Client Overview: Whitney Museum of American Art
SandenWolff has partnered with the Whitney on multiple video series in support of major exhibitions since 2018, drawing on both our art-historical background and extensive experience working with living artists. We've produced and directed artist-centered videos for three Whitney Biennial cycles. Other highlights include a series of thematic art-historical video essays featuring a VIP cast, which launched on the occasion of the museum’s Warhol retrospective in 2018, and a series of documentaries that launched alongside the exhibition no existe un mundo poshuracán in 2022, exploring art and art-making in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Selected Projects
Whitney Biennal
B22 Artist Profile: Alex Da Corte on Color
2024 Biennial Teaser
“A history of the biennial”
2022 Biennial
“Making Of”
For the past three Biennial cycles, the Whitney has enlisted us to embed with select Biennial artists in the run-up to the opening of this iconic survey of American art. The resulting films explore a range of practices taking root in a range of locales. This exploration of Philly-based artist Alex Da Corte's obsession with color is one of our favorites.
Check out additional Biennial films below like our 2024 teaser “A history of the Biennial” and our 2022 “Making Of the Biennial.”
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Director/Cinematographers: Jonathan Sanden, Noah Therrien
Story Editor/Producer: Rachel Wolff
Editors: Stephen Parnigoni, Jonathan Sanden
Assistant Editor: Hannah Kaylor
Music: Noah Therrien and others
Additional Camera: See individual film credits
Warhol x Whitney
In 2018, the Whitney commissioned us to direct and produce this three-part series of essayistic films that launched alongside the museum’s full-scale Andy Warhol retrospective, From A to B and Back Again. Featuring an array of cultural figures—including artists, curators, Bravo’s Andy Cohen, author and podcast host Aminatou Sow, and the late great fashion designer Virgil Abloh—these documentary shorts plumb three distinctive characteristics of Warhol’s life and practice: capturing the cultural zeitgeist, upending traditional modes of art-making, and shaping one’s own identity as if it itself were a work of art.
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Director/Producers: Rachel Wolff, Jonathan Sanden
Story Editor: Rachel Wolff
Producer/Camera: Noah Therrien
Editors: Stephen Parnigoni, Jonathan Sanden
Assistant Editor: Tova Wolff
no existe un mundo poshuracán
Episode 1: Territory
Episode 2: Memory
Episode 3: Resistance
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria was an exhibition that explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since Hurricane Maria. With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Whitney’s education department commissioned us to make an episodic series of documentary shorts examining this historic exhibition’s underlying themes. The films are essayistic in nature, targeting Whitney visitors as well as local middle and high school students via the museum’s Teacher Guides and curricula.
This project involved SandenWolff Director Noah Therrien embedding with participating artists in both Puerto Rico and New York City alongside the Whitney’s director of Interpretation and Research, Anne Byrd, and San Juan journalist, Mariela Fullana Acosta. In post-production, SandenWolff Creative Director Rachel Wolff worked closely with the production team to shape the series’ narrative and each episodic story arc.
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Director/Cinematographer: Noah Therrien
Story Editor/Producer: Rachel Wolff
Editors: Stephen Parnigoni, Jonathan Sanden
Assistant Editor: Hannah Kaylor
Music: Noah Therrien and others
Additional Camera: See individual film credits