Join us for our openings this Thursday, April 17, 2025, at the Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 6 - 9 PM. Free and open to the public.
To schedule an appointment to view the exhibitions, please contact macp@sva.edu.
Tenderly Kept: Publicly Narrating Private Objects
Contributors: Arvind Garg, Austin Clay Willis, Budhaditya Chowdhury, Daniela Angelo, David X Levine, Gabriela Valentin, Hajra Sana, Kushan Bhattacharya, MA Interaction Design, Manuel Mata, Oorja Garg, Paola Pomarico, Payal Arya, Printed Matter, Tsohil Bhatia
Curated by Abbas A Malakar
April 11–April 30, 2025
132 W. 21st Street, 10th floor
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
Tenderly Kept: an exhibition at the convergence of material culture, oral histories, and fine arts. You have something in your room that no one else will ever relate to. Whatever story it has can be heard and understood, but never truly felt. It belongs to you not only physically but is bound to you spiritually. It is valuable beyond an economic denomination. It is important beyond justifiable explanations. You know it. You feel it. It is a vessel for something that originated from deep within you, in your memories, in your lived experiences, through your actions with it or around it. It is an inalienable extension of you and your identity. You are not alone. We invite you to join our exploration and find what matters to you within the secret realms of private possessions. Our objects might inspire you to share your own stories.
Walking Onward, Staring Below
Artists: Daniel Blanco, Juliana Góngora, Julianne Swartz, Gema Rupérez, Ícaro Zorbár, Juan David Figueroa
Curated by Daniela Marín Aristizábal
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
Walking Onward, Staring Below brings together artists whose works examine natural processes, mechanisms, and behaviors that have evolved in harmony over millennia. Through delicate symbolic gestures and humble materials, the exhibition reflects on core human qualities—empathy, resilience, awareness, and hope—while questioning the separation humanity has created with the natural world. By engaging with systems beyond their personal experience, the artists reveal the quiet, powerful forces that sustain all forms of life.
AQuÍ TE esPERO
Artists: Andina Marie Osorio, Eros Dibra, Bianka Rolando, Lev Pinkus, The Unsent Project (Rora Blue)
Curated by Gabriela Valentín
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
Aquí Te Espero is a pause—an inhalation held between presence and absence, between what was and what remains. It lingers in the spaces where words were once spoken and in the silences that followed. The exhibition is not about urgency but the weight of waiting, the quiet resilience of love that does not demand immediate reciprocation. Through photography, text, installations, and video, the artists explore the act of holding space for one another, the invisible threads that connect us beyond time and certainty. To wait is to believe in return or, at least, in the echo of what once was.
Radial Minds
Artists: Natalia Mejia Murillo, Raqs Media Collective, Weina Li
Curated by Oorja
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
How do we imagine the Alien? Is it a distant Other, or does it demand a radical shift in perspective? The exhibition is a speculative space where thought experiments unsettle fixed ideas about life, knowledge, and existence, urging audiences to leave with more questions than answers. At its core, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between disciplines, merging scientific inquiry and artistic speculation. It interrogates the extractive logics of space exploration, mirroring how nonhuman life is treated on Earth. It combines planetary sciences, astrobiology, and speculative philosophy to rethink how we define life and habitability. To suggest a different way of looking at the planet, the exhibition proposes radial or pentapodal thinking, inspired by Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis (“making-with”), which rejects binaries in favor of tentacular, multidirectional knowledge systems. Can we rethink habitability beyond human-centered narratives? What if we are the Alien? This is not a vision of conquest, but of co-existence, entanglement, and planetary becoming.
Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning
Artists: Jean Marie Casbarian, Nikolay Karabinovych, Leonardo Madriz, Dean Majd, Liliana Merizalde, Nathan Storey
Curated by Sophia-Maria Takvorian
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning explores this tender and elegiacal subject through the works of artists who have contended with the loss of loved ones, and the consequent sense of self, home, history, and potential futures. Drawing inspiration from mirologia, Greek lamentation songs, the exhibition adopts this colloquial term to describe collective processes of grief and the ways in which artists mold their mourning through their practices. The works on view embody notions of vulnerability, catharsis, and adaptation in the face of loss, and trace notions of collective and individual identity in the shadow of grief and of a society that not only dictates how we must live but also how we must mourn.
Yes, And
Artists: Addam Yekutieli (Know Hope), Alicia Mersy, Jonas Lund, Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, Unga
Curated by Tom Koren
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
Yes, And is a group exhibition that takes its cue from the binary frameworks that shape contemporary politics, exploring the possibilities or limitations that arise from the attempt to hold multiple—and sometimes contradictory—truths. Through the work of six artists creating across diverse mediums, the exhibition offers a critical reflection on processes of ideological adherence and tribalist allegiance, particularly in light of the deepening polarization and crisis of communication that prevail in the digital age. In mirroring and complicating the dichotomies that underlie social conflict, Yes, And sheds light on the ways in which politics of division are employed as strategies of control, asking whether it is possible to resist these divides without blurring differences or promoting neutrality.
Was I Ever Really Here?
Artists: Sheila Carr, Rowan Renee, Ari Temkin, Hinda Weiss, Yujie Zhou
Curated by Sophie Barfod, Kyle Colón, Anajoara Eom, Yvetta Zheng
April 17–April 30, 2025
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
How different is one person from another? The idea of self and Other has been ingrained socially, culturally, and historically. As cultures collide and merge, they become increasingly intertwined, and the lines that once divided them begin to blur. There’s a permeability to the sense of the Other. Anyone can find themselves between these blurred lines—a space they may have previously thought themselves on only one side of. It’s not enough to question one’s place to understand one’s role as Other. To comprehend this permeability is to acknowledge its often contradictory nature. Through various means of investigation, including self-parody, interviews, archival recollections, and historical analysis, Was I Ever Really Here? seeks to explore not only one’s existence as Other but also one’s complicity in the process of Othering. What does it mean to exist in the in-between?