Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA

Opening reception images from Eral Requiem | NOTHING STOPS THIS TRAIN exhibition @tsa_la A group exhibition featuring works by artists Brian Cooper, Salomon Huerta, Megan Koth, Macha Suzuki, and Nicola Vruwink. May 2 to May 24. Normal business hours: Sat & Sun 1-5 PM. #tsala #tigerstrikesasteroid #eralrequiem @tsa_la @earthlikeplanets @salomonhuerta @megakoth @macha_suzuki_studio @nicolavruwink @ichiroirieart

3 out of 5 artists from the Eral Requiem exhibition: Megan Koth, Macha Suzuki, and Nicola Vruwink. Not pictured: Brian Cooper and Salomon Huerta. May 2 to May 24. Normal business hours: Sat & Sun 1-5 PM. #tsala #tigerstrikesasteroid #eralrequiem @tsa_la @megakoth @macha_suzuki_studio @nicolavruwink

Opening Night Eral Requiem | NOTHING STOPS THIS TRAIN @tsa_la A group exhibition featuring works by artists Brian Cooper, Salomon Huerta, Megan Koth, Macha Suzuki, and Nicola Vruwink. May 2 to May 24. Normal business hours: Sat & Sun 1-5 PM. #tsala #tigerstrikesasteroid #eralrequiem @tsa_la @earthlikeplanets @salomonhuerta @megakoth @macha_suzuki_studio @nicolavruwink @ichiroirieart

As we celebrate 17 years of work, we’re returning to some of our most memorable exhibitions along the way. Today we are reflecting on A nuż, widelec….⁠ ⁠ Featuring work by Sławomir Mściwoj Łukasz Gębczyński, Rafał Kowalski, Jan Mioduszewski, Marta Nadolle, Paweł Nocuń, Marta Paulat, and Marta Sobierajska, and organized by Anita Kucharczyk, this exhibition offered an intimate view into contemporary Polish artistic practice. By presenting these artists to the Los Angeles community, the project fostered cultural dialogue and exchange between Polish and international audiences.⁠ ⁠ We are approaching the final few days of our fundraiser and we still need over 30 new monthly patrons to reach our goal! Your support helps us continue cultivating projects driven by empathy, experimentation, and critical dialogue, opening up new ways of making and sharing art.⁠ ⁠ Our goal is to get 60 new patrons this month! ⁠ ⁠ Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!⁠ ⁠ #tigerstrikesasteroid #fundraiser #tigerstrikesasteroidis17 @tsaphilly @tsa_ny @tsa_la @tsa_chi @tsa_gvl @anita_kucharczyk ⁠

Seventeen years in, we’re reflecting on a few exhibitions from our history that feel especially meaningful today. Today we are reflecting on EL PORTAL.⁠ ⁠ Featuring artists Kathryn Garcia, Limbert Gonzales Laulate, Sean Noyce, Ian Patrick Cato, Isabel Franchini, Flor Patricia Urguia Bardales, Vicky Coronado, and Gil Sandoval with Lauren Armstrong, and curated by Ricardo Harris-Fuentes, this ambitious exhibition brought together artists responding to the global turn toward indigenous healing modalities and entheogenic practices.⁠ ⁠ EL PORTAL extended beyond the gallery through rooftop performances and community-based ceremonial programming, creating an immersive and participatory experience that expanded what an exhibition could be within the TSA LA space.⁠ ⁠ If this exhibition resonates with you, consider becoming a Patron. Even $5/month helps nurture a platform committed to critique, risk, and collective imagination, where multiple paths through and beyond the art world can take shape.⁠ ⁠ Our goal is to get 60 new patrons this month! ⁠ ⁠ Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!⁠ ⁠ #tigerstrikesasteroid #fundraiser #tigerstrikesasteroidis17 @tsaphilly @tsa_ny @tsa_la @tsa_chi @tsa_gvl @bbydbl @limbert_gonzales @sean.noyce @ian.pc @dvine777_ @atum_gil @laurenigma @ricardoharrisfuentes ⁠

