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Engineered for Domestic Bliss

In the mid-1800s, many French and Belgian artists rejected grandiose images of mythology and history to focus on everyday lives, especially those of rural folk, laborers, and the disaffected—people most vulnerable to the whims of the powerful. These artists called themselves Realists. Their social concerns, artistic talent, and frequently journalistic approach resonated with University of Minnesota Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg and his wife, Yvonne. Fifty years ago, they engaged in deep, original research into the Realists, often rediscovering significant but neglected artists. They began to collect drawings and small paintings by these Realists, later adding examples of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. The result is a fascinating, irreplaceable collection that the Weisbergs have designated as a promised gift to Mia. Come celebrate their generosity and explore these intimate works of art.
This exhibition will be presented in two rotations:
Rotation 1, Works 1830–1900: May 14, 2022 – March 26, 2023
Rotation 2, Works 1900–1930: April 1 &#8211; December 10, 2023

This is a drawing of three men linking their arms to use all their strengths to pull a boat onto land.

L2022.35.40

Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection

Triển lãm miễn phí
Teo Nguyen’s solo museum exhibition invites contemplation and reflection on the Vietnamese people’s struggles toward peace and what the artist calls “the politics of worthiness.” Nguyen tells stories of heartbreak, optimism, resistance, and reconciliation that are interwoven into Vietnamese culture and spiritualism. His photorealist paintings reference historic images by photojournalists documenting the war in Vietnam, but reimagine them without violence. By eliminating the helicopters, weapons, fighting, victims, and fallen soldiers, he reveals a country of diverse natural beauty. This act of reclamation shines a light on a Vietnam beyond the war, a place of rich culture and picturesque topography. My Being, a short film inspired by his mother’s poems of loss and separation, and a photo-based installation in the show present narratives from a Vietnamese perspective. Born and raised in Vietnam, Nguyen lives and works in Minneapolis.
Triển lãm bảo tàng cá nhân của Teo Nguyen gợi lên sự chiêm nghiệm và suy ngẫm về cuộc đấu tranh vì hòa bình của dân tộc Việt Nam và điều mà người nghệ sĩ này gọi là “niềm tin vào sự xứng đáng”. Nguyen kể những câu chuyện về nỗi đau, tinh thần lạc quan, ý chí phản kháng và thiện chí hoà giải đan xen vào văn hoá và tinh thần của người Việt Nam. Các bức tranh theo trường phái hiện thực của ông đề cập đến những hình ảnh lịch sử mà các phóng viên ảnh ghi lại cuộc chiến ở Việt Nam, nhưng tái hiện chúng mà không có bóng dáng của bạo lực. Bằng cách loại bỏ đi các yếu tố như máy bay trực thăng, vũ khí, cuộc giao tranh, nạn nhân và những người lính đã ngã xuống, ông đã giới thiệu về một đất nước mang vẻ đẹp tự nhiên phong phú. Sự điều chỉnh này đã vẽ ra bối cảnh tươi sáng về một Việt Nam tự do, nơi có nền văn hóa phong phú và phong cảnh đẹp như tranh. My Being, bộ phim ngắn lấy cảm hứng từ những bài thơ về sự mất mát và chia ly của mẹ ông, đồng thời là tác phẩm sắp đặt theo ảnh trong buổi triển lãm sẽ chia sẻ những câu chuyện từ góc nhìn của người Việt Nam. Sinh ra và lớn lên tại Việt Nam, Nguyen hiện sinh sống và làm việc ở Minneapolis.

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&#8220;In the Making&#8221; features a selection of artworks newly added to Mia’s permanent collection, all on view for the first time. These objects offer a glimpse of the depth and breadth of American artists who together have shaped the field of modern and contemporary fiber art. While they originated in different regions of the United States, and their preferred medium varies from copper wire to feathers to window screens, the artists&#8217; commitment to making and deep respect for labor remain constant.

2022.19

In the Making: Modern and Contemporary Fiber Art New Acquisitions

&#8220;Night Life&#8221; presents 20 artworks from across Africa that address the various ways nighttime was, and in some cases still is, perceived and experienced. Offering warmth and privacy, sumptuously patterned blankets and basketry panels promote peaceful slumbers. Wooden masks, head rests, and figures support contact—through dreams—with spiritual companions and advisors. Memorial figures of deceased relations are reminders of their continued presence after death, when the sun sets on life itself. With the sounds of African nightlife in the background, these artworks speak to the richness and vitality of life after the sun goes down.

Night Life: Nocturnal Worlds in African Art

Fukuda Kodōjin (1865–1944) was one of a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of Japanese literati painting (nanga) after 1900. Kodōjin’s painting style is characterized by bizarrely shaped mountain forms rendered in vivid color or monochromatic ink that often include a solitary scholar enjoying the expansive beauty of nature. Not only a painter, Kodōjin was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher patronized by influential industrialists and politicians of the era. Following his death, he slipped into obscurity, and today is better appreciated outside his native Japan. This is the first-ever exhibition of Kodōjin outside Japan, accompanied by a 344-page catalogue.

