Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Tobias Rehberger’s multifaceted work has been instrumental to expanding the possibilities of sculpture, spanning a diverse range of fields that include design, architecture, and conceptual art. The exhibition looks to showcase newly commissioned works and site-specific installations created especially for the Rockbund Art Museum. Through an array of visually confounding objects and environments, Rehberger continues to pioneer different production techniques and forms of social intervention that explore how we interact with space and perceive the connection between everyday life and art.

The Rockbund Art Museum is pleased to invite the artist Tobias Rehberger, together with the curators Larys Frogier and Billy Tang as well as Diao Wei, founder of Blackbird, who has collaborated with them profoundly on the butcher shop If you don’t use your eyes to see, you will use them to cry and the bar Forbidden in Heaven, Useless in Hell (El Redomon version) to an open conversation on the first public opening day. Inviting the public to know more behind the scene, they will share more about the curatorial conception, review Tobias Rehberger’s art practice and discuss how his oeuvres challenge or move the role of a museum and reinvent connections with the audience from different angles.

艺术家托比亚斯·雷贝格多重维度的创作将雕塑的可能性延伸至设计、建筑、观念艺术等诸多领域。此次展览展示了艺术家为上海外滩美术馆量身定做的数件全新委托作品和大型场域装置。通过创造一系列令人眼花缭乱的物件和环境，雷贝格持续开拓新的社会介入形式，探索我们如何与空间互动并感知日常生活与艺术之间的联系。

此次对谈活动中，我们很高兴地将邀请到艺术家托比亚斯·雷贝格、展览策展人拉瑞斯·弗洛乔、曾明俊以及本次展览作品肉铺《如果你的眼睛不用来看，就会用来哭》和酒吧《天堂禁用，地狱无用（埃尔雷多蒙版）》的合作方Blackbird创始人刁唯，一同带领观众走进“幕后”，分享展览概念的构建过程、回顾艺术家的创作历程，讨论他的作品是如何挑战、改变美术馆和观众的角色。

Tobias Rehberger is an artist whose work is characterized by transformation, serendipity, collaboration and shared experience. His work in large-scale often takes the form of visually-rich environments that are sites for social encounter, such as his Was du liebst bringt dich auch zum weinen (2009), which won the Golden Lion for the 53rd Venice Biennale, his recreation of Frankfurt’s Bar Oppenheimer in New York (2013), or his procession of sculptures 24 Stops between the Beyeler Foundation and Vitra Campus near Basel (2015-2016). When working with self-contained sculpture, Rehberger often looks to the viewer, friends and other collaborators to complete or contribute to the work. He invited fellow artists he had portrayed as vases to present him with a bouquet of flowers, completing each vase portrait, he asked assistants to initiate sculptural formations in velcro for his Infection series (2007 - ongoing) and he worked with craftsmen in Cameroon and Thailand to make serendipitous copies of furniture and cars. Working across diverse scales and an array of media, Rehberger is fascinated by the boundless possibilities of object and environment. As Rehberger once described, “I am very interested in this phenomenon that …the object is not only interested in its own existence. It’s a kind of tool helping the existence of something else”

Selected solo exhibitions and projects for the artist include If you don’t use your eyes to see, you will use them to cry, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Yourself is sometimes a place to call your own, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan (2018); 24 Stops, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2016); Home and Away and Outside, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2014); Tobias Rehberger: Wrap it up, MACRO Museum, Rome (2014); Dazzle Ship London, River Thames, London (2012); When I See the Other Side of Heaven, It Is Just as Blue (commission), The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012); Nest (commission), Bloomberg SPACE, London (2012); Tobias Rehberger, MAXXI, Rome (2010); The Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall-Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); On (2008); On Otto, Fondazione Prada, Milan (2007); Get a New Liver, Tate Liverpool (2006); Private Matters, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); Night Shift, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002) and The Sun from Above, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000). Tobias Rehberger lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

Larys Frogier is the Director of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai. Curator, critic and art historian, he is involved in artistic and social challenges in post-global contexts where ongoing social, economical, cultural transformations demand new ways of interrelations, citizenship and reinvented creativity.

He curated numerous exhibitions and published extensive essays on the works of international artists: Adel Abdessemed, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Paola Pivi, Ugo Rondinone, Wang Du, Yang Jiechang.

Previously the Director of the contemporary art centre La Criée in Rennes (France), he curated long-term projects (symposiums, residencies, exhibitions, publications) which question the links and ruptures between broadening transcontinental areas. Chair of the HUGO BOSS ASIA ART jury since 2013 at the Rockbund Art Museum, he is conceiving this new award, exhibition and research program as an evolving platform to promote emerging artists and to question Asia as a construction to investigate rather than a monolithic area or fixed identities.

Larys Frogier taught art theory, history of art and curatorial studies at the University of Rennes, while he was also researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Archives for Art Criticism.

Diao Wei, founder of Blackbird, Bar No.3, Table Black, Bar Black, Oha Eatery and Oha Café, and designer of Oha Shanghai - Office of Heuristic Architecture. She is in collaboration with Tobias Rehberger to set up and manage the butcher shop and a pub in RAM, as part of Tobias’ exhibition If you don’t use your eyes to see, you will use them to cry. She went to the Art Institute of Chicago to study art, architecture and design, attended the Domus Academy for interior design and environment art, and graduated from University of Wales with a master’s degree in arts.

