NOME, a lexicon

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NOME is pleased to announce the group exhibition NOME, a lexicon. Celebrating the gallery's five year anniversary, the show is now online and will open at the gallery on June, 12th.

www.nomegallery.com/exhibitions/nome-a-lexicon/online/
 

Featuring works by Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Paolo Cirio, Cian Dayrit, Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen, Goldin+Senneby, Igor Grubič, Khaled Hafez, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Sajan Mani, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Quayola, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kirsten Stolle, and Xiyadie. Curated by Luca Barbeni and Jesi Khadivi.

NOME, a lexicon is an exhibition in two chapters: a web-based visual essay and an exhibition at the gallery’s location in Berlin that looks back at five years of our activities, surveying the building blocks of the distinct language and discourse propagated by our program. NOME was founded in 2015 to support and disseminate the work of artists grappling with the pressing social, political, and cultural issues of our times. Their practices—often driven by conceptual, documentary, and investigative approaches—shed new light on our reality.

Organized around a set of terms that have defined the NOME’s conceptual and theoretical commitments over the past five years, the exhibited artworks provide overlapping, at times oppositional, ways of entering and grappling with these concepts. In this light, NOME, a lexicon is both a poly-vocal examination of topics related to black sites, copyright, greenhwashing, finance, and queer culture, among other topics—as well as a form of autocritique. Working across a broad array of media—including photography, video, drawing, painting, and sculpture—the artists presented in the exhibition share a commitment to re-envisioning the contours of our world, both the visible and the invisible, through techniques of documentary, appropriation, mapping, visualization, and humor.
 

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Founded in 2015, NOME works with international emerging and mid-career artists whose practices engage diverse disciplines and involve a broad range of media. NOME enables artists to deepen their research and further their artistic potential by collaborating with various cultural institutions and facilitating the production of new works for each exhibition. The curated program of the gallery aims to raise critical awareness of the crucial issues facing our age.