Spring Open Studios

Opening: Friday, April 29, 6–9pm
Open hours: Saturday, April 30, 1–8pm

Join us for Spring Open Studios, a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art, at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). The 38 artists and three curators from 19 countries currently in residence will present work in their studios. The studio is a creative place for thinking, experimentation, and production, more integral to artistic practice in New York’s hyper cultural environment than ever before. Open Studios invites the public to experience art in its place of origin and to share conversations with art practitioners from all over the world.

Guest speaker Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, will make opening remarks during the opening reception on Friday, April 29, at 6pm.

Three exhibitions
ISCP has invited Lugar a Dudas, a non-profit artist-run organization based in Cali, Colombia as the 2016 annual institution-in-residence. As a laboratory for artistic research, Lugar a Dudas facilitates the development of the creative process and provokes community interaction. A Room for Doubt: Lugar a Dudas at ISCP is an exhibition and series of experiments in relocating and translating local practices to a new context, in ISCP’s second floor galleries. The exhibition focuses on the operations that take place when artworks, stories and references are moved and adapted for new locations, audiences and languages. On April 30, from 2 to 7pm, visitors to A Room for Doubt: Lugar a Dudas at ISCP are invited to participate in reconstructing Con la comida no se juega (Do not play with your food), a 1997 work by Colombian artists Juan Mejía & Wilson Díaz.

The sixth of the series of seven Staging micro-exhibitions organized by a group of seven curators from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS), is presented in the first floor Project Space. Stage #6 presents ISCP ground floor resident Lourdes Correa-Carlo's work, curated by Christian Camacho-Light. An assemblage of architectural elements and construction materials set against painted walls, Down-Below is a tableau—with the vents, pipes and rods protruding from the platform becoming as much the extremities of a body as those of a building.

ISCP’s off-site exhibition Vieno Motors: How to Prepare 2.0, a project conceived by Ilona Valkonen and curated by resident Satu Oksanen, is on view today and Saturday, from 4 to 6pm, at El Museo de Los Sures, located at 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn. This project is in the collection of the Helsinki Art Museum and reflects on anarchist botany, engages fellow artists and the public, and involves the creation of sculptural adornments made from flowers and found materials. These wearable pieces are made specifically with the visitor in mind, as part of a conversation and exchange. Guest artist Gabriel Specter will create wearable art for each visitor to take away from the exhibition.

Artists and curators in residence
Kiichiro Adachi (Japan), Judy Anderson (Canada), Pat Foster & Jen Berean (Australia), Carl Boutard (Sweden), Joseph Buckley (United States), Elaine Byrne (United States/Ireland), Naomi Campbell (United States), Lourdes Correa-Carlo (United States), Donald Hải Phú Daedalus (United States), Andrés Durán (Chile), Sara Eliassen (Norway), Kevin Ei-ichi deForest (Canada), Nicole Franchy (United States/Peru), Ghost of a Dream (United States), Jude Griebel (Canada), Francesca Grilli (Italy), Berenice Güttler (Germany), Mark Hilton (United States/Australia), Hsiang-Ning Huang (Taiwan), Franziska Jyrch (Germany), Marja Kanervo (Finland), Dokyun Kim–KDK (South Korea), Maartje Korstanje (Netherlands), Cheon Pyo Lee (United States), Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens (Canada), Yi-Kuan Lin (Taiwan), Calori & Maillard (Italy), Ragnhild May (Denmark), Satu Oksanen (Finland), Liutauras Psibilskis (United States), Anushka Rajendran (India), belit sağ (Turkey/Netherlands), Maximiliano Siñani (United States/Bolivia), Tove Storch (Denmark), Misha Stroj (Austria), Aarti Sunder (India), Maki Toshima (Japan)

ISCP thanks the following Open Studios sponsors: Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Alfred Kordelin Foundation; Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Cultural Fund; Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana; BKA - Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria; Bunkacho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; Canada Council for the Arts; Creative Saskatchewan; Danish Arts Foundation; Farnesina Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Fulbright Center, Finland; GAi – Giovani Artisti Italiani; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; The Italian Academy at Columbia University; Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Lawrence and Alice Weiner; LIG Art Space; Mackenzie Art Gallery; Manitoba Arts Council; Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur; OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.; SAHA Association; and Yoko Ono.

These programs are supported, in part, by: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Antonio Reynoso, New York City Council Member, 34th District; Austrian Cultural Forum; Bard College; Brooklyn Brewery; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Consulate General of Finland in New York; Consulate General in New York, Norway; Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Finnish Cultural Institute; Greenwich Collection Ltd.; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and Our Wicked Lady.