Sarah Sze in conversation with Anselm Kiefer and Emanuele Coccia

With the participation of:

• Sarah Sze

  Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works. Her dynamic, generative body of work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Sze’s work is exhibited in museums worldwide and held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions.

  Sze was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 and a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005. In 2013, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited in museums worldwide and is held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern, London.

• Anselm Kiefer

  Anselm Kiefer’s work is an expansive exploration of German post-war identity, history, myth and collective memory. Fusing art and literature, Kiefer creates complex artworks with symbolic materials such as lead, straw, burnt books and cloth. By integrating and regenerating imagery and techniques, Kiefer engages historical events and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos. His oeuvre encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, artist books, and work on paper.

  Kiefer’s work has been presented and collected by major museums throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre, Paris.

• Emanuele Coccia

  Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia has been an associate professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales since 2011. He initially studied agronomy before moving toward philosophy and philology. After studying in Florence, where he obtained his doctorate in 2005, he was invited as a research-professor by the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, and later Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image; The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture; Metamorphosis, and Philosophy of the Home. He has recently participated in the production of animated videos such as Quercus (2020, with Formafantasma); Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano), and The Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019 and 2021, he contributed to the exhibition Trees, presented at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, as well as to the catalogue published for the occasion. He also contributed to Damien Hirst’s book Cherry Blossoms, published by the Fondation Cartier in 2021.