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Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Image: Mark Thomas

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Image: Mark Thomas

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Photo: Michael Pollard

Suzanne Lacy, Uncertain Futures, 2024 © Suzanne Lacy. Image: Mark Thomas

Suzanne Lacy. Uncertain Futures

Mar 2, 2025 – May 4, 2025


Showroom

Curator: Michaela Richter


The American artist Suzanne Lacy is regarded as a pioneer of socially engaged performance art. Since the 1970s, she has collaborated with diverse communities on projects and interventions addressing gender equality, violence against women, racism, immigration, and workers’ rights. For the project Uncertain Futures, Lacy worked with Manchester Art Gallery, university academics, an advisory group and more than 100 women in Manchester, UK, from 2019 to 2024 to develop interviews, workshops, and presentations examining the inequalities faced by women over 50 in relation to work and unemployment. Bringing together a range of stories that highlight experiences of intersectional disadvantage, the video installation produced as part of this project will be shown in Germany for the first time at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.).


Suzanne Lacy (*1945 in Wasco/California) lives and works in Los Angeles. As one of the first participants in the Feminist Art Program founded by Judy Chicago (1970) and a student of Allan Kaprow, Lacy not only created activist and community-oriented art early in her career but also pioneered feminist art education and advanced the development of socially engaged projects at numerous institutions. In 2019, her work was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Other exhibitions include: Queens Museum, New York (2022); The Whitworth, Manchester / UK (2021); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021; 1983); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2021); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (2020); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015; 1993); Tate Modern, London (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012; 2008; 2007;1998); Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2008); Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (2007); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006).



Discourse program


Thursday, April 10, 2024, 7 pm

Artist Talk: What’s Good Socially Engaged Performance Art?

Conversation with Suzanne Lacy and Alistair Hudson (Scientific and Artistic Director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)

In English

Free admission