Jenny Holzer Opens First Portugal Solo Show at Serralves Museum

Summary

• Jenny Holzer heads to Porto, Portugal for Wrong Answers at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
• On from June 18 through November 1, the exhibition gathers works from across mediums and decades, exploring the artist’s interrogations and fascination with language, power, and politics
• The show includes two new works created in collaboration with graffiti artist Kilos

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto is readying a new exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer. For Holzer’s first solo outing in Portugal, Wrong Answers interrogates the power of text — a medium that’s defined her career — and language’s hand in shaping freedom, democracy, and power.

Since day one, Holzer’s always been an of-the-moment artist, responding to the world as news unfolds. In a contemporary condition shaped by information overload, the Serralves showcase will explore how content across media can manipulate understanding. As much as words can amplify meaning, they can distort and neutralize it.

Spanning her provocative early Inflammatory Essays (1979-82), smashed piles of stone sculptures, paintings, human bone installations, LED poems, and iconic Truisms (1978-87), Wrong Answers doubles as a chronicle of Holzer’s rise into an art world icon.

“It is a tremendous privilege to work with [Holzer,] an artist who has never minced her words, never compromised, and who possesses the discipline to engage critically with the world and the challenges of our time without fear,” expressed Philippe Vergne, the museum’s director and exhibition curator.

The exhibition will also debut two collaborative pieces with Porto-based artist Kilos, bringing his own graffiti touch to Holzer’s Truisms posters in one gallery and her texts across two walls of another.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
R. Dom João de Castro 210
4150-417 Porto
Portugal