The show of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s works runs Jan. 24-April 19 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
The exhibit “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” runs until April 19, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif. Pictured: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Still from “Permutations,” 1976.
16mm film; black and white, silent, 10 min. and writer born in South Korea, who became well-known in the avant-garde circles of 1970s-’80s San Francisco and New York. For the first time in 25 years Cha’s work is getting a major retrospective, opening Jan. 24 and running until April 19 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she once worked as an art handler and film usher. Titled “,” the exhibit presents more than a hundred pieces of ephemera from her life and work – much of it never shown in a museum until now. The exhibit “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings” runs until April 19, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif. Pictured: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, “Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard ," 1978. Documentation of performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ,’ a hybrid novel-poem that collages image and text, Cha worked across different mediums to explore physical, cultural and linguistic displacement and their attendant effects,” the museum writes. This exhibit presents a “range of entry points into Cha’s work, guiding visitors through the themes — memory, displacement and the mutability of language, among others — that recur throughout her oeuvre.” The show’s run will feature a public, day-long academic symposium of so-called “Chascholars” and a three-hour reading of “Dictée.” There will also be a film series from April 2-19 of Cha’s work as it appeared in the original format.Harriette Cole: A chance phone call revealed my daughter had lied to meAsking Eric: These old men are annoying but I can't afford to alienate themTrader Joe’s 2026 winners: Customers’ 11 favorite products — including a savory new No. 1Warriors finish 'surreal' stay in Minneapolis: 'Looks like a witch hunt out there'
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