Alfredo Jaar (b. Santiago, Chile, 1956) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war.
His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002). Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017), SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2023).
The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work.
He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020.
His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.
The Kestner Gesellschaft is delighted to announce a new façade project: BE AFRAID OF THE ENORMITY OF THE POSSIBLE. The title of this work is based on a quote from the Romanian philosopher Emile Cioran (1911-1995). Emile Cioran is one of Alfredo Jaar’s favorite authors and is frequently quoted by
The city of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, Alfredo Jaar The Hiroshima Art Prize is an international art prize established in 1989 by the city of Hiroshima. Its purpose is to recognize the achievements of an artist who has made the greatest contribution to
Alfredo Jaar will present the exhibition “El lado oscuro de la luna” , a selection of works related to Chile, made during his early years as a visual artist. These are works that have remained in the background over the years and that the author wants to place at the
“La guerra è finita! La pace non è ancora iniziata“, through a selection of artists’ works, invites us to observe the seemingly concluded conflicts of our time and past history and to reflect on the profound difference between the simple ending or stalemate of the armed phase of a conflict
The visual artist Alfredo Jaar will address an urgent topic of our times, responding to the current debate about naturalisation in Germany and a world facing growing global inequalities. In the central rotunda, he presents an installation that focuses on German and European immigration policy, citizenship and identity, in the
