With Princessletthewind, the Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin presents the first institutional solo exhibition of American sculptor Nancy Lupo in Germany. For Princessletthewind, a site-specific installation created for the Kunstverein’s spatial context, Lupo builds on her most recent body of work, which engages with forms of “cruel optimism”—a concept introduced by American cultural theorist Lauren Berlant.
Nancy Lupo (*1983, USA) lives and works in Berlin. Lupo studied at the Cooper Union in New York and Yale University in New Haven, and later participated in residency programs at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Tbilisi Propaganda Residency, and Casa Wabi. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at galleries and institutions such as MORAN MORAN, Mexico, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and Swiss Institute, New York. Her work has also been included in national and international group exhibitions, including at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, the Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo. Since 2024, Nancy Lupo has been a professor of sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Mainz.
