Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38

11/18/2022

After a short hiatus, our re-designed Ludlow 38 website is live again at www.ludlow38-archive.org

Located in the Lower East Side, Ludlow 38 provided for curatorial experimentation in the tradition of the German “Kunstverein” from 2008 to 2019. The space was initially programmed by Kunstverein Munich, European Kunsthalle, and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and was relaunched in 2011 as MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, a residency program for up-and-coming curators from Germany. From 2011 to 2019 it hosted nine year-long residencies.

Visit ludlow38-archive.org to browse the publication and archive, both designed by Other Means.

The publication includes contributions about the present, past, and future of residency programs from experts Kari Conte and Silvia Fehrmann; Ludlow 38 jury members Larissa Harris, Christian Rattemeyer, and Nicolaus Schafhausen; Ludlow 38 curatorial residents Eva Birkenstock, Saim Demircan, Avi Feldman, Tobi Maier, Clara Meister, Jakob Schillinger, Nina Tabassomi, Vivien Trommer, and Franziska Sophie Wildförster; and from Goethe-Institut staff. Artist James Gregory Atkinson reflects on artistic production in the epicenter of capitalism. Lower East Side neighbors Prem Krishnamurthy (P!), David Reinfurt (Dexter Sinister), Karin Schneider (CAGE and Orchard), and Simone Subal (Simone Subal Gallery) each have their own Ludlow 38 experience to recall. Martin Beck and Ken Saylor revisit Re:model, their exhibition display for the art space. Sara Stevenson (Goethe-Institut) and Sarah Demeuse (Wkshps) co-edited the publication.

Together with these new perspectives, an extensive archive of all exhibitions that took place at Ludlow 38 from 2008 to 2019 will allow the art space to live on and inform new generations of curators.

Please note, that the page will no longer be active.

11/12/2019

Thank you Flash Art International & Roselee Goldberg for recommending "Levant" opening at Ludlow 38 tomorrow 6–9pm with a live set by Nkisi (7pm sharp) Hope to see you there

09/03/2019

Many thanks to frieze for this great review of Candice Lin "Spice" !

"Which is to say, Lin’s work is interested as much in fictionalized accounts as it is in history: on the back of each of the packets, printed excerpts of a story about addiction narrate ‘from the point of view of the virus,’ according to the press release. One reads: ‘A boat inscribed with the name, SILENCE, came to the nearest port to collect the hardiest of our kin.’ That ‘our’ seems at once to refer to intoxicants, shipmen, some community of viruses – reframed as the stolen and injured, rather than the threat – and the ‘secrets, in the form of fat women, fat like a pagoda carved out of butter’ with which the sentence continues. The story, with its stoner-friendly twists and science-fiction paranoia, implicates art audiences’ interest in drugs’ effects with the violent histories that their packaging has transformed into saleable herbs."

Artist Candice Lin connects the conditions of slave labour involved in building the drug trade’s infrastructure to the continued Orientalizing representations of the drugs themselves

08/05/2019

"While Fast was rightly critiqued for employing racist stereotypes and contributing to displacement in the area while making light of its effects, Lin pushes the line of inquiry raised in response to his installation further, asking not only who has the authority to represent, but how that authority is itself shaped by centuries of global trade and exploitation. Fast’s exhibition is implicated in the forces displacing longtime residents of Chinatown, but so is Lin’s—so, effectively, is each new contemporary art exhibition in the Lower East Side, regardless of who the artist is. Sharply attentive to this fact, Lin has produced an installation in which everything is potentially intoxicating, laced with latent violence and the myth of authenticity, anything but pure." Thanks to Art in America for this thoughtful review of Candice Lin "Spice"

Lin has produced an installation in which everything is potentially intoxicating, laced with latent violence and the myth of authenticity, anything but pure.

07/22/2019

Thank you Cultured Magazine and Dean Kissick for this great short text on Candice Lin "Spice" !

In the 19th and early 20th century, staged o***m dens were set up in New York’s Chinatown for tourists to gawk at. More recently, in 2017, Omer Fast made

06/03/2019

Ser Serpas 'Against Attachment' was reviewed next to Lydia Ourahmane at Bodega and Diamond Stingily at Q***r Thoughts for this New York Round Up in Art Monthly

05/06/2019

Ser Serpas talked to Artforum about her show "Against Attachment" at Ludlow 38 🖤 see and read the whole interview here: https://www.artforum.com/interviews/ser-serpas-on-trash-as-praxis-and-pathology-79574

04/30/2019

frieze included Ser Serpas' show "Against Attachment" in this NYC Critic's Guide 🤩 the show is up until June 2nd!

With the fair now on, your guide to the best exhibitions in the city

04/29/2019