Amie Siegel

Amie Siegel, Bloodlines (2022)

Friday 5 April 2024, 6pm

Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi
San Marco 3260
Venice

A Panorama on Panorama: Amie Siegel and Filipa Ramos in conversation

Thursday 1 February, 6.30–7.30pm

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Amie Siegel: online talk and Q&A

Tuesday 28 November, 8–10pm GMT / 3–5pm EST

The School of Sound

ArtReview’s Art Lovers Movie Club features Amie Siegel’s Genealogies, screening online through 17 February.

Amie Siegel, Genealogies (2016)
ArtReview - Art Lovers Movie Club
1–17 February 2023

To coincide with the opening of Though it's dark, still I sing: Works from the 34th Bienal de São Paulo at LUMA Arles, Amie Siegel will be participating in Realities of Science Fiction II: a weekend symposium exploring contemporary perspectives on science fiction. Siegel will discuss Asterisms (2021) and her seminal sci-fi speculations Winter (2013) and Black Moon (2010).

Realities of Science Fiction II
16-18 December 2022

LUMA Arles
Parc des Ateliers
35 avenue Victor Hugo
Arles

On Sunday 25 September Amie Siegel will give a talk at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., with curator James Meyer and film programmer Joanna Raczynska.
 
Siegel will present two of her artworks that deal with themes of provenance, remake and copy:
 
Berlin Remake (2005), a double projection of exterior scenes from East German State Film Studio movies alongside their “remade” version in the present… provokes a space where chronological time becomes simultaneous and where physical and cinematic landscapes coincide in an uncanny juxtaposition of past and present, making history (like the GDR) simultaneously present and absent; and Genealogies (2016), a video that traces the sculptural, gendered iconography of architecture and the female body, querying how these are visualized in cinema, and harnessed by advertising and music videos.
 
2pm EDT, Sunday 25 September 2022
 
National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium
4th St and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, D.C.
 
 

Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze Seoul

Stand: A16

Showing works by Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Glenn Ligon, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alexandre da Cunha, Anya Gallaccio, Anthea Hamilton, Barbara Kasten, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Luisa Lambri, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Jean-Luc Moulène, Catherine Opie, Amie Siegel, Akram Zaatari.

Preview days: 2 - 3 September

Public days: 4 - 5 September

513 Yeongdong-daero 

Gangnam-gu

Seoul

South Korea

Wednesday 22 June, 7pm

Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Adrian Searle, art critic at The Guardian, discussing Bloodlines (2022), currently on display at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Siegel has long been interested in the lives of artworks and objects—how they gain cultural meaning and value. Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by the English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806), from their aristocratic homes to their exhibition in a public art gallery, and subsequent return, thus rendering visible complex networks of art, pedigree and cultural identification. Filmed in numerous private country estates and public institutions across the UK, Bloodlines offers an intimate look into the world of cultural property, the ownership of heritage and distinctions between private and public realms. One of Siegel’s most ambitious works to date, Bloodlines exemplifies the artist’s understated mastery of form, revealing systems of class and inherited wealth, while subtly suggesting colonialism’s role in establishing and perpetuating these structures.

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 14 June, Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Lucy Askew, Chief Curator, Scottish National Museum Gallery of Modern Art, about Siegel’s new film installation, ‘Bloodlines’ (2022).

‘Bloodlines’ recently joined Scotland’s national collection and is currently on display as part of the exhibition, ‘New Arrivals’, at the Scottish National Museum Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) Until September 4.

To meet demand, SNGMA are also offering an online live stream of the event and ask that visitors attend the event with pre-booked tickets only.

Tuesday 14 June, 6-7pm

Scottish National Gallery 

Hawthornden Lecture Theatre

The Mound

Edinburgh EH2 2EL

Amie Siegel's Genealogies (2016) is being screened online until 12 May 2022 as part of the artist's contribution to Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters, a contemporary arts programme commissioned by Pompeii Archaeological Park.

Genealogies weaves an associative tissue of links and references by combining novels, films, images, advertising and soundtrack from multiple sources into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. The video traces the sculptural, gendered iconography of architecture and the female body, querying how these are visualised in cinema and harnessed by advertising and music videos.

