2025 Year in Review: Open Source Gallery + KoKo NYC 2025 was an amazing year for our organization! We hope you enjoy our Year-in-Review report, featuring some of our highlights, biggest achievements, and favorite moments from 2025 as well as a look ahead …
Open Source Gallery is pleased to announce our 2027 selected artist through our annual open call. This year we received nearly 200 applications from artists around the world. Our jurors, Marlene Hausegger and Juan Pablo Plazas, carefully considered each submission and selected Stephanie J. Woods …
Ed Woodham’s Love Saves the Day Parade as part of our 2025 Performance Festival. Photo by Stefan Hagen. Dear Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC supporters, neighbors, families, and friends, Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC have had an incredible year! We hosted our first ever …
Brooklyn, NY – Open Source Gallery announced today a grant award totaling $25,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the arts and culture sector. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded $80.9 million …
Every summer, KoKo NYC — the program that runs the race — organizes workshops where kids design and build their vehicles, applying the nonprofit’s “trash is treasure” mission of teaching kids to use their creativity and reclaimed materials to build anything possible. Visit WNYC for …
2024 Exhibitions JODY WOOD, Collecting Health with text by Jan Cohen-Cruz MONIKA DROŻYŃSKA, Latte Capitalizm with text by Katarzyna Piskorz translation from polish Joanna Figiel ZÉ KIELWAGEN, BAFO! Beauty Temple with text by Ze Kielwagen GRACE SACHI TROXELL, this pot is made of earth and when it breaks, …
Open Source Gallery is pleased to announce our 2026 selected artist through our annual open call. This year we received nearly 200 applications from artists around the world. Our jurors, Monika Drożyńska and Zé Kielwagen, carefully considered each submission and selected Albrecht Fersch for a …
Photo by Stefan Hagen Dear Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC supporters, neighbors, families, and friends, Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC have had a fantastic year! We presented five site-specific art exhibitions and over 50 free public events, from live music and storytelling, to …
Read the full article Scabby the Rat, Icon of Labor Strikes, Gets His Own NYC Show Maya Pontone November 14, 2024 Scabby the Rat is a signature symbol of organized labor in the United States. The larger-than-life inflatable rodent with bloodshot eyes, spikey claws, and …
Thank you for connecting with us either through Open Source Gallery or KoKo NYC. We have had a really great year so far! We do what we do because of our community. We also want to hear back from our friends and supporters, and for …
Upendo Chitinka is a Rotary Peace Fellow from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, pursuing an MA in Research and Public Policy with a focus on Peace Studies. She has a background in curation and is also a crafter from Tanzania. Upendo has curated …
Read Full Text Here Worldbuilding Zé Kielwagen Michele Jaslow Michele: Your immersive installation BAFO! Beauty Temple is dedicated to honoring the life and imagined afterlife of Baby Bobolete, a beloved Brazilian queer clown and icon created by the late Caike Luna. During the run of the show, you invite …
OSG is an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grantee!!! In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages a dynamic grants program while also preserving …
7. KLOHÄUSCHEN BIENNALE DIE RÄUME khbi7.kh-biennale.world/open-source-gallery 13.07. – 03.08.2024 THE ROOMS or: 15 years of The KloHäuschen “The KloHäuschen has been hosting its own biennial since 2012. And although it has already taken part in major international events and travelled almost halfway around the world, …
Read Full Text Here Monika Drożyńska: Resistance Embroiderer Michele Jaslow May 3, 2024 Polish artist Monika Drożyńska brings her resistance embroidery to a New York audience in a solo show at Open Source Gallery and her Urban Embroidery project. The connections she makes with words …
2023 Exhibitions HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS AND KEITH CHRISTENSEN, In Union with text by Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds and Keith Christensen DAVID COLOSI, Snaileidolia with text by Katherine F. McLeod SCOPE, Precipitate with text by Helen Betya Rubinstein …
Read Full Text Here Jody Wood Is Taking Care Michele Jaslow March 4, 2024 Jody Wood uses mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance in her art practice. On a brisk January afternoon in Brooklyn, we discussed the joys of transformation and the metrics …
Read the Full Article What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in March Jillian Steinhauer March 13, 2024 This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Maria Prymachenko’s allegorical paintings, Khadim Ali’s imagined creatures and Jody Wood’s “Social Pharmacy.“ If our society is sick, then Jody …
