Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society is an art museum founded in 1915 in Chicago, dedicated exclusively to contemporary art.
In their early years, organized " The Society " pioneering exhibitions of the now famous painter and sculptor Georges Braque, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Major solo exhibitions during the next few decades were Henri Matisse ( 1930); Alexander Calder (1934 ); Fernand Léger (1936 ); László Moholy -Nagy (1939 ); John Sloan (1942 ); Käthe Kollwitz, Paul Klee ( 1946), Mies van der Rohe ( 1947); Diego Rivera (1949 ); Jose Clemente Orozco (1951 ); Marc Chagall (1958 ); René Magritte (1964 ) and Henry Moore ( 1967). As part program Serge Prokofieff, Alfred Barr, Leonard Bernstein concerts and Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Tillich gave gave presentations.
Under the direction of Susanne Ghez the " Society " from 1974 has taken every major avant-garde movement since the mid- 1970s and brought into her house. The exhibits prominent figures in contemporary art were Robert Smithson, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Daniel Buren, On Kawara, Förg, Juan Muñoz, Darboven, Jean -Marc Bustamante, Thomas Struth, Felix Gonzalez- Torres, Kara Walker, Arturo Herrera, Darren Almond, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Mark Manders. Susanne Ghez was also one of the co-curators of Documenta 11
The Renaissance Society often invites artists to present all new work and assigns production financing. In the last two decades, work and video art projects, among others Allora & Calzadilla of (2007) in this way; Su -Mei Tse (The I - manifestation, 2005); Yang Fudong ( Chinese Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest: Part II, 2004); Joan Jonas ( The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004); Amar Kanwar (Of Poetry and Prophesies, 2002); Catherine Sullivan ( Five Economies big hunt / little hunt, 2001); Katarzyna Kozyra ( Rite of Spring, 2000); Pierre Huyghe (The Third Memory, 1999); Willie Doherty ( True Nature, 1998); Katy Schimert (The Drowned Man, 1997); Diana Thater (China, 1995) and Stan Douglas (Evening, 1995) allows. Mark Manders, Helen Mirra, Thomas Hirschhorn, Moshekwa Langa, Raymond Pettibon, Shahzia Sikander, Arturo Herrera, Kara Walker, Ben Nicholson, Heimo Zobernig, Felix Gonzalez -Torres and Narelle Jubelin built space - specific installations for the " Renaissance Society ", respectively. The Art Gallery is located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. It is across the U.S. one of the oldest museums that exclusively promote and exhibit contemporary art.