Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4, 5pm - 7pm
From the Collection: First-Year Curatorial Practice 2025 comprises three exhibitions curated by the M.A. candidates of the Class of 2027. Staged in three successive rooms of the inner CCS Bard Galleries, these shows feature works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.
The first exhibition, You Are Still Here, brings together artworks that evoke in-between states, proposing to see movement—whether documented in a boarding pass or held in bodily memory—as an assertion and negotiation of presence. Spinning, flickering, ticking, and collapsing forms fill the next show, titled form falters rhythm holds, which underscores how fragile the synchronized systems of daily life are, and asks what it might mean to move through space, or through life, without the insistence that everything stay in sync. Finally, the third exhibition—[ ], Rinse, Repeat—challenges the supposed value of labor, exposing the mesh of repeated habits and socialized gestures that sustain the illusion of the productive body.
Featured artists include: Janine Antoni, Miguel Calderón, Leonora Carrington, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Kerry Downey, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Gabriel Orozco, Philippe Parreno, Mika Rottenberg, Joanna Seitz, Andreas Slominski, Monika Sosnowska, and Danielle Webb.
Graduate student-curated exhibitions at CCS Bard are made possible with support from Lonti Ebers; the Enterprise Foundation; the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation; the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation; the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; the Wortham Foundation; the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends.
