The Gatherers

Opens Apr 24

  • Upcoming
  • Exhibition
Tolia Astakhishvili and Dylan Peirce. so many things I’d like to tell you. 2025. Two-channel video (48 min., looped). Courtesy the artists and LC Queisser, Tbilisi

As our lives become increasingly shaped by the glut of garbage and information, The Gatherers brings into focus current artistic practices grappling with global waste and excess. Featuring fourteen international artists—many showing for the first time in a US museum—the exhibition includes sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. While artists have rummaged for centuries, the exhibition underscores how retooling detritus has new meaning for a generation contending with the impacts of recent world orders, such as the ongoing fallouts and failures of globalization and neoliberalism. Artists in The Gatherers render politics as spatialized in 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, with Dylan Peirce and Maka Sanadze)
Miho Dohi (Japanese, b. 1974)
Andro Eradze (Georgian, b. 1993)
He Xiangyu (Chinese, b. 1986)
Samuel Hindolo (American, b. 1990)
Geumhyung Jeong (Korean, b. 1980)
Klara Liden (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)

Dates

April 24–October 6, 2025

2025-04-24
2025-10-06

Credits

The Gatherers is organized by Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant. Exhibition research and support is provided by Serena Moscardelli, NYU Curatorial Fellow.

Sponsors

Generous support for The Gatherers is provided by the Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, and Jamie and Robert Soros.

Significant support is provided by The Deborah Buck Foundation.

Additional support is provided by George Petrocheilos and Diamantis Xylas, and Eleanor Heyman Propp.

Special thanks to the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, Marieluise Hessel, the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, Vicky Chen, and Webber Huang.

Selected Artworks