• Location: Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
  • 2155 Center Street
  • Berkeley, CA 94704
Dec 12 2024
recurring event

BAMPFA: To Exalt the Ephemeral

To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection draws from BAMPFA’s art and film collections to explore how museums collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of impermanence and cycles of decay and regeneration.

Drawn from BAMPFA’s permanent collection, To Exalt the Ephemeral focuses on a strength of the museum’s holdings: artworks that embrace experimentation and convey ideas of impermanence, be it materially or thematically. The exhibition will explore this topic across more than 100 works from BAMPFA’s collection, ranging from performance art documentation; 18th-century Buddhist scroll paintings; contemporary film and video installations; and conceptual works that portray transience, ephemerality or decay.

To Exalt the Ephemeral provides an opportunity to showcase key histories and works in the BAMPFA collection by artists across generations and disciplines, including Nayland Blake, James Lee Byars, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, Imogen Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Ando Hiroshige, Sister Corita Kent, Paul Kos, Zoe Leonard, Chiura Obata, Silke Otto-Knapp, Estefania Puerta, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Cecilia Vicuña, Andy Warhol, Martin Wong, and many others.

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