In conjunction with the exhibition Alice Wang: Windstorm on Saturn, Basalt Columns, MDMA, Serotonin, artist Alice Wang will be joined by writer Bettina Funcke and Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions, for a conversation celebrating the release of her exhibition catalogue. Published by ISCP and designed by Masato Nakada, the book features an introduction by Lang and an essay by Funcke that consider Wang’s practice through questions of perception, geometry, and our relationship to planetary and cosmic systems. A Q&A with the audience will follow.
Publications will be available for purchase at the event.
Alice Wang is a Chinese-born American artist based in New York. She was a resident at ISCP from December 2024 to May 2025, supported by Canada Council for the Arts. Wang received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto, a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and an MFA from New York University. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the UCCA Dune Art Museum, China; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Capsule Shanghai; Human Resources, Los Angeles; and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, among others. Group presentations include The Renaissance Society, Chicago; New Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Para Site, Hong Kong; Fotografiska, Shanghai; and the 14th Shanghai Biennale.
Bettina Funcke is a New York-based writer, critic, and editor who has published widely on contemporary art and philosophy, with recent texts on Jana Euler, Kerstin Braetsch, and Jeannette Mundt. Her book Interrupture: New York Art, 1999-2024 is forthcoming with No Place Press and her essay “Counter Cosmology or Cosmology as Counter” is forthcoming in Le Contre-Ciel (Empty Gallery, Hong Kong). She edited Documenta 13’s 100 Notes—100 Thoughts series. Her writing appears in Artforum, Bookforum, Spike, Mousse, The Brooklyn Rail, Fillip, and Texte zur Kunst, among others.
This program is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
