SANAA: WORKS 1998-2008

The highly regarded firm Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the New Museum’s recently opened building on the Bowery, are the subjects of this exhibition exploring present commissions and projects spanning the last decade, a highly productive period when their projects like the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art; and the new New Museum in New York won them considerable critical acclaim and public recognition. The exhibition will take the form of an environment rather than a traditional exhibition, exploiting and further exploring Sejima and Nishizawa’s vision of the Museum lobby as, in their words, “a kind of constantly animated public-private living room where visitors can look, eat, read, shop, discover, and reflect among new art and new ideas.” The exhibition is a collaboration between the New Museum’s Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director and Karen Wong, Director of Externa l Affairs, and SANAA.

SANAA: WORKS 1998-2008
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa)