The Barcelona Pavilion

Extended Hours: Saturday, May 2, 11am to 7pm Sunday, May 3, 11am to 6pm — Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to present Brook Hsu's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 International Exposition, is a seminal example of modernist architecture, emphasizing open space, minimalism, and elemental materials. Though dismantled shortly after the exposition, it was later reconstructed in the 1980s. Starting in 2024, Hsu began producing drawings and paintings to mediate the paradoxical modus of the pavilion, which, unlike the eternal nature of architecture, existed only temporarily. Hsu presents a new suite of paintings, drawings, and photographs around the story of a building that was conceived to be destroyed and a woman living through the loss of a child. The exhibition features Georg Kolbe's bronze, Nacht, 1930. Brook Hsu (b. 1987) lives and works in New York and Wyoming. Hsu dedicates herself to painting in an ongoing engagement with the medium's capacity to cast an aesthetically propulsive and emotionally charged orbit, intertwining personal narratives of human and non-human relationships, while connecting the act and the history of painting in dialogue with literature, cinema, and music. Hsu's paintings are trans-temporal acts, which through repeated gestures and subjects, variations and echoes, appear as palimpsests and time frames. They evoke filmic time, especially stasis and slow temporality as narrative and conceptual devices as employed by Yasujirō Ozu and Tsai Ming-liang. She is interested in how the retelling of stories, the transmutative act of repetition, and by extension the relooking of paintings across time, could hold the viewer's attention, while shifting meaning, both reinforcing and diverging from a narrative at once. —Jo-ey Tang Hsu received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Relevant solo exhibitions include: Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2026, forthcoming); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2024); Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2022); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Relevant group exhibitions include Boros Collection, Berlin (2026, forthcoming); Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2025); Bortolami Gallery, Dubois (2025); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Munich (2025); Grimm, Amsterdam (2024); David Zwirner, New York (2024); Heidi Gallery, Berlin (2024); Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel (2024); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2024); New York (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); K11 Shanghai (2023); Kunsthalle Zurich (2023); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021); Tank, Shanghai (2020); Clearing, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2019); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019). Her work is part of the collections of: Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris Yan Du Collection, London Boros Collection, Berlin Philara Collection, Dusseldorf X Museum, Beijing Long Museum, Shanghai Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Live Forever Foundation, Taichung