Haacke produced Solomon R. Guggenheim Board of Trustees a few years after a solo exhibition of his work, slated to open at the Guggenheim Museum in 1971, was canceled on the grounds that his “active engagement toward social and political ends” contradicted the museum’s mission. Here, Haacke practices institutional critique—a conceptual approach that emerged in the 1960s and centered on challenging the underlying power structures of art institutions—by listing the names, birth dates, and occupations of the museum’s board of trustees. Rather than cast moral judgment or display an aesthetic objective, the work prompts viewers to consider the relationship between cultural institutions and the entities that finance them.

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2023

Medium Silkscreen ink on paper, 7 parts
Dimensions Each 24 3/16 x 20 1/4 x 1 1/16" (61.5 x 51.5 x 2.7 cm)
Credit Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley
Object number 629.2011.a-g
Department Painting & Sculpture

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