Image: MASI Lugano
The Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) will host a discussion on the international development of its Kaari Upson retrospective on Sunday, 6 September, bringing together three curators associated with the exhibition’s presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim and MASI Lugano. The talk, titled ‘Tre musei per una mostra internazionale’, will take place at LAC in Lugano at 11am.
Anders Kold, Johan Holten and Francesca Benini will discuss the exhibition across its three institutional stages. The announcement describes the curators as having accompanied the retrospective through its international presentations, framing the event around the collaboration between the three museums and the development of a single exhibition project.
The talk is connected to ‘Kaari Upson. Dollhouse – Una retrospettiva’, which MASI identifies as the first major posthumous retrospective devoted to the American artist. Upson was born in 1970 and died in 2021. The museum’s announcement places her within a generation of artists whose work has had a strong impact, and notes that European audiences came to know her in particular through her participation in the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
The retrospective opens at LAC on Saturday, 5 September, at 6pm. The material accompanying the announcement identifies ‘Untitled (Foot Face)’ (2020–21) as one of the works associated with the presentation. It also reproduces details for ‘Recollection Hysteria’ (2012), a work held by Kunstmuseum Den Haag from the Bert Kreuk Collection. Both works are credited to the Esmé Trust / Kaari Upson Trust, with Sprüth Magers listed as courtesy.
The participating institutions give the talk a distinct curatorial focus. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthalle Mannheim are named alongside MASI Lugano in the event listing, while the discussion itself is scheduled at LAC, one of the locations used by MASI for its programme in Lugano. The supplied announcement does not provide a separate closing date for the retrospective or specify the full list of works on view.
The event forms part of MASI’s September programme, which also includes the exhibition opening on 5 September. The curatorial discussion is scheduled for Sunday, 6 September, at 11am at LAC in Lugano.
