Ryan Gander: The Annotated Reader

KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE), 18 November — 13 December, 2021

The Annotated Reader is a publication-as-exhibition and exhibition-as-publication conceived by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts. It features almost 300 creative personalities’ responses and handwritten annotations on a chosen piece of writing. A range of people have been invited, encompassing contemporary artists, designers, writers, institutional founders, musicians and more – to imagine they’ve missed the last train. With contributions by, among others, Marina Abramović, Saâdane Afif, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Monk, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Antony Gormley, Bob&Roberta Smith and Rosemarie Trockel.

First launched during Frieze Art Fair, London 2018 at London’s Cork Street Galleries (UK), The Annotated Reader has been shown nationally and internationally including Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK); M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (Belgium); Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, New York (USA); Quartz Studio, Milan (Italy); Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, New York (USA); and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland).