Singapore-based Ho Tzu Nyen has turned the New Museum's OMA-designed elevators into a gallery, where digitally rendered Singaporean children deliver riddles and mantras about political, technological and personal power. Ho is also artistic director of this year's Gwangju Biennale, so this is a compact look at an artist in demand. If you are visiting the expanded museum anyway, ride the elevators on purpose.
What to expect
The work plays inside the elevators as you move between floors, so each ride becomes a short, strange encounter. It is brief and site-specific rather than a full gallery show, and it rewards riding more than once.
Good to know
- Installed in the New Museum's elevators at 235 Bowery
- Near the F at Second Avenue and the J/Z at Bowery
- Best combined with the larger shows on the museum's other floors
- Presented with Hyundai Motor Company as part of a partnership series
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Common questions
Where exactly is the work?
Inside the New Museum's OMA-designed elevators.
Who is Ho Tzu Nyen?
A Singapore-based artist whose audiovisual work explores Southeast Asian histories; the New Museum notes he is artistic director of the 16th Gwangju Biennale.
