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Present Continuous Closing Night Wednesday, April 29 Last day to see the exhibition Exhibition hours: 5:00 - 7:30 pm Location: Pfizer Building, 6th floor 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Closing film screening: 8pm - 10:30pm RNG (2025), dir. by Redacted Cut / @redactedcut Location: Pfizer Building, Old Lobby space, 1st floor 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Free entrance Please use the back entrance from Tompkins Street if you arrive after 8 pm. Conceived as a future decalogy, RNG is an ongoing internet-native feature film that Redacted Cut uses as both protocol and playground. A space for unrestricted abstraction, producing iterative and repeatable forms of expression and material exploration. Composed from human traces across the internet, it forms a portrait of our contemporary condition. At nearly two and a half hours, it presents a cinematic experience that points toward a new avant-garde of our time.

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Join us next Wednesday, April 29, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Kay Watson. Kay Watson is a curator, producer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology, with a focus on photography, video games, and emerging media. She is Head of Arts Technologies at the Serpentine Galleries in London, where she leads programs that bring artists into dialogue with cutting-edge digital tools, infrastructures, and networks. In addition to her curatorial work, Watson serves as a trustee for Brighton Photo Fringe, Mediale, and The Photographers’ Gallery, contributing to the development of the broader visual arts ecosystem in the UK.

Present Continuous is presenting IS THIS A THEATRE OF LOVE? (or just a hellscape of masks?) April 22, 8pm Pfizer Building, 1st floor, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Free entrance Created by Wonderfil Cringe / @wonderful_cringe Directed by James Wyrvicz / @jmw1333 Cast & Crew Zarina Nares / @zarinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa J**** S**** / @pooba___ Isa Nicdao / @isanicdao Hannah Kallenbach / @gloppyho Poorspigga / @poorspigga Dana Dawud / @dansdansrev Justin D’Acci / @stevebuscemi Andy Thussy / @andy.thussy.with.a.vengeance Grace Lees / @preciousxmineral Dana Wendel / @danawendelwastaken YOU CAN BE ANYTHING AGAIN ONE MORE TIME <3

Dear friends and colleagues in New York, Tomorrow, Thursday, April 16, between 6 and 9 pm, we are opening the thesis exhibitions of our second year students and the end of the year exhibitions of our first year students in the SVA MA Curatorial Practice program. It would be wonderful to see you there. The exhibitions take place in the Pfizer Building on the 5th and 6th floors. Please follow the signs for MACP when you arrive. Additionally, one of our thesis students, Sophie Barford, is presenting her exhibition wait until my sugar melts at the SVA MACP Gallery, 132 West 21 Street, New York, NY 10011. Opening reception: April 15, 6–9 pm On view: April 16–30, 2026 You are very warmly invited to join both openings.

Join us next Wednesday, April 22, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Astrid Peterle. Dr. Astrid Peterle is the chief curator of Museumsquartier Vienna. From 2022 to September 2025, she was the Head of the Curatorial Department at the Kunsthalle Wien. There, she curated the exhibitions of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2022 and 2023), which is awarded annually to graduating students of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 to 2022, Peterle worked at the Jewish Museum Vienna, becoming chief curator in 2018. While at the Jewish Museum Vienna, she took over the curatorial direction of the new conception of the permanent exhibition, Our Middle Ages! The First Jewish Community in Vienna at Museum Judenplatz (2018–2021). From 2017 to 2022, she also served as the curator for performance at the Donaufestival Krems. She is a widely published author on contemporary art and Viennese cultural history, with a particular focus on performance art, choreography, film, photography, and feminist art practice. Peterle will present insights into how her curatorial practice was shaped by a rather unusual curatorial biography, moving from a cultural-historical institution with a collection to contemporary performance art in a festival context, as well as from a contemporary art production house to commissioning public art in the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, which is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. She will reflect on how the breadth of her education and professional experience informs her understanding of curating in different institutional contexts, as well as the challenges of enabling while operating inside these frameworks, constantly working toward the openness that we all talk about in the art world, but which is still a long way off.

Join us this Thursday, 6-9pm! 诗学 poetics 시학 Apr 16 - 30, 2026 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Reception: Thur, Apr 16; 6:00 - 9:00pm MA Curatorial Practice presents “诗学 poetics 시학,” an exhibition curated by students Arthur Channon, Romy Cohen, Sung Hyun, Chaieun Lee, and Hongjin Zhou. “诗学 poetics 시학” aims to traverse conditions of liminality and disorientation, staging an archipelagic delay of poesis that explores the tangled limits of communication and miscommunication. Recent techno-social habitations, like social media and pocket AIs, subject our perception to iterative exercises of short-term attention and instantaneous recognition. The works in this exhibition posit space for participants to confront what Édouard Glissant termed “transparency violence,” navigating the linguistic, architectural, and ritualistic limits that characterize this moment. Through a cacophony of poetic engagements, 诗学 poetics 시학 stages a series of communications and miscommunications that underscore the relational frameworks between the artworks, artists, curators, and visitors. In total, each work echoes the others, drawing attention away from chorus notions of immediacy toward an intricate cacophony of the opaque layers between one self and another.

诗学 poetics 시학 Apr 16 - 30, 2026 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Reception: Thu, Apr 16; 6:00 - 9:00pm MA Curatorial Practice presents “诗学 poetics 시학,” an exhibition curated by students Arthur Channon, Romy Cohen, Sung Hyun, Chaieun Lee, and Hongjin Zhou. “诗学 poetics 시학” aims to traverse conditions of liminality and disorientation, staging an archipelagic delay of poesis that explores the tangled limits of communication and miscommunication. Recent techno-social habitations, like social media and pocket AIs, subject our perception to iterative exercises of short-term attention and instantaneous recognition. The works in this exhibition posit space for participants to confront what Édouard Glissant termed "transparency violence," navigating the linguistic, architectural, and ritualistic limits that characterize this moment. Through a cacophony of poetic engagements, 诗学 poetics 시학 stages a series of communications and miscommunications that underscore the relational frameworks between the artworks, artists, curators, and visitors. In total, each work echoes the others, drawing attention away from chorus notions of immediacy toward an intricate cacophony of the opaque layers between one self and another.

Present Continuous April 16 - 30, 2026 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16; 6:00 - 9:00pm 
Featuring works by Dana Dawud / @angel.vapemp3 , Lily Hyon / @lilyonthecross , Leonid / @human.obj , Zein Majali / @zeinxmajali , Naomi Moser / @holyfaarts , Zarina Nares / @zarinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 

Present Continuous examines the human experience of living in an age of uncertainty and explicit ferocity, when reality no longer hides behind polite narratives. Bringing together a diverse group of contemporary artists working across post-internet video, AI, installation, film and sculpture, the exhibition highlights practices that pierce through the hardened surfaces of propaganda, polarization, and conformity, remaining visceral, intimate, and playful. Present Continuous invites viewers to inhabit a shared moment of questioning, to slow down within the flux of our accelerated reality, and to embrace the uneasy state of the now. Rather than intellectual distancing or premature conclusions, it opens a space for hesitation, seeking to find ways of relating to each other by being vulnerable in our not knowing.


Public Program

Performance:  IS THIS A THEATRE OF LOVE? (or just a hellscape of masks?)
Wednesday, April 22, 8pm Pfizer Building, 1st floor, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Special Screening: The Code (2024)
Saturday, April 25, 8pm SVA Graduate Center, 1st floor, 132 W 21st, New York, NY 10011 
Closing Screening: RNG (2025)
Wednesday, April 29, 8pm Pfizer Building, 1st floor, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Curated by Diana Sardaryan

a good convergence April 16 - 30, 2026 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Reception: Thu, Apr 16; 6:00 - 9:00pm MA Curatorial Practice presents a good convergence curated by Arthur Channon, featuring work by Andreia Santana, Khia Hong, and Andreas Marquart Frellesen. In 1966, Theodor Adorno delivered a set of lectures at the Academy of Arts in West Berlin under the title “Borders and Convergences of the Arts,” during which he introduced the concept of Verfransung. A word invented by Adorno, its etymological roots fuse the German word fransen (fraying) with Ver, a term traditionally associated with the transition of an object. Translations vary: cross-fertilization, deconstruction, entanglement, erosion, infringement, and intermediality. Yet its most apt translation reveals a contradictory yet poignant term: the hybridization or fragmentation of the arts. This, to Adorno, could be considered what he describes as: a good convergence. Applying this transition to sculptural practices allows an unraveling between architecture, physical form, and viewer, interweaving them into the social and external fiber of the space. Grounded in hybridity, a good convergence hinges on expansion, shifting toward a material logic inherent to its own materiality, an erosion of boundaries that allows objecthood and architectural devices to merge. Situated within the industrial site of the Pfizer Building, this exhibition propels the notion of material agency in a site-specific context. Physical matter becomes an active participant, offering a sense of the unconventional environment inhabited while rejecting uniform display. The Pfizer Building becomes a tangible reality of proportions and texture, rendering sculptural forms as things among things, yet also potent contextualizing devices.

Join us next Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Frankie Su. Frankie Pochi Su serves as the Deputy Director of the New Taipei City Art Museum. With an M.A. (Distinction) from the University of Essex, Su has held leadership and curatorial positions across some influential institutions in Taiwan and China. Her experience spans the foundational years of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, as well as the directorship of Hong-gah Museum in Taipei. A former Senior Curator at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) and a long-standing board member of the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Su has also been a key conceptual collaborator for the artist collective, Luxurylogico. In her lecture, Su will share her experiences in shaping and organizing the Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA), a prestigious biennial hosted by Taipei’s Hong-gah Museum. As a vital hub for contemporary media, TIVA explores the evolving boundaries of video art through diverse themes, fostering a global dialogue between international creators and Taiwan’s vibrant artistic community. She will also share her thoughts about the online platform "Net.Open," which was launched at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as an unconventional art project for an art institution.