News


RE-Union, New York
Curated by Juan Puntes and Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Opening: Saturday, May 9, 3–7 PM
Dates: May 9 – May 30, 2025
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11 AM – 6 PM
42nd Street–8th Avenue subway station
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
WhiteBox Portable
New York

WhiteBox is pleased to announce Re-Union, New York, the second iteration of its WhiteBox Portable curatorial framework, curated by Juan Puntes and Yohanna Magdalene Roa.

WhiteBox Portable is a curatorial framework developed within WhiteBox that responds to the conditions under which art circulates today. Rather than a fixed exhibition model, it proposes a context-responsive approach in which exhibitions adapt to the social, architectural, and political realities of each site.

Re-Union, New York, brings together artists who have been part of WhiteBox over the past three decades, activating a network that unfolds across time, memory, and institutional history. The exhibition proposes an open field of relations, where each work functions as a distinct position within a shared yet unstable framework.

The exhibition unfolds at the 42nd Street–8th Avenue subway station in New York City (Lines A, C, E, downtown), a high-traffic urban site where over 200,000 individuals circulate daily. Within this condition, the exhibition operates as an embedded structure, exposed to movement, interruption, and the temporal instability of the public sphere.

Structured across three zones, white, black, and red, the exhibition establishes operative conditions that shape how works are encountered: displacement, fragmentation, and the unstable construction of meaning. Bodies, objects, and images circulate between contexts and systems of interpretation, engaging the porous boundaries between the personal and the collective, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic.

Re-Union operates as both return and transformation, a reactivation that does not stabilize, but rather reconfigures. Situated within the NYC subterranean subway crossroads, the exhibition reflects the contemporary city as a space of continuous negotiation, where presence is contingent, and meaning is produced in motion.

Artists: Arlene Rush, Carla Gannis, Daniel Rothbart, David B. Smith, Cecile Chong, Dirty Churches, D. Dominick Lombardi, Ellen Alt, Ferran Martin, Gregory Sholette, Jason Mena, Jenny Marketou, Jodie Lyn Lee, Jon Tsoi, Julia Justo, Kathie Halfin, Lilia Zamud, Margaret Roleke, Margaret Lanzetta, Marie Christine Katz, Michael Pribitch, Monika Weiss, Noah Fischer, Pasha Radetzki, Pedro Mateo, Philip Pavia, QinZa Najm, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Sandra Eula Lee, Simonetta Moro, Tatiana Stominia, Susan Salinger, Theresa Byrnes, Terry Berkowitz, Zak Vreeland

By appointment: info@whiteboxny.org

https://whiteboxny.org/



Biennial Means Necessary
04/11/26-5/11/26
Opens 04/11-6-9 pm
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio
New York

Artists: Terry Berkowitz, Jim Costanzo, Joseph DeLappe, Jeannette Doyle, Alexis Duque, Shahram Entekhabi, Claire Fergusson, Marcus Glitteris, Guerrilla Girls, Noël Hennelly, Ferran Martin, Emma McCagg, Jason Mena, Salvador Oliveros, Jaroslaw Potoczny, Pasha Radetzki, Riiko Sakkinen, Triada Samaras, Joaquin Segura, elin O'Hara slavick, Sari Tervaniemi, Jack Toolin.

Image: Jaroslaw Potoczny, Amfora, inkjet print, dimensions variable, 2022

https://proyectosraulzamudio.com/



LOUDREADERS Trade School
From January 8-16, 2026
Centro Universitario
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Rio Piedras

LOUDREADERS supports the coalescence of a wide range of spatial practitioners in the Caribbean and its extensions.  This will include, but will not be limited to, designers, architects, historians, authors, philosophers, planners, scientists, policy makers, activists, and artists dealing with society and ecology.

The outcomes of the projects produced will be part of the public publishing platforms, and will be presented during public lectures, workshops, and events, and made freely available and accessible online.

Participants: Jelsen Lee Innocent, Elena Maria Ketelsen, Nora Akawi, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Eddaviel, Luis Othoniel Rosa, El Josco Bravo, La CAT, Island City Lab, Errol Montes Pizarro, La Impresora , Beatriz Llenin Figueroa, Jason Mena, Pluma Barbara Moreno / Organización Can, Gamelyn Oduardo Sierra, Michelle R.O. Maria Elba Torres Muñoz, AfroLegado, Alexandra Pagan, WAI Think Tank, üatibirí

About: LOUDREADERS is a platform of public vocational education of architecture, urbanism, and related fields. Loudreaders produces, designs, and supports a public literacy of the built and destroyed environment by means of online and physical exhibitions, publications, lectures, symposia, workshops, events, installations, and spaces.

Since its foundation in 2020, LOUDREADERS has provided over 70 lectures and workshops and has produced several publications and exhibitions, both digital and physical.

https://loudreaders.com/