The 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Chicago offers a unique experience for locals and tourists. The space offers a contemporary museum, a chef-driven restaurant and a 297-room boutique hotel located steps away from Michigan Avenue.
21c Chicago’s newest exhibition called 'OFF-SPRING: New Generations' explores the role of rituals in shaping identity, relationships, and institutions. The exhibit will remain on view through January 2024.
Courtesy of Nigel Barker
Art lovers will find a thematic group exhibition of 100 multi-media artworks by 60 artists from across the globe. These works highlight how religious, cultural, family, and personal rituals shape who we are, along with their effect on where we live, how we love, and how we learn.
OFF-SPRING features works by artists Gehard Demetz, Angela Ellsworth, Lalla Essaydi, Anthony Goicolea, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Li Hongbo, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kelly Kristin Jones, Deana Lawson, Hans Op de Beeck, Chiaru Shiota, Vee Speers, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.
Courtesy of Nigel Barker
The theme for the latest exhibit is based on rituals that are religious, cultural, institutional, and domestic. Iconographic imagery aids in exploring the development of both personal and group identity, childhood, family, history, and gender politics. That includes through use of sculptures, paintings, photographs, and videos.
“At the wedding altar, in the family home, or in the classroom, within the fantasy of childhood play or the familiarity of grown-up habit, these new, old narratives generate a spectrum of meditations on the contemporary construction of self and society,” says 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites. “In OFF-SPRING, transformations of iconic imagery from spheres both sacred and profane generate a new power, the power of potential and change.”
Courtesy of Nigel Barker
21c Museum is one of the largest contemporary art museums in North America focusing on only collecting art created in the 21st century. The museum has multiple venues across nine cities. The 21c Museum Chicago is always free and open 24/7, 365 days a year to the public. It’s a great space to walk through and explore some modern creations.
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