Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing presents Hassinger’s work across sculpture, performance, video, and installation from the early 1970s to the present. Her work addresses social and cultural issues through an awareness of interconnectedness, ephemerality, and the relationships between humans and the natural world. These themes emphasize the importance of caring for the things we share in contrast to the things that divide us.

Living Moving Growing builds upon the understanding that collaboration and participation are crucial to Hassinger’s practice, foregrounding how her work in sculpture and performance transcends disciplinary boundaries and engages with the natural world. As the artist has described, the loss of nature is the most pressing issue of our time, as it is a fundamental threat to the thing we all share: the Earth. This exhibition brings together archival documentation of performances and happenings, loans from significant museum collections across the United States, re-creations of ephemeral installations, and a series of performances and participatory workshops with the artist.