Kunstverein NY

05/03/2012

Announcing Kunstverein NY's new website: http://kunstverein.us/

Design by Goda Budvytytė & Simone Koller
Developed by Gregory Fong
Organized by Carson Salter

And currently in residence:
Todd Colby (News) and
Roger van Voorhees (Documents)

Kunstverein NY is pleased to announce a new website, including an online Documents residency, and a News section intervened by poet Todd Colby.

05/03/2012

The Work of Art in a Stored Condition: An Exhibition of the Collection of the Emily Harvey Foundation, featuring Protocols for a Coordinated Action of “Practical Aesthesis” (including Temporary Metempsychotic Exercises, Episodes of Sustained Collective Attention, and, generally, Diligent Efforts to ...

06/02/2011

Kunstverein Amsterdam
Conceived in dialogue with Hyo Kwon and Goda Budvytyte

11 June – 01 October
Private view: 10 June, 18.00 – 20.00

03/02/2011

Kunstverein and Kadist Art Foundation present Prospectus Amsterdam and Prospectus Paris as part of a traveling survey of the work of Ben Kinmont. At Kunstverein, Amsterdam (12 March–22 May 2012) and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2 April–1 May 2012)

02/24/2011

Tonight, 5:30-7:30, Kunstverein publications launch at Printed Matter!
www.kunstverein.us
Printed Matter will celebrate the release of two new publications from Kunstverein NY: On View Worldwide for the Month of…, an official Kunstverein 2011 calendar, and Prompts by Ian Monk (OULIPO).

Contributing artists will be present, with signings by Marianne Vitale and Michael Portnoy, as well as a special reading by poet and calendar contributor Todd Colby, and a reading from the work of Ian Monk

03/04/2010

Afternoon Tea with Aki Sasamoto and Mike Smith to Open THE MORNING AFTER, January 2010. Photo by Dawn Blackman.

Afternoon Tea with Aki Sasamoto and Michael Smith

Saturday, January 9th, 2010, 3pm – 6pm
&
The Morning After

On view from January 9th-February 6th

Silver Shed, 119 West 25th Street, PH, New York, NY 10001

Kunstverein NY is pleased to present its new membership cards by Michael Smith, with a signing by the artist, and a conversation between Aki Sasamoto and Ashley Rawlings.

In support of Kunstverein NY’s activities, Michael Smith signed a limited edition of membership cards sold for $10 each.

Aki Sasamoto, part of the Performa 09 series The Prompt, and a participant in the upcoming 2010 Whitney Biennial, gave a talk about her work and recollections of her recent performance, in conversation with writer Ashley Rawlings.


The Morning After

Kunstverein NY presents material from The Prompt at Silver Shed, from January 9th to February 6th.

Organized for Performa 09, The Prompt hosted a series of performances, films, rules, sculptures, soundtracks, and reflexive actions over five nights. Giving thought to how performance can be documented, remnants and footage from the five evenings will be presented during The Morning After. Menus, behavioral cues, objects of conversation, backdrops, costumes, and documentation will be on view. Remnants of works and partial objects are featured from the following artists: Rita Ackermann, Mark Dion, Rashid Johnson, Joseph Grigely, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Haley Mellin, Ian Monk of OULIPO, PLaAD, Lucy Raven, Aki Sasamoto, Dana Sherwood, Dexter Sinister, Mindy Vale & Danny McDonald, Adam Pendleton, Falke Pisano, R.H. Quaytman, Marianne Vitale & Pete Drungle, and Robert Wilson.

Warning: there are very few artworks in this exhibition!

03/04/2010

The Prompt for Performa 09, November 2009. Photo by Po Ewing.

The Prompt is a conceptual social club under the influence Futurist variety theater. Cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming this destination into a pressure cooker for ideas and intimacies.

Participating artists: Rita Ackermann, Fia Backström, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Joan Juliet Buck & Cassie Terman, Joshua Kit Clayton, Patrick Cleandenim, Dexter Sinister, Mark Dion, Sylvie Fleury, Joseph Grigely, Jamie Hook, Rashid Johnson, Gabriel Lester, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Momus & Aki Sasamoto, Patrick Meagher, Haley Mellin, Ian Monk (OULIPO), Charlemagne Palestine, Adam Pendleton, Falke Pisano, R.H. Quaytman, Jimmy Raskin, Lucy Raven, Gavin Russom, Dana Sherwood, Dina Sieden, Guy Richards Smit, Mindy Vale & Danny McDonald, Ben Vautier, Marianne Vitale, Reggie Watts, Robert Wilson, and more.

Curated by Sarina Basta and Michael Portnoy. Co-produced by Chris Martino and Mary Rinebold.

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