Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022

2022 Fall Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 19, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art organized by the 37 artists and curators from 31 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker Abigail DeVille, Artist and ISCP alumna, will make remarks during the opening reception.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required here.

Twice a year, ISCP offers the public access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork 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 a robust program of individual workspaces and professional benefits.

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande: Kobikisa, a solo exhibition by Maliyamungu Gift Muhande, recipient of The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund residency at ISCP, and curated by Lauren Wolchik, will be on view in the first floor project space. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raised there and in South Africa, and now based in New York City, Muhande investigates her identity, Blackness, and diasporic history through diverse media including film, painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and social practice. Translated as “to heal” in Lingala, Kobikisa features an immersive video installation and a series of large-scale works on paper that create a space of healing and self-empowerment.

In addition, Water Works, a group exhibition curated by Danielle Wu, is on view in the second floor gallery. The exhibition brings together six artists who turn to the washroom as an aesthetic resource: Hana Al-Saadi, Laurie Kang, Ajay Kurian, Mia Raadik, Pauline Shaw, and HaeAhn Woo Kwon. Whether inside the sauna, the hammam, the beauty salon, or the shower, the act of washing oneself has served as grounds to destabilize bodily integrity. As a phrase that references both civic irrigation systems and a crying fit, Water Works draws a line between one’s own flesh and the broader, social body.

Open Studios participating artists and curators: Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang & Yixuan Shao) (China/United States), Zainab Al-Shibani (Qatar), Manuel Aja Espil (Argentina), Claudine Arendt (Luxembourg/The Netherlands), James Beckett (South Africa/The Netherlands/United States), Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen (Slovakia/Spain/Norway), George Egerton-Warburton (Australia), Anawana Haloba (Norway/Zambia), Cornelia Herfurtner (Germany), Cindy Hill (Canada), Anaïs Horn (Austria/France), Li-Ming Hu (New Zealand/United States), Meghana Karnik (United States), Kyoung eun Kang (South Korea/United States), Tali Keren (United States/Israel/Palestine), Felix Kindermann (Germany/Belgium), Clae Lu (United States), Joiri Minaya (United States/Dominican Republic), Johanna Mirabel (France [French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe]), Fatima Moallim (Sweden), Tina Maria Nielsen (Denmark), Civan Özkanoğlu (Turkey/United States), Henrique Pavão (Portugal), Mary-Audrey Ramirez (Luxembourg/Germany), Anna Schimkat (Germany), Kjersti Solbakken (Norway), Oriane Stender (United States), Taavi Suisalu (Estonia), Julian Juhlin (Denmark), Sarah Tortora (United States), Michael Tsegaye (Ethiopia), Iria Vrettou (Greece), Noa Yekutieli (United States/Israel), Ji Hye Yeom (South Korea), and Antoinette Zwirchmayr (Austria).

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors: Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Artis; Artworks; Australia Council for the Arts; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Cultural Endowment of Estonia; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Danish Arts Foundation; Dennis Elliott Founder’s Fund; Doosan Art Center; Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg; Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Fundación Botín; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Jerome Foundation; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD); Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department; 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York; Oslo Kommune Internasjonalt; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; Toby Devan Lewis; Tony & Sissi Moens; Tzili Charney; Wallace Arts Trust; and ZAZ10TS.

This program is supported, in part, by Ada Tolla, LOT-EK; Austrian Cultural Forum New York: ACFNY; Evelyn Toll Family Foundation; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Living Ritual; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 33rd District; 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Robert Baker & Marcia Hecht; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; San Francisco Foundation; and The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; 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, William Harrison, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.

Opening Reception: Nov 18, 2022, 6–9pm

Open Hours: 1–7pm

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Johanna Mirabel, Living Room n.10, 2021, oil on canvas, 81 × 78 in. (205.74 × 198.12 cm). Photo by Luce Gallery

Zainab Al Shibani, studio installation view from Fall Open Studios 2022. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Kyoung eun Kang, studio installation view from Fall Open Studios 2022. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Noa Yekutieli, studio installation view from Fall Open Studios 2022. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Cindy Hill, studio installation view from Fall Open Studios 2022. Photo by Martin Parsekian

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

ISCP Talk
November 8, 2022, 6–7pm

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande and Evelyn Owen discuss 'Kobikisa'

In conjunction with the exhibition Maliyamungu Gift Muhande: Kobikisa, on view at ISCP through December 2, 2022, Evelyn Owen, Associate Curator at The Africa Center, and Maliyamungu Gift Muhande, 2021-22 recipient of The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund residency at ISCP, will have a conversation about the main themes of Muhande’s solo show.

The two will discuss Muhande’s use of embodied healing practices in her art. The artist addresses personal traumatic experiences and invites audiences to think about their own relationships to memory. The exhibition is a provocation to remember what has been forgotten, in the recent past and by calling upon knowledge held–and at times withheld–by elders and ancestors. In Kobikisa, the artist processes information in a physical way by receiving acupuncture and a massage, depicted in a video installation in the center of the gallery. Also on view are body prints by Muhande, meticulously filled in with delicate line drawings.

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande is a Congolese artist, filmmaker, and educator based in New York. Her work explores the global history of the African diaspora at the intersection of anti-colonialism and artistic creativity. Muhande’s documentary film about NYC street photographer Louis Mendes, Nine Days a Week, was screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and 2020 Doc NYC festival, and selected by the 2020 National Board of Review. She is currently a Sundance Producer Summit Fellow and artist-in-residence at Jacob Burns Film Center. Additionally, Muhande is a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design. Muhande was a New York Community Trust Van Lier artist-in-residence at ISCP and Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow in 2022.

Evelyn Owen is a curator based in New York City. A cultural geographer by training, her research explores contested geographical imaginations, especially in relation to art and artists from and about Africa and its diaspora. For The Africa Center, she co-curated the installations Gymnasium (2019) by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Harlem Sunrise (2018) by Victor Ekpuk, and Lagos State of Mind II (2014) by Emeka Ogboh. Elsewhere, she curated Tracing Obsolescence at apexart, New York (2018) and, with Yaëlle Biro, co-curated the exhibition The Aftermath of Conflict: Jo Ractliffe’s Photographs of Angola and South Africa at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015). Evelyn received her BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Cities and Cultures and a PhD on the Geographies of Contemporary African Art from Queen Mary, University of London.

This program is supported by Ada Tolla, LOT-EK; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; Hartfield Foundation; Living Ritual; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 33; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; Robert Baker & Marcia Hecht; San Francisco Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Four visitors are allowed in the galleries at a time, and appointments are required. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org to schedule an appointment.
All visitors are required to maintain social distancing, keeping six feet from anyone not in their party.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–7pm

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Maliyamungu Gift Muhande

This is a view of the gallery installation which shows a video still that is rear projected onto a white sheet of the face of a young Black woman at rest with her eyes closed. The sheet hangs from a wooden structure suspended from the ceiling. Behind it there is a brown body print with line drawings around it on a large sheet of white paper mounted on a plywood sheet.

Installation view of 'Maliyamungu Gift Muhande: Kobikisa' in ISCP's first floor project space, 2022. Photo by Shark Senesac

Instagram LIVE of 'Maliyamungu Gift Muhande and Evelyn Owen discuss 'Kobikisa' at ISCP, 2022

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

ISCP Talk
October 25, 2022, 6–7pm

Curators at Work: Kjersti Solbakken with Alison Kuo

For this in-person event, current ISCP curator-in-residence Kjersti Solbakken will present her curatorial practice, discussing a selection of exhibitions, publications and institutions she has been involved in. She will talk about the relationship between process and mediation, curating with or without walls, and in what way a text can be considered a space for fictional art production and institution building in the face of real issues.

Solbakken will be joined by Director of Programs at ISCP, Alison Kuo. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Solbakken has recently been selected as the curator of LIAF – Lofoten International Art Festival 2024. LIAF is a biennial art festival with a history spanning over 30 years. The biennial finds its place in Lofoten, an archipelago located on the northern coast of Norway/Sápmi, just above the Arctic Circle. The biennial presents works by international artists in a local and site-specific context, acknowledges the complexity of place, and seeks to be an open, experimental and inclusive meeting place for local and international artists, contributors, collaborators and audience. The festival has no set venue but is recreated every time by exploring and integrating with its surroundings in Lofoten.

Kjersti Solbakken is a freelance curator, writer and an institutional leader based in Oslo, Norway. Between 2017 and 2022 she was director of Kunstnerforbundet, one of Scandinavia’s oldest artist-run exhibition spaces with a program consisting of more than 20 exhibitions each year.She has been the director of Galleri Format and artistic director of Fotogalleriet in Oslo. In 2014 she curated the exhibition Biography by Elmgreen & Dragset at Astrup Fearnley Museet, together with Gunnar Kvaran. In 2007 she co-founded the small press Feil forlag and she also co-organised Tekstallianse, a festival for imprints and small press publishers. In 2011 she co-founded the non-profit project space Holodeck where she for two years conducted a program of frequent exhibitions, launches and happenings. She has curated numerous exhibitions as a freelance curator and her education includes an MA degree in curatorial studies fromt Bergen Academy of Art and Design and a BFA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts in Oslo, Norway.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Appointments are required. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org to schedule an appointment.
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

This program is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6–7pm

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Kjersti Solbakken

Installation view of Bente Sætrang's work, A Remnant of Necessity, 2020, at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, curated by Kjersti Solbakken. Photo by Thomas Tveter