Abstract
- Sky Excessive Farm, an artist-founded meals justice non-profit, has lifted the veil on its inaugural artwork biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END.
- On view by means of October 2025 in Germantown, New York, the exhibition brings collectively a lineup of fifty worldwide artists whose works discover themes of ecology, business and reminiscence.
- The exhibition celebrates the farm’s enlargement onto a brand new 560-acre website, and introduces a brand new artist-driven fundraising mannequin which advantages Sky Excessive’s programming surrounding local weather justice, sustainable agriculture and distributing nutrient-dense meals.
Sky Excessive Farm is coming into a brand new period with the debut of its first-ever biennial exhibition. Curated by artist and founder Dan Colen, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END marks a inventive milestone for the artist-founded meals justice non-profit, ringing within the subsequent chapter on a brand new, 560-acre residence in Germantown, New York.
Staged in an apple chilly storage warehouse alongside the Hudson River, the exhibition attracts a powerful roster of fifty artists from across the globe, together with Anne Imhof, Nan Goldin, Lauren Halsey, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Alvaro Barrington. Certain by explored themes of ecology, business and reminiscence, their works take cues from the area’s layered histories and its hyperlinks to New York Metropolis.
Featured works could be seen mounted throughout the partitions and hung from the ceiling, bringing consideration to the house’s uncooked, unaltered magnificence, whereas different works function an experiential conduit: Imhof’s labyrinth of business water containers create intimate corridors to showcase different artists’ works, whereas Rudolf Stingel contributes his largest-ever mirrored ground set up, performing as an immersive plinth for the artworks that lay above.
The biennial pays tribute to the late Joey Piecuch, one of many farm’s authentic crew members, whose guerrilla-style artistry and dedication to land stewardship formed the Sky Excessive many know and love as we speak. The title of the exhibition nods to certainly one of Piecuch’s found works — poetic phrase and image of hope and resistance.
Alongside the exhibition, the farm can be piloting an artist-led fundraising mannequin that replaces conventional auctions with versatile, values-aligned contributions. All proceeds go towards the farm’s mission: producing nutrient-dense meals, supporting local weather training, and advancing meals justice nationwide.
“The issues we work to deal with—meals insecurity, unequal useful resource distribution, local weather change — would require broad-based participation work to unravel,” Co-Government Administrators Josh Bardfield and Sarah Workneh expressed in a current assertion. “We’re so moved that so many artists, curators, advisors, and so many others within the artwork world see the urgency within the work we do and have made these beneficiant commitments as a method of becoming a member of us.”
The exhibition is now on view by means of October 2025. Head to Sky Excessive Farms’ web site for extra data, and scroll to view the complete record of featured artists:
Autumn Ahn
Alvaro Barrington
Lauren Bon
Lizzi Bougatsos
Pia Camil
Anne Collier
CAConrad
Ann Craven
Sean Desiree
Natalie Diaz
Norman Douglas
Carroll Dunham
rafa esparza
Peter Fend
Yatika Starr Fields
Aaron Gilbert
Nan Goldin
Mark Grotjahn
Wade Guyton
Chase Corridor
Lyle Ashton Harris
Harrison Studio
Roni Horn
Anne Imhof
Brian Jungen
Nance Klehm
Maia Ruth Lee
Stephen Lichty
Nate Lowman
Ryan McGinley
Mark Armijo McKnight
Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Andrew Moore
Paulo Nazareth
Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies Puppies)
Grace Rosario Perkins
Utē Josephine Petit
Joey Piecuch (Household)
Thiago Rocha Pitta
Myron Polenberg
Richard Prince
Sarah Rara/Fortunate Dragons
Em Rooney
Marcos Saavedra
Michael Sailstorfer
Salem
Tschabalala Self
Marcus Leslie Singleton
Rudolf Stingel
Elaine Stocki
quori theodor
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Banks Violette
Charline von Heyl
Mary Wigfall
Ben Wigfall and Communications AVillage with Lauren Halsey
