Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961) is best known for his intimate, participatory installations that revolve around personal and shared communal traditions, such as cooking Thai meals, that are, in the words of curator Rochelle Steiner, “fundamentally about bringing people together.” At the forefront of the shift in avant-garde art practices in the 1990s away from traditional art objects and toward “relational aesthetics," Tiravanija has continually challenged and expanded the social dimension of art.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Pauline Assathiany
Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961) is best known for his intimate, participatory installations that revolve around personal and shared communal traditions, such as cooking Thai meals, that are, in the words of curator Rochelle Steiner, “fundamentally about bringing people together.” At the forefront of the shift in avant-garde art practices in the 1990s away from traditional art objects and toward “relational aesthetics," Tiravanija has continually challenged and expanded the social dimension of art.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Pauline Assathiany
Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961) is best known for his intimate, participatory installations that revolve around personal and shared communal traditions, such as cooking Thai meals, that are, in the words of curator Rochelle Steiner, “fundamentally about bringing people together.” At the forefront of the shift in avant-garde art practices in the 1990s away from traditional art objects and toward “relational aesthetics," Tiravanija has continually challenged and expanded the social dimension of art.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Pauline Assathiany
