Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 | Positions (Booth P13)

Alice Könitz’s Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA) Display System #7
with Carmen Argote, Beatriz Cortez, Katie Grinnan, Olga Koumoundouros, Gala Porras-Kim, Jen Smith, and Clarissa Tossin

Commonwealth and Council presents a new Display System of Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA) by Alice Könitz in which she will also organize an exhibition of works by our gallery artists Carmen Argote, Katie Grinnan, Clarissa Tossin, Jen Smith, Beatriz Cortez, Olga Koumoundouros, and Gala Porras-Kim.

Los Angeles Museum of Art, an experimental exhibition space founded by Alice Könitz in 2012, is a “platform for an organic institution that lives through participation.” LAMOA is a combined artist’s project and experimental exhibition venue. The museum itself is a modular wooden space with an open plan and sliding walls, adaptable to a variety of presentations. Könitz invites individual artists to create work specifically for the LAMOA space, playing with the structure’s capabilities and changing its form with each new exhibition.

Könitz views the preservation and exhibition of a collection as central to the purpose of a museum and therefore presented LAMOA’s private and public collections (Display System #1 & #2) and Display System #3 where the exhibitions can rotate. These three Display Systems were featured in the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2014 and won the Mohn Award for Artistic Excellence. She continues to make LAMOA Display Systems for other artists and for her own work. Display System #4 exhibited works by fellow artists at Eastern Star Gallery at Archer School for Girls, where she worked with the students to build and organize the artworks included. Display System #5 and #6 were shown in her hometown at Museum der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr where one displayed the works of her peers while the other, her own.