'ALL I EAT IN A DAY', featuring Cory Arcangel at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

3 September 2024

What is art’s place in this world? What do we expect from it and how do we consume it? These questions are at the centre of the exhibition 'ALL I EAT IN A DAY', curated by Giovanni Carmine in collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel, on view at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen from 6 September – 1 December.

The group show featuring artists including Bernadette Corporation, Gabriele Garavaglia, Barbara Kruger, Jayson Musson, Laura Owens and Emily Sundblad humorously addresses the increasing spectacle character of current art formats and combines hybrid worlds of experience, advertising aesthetics, Zoom calls and classical art history. Consumer culture, entertainment, and the tourism industry increasingly infiltrate the field of art: fashion brands drop artist collaborations, luxury products claim to have artwork status, and immersive lightshows blend classical art history with spectacular marketing. Influencers populate the social media feeds of established art institutions, while museum goers are on the hunt for an instagrammable experience, resulting in institutions being obliged to constantly grow their media habits.

The show's central questions are grouped around artworks that play with new media formats. Cory Arcangel, who has been dealing with internet phenomena and pop culture since the 2000s and began his career with the then new media art form of net art, is presenting an oversized video installation at the Kunst Halle that can keep up with the bestseller of a Picasso light show.

Find out more via Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen.

Shown here: Cory Arcangel, Carlo Acutis Sitting in a Room, (DALL-E image), 2024. Courtesy: der Künstler.