MoMa hosts a Bjork Retrospective in 2015

Bjork fans have something to celebrate. The Museum of Modern Art will host a Bjork Retrospective in 2015.


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The museum will open the retrospective in March. It will chronicle her 20-year career as a composer, musician, and artist. The museum commission will include a music and film installation, and will be realized with director Andrew Huang and 3-D design leader Autodesk.

According to MoMA, the show "will present a narrative, both biographical and imaginatively fictitious," co-written by Björk and the Icelandic writer Sjón Sigurdsson, according to the Museum of Modern Art website.

Klaus Biesenbach will be curating the exhibit, which looks back at the work that includes Bjork’s breakthrough album, Debut. He told Rolling Stone, “This highly experimental exhibition offers visitors a direct experience of her hugely collaborative body of work."

MoMA announced that Bjork’s new app will be given to the museum. It is a gift from Bjork and her record label. "Biophilia," by Bjork, is a hybrid app and music album with interactive graphics, animation and musical scoring. The app will be used be used in schools in Europe.

Bjork’s previous albums include Post, Verspertine, and Volta. She also has a Greatest Hits album that was released in 2002.

The exhibit will be on view from March 7 through June 7, 2015 at MoMA.

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