Matthew Barney’s Diana, 2018, is included in the Start Museum’s inaugural exhibition, START. Eight years in the making, the exhibition marks the Shanghai museum’s debut, and is the first of four consecutive inaugural exhibitions planned for the next two years which will cover over 300 works by over 300 contemporary artists from around the world. Transcending themes and timelines, the museum presents a collection of multi-threaded dialogues between hundreds of contemporary masters, allowing diverse works to resonate with each other. Matthey Barney’s brass sculpture Diana, named after the heroine of his 2018 movie Redoubt, is a central piece of the exhibition. 

Bayhorse, 2018, by Matthew Barney, will be included in the group exhibition Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art. Linking individual works of art with an element from the periodic table which each work incorporates, the exhibition encourages audiences to consider how artists use material as a basis for sociological, emotional, political, and even spiritual subject matter. Bayhorse, a series of four copper electroplates onto which Barney engraved a landscape, invite a tactile engagement. From these rounded and raised surfaces, the landscape grows outward and becomes increasingly prominent.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition will focus on the theme of the film Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) by Matthew Barney, who has developed the theme of Japanese culture as represented by the practices of whaling and the tea ceremony using a variety of media including film, sculpture, installation, and photography. Taking the whaling mother ship Nisshin Maru, which appears in the film as both a place and a character, the exhibition will feature Drawing Restraint 9: Cabinet of Nisshin Maru, a work in Barney’s character vitrine series, alongside six photographic works.

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Work by Matthew Barney is included in the group exhibition Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, which will be on view at the Museum Branhorst in Munich from 2 June 2022 until 15 January 2023.

This exhibition brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and more particularly in sculpture: the reciprocal interpenetration of body and technology. With more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by about 60 artists – primarily from Europe, the United States, and Japan – the exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body.

Museum Brandhorst

Matthew Barney’s work Cremaster 1: Green Lounge Manual: A diptych from 1995 is included in the group exhibition The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection, on view at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach until 25 September 2022.

Norton Museum