UNCLEBROTHER IN NYC
Rirkrit Tiravanija and friends
September 30 - October 31, 2021
THE GALLERY is delighted to present an event, UNCLEBROTHER IN NYC with Rirkrit Tiravanija and friends. UNCLEBROTHER is a gallery space and community kitchen co-founded by Gavin Brown and Rirkrit Tiravanija in upstate New York. Located in an old car dealership, the space hosts exhibitions and weekend communal dinners every summer.
This fall THE GALLERY is bringing their philosophy of art and passions for culinary in NYC.
About the Artist
Portrait Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Since the 1990s, Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) has aligned his artistic production with an ethic of social engagement, often inviting viewers to inhabit and activate his work.
Solo exhibitions include the ICA London (permanent installation), Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. (2019), the National Gallery of Singapore (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010), the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Serpentine Gallery in London (2005), as well as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (2004). Tiravanija's work has been recognized with numerous awards and grants including the 2010 Absolut Art Award, the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, and the 2003 Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award.
Tiravanija lives and works in New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also President of an educational- ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of a collective alternative space called VER in Bangkok.
About the OR Foundation
The OR Foundation is a 501(C)(3) public charity in the USA and a registered charity in Ghana that has been operating in both countries since 2009. Working at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development.
The capital of Ghana, Accra is home to one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world. 15 million items pass through the market called Kantamanto every week, clothing collected in the name of charity, but sold into Ghana in the name of big business. However, 40% of the clothing that enters Kantamanto Market leaves the Market directly as waste. That’s roughly 6 million items of clothing every week dumped within an ecosystem that cannot support the cleanup, representing Accra’s largest source of consolidated waste. The U.S. is one of the top countries to export its secondhand clothing to Ghana, making it one of the biggest contributors to its waste.
For this event, we are trying to do our part to help our part to avoid more clothing being sent to Ghana to end up becoming garbage.Percent of our sales will go to help funding The OR Foundation.
