Rachel Harrison
Bird Watching

Opening – 26 APR 2024, 6-9 pm

Konrad Fischer Galerie is proud to announce Rachel Harrison’s first exhibition with the gallery, opening on occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin on April 26–28, 2024.

Titled ‚Bird Watching‘, the exhibition will present six new sculptures and a series of recent photographs by the artist.

Rachel Harrison is well-known for her sculptures and installations with various artistic references and stylistic means. In a critical and humorous fashion, Harrison’s work often combines handmade forms with found objects or photographs, bringing art history, politics, and pop culture into dialogue with one another.

Rachel Harrison was born in 1966 in New York. She received a BA in fine art from Wesleyan University in 1989. Her works have been featured in exhibitions worldwide, including important solo presentations at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2022-23); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019-20); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2015); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2013); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2009-10), among others.

Harrison’s work is held in major institutional collections, including: Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; SFMOMA–San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.