Phoebe Washburn: Compeshitstem - the New Deal

New York artist Phoebe Washburn is presenting the largest and most complex installation she has ever been able to realize during her career. She takes up themes like globalization and ecology in her work and frequently turns to found materials, giving them a new function within the artwork and thus creating new frames of reference. A critique of consumer society or an appeal for environmental awareness are of secondary importance for the artist.

Phoebe Washburn’s works were shown at the Deutsche Guggenheim/Berlin (2007), the Whitney Biennial (2008), the Zach Feuer Gallery, and Wallpaper LAB, amongst others.

born 1973 in Poughkeepsie, NY Lives in New York, NY MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY BFA, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Dr Veit Görner, born in Munich in 1953, has been director of the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover since 2003. He lives in Hannover and Stuttgart.Görner, has organised extensive solo exhibitions - often for the first time in Germany - with the following internationally renowned artists, among others:Gary Hume, Cindy Sherman, Miquel Barceló, Fischli & Weiss, Anton Corbijn, Candida Höfer. Curator at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany.