the work of media artist
JOHN SANBORN
Out of Chaos
Galerie Anita Beckers
Braubachstrasse 9, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
January 24, 2025 – March 15, 2025
The exhibition comprises three works that address socio- political issues as well as our everyday struggle to structure our shattered surroundings into narratives that underlie our existence.
Intimate Archeology (2024)
with Sarah Cecilia Bukowski
Out of Chaos | Push the Button (2025)
Created by John Sanborn + Lali Wilde
I AM (2025)
Created by John Sanborn + Louise Soulié-Dubol and Xavier Lavernhe
Out of Order
MEET Digital Culture Center
Viale Vittorio Veneto 2 – 20124 – Milan
June 5 - August 31, 2024
curated by Maria Grazia Mattei
"Out of Order presents “anarchic” art scenarios that trigger questions we need to face, pushing us to feel involved and participate. Not always to solve our problems, but to face our condition, understand it and ask to do something to change, starting with ourselves"
An exhibition that spans multimedia installations spanning over four decades of exploration of sound, music, interactive media, video and artwork that tackles issues of identity – even gender –, cultural truth, memory and mythology.
Notes on Us
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague
February 29 - June 3, 2024
Curator: Barbora Ropkováa
Kunsthalle Praha hosts the first-ever solo exhibition of John Sanborn’s work in the Czech Republic, titled Notes on Us.
The exhibition features V+M, (2015) a 9 channel instalation which was acquired by the Kunsthalle Praha in 2022, and Mythic Status (2016) , 4 portraits of gender queer performers portraying gods of the ancient world.
“Sanborn was never an activist artist, yet all his videos from the first decade of his career were celebrated what we can now call difference. Already in his early work, one of his main interests was interpersonal relationships, which naturally blended with his passion for storytelling,” elaborates Ropková, offering insight into the content of Sanborn’s art.
Between Order and Entropy
catalog/monograph
296 Pages, 520 Illustrations
Inspired by the exhibiton Between Order and Entropy; curated by Stephen Sarrazin and Philipp Ziegler
Edited by: Stephen Sarrazin, Peter Weibel
"This monograph brings together a collection of works that spans over four decades of exploring sound, music, cultural identity, memory, mythologies, and the human compulsion to tell stories. Essays by video art experts, reminiscences by companions, and a conversation between Sanborn and acclaimed media artist Dara Birnbaum explore the tension between mass media and contemporary art.
Sanborn himself traces the unique arc of his career and talks about a journey that took him from museums and alternative spaces to television networks, Hollywood and Silicon Valley before returning to the art world. Few other artists working with media can claim to have delved into so many visual territories."
Between Order and Entropy
works 1978 - 2022
July 9 - October 30, 2022
Curated by Stephen Sarrazin | Philipp Ziegler
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
The exhibition presents the work of the American artist John Sanborn. This exhibition, which is the largest in Europe devoted to the artist, brings together a collection of works that spans over four decades of sound, music, interactive media and video exploration.
Sanborn's recent work consists of complex media installations that address issues of cultural identity, memory, mythologies, and the human compulsion to tell stories.