托比亚斯·雷贝格的作品以转换、偶然性、协作和共享经验为特色。他的大型作品通常呈现为视觉丰富的环境空间，亦是社交情境，譬如第53届威尼斯双年展金狮奖获奖作品《你所爱的，亦导致你哭泣》、2013年在纽约重建的法兰克福奥本海默酒吧、或2015至2016年艺术家在巴塞尔附近贝尔勒基金会和维特拉设计园之间的一长串雕塑《24站》。雷贝格经常寻求观众、朋友和其他合作者的投入以完成作品。他曾邀请被他以花瓶形式塑像的艺术家友人送来一束鲜花，从而完成花瓶肖像；让助手们用尼龙搭扣为他的《感染》系列雕塑（2007年至今）进行最初的造型；他还与喀麦隆和泰国的工匠一起制作依靠偶然机会才能完成的家具和汽车副本。雷贝格的创作跨越不同媒介和尺度，着迷于物体和环境的无限可能性。正如雷贝格所言:“我感兴趣的现象是……一件事物不仅对自身的存在感兴趣，还是一种帮助其他事物存在的工具。”

托比亚斯·雷贝格的个人展览及艺术计划包括上海外滩美术馆《如果你的眼睛不用来看，就会用来哭》（2019年）、釜山当代艺术博物馆《Yourself is sometimes a place to call your own》（2018年）、巴塞尔贝尔勒基金会美术馆《24 站》（2016年）、法兰克福席恩美术馆《Home and Away and Outside》（2014年）、罗马当代艺术博物馆《Wrap it up》（2014年）、伦敦泰晤士河上的《Dazzle Ship London》（2012年）、首尔三星美术馆委托创作《When I See the Other Side of Heaven, It Is Just as Blue》（2012年）、伦敦彭博艺术空间委托创作《Nest》（2012年）、罗马国立当代艺术博物馆同名个展《托比亚斯·雷贝格》、阿姆斯特丹市立博物馆个展《The Chicken-and-Egg-No-Problem Wall-Painting》（2008年）、米兰普拉达基金会美术馆展览《On Otto》（2007年）、泰特利物浦美术馆《Get a New Liver》（2006年）、伦敦白教堂画廊《Private Matters》（2004年）、巴黎东京宫《Night Shift》（2002年）和芝加哥当代艺术博物馆《The Sun from Above》（2000年）。托比亚斯·雷贝格目前居住工作于德国法兰克福。

拉瑞斯·弗洛乔是上海外滩美术馆的馆长。作为一名策展人、评论家与艺术史学家，他深入参与到后全球化语境中的艺术挑战与社会变革中，持续生发的社会、经济与文化转变同时也要求全新的关联方式、公民身份与重新研发的创造力。

他策划了多档展览，发表过多部专著与论文，研究并讨论了来自如下艺术家的创作：阿德尔·阿卜杜-萨马德、南·戈尔丁、菲利克斯·冈萨雷斯-托雷斯、波拉·彼薇、乌戈·罗迪纳、王度和杨诘苍。

他曾担任法国雷恩市La Criée当代艺术中心总监，策划过长期的研讨会、驻地、展览与出版物项目，不断挑战广泛的全球地域之间的联结与断裂。作为2013年首届HUGO BOSS亚洲艺术大奖的评委会主席，他将该项目构想为一个全新的奖项、一场展览与一系列研究项目，作为一个持续演变的平台，推广新锐艺术家，将亚洲作为一个持续的构建和亟待调研的问题而非一个单一的地区和固定的身份。

拉瑞斯•弗洛乔曾任教于法国雷恩大学，教授艺术理论，艺术史和策展课程。他同时也是巴黎社会科学高等学院与艺术批评文献库的研究员。

曾明俊是上海外滩美术馆资深策展人，于2018年春季加入上海外滩美术馆团队。他的策展工作致力于向更多中国观众介绍影像艺术家，委托年轻艺术家进行大型创作，以及策划旨在干预展览空间的建筑功能和体验的展览项目。其余的个人项目包括在伦敦的一家餐厅中连续策划一系列日常干预性活动，意在探索艺术品出现和被观众消费的方式。曾明俊独立策划或与其他策展人和作者合作策划的展览艺术家包括：王兵、刘窗、拉夫·迪亚兹、李景湖、黄炳、娜布其、姚清妹、宋拓和杨沛铿。

刁唯，Blackbird, Bar No.3, Table Black, Bar Black, Oha Eatery, Oha Café创始人，Oha Shanghai知觉建筑工作室设计师，上海外滩美术馆“托比亚斯·雷贝格：如果你的眼睛不用来看，就会用来哭”展览肉铺、酒吧合作人。曾就读芝加哥艺术学院艺术和建筑设计专业，多莫斯设计学院室内与环艺设计，和威尔士大学文学艺术专业，获得硕士学位。

Billy Tang is Senior Curator of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai. He joined the museum in Spring 2018. His previous projects have helped to introduce moving-image artists to new audiences in Mainland China, commissioning large-scale works of young artists, and curating projects that look to disrupt the architectural function and experience of the exhibition space. Other projects involve curating daily interventions that explore how art appears or is consumed by visitors—most recently at a restaurant in London. He has worked collaboratively with curators and writers to realize exhibitions of works by among others, Wang Bing, Liu Chuang, Lav Diaz, Li Jinghu, Wong Ping, Nabuqi, Yao Qingmei, Song Ta, and Trevor Yeung.