Björk, a mid-career retrospective devoted to the Icelandic musician and multimedia artist, opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 8, 2015. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition treated Björk's albums, videos, costumes, instruments, collaborations, and performance personae as material for a contemporary art museum. It included the MoMA-commissioned installation Black Lake, made with Andrew Thomas Huang, and a headphone-driven Songlines experience combining objects with a partly fictional audio narrative. Contemporary coverage emphasized the ambition and difficulty of translating an artist of sound, image, fashion, and technology into a museum exhibition; reviews were famously divided, with many critics faulting the installation while acknowledging the scale of Björk's cross-media influence.
The show became a high-profile case study in how museums frame popular music, digital media, fashion, and video as contemporary art.