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Co-Prosperity is an experimental cultural center located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport.
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The space is used to showcase work by artists, performers and cultural workers of all stripes. Co-Pro hosts exhibitions, screenings, presentations, installations, festivals, meetings, and performance programs in its 5,000+ square foot gallery. The space hosts between 35-60 events and exhibitions a year serving over 20,000 individuals. Co-Prosperity is also the home office of Public Media Institute

(PMI). PMI is a non-profit 501(c) 3, community based, art & culture organization located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport in the city of Chicago. PMI's mission is to create, incubate and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, spaces, exhibitions, and media. Public Media Institute is committed to the region’s cultural ecology and is evident through our series of programs, spaces and projects.

05/29/2026

The Palestine Dinner is now sold out. Thank you sincerely for your generosity and support. Please see the link in our bio for continued donation opportunities and information about upcoming dinners.

Artist Linda Abdullah is collaborating with Cedars Palestine Kitchen to share recipes from her homeland Palestine. Food recipes in Palestine are often passed down through generations of women in the family. Each region in Palestine will prepare the same dish in their own distinct way, which adds the unique flavours shaped by land offerings and geographies. Linda has collected recipes from Palestinian women in her life and compiled them in her own home-cook notebook, sharing two recipes in the first gathering of Community Kitchen Dinners.

Inspired by artist projects responding to the imperial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan including Enemy Kitchen and Combat Kitchen, Community Kitchen Dinners will feature conversations around food, memory, migration from regions the US/Israel empire is currently.

Proceeds from the dinner will be split between two initiatives:
1. Support Sudki’s field kitchen operating in Rafah.
2. Help bring the artworks of 14 Palestinian artists from Gaza to Chicago for my upcoming curatorial project, New Forms of Survival, opening November 7th at Watershed Art & Ecology.

Special thanks to team .tv .chicago
For making this project possible. Illustration by

05/22/2026

Artist Hesam Salehbeig () will prepare an Iranian meal for the second gathering of PEACE DINNERS. 🍽️

“Iranian cuisine, much like Persian carpet weaving, is fundamentally a folk art shaped within the homes of ordinary people and carried through generations by women across cities and villages. Although exceptional examples have emerged from aristocratic households and royal courts, the essence of Iranian cooking remains rooted in domestic knowledge, memory, and care. Professional cooking differs not in method, but in scale: the chef reproduces the cooking of household women with larger quantities and greater equipment, always attempting to reach the depth and precision of home cooking.”
(Ketab-e Mostatab-e Ashpazi by Najaf Daryabandari and Fahimeh Rastkar, 2009.)

For the second dinner, Hesam draws from recipes gathered from Iranian women throughout his life, alongside recipes preserved through the work of researchers and archival projects across different periods and regions of Iran.

Tickets available now through the link in bio 🔗

05/18/2026

Thank you everyone who attended the opening for Typeforce 14 this past Friday! 🌷✨

As a reminder, Typeforce 14 will be on view at Co-Prosperity through May 29th. 📆

Visit us during our open hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1-6pm and check out this unique once-a-year exhibition!

Learn more about the exhibition at typeforce.com 🌱

Photo credits: Sandra Oviedo

04/15/2026

🚨CO-PRO IS CLOSED THIS SATURDAY🚨
Wanted to come check out our exhibitions this weekend? We will be open this Friday (04/17)! Visit us during Bridgeport ArtistCommunity Third Friday’s ✨

03/11/2026

In the Name of Living: An Evening of Iranian Music and Conversation 🇮🇷

This Saturday, March 14th 7-9pm @ Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St)

Join us for an evening of Iranian music and an informal panel discussion about the escalating war on Iran. Together we will reflect on the current political moment and the ongoing struggles and resistance inside Iran, where people continue to confront repression, authoritarian rule, and external aggression while fighting for dignity, justice, and liberation.

03/02/2026

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲! ✨

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗕𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗬𝗟𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲; 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬 @𝟳:𝟬𝟬𝗣𝗠
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙(𝙨) 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB)

Duration: 30 Mins

RMB will compose a vocal landscape inspired by Greg Bae’s scroll and friendship-building practices in general, using a microphone and looper with her own voice. This performance will incorporate gestures and elements of ancestral veneration from a variety of traditions of which RMB is a practitioner, including Buddhism and Lucumí.

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𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗕𝗬 𝗞𝗜𝗞Ù 𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗢 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲; 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬 @ 𝟳:𝟬𝟬𝗣𝗠
𝙊𝙁𝙁.𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙡 Kikù Hibino

Duration: 30 minutes

OFF. Manual is a high-volume noise performance that responds to Gregory Bae’s interest in “leftover margins” and “disassociated symbols”—elements that disappear when systems prioritize clarity, order, and rule-following. The performance activates these excluded elements, pushing beyond regulatory frameworks into chaos and toward new order. That new order, once formed, becomes the next structure to be dismantled.
Working across five sound sources, including guitar and bass amplifiers, the thirty-minute work moves through four states: Infinity, and/or, Excess, Ghost.

Learn more about the performers and our ongoing exhibitions through the 🔗 in our bio! 💕

02/04/2026

This past weekend, Co-Prosperity hosted the opening for SEPARATIONS, a duo exhibition that navigates the mysticisms of creation and everyday utility of objects. As “incidental collaborators,” artists Eli Show and Angela Zonunpari explore the arbitrary boundaries between art and life, and how they intertwine if given space and time. 🕐

Come visit us during our open hours Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 - 6 PM ✨

Make sure to also check out our group exhibition, Carrier, inside the building after seeing SEPARATIONS. Curated by Bosco Bae & John Neff, six artists respond to a prompt centered around a sixty-foot-long paper and tape collage scroll by the late Chicago-based Korean-American artist Gregory Bae.

Both exhibitions will be on view from Jan. 31 to Mar 14, 2026.

Photo Credits: Sandra Oviedo ()

Learn more about our ongoing programs through the 🔗 in our bio.

01/22/2026

Co-Pro presents: 𝘚𝘌𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚 by Eli Show & Angela Zonunpari () ⛓️‍💥

Opening reception: January 31st from 6 - 10pm

In 𝘚𝘌𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚, artists Eli Show and Angela Zonunpari explore the arbitrary boundaries between art and life, and how they intertwine if given space and time. As “incidental collaborators,” they navigate the mysticisms of creation and the everyday utility of objects. By easily transitioning between these “separations,” they show connections between their art practices and their lives. The artists are based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, Jan. 31 to Mar 14, 2026.

Learn more about our upcoming exhibitions through the 🔗 in our bio.

01/22/2026

Co-Prosperity is pleased to announce the opening of our new group exhibition, 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳, happening next Saturday, Jan. 31 from 6 - 10pm ✨

Curated by Bosco Bae & John Neff

Featuring works by:

Gregory Bae, Rashayla Marie Brown (), Kellie Romany (), Robert Chase Heishman (), Maggie Wong (), olivier, Kikù Hibino (.hibino)

An excerpt from the exhibition:

𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳 is a group exhibition centered on a sixty-foot-long paper and tape collage scroll by the late Chicago-based Korean-American artist Gregory Bae. The work was created from non-alphabetical printed elements, such as punctuation marks and technical graphics, cut from radio instruction manuals. Carrier brings together a group of primarily Chicago-based artists, several of them collaborators and friends of Bae, to respond to the scroll.

𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳 will open on January 31st and run until Mar 13, 2026.

Keep an eye out for more information on upcoming performances as part of this exhibition:

Performance by Rashayla Marie Brown on March 7, 2026; Saturday

Performance by Kiku Hibino on March 13, 2026; Friday

 For more information on this exhibition and our upcoming shows, check out the link in our bio or visit coprosperity.org!

01/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited the gallery this year! ☃️❄️ Co-Prosperity mounted ten whole exhibitions and hosted over 80 events this year, including performances, art builds, lectures, panels, movement meetings & trainings, and concerts. Thank you again to everyone who spent time with us! Here are some photos of the exhibitions and programs from this year! 🥹❤️

For us to keep our doors open, individual support from the general public is crucial at this time and we need your support, so please consider becoming a member or making a one-time donation at https://publicmediainstitute-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1391345

We wish you a happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you in our space! 🥳

Image 1: Parallel to Hell, an exhibition by Le Hien Minh
Image 2: Numbers Game by Britt Ransom
Image 3 - 6: Resurge Chicago: Q***r Performance Festival
Image 7: The possibility of an expanse and what interrupts it by Mariel Harari
Image 8: BAUBO UNEARTHED: A TROVE OF MYSTERY, LAUGHTER IN THE FACE OF GRIEF, A CONJURING, curated by Stephany Colunga
Images 9 & 10: HOW TO SEE IN THE DARK, organized by CCAM
Image 11: La Basurita by Mariposa Divina
Image 12: STUFFED: FAT PERVS UNITE, Curated by: Anna Mirzayan
Image 13: Detrás de Nosotros Estamos Ustedes: Behind Us We Are You by Atlan Arceo-Witzl

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