Fukuda Kodōjin: Japan&#8217;s Great Poet and Landscape Artist

&#8220;Fragments of Epic Memory&#8221; invites visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today. The exhibition blends historical and contemporary narratives, presenting more than 100 photographs from the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings, sculpture, and video works by modern and contemporary Caribbean artists. The juxtaposition shows how the region’s histories are constantly revisited and reimagined through artistic production.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Fragments of Epic Memory.

Fragments of Epic Memory

Body//Weight presents a series of works by Minneapolis-based artist Christopher Selleck. At the core of the exhibition is a seven-year investigation into body image and the depiction of the ideal masculine figure. Selleck worked collaboratively with each model to present a more vulnerable version of the sitter. The exhibition will feature self-portraits, video, sculpture, and portrait photography. 
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Selleck has spent the last two decades working in the arts. He received his BFA in Photography from the University of MN-Twin Cities in 2013 and his MFA in Visual Studies and Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art &amp; Design in 2016. Using sports and masculinity as a lens through which to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction. His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality, and the male body. His work has been exhibited and published nationally.

A tattooed man who is slender yet muscular appears to flex his arms.

Christopher Selleck: Body/Weight

Christopher Selleck: Body//Weight

Reading and writing were popular pastimes in early modern Japan. From the 1600s to the 1800s, the printing industry developed rapidly, making printed materials available to readers in urban and rural areas alike. Woodblock printing meant that books and prints could be mass produced, sold cheaply, and distributed widely. Readership grew steadily as temple schools taught basic reading and writing to people from the merchant and lower classes. This exhibition considers two forms of literacy, textual and visual, that enabled people to participate in a burgeoning public life.

This painted scroll shares the eventful story of a frog parade.

The Art of Literacy in Early Modern Japan

Azechi Umetarō (1902–1999) loved the mountains. His earliest memory of climbing was as a child, when he hiked a large hill near his house; upon reaching the top, he was astounded by even taller landmasses looming in the distance. As he grew older, he often hiked mid-sized mountains alone; they gave him an opportunity to meditate on life. The simplified figures of the bearded mountain men (yama-otoko), who reappear throughout his work, embody his love and appreciation for the environment. This exhibition features prints given to Mia from the extensive collection of Sue Y. S. Kimm and Seymour Grufferman.

An older man is dressed in a white scarf and a blue coat, in his hand is a smoking pipe.

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Azechi Umetarō: Call of the Mountains

Few paintings capture Caravaggio’s genius for emotional drama better than Judith and Holofernes (c. 1599). Unlike typical renderings of this biblical subject, Caravaggio (1571–1610) depicted the climactic moment when Judith slashes the neck of her enemy, Holofernes. Now you can witness the drama yourself when this glorious yet chilling masterpiece travels to Mia from Rome.
Judith and Holofernes, on loan from the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini, Rome), showcases Caravaggio’s signature elements: intensely illuminated figures looking so real they all but burst beyond the frame. The exhibition includes fourteen artworks from Mia&#8217;s collection that offer various interpretations of the Judith story, from her anguish to her allure. 
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Caravaggio′s Judith and Holofernes

Harriet and Walter Pratt, of Minneapolis, focused their collecting on the German, Austrian, Belgian, and Russian artists who broke with convention in the early 1900s, eschewing realism in favor of emotion. The artists’ exuberant use of color and line became known as Expressionism, the defining art movement of the early 20th century. In 2021, the Pratts bequeathed the 19 works in this exhibition to Mia, including paintings and drawings by Vassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, and Lyonel Feininger, as well as a marble bust of a young woman by Erastus Dow Palmer, a prominent 19th-century sculptor and Harriet’s great-grandfather.

This is a watercolor painting of a woman in a orange and red dress, sitting on a green bed.

2022.64.7

Gifts Beyond Measure from Harriet and Walter Pratt

This exhibition features paintings, drawings and sculptures by local high school student artists who participated in a program focused on the impacts of racism on health equity, sponsored by Mia&#8217;s partner, Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota. Artists Kprecia Ambers, Juan Lucero, Jacob Olson, and Akiko Ostlund, whose work is also on view, worked with students during multiple visits to create this powerful exhibition.
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An expectant mother is wearing a baby blue outfit with her belly peeking out. Her observant daughter and affectionate son surround their mother.

Teen Perspectives on Racism and Health Equity

Marcantonio Raimondi occupies a prominent, if awkward, place in the history of printmaking. Notorious for ripping off the designs of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and famous as Raphael’s personal engraver, Marcantonio is sometimes seen as a human Xerox machine. He was, however, a gifted interpreter who could transform drawings and paintings into clear, elegant, reproducible printed images. He democratized Renaissance art, making the ideas of great artists available to a public that had no access to elite palaces or distant churches. This exhibition offers a direct comparison between Dürer’s woodcuts and Marcantonio’s engravings and shows highlights of Marcantonio’s collaborations with Raphael.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

Engineered for Domestic Bliss

Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection

Teo Nguyen: Việt Nam Peace Project
Teo Nguyễn: Giấc Mơ Hòa Bình