19-03-2025
The Walker Art Center acquires more than 50 new works
The Walker Art Center's collection is expanding.
The Minneapolis art museum has acquired more than 50 works for its permanent collection through purchases and gifts as part of its ongoing effort "to diversify its holdings with the work of both acclaimed and lesser-known artists from around the globe."
Added to the Walker's collection of more than 16,000 works is a significant work from painter Gerhard Richter. "Abstract Painting" (1990) is part of an ongoing series he began in the '70s. It will join Richter's "Chicago" (1992), which is already in the Walker's holdings.
Other notable pieces include an installation from multidisciplinary artist Shue Lea Cheang, Sadie Barnette's installation "Mirror Bar" (2022), and pieces from Rose Salane's Confessions series (2023), which will be part of the "Ways of Knowing" exhibition that opened this month.
It has also acquired pieces by artist Sophie Calle, who was featured in the Walker's Sophie Calle: Overshare exhibition, which closed earlier this year.
'In recent years, we have placed a special emphasis on acquiring more works by women artists, BIPOC artists, artists working in new media and performance arts, and artists with ties to Minnesota," Pavel Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts and Collection Strategy, says in a statement.
"The collection provides new opportunities for research, dialogue, and exploration of emerging ideas across modern and contemporary art. As such, we are particularly attuned to boundary-pushing artists and those who have made critical contributions to art but have not necessarily received the scholarly recognition they deserve."
Other work entering the collection includes paintings by Edgar Arceneaux, Wade Guyton, Suzanne Jackson, Guillermo Kuitca, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Motherwell; sculptures from artists including Siah Armajani and Doris Salcedo; moving image works and installations from Chlöe Bass and Tiffany Sia; and other pieces from Georg Baselitz, Jeffrey Gibson, Barbara Kasten, and Kelly Nipper, among others.
