MOMA PS1 - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for MOMA PS1. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
George Kuchar "Pagan Rhapsodies"
[2][0]- Media: Film
- 2011-11-17 - 2012-01-02
George Kuchar (American, 1942-2011) was among the most prolific and influential American filmmakers of the last half century. His more than two hundred low-budget films, many made with his twin brother,...More »
Frances Stark "My Best Thing"
[1][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-10-14 - 2012-01-09
Frances Stark (American, b. 1967) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer whose work explores image-making and the written word. Known for her works on paper that often reference the acts of drawing and...More »
"NY Art Book Fair"
[2][0]- Media: Prints - Other - Media Arts - Art Party
- 2011-09-30 - 2011-10-02
Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th....More »
"September 11" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2011-09-11 - 2012-01-09
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse—particularly within the realm of contemporary...More »
Jeremy Shaw "Best Minds"
[0][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-09-10 - 2011-10-10
Jeremy Shaw's (Canadian, b. 1977) work explores altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map, transcendental experience. Adopting strategies from the realms...More »
Gus Van Sant and James Franco "My Own Private River"
[1][0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2011-07-30 - 2011-09-05
The collaborative film by Gus Van Sant (American, b. 1952) and James Franco (American, b. 1978), My Own Private River, is comprised of unused footage and dailies from Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private...More »
"Warm Up 2011"
[2][0]- Media: Architecture - Art Party
- 2011-07-02 - 2011-09-03
MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up 2011, taking place every Saturday. Now celebrating its 14th year, the museum's highly anticipated outdoor series will continue its tradition of introducing audiences to the best...More »
Ryan Trecartin "Any Ever"
[5][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-06-19 - 2011-08-05
MoMA PS1 presents Any Ever, the New York premiere of the artist Ryan Trecartin's (b. 1981, Webster, Tex.) 2007-2010 body of work, produced in Miami with collaborator Lizzie Fitch and contributors ranging...More »
Alejandro Jodorowsky "The Holy Mountain"
[1][0]- Media: Film
- 2011-05-22 - 2011-06-30
MoMA PS1 presents Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain in a cinematic setting, played continuously with starting times at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. during regular museum hours in the...More »
Nancy Grossman "Heads"
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-05-22 - 2011-08-15
Heads, a solo exhibition that focuses on the artist’s evocative head sculptures. Nancy Grossman has been making art for more than fifty years and is best known for her leather-wrapped sculptures of heads,...More »
Francis Alÿs "A Story of Deception"
[9][3]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2011-05-04 - 2011-09-12
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two-part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b....More »
"Modern Women: Single Channel" Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-01-23 - 2011-05-02
A group exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Women: Single Channel focuses on the work of eleven women artists in single-channel video from the 1960s to the late 1990s....More »
Sergej Jensen Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts - Other
- 2011-01-23 - 2011-05-02
MoMA PS1 presents Sergej Jensen, the first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist at a New York museum. Jensen’s poetic artworks provide a fresh approach to minimalist painting. Constructed from...More »
Laurel Nakadate Exhibition
[11][2]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2011-01-23 - 2011-08-15
Laurel Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film. This is Nakadate's first large-scale museum exhibition and will feature works made in the last ten years in all three...More »
"Modern Women: Single Channel" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-01-23 - 2011-08-22
MoMA PS1 presents Modern Women: Single Channel, a group exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art focusing on the work of eleven women artists in single-channel video. The exhibition,...More »
Saturday Sessions
[1][0]- Media: Architecture - Film - Video installation - Media Arts - Art Talk
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-06-25
Beginning on January 15, 2011, MoMA PS1 will relaunch its dynamic events series Saturday Sessions. Designed to introduce a wide range of performance, each event welcomes a different host and occurs every...More »
"The Logic of Association" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Graphics - Other - Video installation
- 2010-12-12 - 2011-04-04
Since new forms of information theory and systems analysis developed in the 1960s, artists have continually explored their creative potential, often turning the rational assumptions of such disciplines...More »
Feng Mengbo "Long March: Restart"
[0][0]- Media: Installation - Digital
- 2010-12-12 - 2011-04-04
MoMA PS1 presents the New York debut of Feng Mengbo’s installation, Long March: Restart (2008), a large-scale interactive video game installation. Recently acquired by MoMA and presented for the first...More »
Garry Winogrand "Some Animals"
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-12-12 - 2011-04-04
Garry Winogrand was a key figure in American photography, who in the 1960s began to advance a highly personalized visual language that challenged the notion of the photographer as an objective witness....More »
"The Talent Show" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Prints - Other - Installation - Media Arts
- 2010-12-12 - 2011-04-04
In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered people a conflicted chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication...More »
"The NY Art Book Fair Report" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Media Arts
- 2010-11-10 - 2010-11-29
This exhibition presents a survey of the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair organized by Printed Matter, Inc. and hosted by MoMA PS1. Between November 5 and 7th, all of the exhibition space at MoMA PS1 was...More »
NY Art Book Fair 2010
[2][0]- Media: Prints - Other
- 2010-11-05 - 2010-11-07
