Rita McBride

Rita McBride takes the legacy of minimalist and conceptual sculpture and its limitations as a historical reference. Through her work she explores ways of appropriating the languages and perceptual patterns of the devices or artefacts that surround us, freeing them from the referential context to which they belong and questioning the dichotomy resulting from the struggle between formalism and functionalism, form and content. His work, where materials and their specific cultural value are especially considered, runs between art and design, art and architecture, also alluding to industrial and serial production as well as the typification of forms.

Rita McBride (Des Moines, 1960) lives and works in Düsseldorf and Los Angeles. She studied at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson and the California Institute of the Arts. She was Director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2013-2017) and is Professor of Integration of Art and Architecture, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2003-present). Recent exhibitions include Dia Beacon (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Bauhaus Museum (Dessau), Dia Chelsea (New York) and Wiels (Brussels). His work is present in numerous museums and collections such as MACBA (Barcelona), The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Dia Art Foundation (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Museu de Serralves (Porto) and Kunsthaus Zürich among others.