Exhibition program 2023–24

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) announces its exhibition program for 2023–24 in its Second Floor Gallery and Project Space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since 2010, ISCP’s exhibition program has been dedicated to commissioning and presenting significant work by dynamic international artists underrepresented in New York City. 

Clae Lu: Playroom (February 28–June 9, 2023) is a solo exhibition of work by Clae Lu curated by Kathy Cho, opening tomorrow evening from 6–8pm at ISCP. Lu presents a variety of experimental works including painting, meditative installation, and sonic compositions on the gu zheng, also known as the Chinese zither. Together, these creative practices make space for and support the artist’s chosen families, their closely connected community. Central to the exhibition is an installation inviting audiences to rest, reflect, and meditate to a sonic playlist created together with editor and music publisher Ben Florencio. The installation serves as an idealized architectural facsimile of the various spaces where Lu seeks out and nurtures communal kinship.

Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City (March 17–July 14, 2023), curated by Media Farzin, takes the textile industry as a context from which to examine the workings and impact of growth economies. The exhibition features a video essay and a series of sculptures made of ceramic, wood, metal, and thread based on Vibe Overgaard’s research in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Lowell, Massachusetts, major hubs of industrial cotton production in the United States, and the artist’s background growing up in a Danish town founded as a manufacturing center for textiles. The circuit is a recurring motif: from the fiber that winds through sculptures that evoke industrial looms, to the animated lines of the video, which trace a critical path through legacies of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and the welfare state. 

Ground Floor Exhibition (June 27–November 17, 2023) is an annual exhibition of work by an artist who will be selected from ISCP’s Ground Floor Program, a subsidized residency program dedicated to New York-based artists. This year, the exhibition guest curator will be Jess Wilcox, former Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. 

Atomic Culture, a curatorial platform founded by Mateo and Malinda Galindo, is the 2023-24 ISCP institution-in-residence. They will organize a group exhibition titled WAVE PHENOMENA: contemporary strategies of sonic agency (August 9, 2023–January 11, 2024) manifesting the potential of sound as a catalyst for personal, political, and environmental reflection. They will investigate the practices of artists working within or around sound, presenting discourses on sonic agency. WAVE PHENOMENA will explore the listening experience and the opportunities it creates for sympathetic resonance and sonic imagination.

Ahmad Fuad Osman: Archipelagic Alchemy (December 12, 2023–May 10, 2024) showcases a new project by Malaysian artist Ahmad Fuad Osman, curated by Carlos Quijon Jr., who is from the Philippines.The exhibition looks at the archipelagic as a framework of coloniality and futurism. It includes research about Enrique de Malacca, Magellan’s slave and translator during his trip to Southeast Asia when he was attempting to circumnavigate the world, as well as the seventeenth-century Treaty of Breda exchange of territories colonized by the British and the Dutch in what are now New York and Indonesia. Alongside the work of Osman, Archipelagic Alchemy will present a selection of archival and popular cultural materials, providing points of refraction to these histories and their postcolonial implications.

Noa Yekutieli: Patterns (February 13–June 21, 2024) curated by Dean Daderko, presents new sculptural works and two-dimensional cut paper pieces that use visual pattern conventions to consider forced migration, cultural mixing, domesticity, anxiety, and storytelling. As a Japanese-American-Israeli, Yekutieli combines objects, crafts, and traditional techniques from her heritage to nurture her own sense of belonging. Simultaneously, the works reflect immigration and destruction as natural human patterns that coincide with change and renewal. Yekutieli draws inspiration from the age-old Japanese cut paper technique known as kamikiri. She also carves wood into shapes that resemble domestic furniture and human bodies, covered in weavings she creates from textile waste. 

These exhibitions are generously supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; the Asian Cultural Council; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Danish Arts Foundation; 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; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; 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; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

For further details on ISCP’s 2023-2024 exhibition program please visit iscp-nyc.org.