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- Sky Excessive Farm, an artist-founded nonprofit working to fight meals injustice, has introduced its inaugural artwork biennial.
- The exhibition will probably be on view from June 28 by way of October 2025 in Germantown, New York.
- Among the many 50 featured artists are Anne Imhof, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tschabalala Self, Félix González-Torres and extra.
Sky Excessive Farm is launching its first artwork biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END. Within the final a number of years, the non-profit has made main waves, teaming up with style heavyweights like Dover Road Market and Balenciaga to affix the combat in opposition to meals insecurity. Now, the group ringing in a brand new period with this vital milestone, because it expands to a brand new 560-acre, riverside website.
Curated by founder and Gagosian-backed artist Dan Colen, the site-specific exhibition will probably be staged at a historic apple chilly storage warehouse alongside the Hudson River in Germantown, New York, bringing collectively 50 notable names from throughout the globe, together with Anne Imhof, Félix González-Torres, Tschabalala Self, Ben Wigfall and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Champions of their respective approaches and practices, every artist builds on the central query: what do we feature with us and what can we depart behind?
The present explores the ecology, business and reminiscence within the Hudson Valley and its ties to New York Metropolis, seeking to its layered histories and the rapid setting as muse: Imhof’s industrial water containers nod to the stress between nature and human intervention, whereas Brian Jungen’s sculpture— forged from melted metallic discovered within the remnants of his studio after it was destroyed by wildfires — grounds the exhibition in real-world urgency.
Extra highlights embrace, Rudolf Stingel’s huge mirrored ground piece which displays the continuity and motion of close by river tides, and González-Torres’ 24-piece Untitled (It’s Only a Matter of Time billboard set up alongside the tidal portion, whose political messaging is now simply as potent as was throughout its conception 20 years in the past.
The biennial may even introduce a brand new artist-driven fundraising mannequin, buying and selling conventional auctions in favor of versatile, artist-defined contributions. Proceeds help Sky Excessive Farm’s mission to develop and distribute nutrient-dense meals, present academic programming on sustainable agriculture and local weather justice, in addition to fund meals justice initiatives across the US and past.
“Sky Excessive is ready to have an effect on so many individuals as a result of it has operated throughout numerous modes — from artwork apply to public well being to ecological analysis,” Colen expressed in a press release. “The farm was born out of a want to maneuver away from the enterprise aspect of creating artwork and rediscover how artwork can join us. It required a perception in creating new constructions and fashions for change, and that dedication is exemplified on this exhibition.”
With this formidable new chapter, Sky Excessive Farm continues proving what’s doable when artwork, farming and activism collide. The inaugural TREES NEVER END HOUSES NEVER END biennial will probably be on view in Germantown from June 28 by way of October 2025. For extra data and updates, head to the group’s web site.
