The Society" organized pioneering exhibitions by the now famous painters and sculptors Georges Braque , Hans Arp , Constantin Brâncuși , Joan Miró , Pablo Picasso , Isamu Noguchi , Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian . Henri Matisse (1930) had important solo exhibitions over the next few decades ; Alexander Calder (1934); Fernand Léger (1936); László Moholy-Nagy (1939); John French Sloan (1942); Käthe Kollwitz , Paul Klee(1946), Mies van der Rohe (1947); Diego Rivera (1949); José Clemente Orozco (1951); Marc Chagall (1958); René Magritte (1964) and Henry Moore (1967). Sergei Prokofjew , Alfred Barr and Leonard Bernstein gave concerts as part of the supporting program ; Gertrude Stein , Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Tillich gave lectures.
Under the direction of Susanne Ghez, the “Society” took up every major avant-garde movement since the mid-1970s and brought it into its home. The prominent personalities of contemporary art exhibited included Robert Smithson , Louise Bourgeois , Anselm Kiefer , Georg Baselitz , Daniel Buren , On Kawara , Günther Förg , Juan Muñoz , Hanne Darboven , Jean-Marc Bustamante , Thomas Struth , Félix González-Torres , Kara Walker , Arturo Herrera , Darren Almond , Thomas Hirschhorn , and Mark Manders . Susanne Ghez was also one of the co- curators of Documenta 11 .
Society often invites artists to present entirely new work and gives production funding. In the past two decades, works and video art projects by Allora & Calzadilla (2007); Su-Mei Tse ( The I Manifestation , 2005); Yang Fudong ( Seven Chinese Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest: Part II , 2004); Joan Jonas ( The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things , 2004); Amar Kanwar ( Of Poetry and Prophesies , 2002); Catherine Sullivan ( Five Economies big hunt / little hunt , 2001); Katarzyna Kozyra ( Rite of Spring , 2000); Pierre Huyghe ( The Third Memory , 1999); Willie Doherty ( True Nature , 1998); Katy Schimert ( The Drowned Man , 1997); Diana Thater (China, 1995) and Stan Douglas ( Evening , 1995). Mark Manders, Helen Mirra , Thomas Hirschhorn , Moshekwa Langa , Raymond Pettibon , Shahzia Sikander , Arturo Herrera, Kara Walker , Ben Nicholson , Heimo Zobernig , Félix González-Torres and Narelle Jubelin each set up room-specific installations for the “Renaissance Society”. The art gallery is located on the University of Chicago campus in Chicago , Illinois . It is one of the oldest museums in the USA that exclusively promote and exhibit contemporary art.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 47 '20.3 " N , 87 ° 36' 3.6" W.