Open Call for Open Sound Open Sound is the summer concert series of Open Source Gallery HOW TO apply please fill out this simple form Deadline to apply: April 15th Open Sound 2024 is the 5th year of our a weekly music series taking place …
Open Source Gallery is pleased to announce our 2025 selected artist through our annual open call. This year we received nearly 500 applications from artists around the world. Our jurors, Petrina Ng and Khaled Jarrar, carefully considered each submission and selected Yu Shuk Pui Bobby …
2023 Year in Review: Open Source Gallery + KoKo NYC 2023 was an amazing year for our organization! We hope you enjoy our Year-in-Review report, featuring some of our highlights, biggest achievements, and favorite moments from 2023 as well as a look ahead to …
2023 Gala & Art Auction | 5 things to think about when buying art by Michele Jaslow | pdf version: 5 things to think about when buying art | Art Auction Gallery | buy Tickets OPEN SOURCE GALLERY 2023 GALA ART AUCTION 5 Things …
compos(t)ing spaces | Can You Hep Dry Food Waste? | co-experimentation lab | Press Release sign up to help . Open Source Gallery is looking for volunteers to help us dry food waste, which will be used to create sculptures by our upcoming exhibition artist, …
We are so excited to welcome Rebecca Mzengi Corey as the Managing Director of Open Source Gallery! Rebecca Mzengi Corey is an arts practitioner whose interdisciplinary work includes visual art, curation, filmmaking, and cultural institution building and management. She has held top leadership roles at …
2025 Open Call for exhibition is Closed. In Fall 2024 we will open the 2026 Open Call. Look out for that! We invite applications that are aligned with Open Source’s mission to observe the social environment we are surrounded by. We are looking for artists …
Read Full Text Here AUDRA VERONA LAMBERT May 26, 2023 Indigenous art often only has a chance to be shown in established galleries if it satisfies a romanticizing interest often held by white audiences. A recent exhibition by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of …
2022 Exhibitions PETRINA NG , Even The Most Beautiful Morning Cannot Bring Back The Evening ART OF THE GAMBLE, Text by Danielle Wu FABIOLA BURGOS LABRA ,, Con Su Abrigo Color Marengo Ni Plomo Ni Negro BREATHING MONUMENTS, Text by Katarina Poliacikova CAROLYN HALL & …
SEE ON HYPERALLERGIC By Maya Pontone: May 10, 2023 In a world where humans exploit snails as extractable resources, artist David Colosi’s latest exhibition asks us to consider their individualism. This Brooklyn artist is obsessed with snails, and wants you to be, too. In David …
Multi-drummer Performance When: Sunday, May 7, 2023 • 4:30pm Where: @ MAMA TRIED, 787 3rd Avenue @ 27th St CELEBRATE SPRING WITH A DRUM PERFORMANCE A multi-drummer performance in which each drummer at their own kit arcs and flows with dynamics and grooves. Featuring Chris …
Open Source Gallery is pleased to announce our 2024 selected artist through our annual open call. We received nearly 300 applications from artists around the world and our jurors, George Ferrandi and Fabiola Burgos, carefully considered each submission and selected Judy Wood for a solo …
In Union | Installation Shots | Artist Talk moderated by Lou Cornum | e-flux podcast | press release A conversation with artists Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds, and Keith Christensen on the occasion of their exhibition and book project, In Union, on …
We raised $30,000 at our Fundraiser this year! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT Thanks to all who purchased artworks and attended the event, Thank you to all the artists who generously donated, to the Open Source Gallery Board of Directors and to …
Musicians Amy Brown, James Santana, Mac Crenson, Sheila Sobolewski, David Freeman. Chris Moore Videography by Ron Jean Gilles, Iki Nakagawa, Colin Strohm, Kerry Shiedt, Mike Taylor Editing by Iki Nakagawa Where at Mama Tried – 787 3rd Avenue @ 27th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 When May 21, …
May 21, 2022 Doors: 4:30pm (Performance: 5:00pm sharp) at Mama Tried – 787 3rd Avenue @ 27th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Raffle: throughout Suggested Donation: $20 RSVP Here A multi-drummer performance in which each drummer at their own kit arcs and flows with dynamics …
Artwork: James Hannaham, Dominika Ksel, Sarah E. Brook, Regin Igloria, Soyoung Shin & Anthony Bodlović Artifacts: Soyoung Shin & Anthony Bodlović hold please: cotton, twine, booklet, pencil, paper James Hannaham Kindly Act As Colored As You Please: Poster 11″X17″ Enjoy Mixing Races – Sexually: Poster …
Artwork: James Hannaham, Dominika Ksel, Sarah E. Brook, Regin Igloria, Soyoung Shin & Anthony Bodlović Essays: Denne Michele Norris, James Hannaham, Kiran Chandra, Alicia Mountain, Stacie Evans Cover: James Hannaham “Kindly Act As Colored As You Please” On Issuu This catalogue is only available to …
