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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.
Learn more about the exhibition on our website.
Press Kit
Images
Selma Selman. Installation view of Flowers of Life, 2024. Courtesy SCHIRN. Photo: Norberto Miguelitz
Emilija Škarnulytė. Burial (still). 2022. Courtesy the artist
Jean Katambayi Mukendi. Doors. 2023. Acrylic, paint, pen, and marker on paper. Courtesy the artist and Ramiken, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni
Andro Eradze. Flowering and Fading (still). 2024. Video: 4K, 16:22 min. Courtesy the artist, Lo schermo Dell’arte, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and SpazioA Pistoia
Tolia Astakhishvili and Dylan Peirce. Untitled. 2025. 2-channel video (48 min., looped). Courtesy the artists
Ser Serpas. say me and object. 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss