— Photo by Morgan Connellee
Lola Kramer is a curator, writer, and consultant based in New York City. She is known for her essays, profiles, and interviews with pioneers of creative disciplines.
Her latest exhibition, Dorothea Rockburne: The Light Shines in the Darkness and The Darkness Has not Understood It, is at Bernheim, London. It spans seven decades of her career and is the artist's first historical exhibition in Europe. The exhibition will be on view until January 25, 2025. It has received press in the Guardian, New York Times, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, and Vogue.
In recent years, she has curated several exhibitions, including Nancy Holt: Perspectives (2023), an exhibition dedicated to the legendary American artist’s moving-image artworks at the artist-run project space Dunkunsthalle, in collaboration with the Holt/Smithson Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix; 7 Gardens (2022), the first public art exhibition spanning the community gardens in the Lower East Side, conceived as a journey connecting local community space to the practices of artists like Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Ivana Bašić who each produced ambitious artworks for public space in unusual sites; and Lawrence Weiner: A Means of Avoiding Bureaucracy at the Hessel Museum of Art (2017), an exhibition looking at how the working postcards of seminal American artist Lawrence Weiner exemplify the artist’s commitment to the public circulation of ideas.
After completing her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2017, she was Curatorial Director of Wide Rainbow, a contemporary art non-profit connecting contemporary artists with the community, primarily in under-resourced neighborhoods with limited or no access to the arts or arts education. During this time, she also served as a curatorial assistant to Cecilia Alemani during the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and as a research assistant to Massimiliano Gioni during Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even (2019).
In 2021, she was selected by Cultured magazine as one of the “Young Curators to Watch,” recognized as a leading expert and advocate for the next generation of artists and change-makers. In 2019, she was the editor of the Bastard Cookbook, a collection of hybridized recipes by Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi, co-published by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and Garrett Publications. She has written for multiple monographs, including Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, published by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, and institutional publications like the Whitney Biennial Catalogue. She contributes to international journals like Artforum, Frieze, Art Basel, Artnet, Interview, CURA, Kaleidoscope, and Apartamento. Her research appeared in the documentary film Sisters with Transistors (2020), a new history mapping the visionary women whose radical experiments with machines redefined the boundaries of music.
