Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Presents Paul Pfeiffer — Picture Preview

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (09), 2004. Fujiflex digital C-print; 48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, gift of Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard, 2024.85. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

WHEN:

May 3 - August 31, 2025

WHERE:

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago

TICKETS:

For more information and tickets visit the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago website.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer, Perspective Study (After Jeremy Bentham) (detail), 1998/2023. Mixed media and live-feed video projection; dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photo: Zak Kelley, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer, Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, 2000. Two digital videos (color, sound), LCD monitors, and metal armatures; 5 1/4 ×16 × 5 1/2 in. (13.3 × 40.1 × 14 cm); 4 minutes and 6 minutes. Collection of Chris Vroom, New York. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer, Caryatid (still), 2003. Digital video loop (color, silent), chromed 9-inch color CRT monitor, wood, and Plexiglas; 19 7/8 × 20 × 20 in. (50.5 × 50.5 × 50.8 cm); 50 seconds. Collection of Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman NY, Courtesy the FLAG Art Foundation. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (30), 2015. Fujiflex digital C-print; 48 × 70 in. (121.9 × 177.8 cm). Private collection. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

“...Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is a survey that covers twenty-five years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, HI; lives in New York), whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle, celebrity, and mass culture. The exhibition brings together works from across Pfeiffer’s career, spanning from his early photo and video works to his latest experiments in sculpture and installation. Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom focuses on the artist’s use of media manipulation to reveal audiences’ participation in both adoration and objectification..."

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