Tribeca: Works on Paper

LOVER LOVE is a four-channel video installation by Shu Lea Cheang, featuring music by Cheang’s longtime collaborator Aérea Negrot. Made with eight intergenerational trans and gender nonconforming performers in Tucson, Arizona, the film moves between motel rooms, junkyards, and desert landscapes where souls escape oppression to take transhuman flight. Viewers shift moveable screens on tracks, creating new video compositions on the spot and activating segments of Negrot's song “It’s Lover, Love,” a dreamy, minimalist meditation on the lingering traces of broken promises and vanished love—and a tribute to the late musician, who died by suicide in 2023.

Apr 3 - Jan 3

Certainly an Act examines drawing as the foundation of Pope.L’s expansive practice across performance, writing, installation, and works on paper. Bringing together several bodies of drawings and collages, the exhibition reveals how the artist used mark-making, language, humor, and everyday materials to question race, identity, power, and meaning, treating drawing as both an artistic process and a way of thinking.

Jun 26 - Sep 27

Undercurrents brings together two projects by Lebbeus Woods—The Storm and Turbulence—united by a shared vision of intangible forces acting upon space. Re-presented by A83 in collaboration with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, they explore the conceptual undercurrents of the architect's work and his unparalleled ability to describe complex cultural and environmental systems.

May 8 - Sep 10

Kulig takes over The Hole’s Tribeca space for the summer, recreating his old Kenmare Street studio entryway — timed to his Front DOOR book of security-camera images — with works by Kulig and twenty-plus friends. July 10 – August 22.

Jul 10 - Aug 22

When Hermione von Preuschen submitted a crowned skeleton to the Berlin Salon in 1888, it was rejected as an antimonarchist scandal—despite neither the artist nor the emperor seeing it that way. Cosimo zu Knyphausen's Gute Nacht at Sebastian Gladstone departs from von Preuschen and Adolph Menzel, turning ballroom figures into skulls, tender goodnight kisses into vanitas meditations. Does death rule, or are we all already dead? Painting, the exhibition suggests, thrives in the question.

Jun 24 - Aug 8

IM Youngzoo's solo exhibition at Space ZeroOne, 371 Broadway, New York (May 15–July 25, 2026) presents a multimedia environment entwining ritualistic belief and modern technology. The title pairs two honorifics for the deceased—'the late' and the Chinese character 故—while IM reimagines the Korean funerary practice of gamyo, building empty graves to mislead and defer death, as a proto-metaverse interface within Korea's rapid techno-economic transformation.

May 15 - Jul 25