The Wexner Center for the Arts is delighted to announce Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, a major group exhibition opening January 30, 2021. Originally scheduled to debut in May of 2020 as the conclusion to the Wex’s 30th anniversary season, the exhibition was postponed due to the pandemic. Climate Changing foregrounds contemporary artists’ engagement with social issues and shaping institutions—an engagement that’s all the more critical during the entwined health crises of systemic racism and COVID-19.
Climate Changing gathers a multigenerational group of over 20 artists who contend with social matters and structural injustices, using a work that alters the structure of the institution itself as a launch point. Chris Burden’s architectural intervention Wexner Castle (1990), commissioned during the center’s inaugural year of exhibitions, has been recreated for the exhibition. Burden crenellated the brick sections on the façade of the center’s post-modern architecture, designed by Peter Eisenman, making more palpable the reference to the Ohio State Armory that formerly stood on the same site. Wexner Castle is on view now ahead of the rest of the exhibition, which will present additional work outdoors and in the lower lobby as well as occupying all of the center’s galleries. Burden’s work will remain installed through the early summer of 2021, in commemoration of the year that would have marked the late artist’s 75th birthday.
Participating Artists
*commissioned
Chris Burden; a project by Abraham Cruzvillegas with Tony Ball, Brianna Gluszak, Aaron Peters, Akeylah Wellington, and Bradley Weyandt*; Demian DinéYazhi´*; Torkwase Dyson*; Futurefarmers*; Jibade-Khalil Huffman*; Dave Hullfish Bailey*; Danielle Julian Norton*; Baseera Khan*; Carolyn Lazard; Park McArthur; Pope.L; Raqs Media Collective; Related Tactics*; Jacolby Satterwhite; Sable Elyse Smith; Constantina Zavitsanos.
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