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Jenny Holzer

Opening March 20, 2025
The Pavilions, Room 2

A room illuminated by red and yellow neon lights with a floor plaque in the foreground
Jenny Holzer
The Venice Installation: The Child Room, 1990
Biancone, Nero Marquina & Rosso Magnaboschi;
12 LED signs with green, red & yellow diodes
Text: Mother and Child, 1990
Installation: 44th Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, 1990
© 2024 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Salvatore Licitra

Jenny Holzer has long used language as her primary medium, engaging words and phrases as tools for personal and political examination. Her presentation in Room 2 will include drawings, paintings, LED signs, and plaques alongside the monumental installation The Child Room,1990. Originally commissioned for the US Pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale, The Child Room combines vertical scrolling LED elements with a custom engraved marble floor featuring an original text by Holzer. This is the first time the work has been on view since 1993. 

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