Ornament & Information June 3, 2026

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Ornament & Information presents a group of artists who live and work in either Chicago or Vienna. Through direct or indirect means, these artists’ practices engage and expand upon a historic intercity dialogue that spans the realms of modern architecture and mid-century free-market economics. The ideational pipeline between Chicago and Vienna has never necessarily been of a one-to-one nature; rather, it is a product of certain intellectual characteristics developed by one city being then synthesized and transcended by the other. It is with this synthetic character in mind, and the synthetic nature of modernity in general, that the work and practices herein operate, salvaging perhaps some sliver of potential for living from the scrapheap of history.

Exhibiting artists include Anna Sophie Berger, Gaylen Gerber, Benjamin Hirte, Max Guy, Devin T. Mays, Isabelle Frances McGuire, B. Ingrid Olson, Walter Pichler, Nora Schultz, Diane Simpson, Miriam Stoney, Josef Strau, Valentina Triet, Micah Schippa Wildfong, Heimo Zobernig.

Gallery Talk: Wednesday, May 20, Noon – 1 p.m., Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor North