Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2024

2024 Fall Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 16, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art by the 35 artists and curators from 26 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker Larry Ossei-Mensah, Curator and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR, will make remarks at 6:30pm during the opening reception.

This event is free and open to the public.

Three times a year, ISCP offers audiences access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and curatorial projects and share one-on-one conversations. This fall, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP supports the creative advancement of residents with individual workspaces, a robust program of events, and professional benefits. 

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio, an exhibition commemorating ISCP’s thirtieth anniversary, will be on view in the second floor gallery. Somewhere Inside looks at the ways that five artists—Martine Gutierrez, Daniel Guzmán, Joiri Minaya, Sophie Tottie, and Frank WANG Yefeng, all ISCP alumni, find inspiration from the studio. While these artists have distinct practices, they all approach the studio as a nourishing and exploratory space where they can develop and mine their own creative archive—one enriched by a porous connection to the outside world. Taking up themes of transformation and metamorphosis, topics closely tied to artistic production itself, the work presented here reveals different strategies for making use of one’s expanding archive. 

In addition, Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy, an exhibition that memorializes a lost landscape, will be on view in the first floor project space. Transforming the gallery into an immersive installation, Ground Floor Resident Sujin Lim offers a poetic tribute to South Korea’s Yeongheung Island, where her father grew up—a place drastically impacted by a recent surge in industrial and commercial development and changing tidelines, markers of climate change that have become increasingly common around the world today. Playfully alluding to the landscape painting tradition, Lim’s compositions poignantly capture a seaside that now only exists in memory. 

The exhibitions are curated by Melinda Lang, Director of Programs and Exhibitions at ISCP. 

Open Studios participating artists and curators:

Amy Bravo (United States); Paloma Contreras Lomas (Mexico); S Emsaki (Iran/United States); Bryan Fernandez (United States/Dominican Republic); Anaïs Goupy (Germany/France); Antonietta Grassi (Canada); Efrat Hakimi (United States); Ruthi Helbitz Cohen (Israel); Hong Seon Jang (South Korea/United States); Dora Jeridi (France); Bob Kil (United Kingdom/Germany); Ulrike Königshofer (Austria); Karel Koplimets (Estonia); Sujin Lim (South Korea/United States); Simon Liu (Hong Kong/United States); Irina Lotarevich (Austria); Brenda Mallory (United States); Azita Moradkhani (Iran/United States); Lotte Nielsen (Denmark); Nifemi Ogunro (United States); Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen (Philippines/Norway); Tamen Pérez (Costa Rica/United States); Antonis Pittas (Greece/The Netherlands); Tom Polo (Australia); Fouz Saif (Qatar); Tora Schultz (Sweden/Denmark); Jens Settergren (Denmark); Sonia Shiel (Ireland); Sara Sjölin (Sweden/Switzerland/Denmark); Kara Springer (Canada/Barbados); Frank WANG Yefeng (United States/China); Apichaya Wanthiang (Thailand/Belgium/Norway); Stanley Wany (Canada); Sasha Wortzel (United States); and Sarah Zapata (United States)

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors:

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors: Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Amos Schocken Haaretz Art Collection; Artis; Arts Council of Ireland; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Canada Council for the Arts; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Creative Australia; Danish Arts Foundation; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Guadalupe Phillips; Hartfield Foundation; Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; ISCP Alumni Fund; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Leon Polk Smith Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Perrotin Gallery; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; and The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.

This program is also generously supported, in part, by Austrian Cultural Forum; Consulate General of Canada in New York; Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Consulate General of Sweden, New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Barbara van Beuren, Younghee Kim-Wait, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.

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Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage. 

Opening Reception: Nov 15, 2024, 6–9pm
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Bryan Fernandez, Cansado Por el Dia, 2024, oil pastel, cardboard, yarn, denim, xerox paper, decorative fabric, shirt, acrylic paint, relief print on Fabriano paper, and tobacco. Courtesy of the artist

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20
Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Curators at Work: What is Kept and What is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
ISCP Talk

ISCP Talk
November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Curators at Work: What is Kept and What is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

For this Curators at Work, ISCP curator-in-residence Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen will be joined by scholar Whit Pow. Pedersen will present on her curatorial practice and speak with Pow about her interest in history, representation, and bodies of resistance as well as the relationship between spirituality and technology. A Q&A with the audience will follow. 

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen is an art historian and curator based in Trondheim, Norway, and currently holds the position of Curator at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Her work explores the intersection of alternative realities, spirituality, and technology, often drawing on her own experiences as a second-generation Filipina immigrant. 

Whit Pow is an assistant professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their work focuses on queer and transgender histories of computational media, digital games, and electronic art. Their latest article, “How the Computer Taught Us to See,” is published in Camera Obscura by Duke University Press.

This program is supported by OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

6:30–7:30pm
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Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen
Panteha Abareshi, A FAMILIAR VIOLATION, 2023, from the exhibition I'NVALID PLEASURES,' at Kunsthall Trondheim. Courtesy of Panteha Abareshi. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20
Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Curators at Work: What is Kept and What is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
ISCP Talk

Exhibition
Through February 7

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Join us for the Opening Reception on Tuesday, October 22, from 6–8pm.

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents an immersive installation by Sujin Lim that memorializes a place transformed by industrial and commercial development. Anchored by two large-scale wall murals, The Land, Dark and Muddy extends from the artist’s ongoing research on the rapidly changing environment of the remote fishing island of Yeongheung in Incheon, South Korea, where her father grew up. For this exhibition, Lim creates a poetic tribute to a devastated landscape and community, highlighting what is lost and what remains. 

Over the past three decades, Yeongheung has undergone a drastic shift: the island’s natural features and ecosystems have disappeared as a result of development and a surge in changing tidelines—markers of climate change that are now increasingly common in coastal locations around the world. A tide embankment, built in 1994, significantly increased the water flow and washed away most of the tidelands, destroying the habitat for marine life, while a bridge connecting the island to the mainland was erected in order to build a power plant, which ultimately polluted the sea water and further altered the surrounding scenery. Lim reimagines the vanished land through two wall paintings made using mud from Yeongheung. Alongside these paintings is a stenciled text of a conversation between the artist and her father, and a single-channel video projection of her painting performance on the island. Titled Landscape Painting (2019), Lim positions a large canvas in front of the site she depicts, allowing her to obscure the island’s modern construction and infrastructure and superimpose the original scenery, as recollected by her father and other residents. Playfully alluding to the landscape painting tradition, Lim’s compositions poignantly capture a seaside that now only exists in memory.

As Lim has observed: “No landscape is ever neutral. Each one has multiple layers of history, interpretation, and importance. The Land, Dark and Muddy is about unearthing the social and political contexts embedded in the landscape and reinterpreting them by posing the following questions: Who has the authority to reshape a landscape? Who are the people affected by those changes?” 

Lim is currently an artist-in-residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Residency Program designed for New York-based artists. Through site-specific installations and sculptures, Lim transforms actual locations into surreal images and alternative realities as a means to confront social, political and environmental injustices. Sujin Lim has exhibited work at Brooklyn Museum, New York; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; Museum of Moscow, Russia; and MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Argentina, among other venues.

This exhibition is curated by Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions. It is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios.

ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request. ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage. 

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Sujin Lim, Landscape Painting, 2019, HD single channel video, 31:34 min
Sujin Lim, Landscape Painting, 2019, HD single channel video, 31:34 min

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20
Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Curators at Work: What is Kept and What is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
ISCP Talk