David Salle: Artist Talk In conversation with Daniel Birnbaum

Join us for an in-conversation between artist David Salle and Daniel Birnbaum, curator and creative director of Acute Art and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, on the opening of Salle's solo exhibition, Some Versions of Pastoral. The pair will discuss Salle's latest body of work, the New Pastorals, resulting from significant recent innovations in his art: his use of artifical intelligence as a tool to create more dynamic and conceptually rich compositions than ever before. 

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David Salle lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He came to prominence in the 1980s as a leading figure of the Pictures Generation, and over his career, has taken as his subject imagery from a wide range of sources, including magazines, advertisements, art history and cartoons. Though his subject matter is ostensibly figurative, Salle’s works locate the imagery in pure formal play and an all-over composition that is deeply rooted in Abstract Expressionism

Daniel Birnbaum is a writer and curator based in London and Stockholm. He is the artistic director of  Acute Art, a laboratory exploring art and technology and professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.  From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt and director of its Portikus gallery. Between 2010 and 2018 he was director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2009 he curated the the 53rd Venice Biennial. His most recent exhibition is Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Dreams of the Future at K20 in Düsseldorf (with Julia Voss) and Dream Machines at DESTE Foundation (with Massimiliano Gioni). Recent publications include Exhibition, Academy, Museum: Notes on the Frames of Art (Walther König, 2022) and the novel Dr B (Gallimard, 2022). In 2024 Birnbaum joined the Warburg Institute’s Visionary Circle.