Cultural Council Announces Red Bull Arts New York!

Announcing Red Bull Arts New York Red Bull’s contemporary arts platform continues its programming in Chelsea as Red Bull Arts New York.

Exhibition view, DISown–Not For Everyone, 2014.

(NEW YORK, NY - January 5, 2017) — Red Bull Arts New York is proud to announce the official renaming of their contemporary arts program. An experimental, non-commercial arts space, Red Bull Arts New York is dedicated to offering new opportunities to local and international artists by supporting bold ideas and ambitious projects. Founded in 2013, Red Bull’s art program shared the space with Red Bull Studios New York, a recording studio and broadcast center created on the occasion of the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York City. The renaming reflects a commitment to advancing the contemporary discourse as well as a long-term dedication to redefining the role of corporate patronage in the arts. Red Bull Arts New York will continue to operate at the same location at 220 West 18th Street. Since 2013, the mission of Red Bull Studios New York focused on extending the boundaries of exhibition making; supporting the production of new work by emerging and established artists; presenting historical surveys and large-scale presentations; and exploring the intellectual and philosophical provocations of our contemporary ethos. These objectives, reflected in Red Bull Studios New York’s exhibition history to date, will be upheld as the arts space transitions to Red Bull Arts New York. Fundamental to the program’s philosophy, Red Bull Arts New York devotes curatorial and production support for the presentation of new work, including artist fees, robust marketing activations and a two-floor 12,000 square ft. exhibition space to help realize challenging, institutionally scaled projects. The in-house radio broadcast center and recording studios will continue to provide ancillary support for artists working at Red Bull Arts New York. The program will maintain its unique commissioning philosophy, in which artists retain the complete rights to all works created for their respective Red Bull Arts New York exhibition. All programming will continue to be free and open to the public.

Exhibition view, TOTAL PROOF: The GALA Committee 1995-1997, 2016.

Exhibition view, TOTAL PROOF: The GALA Committee 1995-1997, 2016.

Most recently, Red Bull Arts New York staged TOTAL PROOF: The GALA Committee 1995-1997(2016), the first comprehensive New York presentation of Mel Chin and the GALA Committee’s In the Name of the Place, a covert conceptual artwork deployed on the primetime television show Melrose Place from 1995-97. Earlier exhibitions include DISown–Not For Everyone (2014), presented by Agatha Wara and DIS Magazine, the multifaceted collective that curated the 2016 Berlin Biennale; NEW INC End-of-Year Showcase (2015), the inaugural presentation of the New Museum’s initiative for art, design and technology; Scenario In The Shade, an exhibition by Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Jennifer Herrema comprised of a mise-en-scène depicting youth subcultures of Southern California (2015); BIO:DIP (2016), a two-part exhibition composed of large-scale solo projects by Hayden Dunham and Nicolas Lobo, curated by Neville Wakefield (former curator of Greater New York, Frieze Projects and MoMA PS1); We All Love Your Life(2016), the first US solo exhibition by London-based artist George Henry Longly; and Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior (2014), a group show exploring psychedelic consciousness in contemporary art, curated by Phong Bui in collaboration with The Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, among others. The Red Bull Arts New York gift shop, which acts as both a concept store and programming platform, will continue to feature an array of books, objects, artist editions and apparel commissioned exclusively for the shop. Since the shop’s opening in 2014, all proceeds have gone directly back into supporting new commissions and programming. With Max Wolf as Chief Curator, Red Bull Arts New York will present the first exhibition under its new identity— Bjarne Melgaard’s The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, opening to the public February 16, 2017.

Gallery patrons during the opening reception of NEW INC End-of-Year Showcase, 2015.

About Max Wolf Max Wolf founded the Red Bull Arts New York program in late 2013 and has since organized large-scale presentations with artists such as DIS and Agatha Wara, Peter Coffin, Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, Hayden Dunham, George Henry Longly, and Mel Chin and the GALA Committee, among others. Prior to Red Bull Arts New York, Wolf worked as an art advisor and independent curator for over ten years, in which he presented solo and group exhibitions with both emerging and established artists. Independent curatorial projects include Dead Inside (2013) at Bleeker Street Arts Club, Heat Wave (2012) at MISC., SICK (2011) at MISC., among others. Wolf was a Senior Contemporary Specialist at Artnet for over five years, where he worked with art world luminaries like Gracie Mansion and Walter Robinson. Wolf spent his formative years in New York working closely with collectors, estates and dealers, organizing secondary market sales of modern design, fine arts and antiques. He holds BA in Art History from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  About Candice Strongwater Candice Strongwater is Associate Curator for Red Bull Arts New York. Candice worked at alternative spaces and galleries such as Dixon Place, MoMA, Exit Art, and Tanya Leighton in Berlin. Independent curatorial projects include organizing group shows at Ashley Berlin (2015); Microscope Gallery (2013); and Exit Art’s film retrospective Every Exit Is An Entrance, (2011). She studied at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), and holds a BA in Film Theory & Criticism from Muhlenberg College. Part of No Longer Empty’s 2016 Curatorial Lab program, she recently co-organized Remix Rememory, a site-responsive, community-engaged exhibition at the Jamaica Colosseum Mall in Jamaica, Queens.