Nana Wolke's "Halfway Out to Heaven" Opens at Management, New York
Nana Wolke's second solo exhibition, "Halfway Out to Heaven," is currently being featured by Management in New York. This show explores themes like desire, power, and control. Wolke uses a mix of raw video, painting, sound, and installation to create spaces charged with social and psychological tension. Her focus on animality comes from examining the concept of wildness in captivity in Florida, illustrating domestic life as a mix of danger and lost freedom. The title suggests a transitional state, influenced by Paul Gauguin’s work. Born in Ljubljana in 1994, Wolke completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, London, and has showcased her work in various exhibitions, including "Nothing Left to Want."
Key facts
- "Halfway Out to Heaven" is Nana Wolke's second solo exhibition at Management, New York.
- The exhibition explores desire, power, and control through prompted actions and unscripted events captured in raw video, then split into painting, sound, and installation.
- An accompanying text is written by art critic and curator Guillaume Oranger.
- The central yet remote concept is animality, stemming from Wolke's research into encaged wildness in Florida.
- The show's title evokes a purgatorial in-between state, referencing Paul Gauguin's 1897–98 painting "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
- Nana Wolke was born in 1994 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is based in New York; she holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Her solo exhibitions include shows at NiCOLETTi, London; Management, New York; Castor Gallery, London; VIN VIN, Vienna; and Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza.
- She was selected for the 2021 cohort of Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
Entities
Artists
- Nana Wolke
- Guillaume Oranger
- Paul Gauguin
- Francis Bacon
Institutions
- Management
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- NiCOLETTi
- Castor Gallery
- VIN VIN
- Fondazione Coppola
- Michel Rein
- Olney Gleason
- Commune
- 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts
- G2 Kunsthalle
- Green Family Art Foundation
- Marlborough
- Wilhelm Hallen
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Locations
- New York
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- Ljubljana
- Slovenia
- Vienna
- Austria
- Vicenza
- Italy
- Paris
- France
- Leipzig
- Germany
- Dallas
- Berlin
- Florida
- Tahiti