Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is a Circle, Artwork in Focus
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is a Circle, Artwork in Focus
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is a Circle, Artwork in Focus
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is a Circle, Artwork in Focus
About the Video
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow: The River is A Circle traces the shape-shifting nature of this familiar waterway flowing beside the Whitney Museum—one that has carried commerce, culture, and artistic inspiration for centuries. This site-specific work invites viewers to reflect on a circular economy and a potentially positive return to more modest ways of caring for the Earth. Watch how art becomes an ecosystem—responsive, reflective, and deeply rooted in place.
Video © Hyundai Motor Company
About the Program
The annual Hyundai Terrace Commission gives artists and curators a platform to present site-specific works on the museum’s fifth-floor terrace, as part of the Whitney’s 10-year partnership with Hyundai Motor. Artists are invited to create large-scale, experimental projects that enable them to test their aspirations, incubate their creativity, and respond to the space and the neighborhood. During the years of the Whitney Biennial (every two years), the fifth-floor terrace space will feature the commissioned work of an artist for the Hyundai Terrace Commission in conjunction with the larger Biennial exhibition.