Agnieszka Kurant & David Joselit in Conversation

Please join us on Saturday, 7 March at our New York gallery for a conversation between Agnieszka Kurant and art historian David Joselit on the occasion of Kurant’s solo exhibition Recursion and her most recent publication Collective Intelligence published by Sternberg Press and co-edited by Stefanie Hessler, Jenny Jaskey and Kurant.
Kurant’s work focuses on collective and nonhuman intelligences and on forms of exploitation underlying artificial intelligence and digital capitalism. Drawing on self-organizing phenomena—the emergence of life, minerals, brains, languages, social organizations, currencies, markets, and states—the artist investigates the evolution of living systems, culture, and technology, as well as transformations of the human species. Recursion, in particular, examines how digital capitalism converts human culture into a reservoir of data, rendering us all part of a network of vast recursive machines driven by feedback loops. The exhibition speculates on future mutations of collective subjectivity in response to technology.
Agnieszka Kurant is a conceptual artist investigating collective and nonhuman intelligences, the future of labor and creativity, and the exploitations within digital capitalism. She is the recipient of the 2020 LACMA A+T Award and the 2019 Frontier Art Prize. Her solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2021-23); Sculpture Center, New York (2013); and Kunstverein Hannover (2023). In 2015 she realized a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, and in 2022 a permanent commission for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Her work was also exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale (2024), Sydney Biennial (2024); Istanbul Biennial (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021), Centre Pompidou (2024), Palais de Tokyo (2014), Jeu de Paume (2025), Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2024); MCA, Sydney (2025), Gropius Bau (2023); Louisiana Museum, Denmark (2023); SFMOMA (2020); Kunsthalle Wien (2020), and Guggenheim Bilbao (2017).
David Joselit is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor and Chair of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard. He is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT, 1998), American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003), Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT, 2007), and After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012). He co-organized the exhibition, “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” which opened at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2015. Joselit is an editor of the journal OCTOBER and writes regularly on contemporary art and culture. His Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT Press 2020) won the Robert Motherwell Book award in 2021. His most recent single-author book is Art's Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023), and he co-authored the volume Art/Work: Plastics with Anne Gunnison (Princeton University Press, 2025).

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