Isa Genzken

Chicago's modernist architecture and vistas of the city's South Side. The reason Isa Genzken stayed in Chicago—an exhibition at the Renaissance Society—and her exceptional eye for architecture form a special matrix here.

Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever expanding field of activity and influence. Younger artists are a new breed of cultural scavengers, anything or anyone is fair game for appropriation or reinterpretation. Fascinated by notions of space, time and the human body, artists such as David Hammons, Laurie Simmons and Richard Wentworth have carved their own path through conceptual art.

Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau), shot by Isa Genzken in cooperation with Kai Althoff between 2007 and 2010 is a fascinating combination of play and genuineness, made of a series of improvised episodes, in which the artists are the protagonists and play complementary roles.

MoMA documentary on sculptor Isa Genzken.

Zwei Frauen im Gefecht (Two Women in Combat) is a 1974 silent, black-and-white 16mm film by German artist Isa Genzken featuring a playful, continuous exchange of clothing between Genzken and her friend Susan Grayson.

Chicago's modernist architecture and vistas of the city's South Side. The reason Isa Genzken stayed in Chicago—an exhibition at the Renaissance Society—and her exceptional eye for architecture form a special matrix here.

Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau), shot by Isa Genzken in cooperation with Kai Althoff between 2007 and 2010 is a fascinating combination of play and genuineness, made of a series of improvised episodes, in which the artists are the protagonists and play complementary roles.

Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau), shot by Isa Genzken in cooperation with Kai Althoff between 2007 and 2010 is a fascinating combination of play and genuineness, made of a series of improvised episodes, in which the artists are the protagonists and play complementary roles.

Zwei Frauen im Gefecht (Two Women in Combat) is a 1974 silent, black-and-white 16mm film by German artist Isa Genzken featuring a playful, continuous exchange of clothing between Genzken and her friend Susan Grayson.