Remy Jungerman in Conversation
Join internationally-recognized artist Remy Jungerman in the Katonah Museum of Art, Marilyn M. Simpson Sculpture Garden for a stimulating conversation about his career, artistic practice, and the exhibition Remy Jungerman: Higher Ground.
Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959) lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies in Paramaribo, Suriname, before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
In his work, Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African Diaspora, and 20th Century “Modernism.” In bringing seemingly disparate visual languages into conversation, Jungerman’s work challenges the established art historical canon. As art and culture critic Greg Tate has remarked “Jungerman’s work leaps boldly and adroitly into the epistemological gap between culturally confident Maroon self-knowledge and the Dutch learning curve around all things Jungerman, Afropean and Eurocentric.”
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These events will be held in the Katonah Museum of Art’s sculpture garden. In case of bad weather, the event will be moved to the Museum’s atrium. COVID guidelines are in place in the Museum’s galleries. Masks are recommended indoors for everyone over age 2, regardless of vaccination status.