May 19, 6-9pm with live music by Ajoyo Open Source Gallery (306 17th St., Brooklyn) The Open Source Spring Party is back! The weather is getting nice and the doors at Open Source are wide open–featuring our current exhibition SUNK SHORE, and live music by …
Brooklyn YAS Coalition’s 2022 LGBTQ+ Youth Art Contest NEW Deadline: March 15th Brooklyn YAS (Youth Against Substance Misuse) Coalition and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center are hosting our first joint art contest and exhibition! Queer artists between ages 13 – 26 in NYC are …
FROM OPEN CALL 2023 Review Panel: Soyoung Shin and Dominika Ksel. Anthony Bodlović & Soyoung Shin: Hold Please Dominika Ksel: (SEA)NCE The Panel selected one solo show for 2023 and 4 hot picks. HOTPICKS: Theater of Collaborative Survival Elizabeth Hénaff, Heather Parrish, Léonard Roussel, Seth …
As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery supporter and community member Teresa (Tree) Santamaria conducted an interview with Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro, who previously exhibited at Open Source with the art collective Boa Mistura. Pablo Arkoh Ferreiro received his degree in fine …
Kathleen Vance talks about her show at Open Source called “From The Woods“, about her beautiful River Installations and about her Traveling Landscapes. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes inside vintage suitcases and trunks. The bucolic scenes harken to a place …
Article by Rea McNamara in Hyperallergic, November 13th, 2020 8. Livestream: Stephanie Dinkins: COMPLEMENTARY When: October 29–December 1 (Extended to December 15th!) Where: Online and in-person via Open Source Gallery (306 17th St, Brooklyn) (Read 1-7 here) With livestreaming emerging as the de facto replacement for in-person …
By Will Fenstermaker “The bulk of the water in New York Harbor is oily, dirty, and germy,” Joseph Mitchell, a longtime journalist for The New Yorker, wrote in his 1950 character study of New York City’s commercial fishermen. “Men on the mud suckers, the big harbor dredges, like to …
Photo by Anja Matthes, 2020 Open Source Gallery stands in solidarity with the ongoing protests and the demands for social justice and equality. We condemn the policy brutality that has allowed for the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd …
Photographer Anja Matthes has been joining the protests currently happening in New York City. The protesters walked from Bryant Park uptown on 5th Ave and turned west before reaching the Trump Tower, where police behind barricades could be seen ahead. Speakers who carried a home …
Leigh Davis is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersection of culture, community, and memory. In recent years, she has been producing a body of work about end-of-life experiences (ELEs) and their role as tools to help us understand both the emotional intricacy of grief …
Victor “Crack” Rodriguez is an artivist that lives and works in La Libertad, El Salvador. He is a member of the art collective The Fire Theory and the art movement Los Siempre Suspectosos de Todo (“The Always Suspicious of Everything”). His practice and actions are …
Adam Chad Brody has been raising crickets in his apartment in Brooklyn since 2017. His project explores the art of farming, inter-species relationships, the potential for crickets as a sustainable and accessible food source, and the therapeutic benefit of cricket songs. Adam has presented …
Open Source is an organization that relies upon and thrives on our community. During this pandemic, we have had to re-think all of our programming–which is in-person and dialogue-focused–to find ways to move into a virtual sphere. We are currently developing two programs and we …
Dear Open Source Community, We hope you are staying safe and healthy during this concerning time. Due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we closed for the time being the physical gallery space and are moving events like HTBAF and cHURCH OF MONIKA onto digital platforms. Both these …
6/4/19 Open Source is excited to announce that we are residents with the All Good Work Foundation! The Open Source administrative team is being hosted by Camp David in Industry City, who is generously providing donated office space. All Good Work is a collaboration between …
5/30/19 What is W.A.G.E.? Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E) aims to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor. W.A.G.E. Certification is a national program that publicly recognizes nonprofit arts organizations demonstrating a history of, and commitment to, …
4/26/19 Open Source’s current exhibit, Ronny Quevedo’s Field of play is featured in The New York Times Spring Gallery Guide: Brooklyn by Jillian Steinhauer: Located in a renovated carriage house near the Prospect Expressway, Open Source is something of an outlier in a neighborhood without …
