Syndicate

17. Maruša Sagadin
NADA New York 2018
Skylight Clarkson Square, Stand 4.13
New York City US
8 – 11 March

with thanks to Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Bundeskanzleramt Austria

Syndicate presents 'Citizen Janes', a new project from Vienna-based artist Maruša Sagadin configured as a miniature 'sculpture park' within the fair, occupying a booth without walls.

The title refers in part to urban activist and sociologist Jane Jacobs, but also to caryatids – the female architectural character in Western classicism which Sagadin regularly deploys as a symbol for women who shape civic space and foster community. Presented in that spirit, the booth is reconstructed each day, and several spontaneous performative activities will take place over the course of the week.

Maruša Sagadin (*1978 Ljubljana, Slovenia) was resident at ISCP, New York in 2015-16. Her exhibition 'She in Caps' is currently showing at Koenig2 in Vienna, in addition to a dual show with Tymek Borowski at HfKM in Graz and upcoming public sculpture projects in Graz and Vienna later this year.

Her recent solo and dual projects include 'Terra Cotta, Panna Cotta' at Syndicate, Austrian Cultural Forum (Warsaw PL, with Tymek Borowski), Space (London UK), and Horse & Pony (Berlin DE).

She contributed to recent group exhibitions at Mauve (Vienna AT), 21er Haus (Vienna AT), Museum of Ljubljana (SI), Austrian Cultural Forum (New York US and London UK), and Neue Galerie Graz.

Sagadin received diplomas in architecture (TU Graz, 2004) and performative arts and sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2010). She won the 2016 Viktor Fogarassy Prize from the Museum Joanneum, and her book ©MMXV Maruša Sagadin (2015, Verlag für Moderne Kunst), was selected as the most beautiful Austrian book released that year. She lives in Vienna.

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Cole Lu
Sunday 11 March, 3 PM

For the final day of Maruša Sagadin’s project ‘Citizen Janes’ at NADA New York 2018, Syndicate invites Cole Lu to present new writing excerpts developed for her upcoming exhibitions: a series of thought processes disguised as social exercises for how to be or how not to be, which are presented in the spirit of Sagadin’s sculpture as a site for others to activate.

Cole Lu (Taiwan/US) is an artist, writer and curator, contributing to projects at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, US), The Luminary (St. Louis, US), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, US), The 3rd New Digital Art Biennale – The Wrong (Again), I Never Read (Basel, CH), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, US), and Trestle Projects (Brooklyn).

Her book SMELLS LIKE CONTENT (Endless Editions, New York) is part of the MoMA Library’s Artist Book Collection (New York). She is the founding member of MONACO (St. Louis), and the former assistant director of fort gondo compound for the arts (St. Louis). This May, she will have a dual show with with André Filipek at HOUSING (Brooklyn), before a solo exhibition at MONACO in June. She lives and works in New York.