March 6, 2023
vanessa german in Conversation at the National Gallery of Art
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On Friday, March 10, from 2:30–4pm, vanessa german will be in conversation with Sanford Biggers, Tau Lewis, Christopher Myers, and Renée Stout at the National Gallery of Art on the occasion of the current exhibition, Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South. This program will explore how the exhibition’s themes, artists, and their practices have entered various new worlds—from galleries, to museums, to artists’ studios, to academia—and to what extent they have transformed one another. The event is preceded by a reading from Lisa Gail Collins and followed by a performance by Lonnie Holley.
In summer 2023, german will be part of the exhibition Pulling Together, which will explore the role of monuments in the telling of American history and mark the first organized group exhibition on The National Mall. -
About the Artist
vanessa german
vanessa german (b. 1976) is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography. Sad Rapper is german’s first exhibition at Kasmin and follows her solo presentation with the gallery at the Independent Art Fair in May 2022.Learn More
Her work is held in private and public collections including the Art Bridges Foundation, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the West Virginia University Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, David C. Driskell Center, Snite Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. german’s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Figge Art Museum, The Union for Contemporary Art, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Flint Institute of Arts, Mattress Factory, Everson Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Studio Museum, Ringling Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.