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles presents Eral Requiem | NOTHING STOPS THIS TRAIN, a group exhibition featuring works by artists Brian Cooper, Salomon Huerta, Megan Koth, Macha Suzuki, and Nicola Vruwink. Through the works of these 5 artists, the exhibition explores ideas related to Memento Mori and Vanitas, with recent developments in geopolitics and technology serving as a backdrop to contemplate the nature of transience, death, change, and obsolescence. Organized by Ichiro Irie. Opens May 2, 7-10 PM. May 2 to May 24. Normal business hours: Sat & Sun 1-5 PM. #tsala #tigerstrikesasteroid #eralrequiem @tsa_la @earthlikeplanets @salomonhuerta @megakoth @macha_suzuki_studio @nicolavruwink @ichiroirieart image above: Macha Suzuki

In honor of 17 years of programming, we’re highlighting a handful of exhibitions that continue to resonate. Today we are reflecting on Off Balance.⁠ ⁠ Featuring works by William Camargo, Eunice Choi, Joanna Cortez, Annette Heully, and Ignacio Perez Meruane, and curated by Alisa Ochoa, this group exhibition questioned traditional ideas of stability. Drawing from personal histories, immigrant experiences, material exploration, and issues of access, the artists approached imbalance not as failure, but as a defining condition of our time. Rather than restoring order, Off Balance revealed the tensions we inhabit—and the resilience required to navigate them.⁠ ⁠ Join us in building what comes next. A small monthly contribution goes a long way in supporting exhibitions and programs rooted in care, curiosity, and bold thinking, creating space for alternatives to dominant art world structures.⁠ ⁠ Our goal is to get 60 new patrons this month! Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!⁠ ⁠ #tigerstrikesasteroid #fundraiser #tigerstrikesasteroidis17 @tsaphilly @tsa_ny @tsa_la @tsa_chi @tsa_gvl @annetteheully #annetteheully @joanna__cortez @eunice_unice_choi @billythecamera @ochoamix ⁠

‼️This is it! “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes tomorrow. Your last chance to see the exhibition is today and tomorrow 1-5pm. We are also approaching the end of our introduction series of the participating artists. The Creme de la Creme on top of our Melange ☕️: Introducing: ✨Kids of the Diaspora✨ Kids of the Diaspora—the Vienna-based creative collective, a “movement brand” founded by Leni Charles and Cherrellone—present their multi-layered installation “Grandmother’s Cups” (2026). The cups are the most tangible traces of the artists’ grandmother, who cared for her children while sharing fragments of her survival during the Second World War—a woman whose identity remained largely unspoken. A tablecloth as symbolic veil. A draft on the table, reflecting the artists’ dilemma: how do you tell a story that has been deeply felt, yet withheld? The vessels become metaphors for inherited memory—for what gets passed down not in words but in gestures, in objects, in the act of pouring something warm and sitting together. Founded in 2016, Kids of the Diaspora operates across fashion, music, and art, creating space for diverse cultural identities without compromise. They’ve collaborated with art institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien, and the Belvedere Museum, and also brands such as Billa, Vöslauer, among many others. This March they also organized their 5-day retreat in Ghana, that was dedicated to dissolving generational patterns. “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” 📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles 1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19 @evaberesin #JosephDumbacherJohnDumbacher @kidsofthediaspora @rachelkamermandesign #friedlkubelka #friedlkubelkavomgröller #HansNeuffer @malgorzataoliwa @isarosenberger #AlexandraScharff @steven.steinman Exhibition documentation: @joshuawhitephotography

As we mark 17 years of programming, we’re revisiting a selection of exhibitions that have stayed with us over time. Today we are reflecting on Pete Hampton: The Lost Era.⁠ ⁠ Organized by his childhood friend and fellow artist John W. MacLean, this posthumous exhibition brought together 55 paintings honoring a Southern California artist shaped by landscape, loss, and a deep commitment to the natural world. Devoted to protecting the Puente Hills and La Habra Heights from development, Hampton’s work functioned as both artistic practice and environmental advocacy.⁠ ⁠ Support the work behind exhibitions like this one. With a monthly contribution starting at $5, you help sustain a space grounded in radical empathy, generosity, and experimentation, making room for projects that challenge, imagine, and expand beyond the limits of the mainstream art world.⁠ ⁠ Our goal is to get 60 new patrons this month! Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!⁠ ⁠ #tigerstrikesasteroid #fundraiser #tigerstrikesasteroidis17 @tsaphilly @tsa_ny @tsa_la @tsa_chi @tsa_gvl ⁠

