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September 19, 2016 - January 2, 2017 - A collaboration between SculptureCenter and Glasgow International, this exhibition of the work of Cosima von Bonin examines the German artist's fascination with the sea. Commonly evoked in her works, but rarely made explicit, the ocean is an organizing thematic. A mysterious underworld with its beaches populated by sun-seeking vacationers, these two opposing ...

September 19, 2016 - January 2, 2017 - SculptureCenter is pleased to present Aki Sasamoto's first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum. Working at the intersection of performance and sculpture, Sasamoto creates object scenarios out of narratives and actions. For her exhibition in SculptureCenter's lower level galleries, Sasamoto will create a new body of work in relation to the site. Sasamoto was born...

July 3–November 30, 2016 - MoMA PS1 presents Rockaway!, a special outdoor exhibit by artist Katharina Grosse, acclaimed for exploring the medium of painting in regards to its locations, conditions and possibilities. Through this temporary public art installation, Grosse turns Ft. Tilden's decaying aquatics building into a sublimely exhilarating exterior painting with her unique spray painting tech...

June 19–September 18, 2016 - VITO ACCONCI: WHERE WE ARE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?), 1976 is a solo exhibition of early works by the unconventional writer, poet, performance, video and conceptual artist, and designer/architect. The exhibition presents Acconci as he developed his radical and subversive explorations of the human condition, sexuality, voyeurism, identity and physicality up to the moment...

June 19–August 28, 2016 - The exhibition features work by over 40 artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art spaces movement and the early years of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Listening stations throughout the exhibition highlight a series of audio conversations between Alanna Heiss and participating artists.

June 19–August 28, 2016 - MoMA PS1 will present the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Meriem Bennani (b.1988, Rabat). Part documentary travelogue, part soap opera, and part juicy gossip session, FLY is a new multimedia commission that immerses the viewer in an environment of brightly colored, geometric forms and surfaces. An animated fruit fly serves as a guide through the vide...

June 19–August 28, 2016 - Deng Tai: Shadow is the first U.S. solo exhibition of the work of late Chinese artist Deng Tai. While living in Beijing, Deng casually enlisted friends to shoot several series of haunting photographs in which he performed for the camera in public spaces around the city. Seen as a collection, these ecstatic and melancholic images suggest the intensity of Deng’s struggle to...

June 16th–November 28th, 2016 - 50 Portraits & Film Projection.

June 9 - September 25, 2016 - This exhibition is an illuminated plume of water vapor whose color shifts between magenta and pale cyan. The color of the vapor corresponds in real-time to the global sentiment for gold, reflected in the price fluctuation of the commodity. Gold is a peculiar material that derives its value from the social perception of its qualities and collective "moods" toward geopo...

May 22–August 28, 2016 - The MoMA PS1 exhibition centers around Colo’s Superman 51, in which he drags a collection of fifty-one white pieces of wood behind him, tethered to his body with ropes, as he runs shirtless down an empty stretch of Manhattan’s West Side Highway until collapsing from exhaustion. The presentation at MoMA PS1 will coincide with The Cleaner, a new work the artist is performing...