Extending from Wilhem Jensen's novella Gradiva to Freud, de Chirico, Rossellini, Curzio Malaparte, Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, Godard, Pink Floyd, the Beastie Boys, and images by brands Hugo Boss and Persol, the work maps a broadly layered trajectory of ideas shared and reprised, speculating on homage, influence and originality, ultimately drawing together a genealogical lineage of adaptation, appropriation and recurrence.

Following the two week long online screening, a collection of visual and textual excerpts will populate the Pompeii Commitment portal, including sketches, notes and materials related to the making of Genealogies, images from Siegel's related series of works on paper, Body Scripts (2015), and exhibition images of the corresponding multi-channel video installation The Noon Complex (2016).

Private view: 26 April 4-8pm

Exhibition dates: 27 April - 23 July 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery

3 Duke Street, St James’s

London SW1

Amie Siegel will speak about her work 'Dynasty' (2017), at the Yale University symposium 'Object Lessons'.

Convened by Anthony Acciavatti, the event draws together designers, artists and scholars to engage with objects through the senses, a popular pedagogical method of imparting knowledge developed by Swiss education reformer and theorist Johann Pestalozzi in the late 18th century.

Participants in the symposium have devised a lesson from an object that rewards scrutiny and resists simple classification. It might be an everyday object, like a doorknob or carpet; a fantastical imaginary,
like a centaur or makara; or parafictional, like an object with a questionable provenance. By holding an object, weighing it and observing its texture, looking at its components, and perhaps tasting and smelling or listening to it, each speaker will render an entire world of actions and processes that went into its making.

Siegel's 'Dynasty' centers on a fragment of pink marble from the lobby of New York’s Trump Tower. The fragment was purchased by the artist on ebay after the 2016 US presidential election. Siegel placed the fragment in an exhibition vitrine along with two framed photographic prints— scans of “book-matched” marble slabs— quarried to create a mirrored, Rorschach-like effect, a wall text provenance of the marble fragment, and a single evidentiary photograph from the eBay seller. Together the elements raise questions around authenticity and the parallel narratives between material object-hood and desire, psychoanalytic and artistic practices.

Speakers include Adedoyin Teriba, Amie Siegel, Anthony Titus, D. Graham Burnett, Danielle Choi, Gökçe Günel, Kajri Jain, Lan Li, Nicholas de
Monchaux, Rahul Mehrotra, and Sylvia Lavin.

Object Lessons:
10am Friday, 8 April  –
5pm, Saturday 9 April 2022

Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Amie Siegel: ‘Bloodlines’

Private view: 26 April 4-8pm
Exhibition dates: 27 April - 23 July 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery is pleased to present ‘Bloodlines’, a solo exhibition of Amie Siegel at our London space at No. 3 Duke Street, St. James.

Thomas Dane Gallery
3 Duke Street, St James's
London, SW1

Opening tomorrow, Saturday, March 12: Amie Siegel, Bloodlines (2022)

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
(Modern One)75 Belford Rd, Edinburgh EH4 3DR

Exhibition dates: 12 March - 4 September 2022

The National Galleries of Scotland will will premiere a new large-scale artwork by Amie Siegel. Bloodlines (2022), one of Siegel’s most expansive works to date, considers complex networks of art, labour, pedigree and cultural identification. The work is the first of Siegel’sSiegel’s first to enter Scotland’s national collection and will debut at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art from 12 March – 4 September 2022.

Amie Siegel has long been interested in the lives of artworks and objects—how they gain cultural meaning and value. Filmed in numerous private estates throughout England and Scotland, as well as in public institutions, Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by the English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806) from aristocratic homes and private country houses to their exhibition in a public art gallery, and subsequent return. First depicted within the ornate décor and stillness of the stately home interiors, the Stubbs paintings take on a new presence when installed by museum workers and seen on gallery walls by a viewing public, and in turn upon their return home. Siegel’s film offers an intimate look into the world of cultural property, exploring the ownership of heritage and distinctions between private and public realms. 

Bloodlines exemplifies the artist’s understated mastery of form, revealing systems of class and inherited wealth, while subtly suggesting colonialism’s role in establishing and perpetuating these structures.

‘Bloodlines’ will also be on display at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, from 26 April – 23 July, 2022.

Pictured: Amie Siegel, Bloodlines, 2022, 4K colour video, sound © Amie Siegel. 

Amie Siegel will discuss Asterisms (2021), her recently premiered 34th São Paulo Biennial video installation with The World Around Summit's director Beatrice Galilee.

