Renée Green
Ongoing Becomings

Renée Green collects words, images, stories, and sounds, moving back and forth between past and present, between real and imagined spaces, and across disciplines, blending the personal with the political in her videos, installations, sound works, and writings. Trained in New York and Harvard, and having worked in both Europe and the United States, Renée Green often creates her works in relation to a specific site, questioning its visible or hidden history—whether in Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, Naples, New York, or Los Angeles.

Drawing from artistic approaches inherited from conceptual and post-minimalist art, the African American artist integrates reflections from postcolonial critique to question the subject’s place in history and explore the fluid nature of identities. She weaves together personal and collective memory, individual stories—her own and those of others—with historical events, in a constant interplay between documentary and fiction. Her work examines the implications of movement, displacement, and geographical positioning over time, challenging us on issues of vision and perception—how we see the world, history, ourselves, and others.

Designed in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition was the first retrospective dedicated to Renée Green, offering a comprehensive view of the exceptional breadth and richness of her work over the past twenty years.