Printed Matter, Inc. and The NY Art Book Fair take over all three floors of MoMA PS1, November 5–7, to present 275 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from...More »
"Move!" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation - Fashion - Other - Art Party - Performance Art
- 2010-10-30 - 2010-10-31
MOVE! is a new kind of art and fashion event will be debut at MoMA PS1. MOVE! merges the worlds of fashion, dance, visual art, performance art, and theatre to create a new genre of performance-based...More »
"Greater New York 2010" Exhibition
[17][4]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-10-18
Greater New York, the third iteration of the quintennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan...More »
"Greater New York: Rotating Gallery" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-07 - 2010-10-17
Functioning as a fast-paced exhibition space, the Rotating Gallery has offered space for additional curatorial voices, namely four New York-based curators who work without a regular physical space. By...More »
Marina Abramović "Chair for Man and His Spirit"
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-02-27 - 2010-05-10
On the occasion of the upcoming MoMA retrospective Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (opening March 14), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center will reinstall Marina Abramović's Chair for Man and His Spirit....More »
"On Site 3: Mickalene Thomas"
[0][0]- Media: Other - Installation
- 2010-02-27 - 2010-05-10
P.S.1 presents the third installment of the site-specific series On-Site, a new large-scale wall piece by Mickalene Thomas titled Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires (2010). This installation...More »
"Saturday Sessions: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Desi Santiago" Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2010-01-09 - 2010-01-09
Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents Monster Island Czar, an epic poem that takes the form of a slide show. A poet and a photographer, Huffman’s interdisciplinary approach invites notions of chance and indeterminacy...More »
"Rising Currents" Workshop Open House
[0][0]- Media: Architecture
- 2010-01-09 - 2010-01-09
"Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront," a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure...More »
"Saturday Sessions: Wayne Hodge, Daniel Perlin" Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-12-12 - 2009-12-12
Wayne Hodge’s artwork is strongly influenced by early cinema and popular culture. His videos, drawings, and performances have referenced minstrel performers and silent films to engage notions of race,...More »
"Rising Currents" Workshop Open House
[0][0]- Media: Architecture
- 2009-12-12 - 2009-12-12
"Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront," a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure...More »
"Saturday Sessions: Sahra Motalebi, J. Patrick Walsh 3" Performance
[0][0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-11-14 - 2009-11-14
Sahra Motalebi frequently incorporates musical gesture and sensorial environments into her performances. For her 35 minute music performance Such is the Game of Authenticity, she will explore expressionism...More »
"100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Other - Performance Art
- 2009-11-01 - 2010-04-30
This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. Organized by P.S.1 and Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary...More »
"Between Spaces" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-10-25 - 2010-04-05
Between Spaces is a group exhibition organized by P.S.1’s junior curatorial staff. The exhibition brings together eleven emerging and established artists who remove familiar objects from their traditional...More »
"P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions Opening" Party
[1][0]- Media: Art Party
- 2009-10-25 - 2009-10-25
Kick off the season with P.S.1's fall opening celebration. On view: "1969," "100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)," "Between Spaces," and "Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits." Experience the "Afterparty"...More »
"1969" Exhibition
[5][3]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Film
- 2009-10-25 - 2010-04-05
This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1’s second-floor galleries with examples of painting,...More »
Robert Bergman "Selected Portraits"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2009-10-15 - 2010-01-04
"Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits," is an exhibition of twenty-four large-scale color portraits of everyday people the artist photographed on the streets of various American cities from 1985 to 1997....More »
NY Art Book Fair 2009
[2][0]- Media: Prints - Other
- 2009-10-02 - 2009-10-04
Printed Matter, the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists, presents the fourth annual NY Art Book Fair. The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers,...More »
Chitra Ganesh "On-site: Her Silhouette Returns"
[1][0]- Media: Drawing - Other - Installation
- 2009-10-01 - 2010-04-05
P.S.1's second incarnation of the "On-site" wall installation series: Her Silhouette Returns (2009), by artist Chitra Ganesh. Ganesh is known for her expansive visual vocabulary that often references Bollywood...More »
Christian Marclay "2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009"
[8][2]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-09-05 - 2010-04-26
This fall P.S.1 presents 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records by Christian Marclay. Consisting entirely of 12-inch records of every musical genre and...More »
YAP 10th Anniversary Review Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-06-28 - 2009-09-14
YAP 10th Anniversary Reviewis a visual chronicle of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects Program, one of the most acclaimed architectural arenas for emerging talent...More »
Michael Joaquin Grey Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Prints - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2009-06-28 - 2009-09-14
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents a solo presentation by Michael Joaquin Grey, an artist whose work has bridged the boundaries between art, science, media, and the imagination for the last twenty...More »
Carlos Motta Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-06-28 - 2009-09-14
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces a new exhibition program entitled "On-site." Continuing P.S.1's long standing tradition of commissioning in-situ projects such as the "Vertical Painting" series...More »
