JOHN MILLER

From July 14 to November 24, 2024 Kunsthaus Glarus presents The Ruin of Exchange by John Miller curated by Melanie Ohnemus. 

The Ruin of Exchange presents a selection of John Miller’s artwork ranging from 1994 to the present. Miller employs a wide variety of materials and media, making it difficult to pin him down to a particular or artistic style. And yet his work is highly influential, even though its mutability and limiting of personal gestures possibly best express a certain recognizable quality. Because Miller calls into question art’s aspirations to transcend its subject matter, this persistent manner of impersonality has become the defining feature of his practice. His work conforms neither to the mocking irony of postmodernism nor the overweening authenticity of modernity. How better to dispassionately portray the real than to minimize these sentiments?

Image: John Miller, The Ruin of Exchange, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2024. Photo: Gina Folly