Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Merrill C. Berman Collection

Hannah Höch (German, 1889–1978), Untitled (Dada), c. 1922. Cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper on board.

The Museum of Modern Art announces Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, a major exhibition that will present the political engagement, fearless and groundbreaking visual experimentation, and utopian aspirations of artists in the early 20th century. On view in The Robert B. Menschel Galleries from December 13, 2020 through April 10, 2021, Engineer, Agitator, Constructor will showcase the activities of historical avant-gardes, including galvanizing works of Dada, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism, and highlights such figures as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and Hannah Höch. Drawn from the Museum’s outstanding holdings from this period, the exhibition will mark a recent acquisition of more than 300 works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the most significant collections of early 20th-century works on paper in private hands. Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented is organized by Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, and Adrian Sudhalter, Consulting Curator, with Jane Cavalier, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA.

Event Information
Start Date: December 13, 2020
End Date: April 10, 2021
Venue: Museum of Modern Art

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented