This show features several works by Stefan Brüggemann of Mexico City. The text installation entitled FUCKING UP THE PROGRAMME takes off on the tradition of American conceptualism of the 1960s and makes it more romantic. Interestingly, an appropriation of the conceptual modus operandi can lead in a new direction. On the one hand, Brüggemann renders it a style, so to speak, by generalizing the operation endlessly; on the other hand, there seems to be an effort to establish the particular by reflexively challenging the institutional and international status quo. In his questioning of the new cultural, social, and economic orders, the artist explores certain behaviors of the early 21st century and forces a different attitude in conceptualism.
Stefan Brüggemann had a recent exhibition at the Galeria de Arte Mexicana in Mexico City, and his works were included in “The Difference Between You and Me” at the Lisson Gallery, London; and “Capitalism and Schizophrenia,” an off-site project of the ICA London. He is the founder and director of the Programa Art Center in Mexico City, a non-profit space that has shown works by artists from Mexico and abroad, including Martin Creed, Damien Hirst, Jonathan Monk, João Onofre and Anre Sala. Stefan Brüggemann was born in Mexico City in 1975.
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