Jonathan Horowitz "And/Or"
[1][0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-02-22 - 2009-09-14
Jonathan Horowitz "And/Or" is the first solo exhibition of the New York-based artist at a New York museum. Working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography, Horowitz critically examines...More »
Florian Slotawa Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation - Furniture
- 2009-02-22 - 2009-09-14
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the first solo New York exhibition of work by Berlin-based conceptual artist Florian Slotawa. Rather than creating new objects from scratch, Florian Slotawa rearranges...More »
"International and National Projects Winter 2009: Florian Slotawa" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-22 - 2009-09-14
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the first solo New York exhibition of work by Berlin-based conceptual artist Florian Slotawa. Rather than creating new objects from scratch, Florian Slotawa rearranges...More »
Kenneth Anger Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Film
- 2009-02-22 - 2009-09-14
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Kenneth Anger, the first major survey of the filmmaker’s body of work at a U.S. museum in over a decade. Making films since 1947, Anger is considered internationally...More »
Lutz Bacher "My Secret Life"
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- 2009-02-12 - 2009-09-14
MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher’s first museum survey exhibition, spans several decades of the artist’s wide-ranging conceptual practice. Bacher’s career is marked by restrained yet comprehensive interventions...More »
"Minus Space" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-10-21 - 2009-05-04
As part of the Fall 2008 International and National Projects, P.S.1 has invited Minus Space, a collective based in Brooklyn, New York, to present an exhibition of “reductive art”: art characterized by...More »
Børre Sæthre Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-01-26
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Norwegian artist Børre Sæthre’s highly aestheticized immersive environment which unfolds throughout the third floor Archive Galleries. Sæthre’s work engages and...More »
Gino de Dominicis Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-01-09
Gino De Dominicis' first major American museum show will focus on his late paintings made from the 1980s until his death in 1998. An Italian artist who shrouded himself in mystery, he exhibited little...More »
Leandro Erlich "Swimming Pool"
[3][1]- Media: Installation
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-10-24
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be...More »
Leandro Erlich "Swimming Pool"
[2][1]- Media: Installation
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-04-13
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be...More »
Yael Bartana Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-05-04
This will be Yael Bartana’s first in-depth exhibition at a New York museum. Bartana (b. 1970, Afula, Israel) is best known for investigating society and politics, primarily of her native Israel, through...More »
"NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-01-26
This exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process, and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. Visual artists have for...More »
"International and National Projects" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Film
- 2008-10-19 - 2009-01-26
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the work of three artists and a collective as part of the Fall 2008 cycle of the International and National Projects program. Featuring new and recent works by a...More »
Michael Pollan "Taking the Plant's Point of View"
[1][1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-08
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in collaboration with The Horticultural Society of New York, presents a lecture by the revolutionary food journalist Michael Pollan. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan...More »
"Warm Up" Music Series
[1][1]- Media: Art Party
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-09-06
Warm Up is P.S.1's critically acclaimed music series and has become one of the most anticipated summer events. The series is housed within the architectural installation created by the winner of the annual...More »
Olafur Eliasson Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-06-30 - 2009-01-26
Over the past 15 years, Danish-Iceland Olafur Eliasson has experimented with installations based on mechanisms of motion, projection, shadow, and reflection, creating complex optical phenomena using simple,...More »
"Young Architects Program 2008" Exhibition
[6][1]- Media: Architecture
- 2008-06-22 - 2008-09-22
The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center are proud to announce the winner of the ninth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: WORK Architecture Company from New York. The purpose...More »
"That Was Then...This Is Now" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-06-22 - 2008-09-15
Inspired by the artistic and socio-political climate of the late 1960s, this exhibition brings together an international and intergenerational group of artists working within three iconographic themes:...More »
"Arctic Hysteria" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Film - Video installation
- 2008-06-01 - 2008-09-15
Arctic Hysteria will present a selection of mystical and outlandish visions in contemporary Finnish art. This intergenerational exhibition of approximately 20 artists will include a range of media such...More »
Olafur Eliasson "Take your time"
[8][4]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-04-20 - 2008-06-30
"Take Your Time" Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose large-scale immersive environments, installations, sculptures, and photographs...More »
Ryan McGinness "Have You Seen Him?"
[1][0]- 2008-03-24 - 2008-05-03
For Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Art Radio WPS1.org invited Ryan McGinness to create artwork for a 70-foot elongated skate-ramp and the additional space within the Art Positions container courtyard. P.S.1...More »
"WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-02-17 - 2008-05-12
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized...More »
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