On View
Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions-
Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023In his West Coast solo project debut, Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) debuts the new work below/here/above/ahead/was as part of BAMPFA’s Art Wall commissioned series.
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Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
December 14, 2022–May 7, 2023Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and that everything in the world can impact everything else.
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Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human Melting
January 25–April 23, 2023This exhibition represents a small portion of the vast body of creative work by the late Berkeley-based artist and teacher Frank Moore (1946–2013). Over the course of more than five decades, Moore, who was born with a physical disability, used painting, performance, public access television, and an extensive writing practice to explore the unlimited capacity for humans to connect.
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Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
February 4–July 23, 2023Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of longtime Bay Area artist Mesa-Bains. Presenting work from the entirety of her career for the first time, this exhibition, which features nearly 60 works in a range of media, including fourteen major installations, celebrates Mesa-Bains’s important contributions to the field of contemporary art locally and globally.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Morakot (Emerald)"
Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
March 8–April 30, 2023Independent filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation Morakot (Emerald), a work in the BAMPFA collection, is on view as part of the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World.
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Out of Africa: Selections from the Kramlich Collection
March 8–April 30, 2023This selection of photographs and two video installations centers the continent of Africa as a site of extraction, exploitation, and displacement for economic gain.
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On the Hour: Three short films by William Kentridge
March 9–April 30, 2023This trio of short animated films by William Kentridge demonstrate his interest in patterns associated with stream of consciousness thought, transformation, language, abstraction, and time. He uses the formal principles and building blocks of cinema, i.e. the illusion of movement that is created when the eye sees 24 frames per second, and manipulates the single film frame to make these magical works.
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Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again
Cal Conversations
April 12–July 30, 2023Alexandre Dumas’s Afro reassembles the “scattered pieces” of Dumas and his circle, including American actress, poet, and painter Adah Isaacs Menken.
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Fifty-Third Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
May 12–July 23, 2023For over half a century, BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice have collaborated to present an exhibition of works by Master of Fine Arts graduates. This year’s exhibition includes the exceptional work of Irma Barbosa, Gericault De La Rose, Eniola Fakile, Juniper Harrower, Fei Pan, Tiare Ribeaux, and Samuel Wildman.
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