The Gatherers

This spring, MoMA PS1 presents The Gatherers, a major exhibition that brings into focus current artistic practices mining the ruins of excess production, failing infrastructure, and political instability. Opening on April 24, 2024, the presentation spans the entirety of the Museum’s third-floor galleries and features over a dozen international artists—many exhibiting for the first time in a US museum—and includes sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. Revealing and retooling detritus and ideas that have emerged out of the geopolitics of the last thirty years, the works surface histories embedded in discarded materials and imbued with new meaning. While rummaging has served as a critical artistic methodology for decades, the exhibition underscores the concerns of a generation of artists who are grappling with the impacts of recent world orders, such as the fallouts from globalization and neoliberalism. Artists in The Gatherers make visible the spatialized politics of memory as constructed within the built environment, drawing attention to how histories reverberate into the future. 

ARTISTS
Karimah Ashadu, British-born Nigerian, b. 1985
Tolia Astakhishvili, Georgian,  b. 1974
Miho Dohi, Japanese, b. 1974
Andro Eradze, Georgian, b. 1993
Samuel Hindolo, American, b. 1990
Geumhyung Jeong, Korean, b. 1980
Klara Lidén, Swedish, b. 1979
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Congolese,  b. 1974
Nick Relph, British, b. 1979
Selma Selman, Bosnian, b. 1991
Ser Serpas, American, b. 1995
Emilija Škarnulytė, Lithuanian, b. 1987
Zhou Tao, Chinese, b. 1976
He Xiangyu, Chinese, b. 1986

The Gatherers is organized by Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant.

Generous support for The Gatherers is provided by the Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art

Additional support is provided by George Petrocheilos and Diamantis Xylas.