🚨Last weekend coming up! “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes this Sunday! Come by, bring someone you’ve been meaning to see, or make a date with a complete stranger. Introducing: ✨Joseph Dumbacher  John Dumbacher✨   Joseph Dumbacher  John Dumbacher are fraternal twin artists, based between Los Angeles and New York. Their practice moves fluidly between architecture, design, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture—minimalist and architecturally scaled, exploring what lives in the threshold between light and dark, presence and absence.   For “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”,  they present “Witness” (2006) from a project that began with a quietly radical act: they placed an advertisement on Craigslist and created a series of haunting and identity-obscuring photographic portraits. They were offering free movie tickets to strangers. There was only one condition, stated plainly: in exchange, they would take a photograph of their guest at the precise moment the lights go down and the film begins. The simplicity of the proposition is part of what makes it so unsettling. The project stages an investigation of intimacy between strangers—of the charged threshold between mutual visibility and shared darkness, between the social contract of the street and the surrender of the cinema. This piece bridges several different layers of this exhibition in regard to (Hollywood) film history, the strangeness of film noir, the cinema as another kind of coffeehouse culture in Los Angeles, where strangers meet and “consume time” together.     Their work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; Curator’s Office and Fusebox, Washington D.C.; and BackroomNY, New York.   📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles 1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19 #TigerStrikesAsteroidLosAngeles #TSALA @evaberesin #JosephDumbacherJohnDumbacher @kidsofthediaspora @rachelkamermandesign #HansNeuffer @malgorzataoliwa @isarosenberger #AlexandraScharff @steven.steinman @_johannabraun @michael_niemetz

⏰ Only two sundays left. We are open today 1-5pm! “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes already in the evening of April 19. If you haven’t been yet—or if you want to return—now is the time to see: ✨Steven Steinman✨ Steinman is a Los Angeles-based artist whose layered paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs reveal the unseen rhythms and patterns that move through the natural world. His practice draws on a wide lineage and makes something entirely its own. For “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”, Steinman presents large-scale paintings in which paint and metal interact through a distinctive process—pigment and material blooming across the surface in forms that are gestural and alchemical. The palette: Black and gold—the exact colors of the façade and hand-lettered nameplate of the Kleines Café on Franziskanerplatz in Vienna, the coffeehouse founded by Hans Neuffer in the early 1970s. A coincidence that feels like a conversation across time. There is something else in these paintings. The way gold moves through the surface—pooling, branching, alive—calls to mind something microscopic: fluid, cellular, pulsing. A visual echo of Friedl Kubelka’s film “Blutsbrüderschaft”—installed right next to Steinman’s “Kiss”—in which Kubelka and Neuffer enact a ritual of blood kinship beside a river—and what streams down their hands finds its visual echo in Steinman’s surfaces. Both blood and river move by the same forces that govern Steinman’s gold: gravity, surface tension, the irreversible logic of liquid finding its form. Neither set of marks was composed. Both feel inevitable. Steinman’s work is held in the collections of the @hammer_museum ; @lacma ; @nationalgallery , @albertinamuseum @yaleartgallery . 📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles 1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19 Image credits: @steven.steinman Exhibition documentation: @joshuawhitephotography #tigerstrikesasteroid #TSALA @evaberesin @kidsofthediaspora @rachelkamermandesign #HansNeuffer #friedlkubelkavomgröller @malgorzataoliwa @isarosenberger #AlexandraScharff @steven.steinman @_johannabraun @michael_niemetz

As we celebrate 17 years of programming, we are highlighting a few of our favorite exhibitions from our history. Today we are reflecting on Marie-Josè: Between Walls, I Find My Voice.⁠ ⁠ Marie-Josè is one of two Open Call winners for 2025. Her work stood out for its deeply personal exploration of home and displacement, offering a perspective that is both intimate and timely. Engaging with diasporic experience and cultural memory, the exhibition foregrounded a voice that resonates across geographies and lived histories.⁠ ⁠ Help us continue organizing shows like this one! For as little as $5/month, you can invest in an org that values radical empathy, generosity, critique, risk-taking, and imaginative thinking, and foster exhibitions and programming that reflect these values. Our unique model allows us to collectively explore and create not just one, but many alternatives to the mainstream art world.⁠ ⁠ Our goal is to get 60 new patrons this month! ⁠ Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!⁠ ⁠ #tigerstrikesasteroid #fundraiser #tigerstrikesasteroidis17 @tsaphilly @tsa_ny @tsa_la @tsa_chi @tsa_gvl ⁠ @mariejose.art ⁠