The Space Between Memory and Expectation

RENATE ALLER

monograph published by Kehrer Verlag, with essays by Makeda Best, chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and Courtney J Martin, executive director of the Rauschenberg Foundation.

About the Project:

“The silent and continuous erosion trickling from the top of mountains, via glaciers, tropical forests, sand dunes, icefields of Patagonia, European glaciers into the ocean and the urban waterways of New York’s harbor. Tracing an unbroken line, the eye is guided from one sweeping landscape to the next without doubting their separateness in location and
origin, showing the interconnectedness of distant environments, opening up conversations between the different (political) landscapes in which we live”. Renate Aller

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Renate Aller is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Princeton. Her large-scale photo exhibitions create immersive room experiences for the viewer showing the interconnectedness of distant environments. Aller’s fifth monograph, “The Space Between Memory and Expectation”, published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany, includes essays by Makeda Best, chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and Courtney J. Martin, executive director of the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Aller’s work is held in numerous collections including:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC • Art Institute of Chicago, IL • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX • San Antonio Museum of Art, TX • Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Yale University Art Gallery, CT • George Eastman House, Rochester, NY • New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; Musée des beaux-arts Le Locle, Switzerland • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ • Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY; New-York Historical Society Museum, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Parrish Art Museum, 2019, New-York Historical Society Museum, 2022 and Brattleboro Museum, VT, 2022-2023.

Maked Best, PhD’10, is the Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Best was previously the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. Recent exhibitions include: “American Job: 1940-2011”, “Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970” (book), “Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art” and “Winslow Homer: Eyewitness”. Her book “Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography and Democracy” was published in Spring 2020 by the Pennsylvania State University Press. She recently published an article in the Archives of American Art Journal on the painter William H. Johnson. The subject of her current book project is American landscape photography

Courtney J. Martin is currently the executive director of the Rauscenberg Foundation. A curator, art historian, and professor, she holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University. Previously positions include the Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art and Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

publication date Fall 2021

Designed by Renate Aller and Kehrer Design

Published by Kehrer Verlag

• Hardcover
• ca. 34 x 25 cm, 144 pages, 64 color images
• ISBN: 978-3-96900-027-4