‘Now or Never’ Education Lab dedicated to exploring the work of Stefan Brüggemann, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, 15 September 2023 – 6 January 2024. Photo: © Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography
‘Now or Never’ Education Lab in Los Angeles
The Education Lab coincides with Stefan Brüggemann’s exhibition ‘White Noise’
In celebration of Stefan Brüggemann’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles this fall, the Education Lab ‘Now or Never’ will host a series of creative workshops throughout the duration of the exhibition in which to explore the themes of Brüggemann’s work. Visitors to the Education Lab will have access to films and a reading area with books about Brüggemann’s approach to artmaking that reflects on the paradoxes of contemporary society using language, cultural identity, and carefully chosen materials. Participants are encouraged to engage with his themes of text and language, while collaborating with other local arts educators, artists, writers and poets.
‘Stefan Brüggemann provides us with the perfect context to teach others to voice their observations on the culture that surrounds them’—Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director, Learning
‘Now or Never’ Education Lab, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: © Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography
‘Now or Never’ Education Lab, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: © Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography
The Education Lab is part of Hauser & Wirth’s commitment to inclusive learning programs that instigate a dialogue between art, artists, and diverse audiences. Located at our galleries in Downtown Los Angeles, Menorca and Somerset, as well as the Chillida Leku museum, each Education Lab is a collaboration with a local community group, school or university. The interactive spaces take their starting point from one of our international artists, facilitating a platform for discovery, discussion, and additional resources.
‘Now or Never’ Education Lab, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: © Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography
About ‘White Noise’
Titled ‘White Noise’ Mexican-German artist Stefan Brüggemann’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles will feature work created over the past two years. Paintings, installation, and neon works on view will address the ways in which information and misinformation saturate our consciousness and shape our understanding of and approach to the world now. Brüggemann’s art layers texts in a distinctive type of controlled chaos, opening a space between legibility and abstraction that yields a sense of doubt and questioning in the process of parsing truth.
About Stefan Brüggemann
Spanning—and sometimes combining—sculpture, video, painting, and drawing, Stefan Brüggemann’s work deploys text in conceptual installations rich with acerbic social critique and a post pop aesthetic. Born in Mexico City and working between Mexico and London, the artist’s oeuvre is characterized by an ironic conflation of Conceptualism and Minimalism. In this way, Brüggemann’s practice sits outside the canon of the conceptual artists practicing in the 1960s and 1970s, who sought dematerialization and rejected the commercialization of art. Instead, his aesthetic is refined and luxurious, whilst maintaining a punk attitude.
