The Fundação de Serralves unveils Dan Graham’s final tribute to 20th-century architecture with Not Post-Modernism, an exhibition that the artist conceived before his passing in 2022. The exhibition, curated by Bartomeu Marí, expresses Graham’s admiration for eight architects who were influential in his work: Jan Duiker, Lina Bo Bardi, Atelier Bow-Wow, Sverre Fehn, Itsuko Hasegawa, Kazuo Shinohara, Anne Tyng, and Vilanova Artigas.

Selected by Graham, the projects are carefully brought into exhibition form by Atelier Bow-Wow and organized in a ‘critical space’ in which their presentation in pairs allows creative readings and a dynamic evolution of ideas and forms. The exhibition also functions as an essay on architecture—a discipline that Graham made a core value in his work.

Installation views, Not Post-Modernism. Dan Graham and 20th-Century Architecture, Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (Portugal), from 13 OCT 2023 to 31 MAR 2024. 

Photos: © Filipe Braga