21c MUSEUM HOTEL CHICAGO
The Art of Now
A reset in cultural engagement, 21c Chicago's museum hotel offers extraordinary art from world-renowned contemporary artists, free and open to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Let curiosity take the lead and discover a beautifully curated experience with every stay.
OFF-SPRING
Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites brings OFF-SPRING: New Generations to 21c Chicago. This thematic group exhibition of 100 multi-media artworks by 60 artists from across the globe highlighting how religious, cultural, familial, and personal rituals shape who we are and how and where we live, love, and learn.
Rm. 921: Reflections on Practice
On view, from October through December is Reflections on Practice, an exhibition featuring films and video work from Kioto Aoki, Lois Bielefeld, and Yuge Zhou for Elevate: Rm 921. Projected onto a 48-foot wall, the exhibition is only viewable after dusk and from the windows of 21c Chicago guest rooms with interior-facing windows. Designed to showcase immersive and experiential moving-image work in response to the unique space, Elevate: Rm 921 addresses complex issues that shape our diverse and rapidly changing world.
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Yanira Castro Revenge Score
Revenge Score: An Abbreviation of the Treaty of Paris 1898 is designed to the specs of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual, this performance score "for americans and computers to perform" is printed on beach towels as official state documents and presented in 21c's Gallery 3 conference room.
The Revenge Score is a part of Yanira Castro’s I came here to weep project - a multimodal, interactive project enacted by the public. It is made up of participatory scores with corresponding materials and environments that examine U.S. territorial possession through the redaction, deconstruction and performance of absurdist colonial texts. Castro is developing this project as an iterative platform that investigates the complex relations of citizenship vis-à-vis Borikén (Puerto Rico) and the United States. In 2023, Castro premiered the first iteration that focuses on The Treaty of Paris 1898 via which the U.S. took possession of Spanish colonies including Puerto Rico.
Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel. Elevate provides hotel guests and visitors with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space.
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Horsepower 2023
Natalie Clare is a Chicago-based painter who practices her craft as (sub)urban warrior, creating murals in public and private spaces in cities across the U.S. Describing the inspiration behind the work she painted at 21c Chicago, the artist says: “Horsepower is a mural depicting horses in a slightly abstracted way. Horses are powerful animals at the peak of athleticism and strength in the animal kingdom. The animal/human connection is very strong and nature also produces endorphins, as does physical activity. The crossover is cerebral and meant to brighten the space and bring that same feeling that interacting with nature and animals does in an urban environment removed from those things.” Learn more here.
Wallworks by Nick Cave and Bob Faust
As a way to bring the energy and impetus of Nick Cave’s artwork outside of traditional museum walls, Cave, in collaboration with his design partner Bob Faust, have created nine unique patterns that pair in various ways to result in sixteen floors of Wallworks, installed in the elevator lobbies on floors 2-17.
A Peek at OFF-SPRING
