David Nolan Gallery is delighted to present “The State of Play,” an exhibition of new works by Jorinde Voigt. For the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, Voigt continues to expand upon her singular practice of methodical and conceptually rigorous “visual scores” that transcend everyday perceptual experiences and attempt to translate into color and form that which is most ephemeral and impenetrable.

Working serially and within a predetermined structure and set of formal restraints, Voigt’s process begins by hand dying each sheet of paper a hue that corresponds to specific stimuli or emotion. In the case of her newest series, Potential (2020), Voigt selected a midnight blue, albeit with its various real-life associations (i.e. time of day, nautical and cosmological phenomena, et al.) put into question. Voigt’s meticulous notations and gestural markings then introduce an added layer of visual coding, allowing each unique work within the series to convey its own individual and emotional meaning. Experienced serially, Voigt’s works build incrementally, unraveling as if walking through an operatic score, lulling the viewer into a kind of dream state that is at once familiar and otherworldly.

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Vertical, is a site-specific piece, it is the second in an ongoing series of wall drawings in the interior entry space of the Drawing Institute. 

Beginning with the concept of a “vertical axis,” a line that sits perpendicular to the earth and tracks the rotational movement of a body, this epic new work responds to the vegetation and natural resources endemic to Houston and the Gulf Coast region, and records Voigt’s presence within this landscape. Using mark-making strategies evocative of artists like Joseph Beuys and Cy Twombly, Voigt’s drawing takes its substructure from sources as diverse as geologic mapping and the force of gravitational pull. With the composition unfolding on two opposite walls ten feet in height, this immersive piece is Voigt’s most monumental work to date, and the first in which she employed chalk as the primary medium, in addition to graphite and gold leaf on wall paint.

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Jorinde Voigt was born in Frankfurt am Main and lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo museum exhibitions include:  The Menil Collection, Houston (2019); Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany (2019); St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany (2018); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2016); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2016); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2015); MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (2014); Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (2013); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (2012); Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (2011); and Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands (2010), among others. 

Recent group exhibitions include: Instanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey (2020); MAK, Vienna, and Albertina, Vienna, Austria (both 2019); Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma, Spain and Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany (both 2018); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE, and 14th Lyon Biennale, France (all 2017); Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia, and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belguim (all 2016); Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and deCordova Sculpture and Museum, Lincoln, MA (both 2015);  Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia (2014); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2013); Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2012); 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy (2011); and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2010), among others.

Voigt's work is represented in prominent public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; The British Museum, London; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthaus Zürich; and UBS Art Collection, New York, among others. In 2012, she received the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Drawing Prize, and since 2014, has held the position of Professor for Conceptual Drawing and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.

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