Published  28 AUG 2024

Opening – 11 SEP 2024
11 SEP till 24 OCT 2024

We are happy to announce Lizzi Bougatsos, Stage Exit, the New York-based visual artist and experimental musician’s first solo exhibition in Europe. Known for her unique vocal style, Bougatsos likens her sculptures and installations to performances. Opening September 11, 2024, her exhibition at Galerie Molitor comprises an array of personal items, worn and used in her performances such as cymbals, chandeliers, knives, perfume bottles, ballet slippers that meld and morph into strange and moving assemblage. The chance, risk, and spontaneity of performance charge these objects, which open up a visual universe concerned with wreckage, sensuality, and metamorphosis. Proxies for the body and corporeal traces are omnipresent throughout Bougatos’s work, as she both removes herself and seems to animate the sculptures she’s left behind. Bougatsos is widely known for her legendary band Gang Gang Dance, which was active for over two decades. I.U.D., her duo punk noise outfit with Sadie Laska, will perform at Gropius Bau during Berlin Art Week on September 12 at 7pm.

Lizzi Bougatsos’s (*1974, Queens, New York) work has been exhibited in institutions including Museo de arte Contemporanea di Roma, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst – Oslo, Norway, White Columns, Performance Space NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Lizzi Bougatsos and Lonnie Holley, Never the Same Song, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida (2024) and Idolize the Burn, An Ode to Performance, Tramps, New York (2023). Selected performances include “Concert for Yoko Ono, Washington and the World, “ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and “I am here, Where are you: On Vocal Performance” at the Bergen Kunsthall and in 2014, an adaptation of John Cage’s 4’33 in conjunction with “John Cage: There Will Never Be Silence,” at the Museum of Modern Art. Bougatsos and her band Gang Gang Dance, which spanned two decades, led the 8/8/08 BOADRUM, a collaboration with the legendary band BOREDOMS where she sang with 88 drummers. Bougatsos is also the second half of punk noise outfit I.U.D. with Sadie Laska.