Selections from the Permanent Collection

The installation in the Garen Gallery focuses on contemporary works from the Kemper Art Museum’s permanent collection made in the 1990s to the early 2010s—a period marked by the rise of digital technologies, worldwide interconnectivity, and the increased mobility of people and goods. With a strong emphasis on photography, painting, and sculpture, this selection of works explores some of the myriad ways that artists capture, process, and probe the changing built environment and the complexities of globalization and the human experience. Works by artists including Franz Ackermann, Willie Doherty, Vera Lutter, Michel Majerus, and Paulina Olowska, among others, address themes ranging from travel, urbanism, and political unrest to individual and national identities and the terms by which they are defined.