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Life According to Noah Davis
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Helen Molesworth and Paola Malavassi in conversation
 

(left) Photo: Florian Reimann, (right) Photo: Brigitte Lacombe

October 17, 2024
7 pm

The call of the 20th Century avantgarde was to merge art and life. What does a young painter do in the 21st Century with that mandate—both its promise and its failure? Paola Malavassi and Helen Molesworth will dive into Noah Davis’s paintings with an eye toward the history of art and everyday life. 

A prior visit of the exhibition is possible from 6 pm and included in the event ticket. The talk will be held in English.

Biographies 

Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. In 2023, Phaidon published Open Questions, Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include Death of an Artist, about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, and the inaugural season of Recording Artists with the Getty. She is also the host of DIALOGUES, featuring interviews with artists, writers, fashion designers and filmmakers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery. She has curated major exhibitions at institutions including the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, among others. She has organised one-person exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman and Luc Tuymans. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022, she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.

 

Paola Malavassi, founding Director of DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam and curator of the current solo exhibition Noah Davis, is a Berlin based curator and author. She works in an interdisciplinary manner, frequently involving the areas of jazz music and contemporary dance. Malavassi has curated solo exhibitions of Stan Douglas, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Dan Perjovschi, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, among others, as well as performances by Jason Moran, Kassa Overall, Steve Reich, Wadada Leo Smith and Immanuel Wilkins. Most recently, she co-curated the group exhibition I’ve Seen the Wall: Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965 with Jason Moran, including artist such as Terry Adkins, Peter Brötzmann, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Rosemarie Trockel and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. She formerly was Head of the Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin, and Curatorial Assistant to the director Kasper König at Museum Ludwig, Cologne.