{"id":379022,"date":"2026-04-02T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:25:10","slug":"first-us-museum-survey-opens-at-ica-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379022\/","title":{"rendered":"First US Museum Survey Opens at ICA Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMultidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine<\/a> is set to receive his first major U.S. museum survey. Titled Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense, the comprehensive exhibition will open at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) on April 15, 2026, offering a deep dive into the transgressive creator\u2019s three-decade career.<\/p>\n

\n\tBringing together over 50 works\u2014some on public display for the first time\u2014the exhibition aims to contextualize Korine\u2019s evolution across various media fully. While widely recognized for writing the generation-defining 1995 film Kids at just 19 years old, Korine has continuously pushed the boundaries of traditional filmmaking, seamlessly crossing into painting, photography, collage, drawing, and virtual environments.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Harmony<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tHarmony Korine, Cheeto Fountainhead Twitchy, 2020, Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCapehart Photography<\/p>\n

\n\tCurated by Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director, alongside Gean Moreno, Director of the Art + Research Center, Perfect Nonsense traces Korine\u2019s enduring fascination with the American teenager, the outsider, and the intersection of celebrity and authenticity. The exhibition is structured as a series of thematic chapters that trace his ongoing pursuit of new visual languages, featuring key collaborations throughout his career with artists such as Christopher Wool and Rita Ackermann.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exhibition opens with Korine\u2019s early works from 1997 onward, establishing his interest in non-linear storytelling. This section features collages, handwritten notes, and paintings that explore themes of adolescence, vulnerability, and alienation through childlike figures. These motifs evolve into deeper explorations of aggression and subcultural aesthetics, dedicating space to his film Trash Humpers and the Shadow Fux paintings.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoving into the social margins, the exhibition highlights photographs of Macaulay Culkin during a period of seclusion, displayed alongside appropriated Norwegian black metal imagery. This era also introduces \u201cTwitchy,\u201d a recurring ghostly character born from merging low-resolution iPhone technology with traditional painterly techniques.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Harmony<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tHarmony Korine, Burst Manga, 2014, Ink on canvas<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeeply informed by his home base of Miami over the last decade, the subsequent \u201cFlorida Room\u201d chapter explores how the city\u2019s evolving cultural fabric and the gothic dimensions of the American South have shaped his recent abstract and figurative works.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exhibition concludes with Aggro Dr1ft, Korine\u2019s most recent multidisciplinary project. This body of work pushes digital aesthetics, gaming culture, and hyper-stylized violence to new extremes, blurring the lines between film, painting, and virtual spaces.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHarmony Korine is one of the most singular and uncompromising voices in contemporary culture,\u201d Gartenfeld said in the press release. \u201cHis inclination to challenge conventions and blur disciplinary boundaries, alongside his long relationship to Miami, makes ICA Miami a fitting platform for his first solo institutional exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGean Moreno echoed this sentiment, noting Korine\u2019s status as a preeminent visual artist in the city. \u201cKorine\u2019s work resists coherence and embraces intuition and fragmentation as strategies for seeing the world differently,\u201d Moreno stated.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense will be on view at ICA Miami from April 15 through October 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine is set to receive his first major U.S. museum survey. Titled Harmony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,139982,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-379022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-harmony-korine","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}