For her highly anticipated exhibition, Anna Uddenberg has converted the gallery into a site of workroom depravity. In midtown Manhattan, the epicenter of corporate skyscrapers, female figures in grey skirt suits and stiletto heels are merged with office chairs whose ergonomic design has been extended to hold each body in extreme positions of submission. A grid of acoustic hush panels is arranged to contain seven new sculptures in semi-isolation. Conflating the modular logic of the contemporary “open floor plan” office and Minimalist sculpture, Uddenberg divides the space in a flimsy, almost imaginary way—performing the feeling of privacy without actually providing it. Instead, space becomes an environment for intense supervision.
About the artist
Anna Uddenberg (b.1982 Sweden) is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural and performative practice, which explores the merging of the body and self with technology. Recent exhibitions include Kunsthalle Mannheim (2023); Perimeter, London (2023); Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2023); Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paolo (2023), PLATO, Ostrava (2023), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2022), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Berghain Panoramabar, Berlin (2020); Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles (2019); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2019); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2019); Powerlong Museum, Shanghai (2019); 14. Fellbach Trienniale (2019); the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018); Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (solo; 2018); nGbK, Berlin (2018); Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitaine, Sète (2018); Splendid Cleaners, New York (2018); Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); Evoluon, Eindhoven (2018); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen (2018) House of Gaga Mexico City (2017); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); Kiasma–Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017), Kamel Mennour, Paris (2017) and at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2017). Uddenberg was the 2020 artist fellow for Black Cube Museum in Denver, CO. This is Uddenberg’s second exhibition at Meredith Rosen Gallery.
