Die Nacht concludes Claflin’s six-month studio residency as a scholarship holder of the City of Mönchengladbach and the Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation. All of the works in this exhibition were created during this time in Mönchengladbach. Die Nacht is followed by a second solo exhibiton entitled Why Limit Happy to an Hour? which opens on January 26 at Haus Erholung, Mönchengladbach.
Whitney Claflin currently lives and works in Mönchengladbach. She graduated from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. The artist’s work recently had been on view in solo exhibitions at Drei, Cologne (with Rochelle Feinstein, 2022); Derosia, New York (2021); Drei, Cologne; Soft Opening, London (both 2020), Real Fine Arts, New York (2017). She furthermore recently contributed to exhibitions at Derosia, New York; Layr, Vienna; Drei, Cologne; Bel Ami, Los Angeles; Office Baroque, Antwerp (all 2023); Drei, Cologne (curated by Whitney Claflin); Clearing, Brussels (both 2022); Sandy Brown, Berlin (2021); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2020); Galerie Buchholz, New York (2019); Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Greene Naftali, New York (both 2018) a.o.
