Carol Bove

Carol Bove (born in 1971) has focused her artistic work on the large-scale interrogation and exploration of social history and art from the late 1960s to the early 1970s in more depth. She is equally interested in popular literature and the most popular avant-garde magazines of this period, as well as its architecture, music, art, and design. For Bove they mark the most influential and lasting social changes of the period, as in the women’s and peace movement notions of a liberated sexuality and the freeing of the individuality through psychological and physical practices of expanding consciousness came to expression. In her exhibitions, Carol Bove creates atmospherically charged installations with artifacts and copied designs of the period, whereby she reformulates questions of the presentational forms of objects in the art context, design, decoration, and historical continuity. The transparency and fleeting quality of the depictions throw a new gaze not only on familiar clichés but also at the myths that develop around our cultural expectations and creations.

Her works are on view around the world, for example, at the Whitney Museum, New York (2008), New Museum, New York (2008), P.S.1 MoMA, New York (2005) or Kunsthalle Zürich (2004).