Jenny Holzer

Data e hora

18/06/2026 · 18:09

Sala

Museum

Localização

Porto

Tipo

Exposição

For over forty years, Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) has questioned and transformed the way we experience language, projecting words onto buildings, carving them into stone, and embedding them into culture. The American artist’s wide ranging practice also encompasses posters, sculptural installations, drawing, painting, and electronic signs. Her emphatic capitals have appeared in urban landscapes around the world, insinuating themselves into the channels of official and commercial communication to deliver messages of a different sort, from unflinching accounts of the horrors of war to poetic celebrations of the joys of being alive. And while Holzer’s word based art was first created for the streets and remains at home there, her work can also be found today in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Guggenheim, and many others. Wrong Answers at the Serralves Museum will be Holzer’s first solo exhibition in Portugal. It follows a trajectory from the emergence of her text works—beginning with her iconic Truisms and Inflammatory Essays —to their proliferation across stone benches and sarcophagi, paintings, roboticized LED signs, human bones, and more. At a historical moment