Events
Screening
Focus on Nan Goldin
Art Basel 2023 Film Program
Monday, June 12, 2023, 7:30pm
Stadtkino Basel
www.artbasel.com
The Art Basel 2023 film program, curated by Filipa Ramos, highlights Nan Goldin. Screenings of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), an epic and emotional story about Goldin’s life and career directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the artist’s moving-image work Sirens (2019–21), which is composed of clips from thirty of her favorite films, will be followed by a live question-and-answer session with Poitras and film curator Marian Masone.
Nan Goldin, Sirens, 2019–21 © Nan Goldin
Announcements
New Representation
Nan Goldin
Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Nan Goldin. Among the most consequential artists of her generation, Goldin has introduced new modes of image making that have transformed the role of photography in contemporary art. Emerging from the artist’s own life and relationships, her photographs and moving-image works are both deeply personal and profoundly influential, addressing essential themes of identity, love, sexuality, addiction, and mortality. Throughout her career Goldin has united art and activism, confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the 1980s and more recently bringing international attention to the overdose crisis.
Nan Goldin, Self-portrait smoking, Simon’s house, Stockholm, 2013 © Nan Goldin
Honor
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
95th Academy Awards Documentary Feature Film Nomination
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, is nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars. The film is an epic and emotional story about the life and career of artist and activist Nan Goldin, who helped produce the work, told through her slideshows and groundbreaking photography, intimate interviews, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid crisis. The film premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Golden Lion award.
Still from All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by Laura Poitras
Honor
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
79th Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, received the Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The film is an epic and emotional story about the life and career of artist and activist Nan Goldin, who helped produce the documentary, told through her slideshows and groundbreaking photography, intimate interviews, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid crisis.
Still from All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by Laura Poitras
Museum Exhibitions
On View
Nan Goldin
Memory Lost
Through October 22, 2023
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
louisiana.dk
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting Nan Goldin’s Memory Lost (2019–21)—a new acquisition jointly owned with Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Scored by composer Mica Levi, with additional music by CJ Calderwood and Soundwalk Collective, the twenty-four-minute-long slideshow relates a haunting and emotional narrative comprised of outtakes drawn from Goldin’s archive. It is exhibited alongside selected works from the collection by artists including Taryn Simon.
Nan Goldin, Memory Lost, 2019–21 © Nan Goldin
Opening Soon
Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well
October 7, 2023–January 28, 2024
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
www.stedelijk.nl
This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé— focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition has traveled from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Nan Goldin, Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973 © Nan Goldin
Opening Soon
Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well
Opening October 2024
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
www.smb.museum
This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé— focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition originated at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Nan Goldin, Christmas at The Other Side, Boston, 1972 © Nan Goldin
Opening Soon
Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well
Opening March 2025
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
pirellihangarbicocca.org
This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé—focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition has traveled from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Nan Goldin, My horse, Roma, Valley of the Queens, Luxor, Egypt, 2003 © Nan Goldin
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Love Songs
Photography and Intimacy
June 1–September 11, 2023
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org
Love Songs features photographic projects about love and intimacy from sixteen contemporary photographers, including Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. Through the myriad lens of intimate relationships, the exhibition brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 that explore love, desire, and intimacy in complex and contradictory ways.
Sally Mann, Semaphore, 2003 © Sally Mann
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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well
October 29, 2022–February 26, 2023
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
www.modernamuseet.se
This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé—focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music.
Nan Goldin, Self-portrait on New Year’s Eve, Malibu, California, 2006 © Nan Goldin
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Nan Goldin
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
June 11, 2016–April 16, 2017
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org
Comprising almost seven hundred photographs sequenced against an evocative soundtrack, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979–2004) is a deeply personal narrative formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, ’80s, and beyond. In this exhibition, The Ballad is presented in its original 35mm format alongside individual photographs from the slideshow. Introducing the installation is a selection of materials from the artist’s archive, including posters and flyers announcing early iterations of the work.
Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979–2004, Museum of Modern Art, New York © Nan Goldin. Photo: John Wronn
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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
June 5–September 14, 2014
San José Museum of Art, California
sjmusart.org
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes more than seventy works by thirty-eight artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. This exhibition has traveled from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.
Mark Tansey, Valley of Doubt, 1990 © Mark Tansey. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
February 10–May 1, 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes works by fifty-three artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.
Installation view, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 10–May 1, 2011. Artwork, left to right © Mark Tansey, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art