Organized in close collaboration with the artist, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You will challenge the conventions of the retrospective. Kruger will recast some of her older works, reassembling them or using them as source material for new pieces. Among these are a series of videos in which she intersperses iconic montages like “I Shop Therefore I am” and “Your Body is a Battleground” with new vinyl images reflecting today’s cultural concerns. The exhibition will be presented throughout the museum’s 18,000-square-foot special exhibition space, in its Michigan Avenue-facing windows, and on the floor of its Griffin Court atrium. Pieces created for the museum’s audio guide and for other non-traditional exhibition spaces like city buses and billboards will extend the show into public spaces across the city
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Grant Cycle
- Spring 2019
- Amount
- $100,000
- Type of Grant
- Exhibition Support

Barbara Kruger
"Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You." (2019)
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist

Barbara Kruger
Artist rendering of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011/2020
© Barbara Kruger, source photo courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Barbara Kruger
"The Globe Shrinks," 2010
Four-channel video installation; color, sound; 12 min., 43 sec.
Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers
Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, 2010
© Barbara Kruger, photo by Jens Ziehe, courtesy of Sprüth Magers

Barbara Kruger
Still from the video "Untitled (No Comment)," 2020
Three-channel video installation; color, sound; 9 min., 25 sec.
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and David Zwirner, New York
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist

Barbara Kruger
Still from the video "Untitled (No Comment)," 2020
Three-channel video installation; color, sound; 9 min., 25 sec.
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and David Zwirner, New York
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist

Barbara Kruger
Still from the video "Untitled (No Comment)," 2020
Three-channel video installation; color, sound; 9 min., 25 sec.
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and David Zwirner, New York
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist

Barbara Kruger
Still from the video "Untitled (No Comment)," 2020
Three-channel video installation; color, sound; 9 min., 25 sec.
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and David Zwirner, New York
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist

Barbara Kruger
"Untitled (Truth)," 2013
Digital print on vinyl
70 × 115 in. (178.6 × 292.1 cm)
Collection of Margaret and Daniel S. Loeb
© Barbara Kruger, digital image courtesy of the artist
1987
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is established in New York, NY. His will called for the creation of a foundation dedicated to “advancement of the visual arts,” and he left nearly his entire estate to the cause.