Asterisms explores geological and social displacement on a planetary scale through focusing on the United Arab Emirates. Gold factories, oil recovery, migrant labour, desertification, artificial islands and Arabian horses trained for show are among the connected elements that unfold in different, often overlapping, cinematic geometries projected onto a star-like shape that floats between a wall and a sculpture.

The World Around Summit is an annual, global symposium on architecture and design.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, USA

5 February 2022, 12-6pm EST

Changing Hands: Objects on the Move is a symposium curated by Akram Zaatari at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The one day event examines how objects change function, value and status over time, the nature of the museum, and the idea of perpetuity. Participants include Bénédicte Savoy, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Amie Siegel, Rayyane Tabet, Patricia Falguières and Avi Mograbi.

The event features Amie Siegel’s Provenance, (2013), a three part installation focusing on an emblem of mid-century design – the chairs, desks, and furniture designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret for the controversial modernist, post-colonial city of Chandigarh, India.

After an introduction by Zaatari, Siegel will screen and discuss the elements of her work Provenance.

8 December 2021
10am - 8pm CET

Cinema 1
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris

Frieze Masters Talks: Amie Siegel in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan

Dr. Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery), will be in conversation with Amie Siegel about her new work Asterisms (2021), and Bloodlines, a work-in-progress, that will premiere in the UK in 2022.

Curated by Cullinan, Frieze Masters Talks provides a platform for leading artists, museum curators, writers and critics to discuss the history of art and its continuing significance in contemporary practice.

The talk will be online and available to Frieze VIPs and members on Sunday 17 October, 3pm BST, and from Monday 18 October to the public,  as part of Frieze's two free weekly article allocation.

Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel
Stand: R17

Showing works by Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Patricia Leite, Albert Oehlen, Dana Schutz, Amie Siegel and Caragh Thuring.

Preview: 20 - 23 September
Public days: 24 - 26 September

Tonight, Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Filipa Ramos as part
of Art Basel Film.

Live Q&A: 7pm CET
Monday, 20 September
Stadt Kino, 5 Klostergasse, Basel

The conversation will be followed by a screening of three of Siegel’s recent works. Exhibited exclusively as installations and rarely seen in the cinema, these works trace the back stories of various underlying references, materials, and objects.

‘Quarry’ (2015) follows the journey of marble from the largest underground quarry in the world, in Vermont, to luxury developments in Manhattan.

Filmed at the Freud Museum in London ‘Fetish’ (2016) renders the annual nocturnal cleaning of Sigmund Freud's collection of archaeological artefacts, bringing together its intimate operations and the psychoanalytic process, both occurring behind closed doors.

‘Genealogies’ (2016) gathers novels, films, images, advertising, and soundtrack into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. Extending from Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Le Mepris’, to Freud, Pink Floyd, and the Beastie Boys, the video drafts a non-hierarchical lineage of adaptation, appropriation, and recurrence.

 ‘Quarry’, 2015, 34:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 ‘Fetish’, 2016, 10:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 ‘Genealogies’, 2016, 26:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 Total running time: 70 minutes.

Premiering tomorrow: Amie Siegel, Asterisms (2021) at 34th São Paulo Bienal

Amie Siegel’s expansive new work Asterisms explores geological and social displacement processes on a planetary scale, focusing on the specific context of the United Arab Emirates. Siegel leads us through the process of constructing artificial islands in Dubai; through migrant labor camps that supply manual work for gold factories and oil recovery; through the surreal landscape of a royal palace where Arabian horses are bred and trained for show; through an abandoned village almost completely submerged by the desert sand... Each of these segments unfolds in a different cinematic aspect ratio and is projected onto a shape that floats between a wall and a sculpture. Derived from the superposition of the various projection formats, the shape resembles a stylized star, or asterism – an informal group of stars and the lines used to mentally connect them, whose form we can identify in the night sky, if we look hard enough.

Siegel’s continuous slide projection Surrogates (2016) will also be shown as part of the Bienal. The relationship between the female body, the copy and its sculptural context is evoked in a dialogue between projected image and pedestal, as images of rupture and repair on the bodies of classical sculpture in the Naples National Archaeological Museum emerge and disappear in turn.

Exhibition dates: 4 September - 5 December 2021