Pierogi 30: a group exhibition
Location: 394 Broadway 3rd Flr NYC
Exhibition Dates: 21 Nov–22 Dec, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, 21 Nov. 6-8pm
Hours: 11am–6pm, Weds–Sunday
Autumn 2024 marks PIEROGI’s 30th Anniversary
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Press Release
Pierogi is proud to present our Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, opening November 21, 2024. We would like to thank and celebrate everyone who made Pierogi what it is by presenting works by many of the artists who have participated in exhibitions over the last thirty years. It will be an eclectic and expanding group of work by eighty+ artists. We will also present images from past exhibitions and projects on monitors throughout the gallery.
Pierogi opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on North 9th Street in September 1994. Williamsburg doesn’t look the same as it did thirty years ago but it was around that time and before (in the mid-to-late 1980s) that visual artists flooded into Brooklyn and created multiple communities and an international destination for savvy art viewers. Pierogi’s reputation for a unique unconventional approach is grounded in this context. Over time Williamsburg’s example fostered numerous artist communities throughout Brooklyn and Queens which continue to expand.
Pierogi represents the work of emerging, mid-career, and established artists engaging in conceptually driven, process oriented work in a wide range of media: from the diagrammatic drawings of Mark Lombardi, the large-scale, nuanced still life drawings of Dawn Clements, and Hugo Crosthwaite’s award-winning video portraits and murals, to the interactive installations of Andrew Ohanesian; as well as curated exhibitions such as the award-winning Dead Tree installation (a recreation of the Robert Smithson work originally shown in Dusseldorf’s Kunsthalle, 1969), to numerous painters, performers, sculptors, writers, and more.
From early 2006 through 2008, Pierogi operated a second gallery in Leipzig, Germany, which allowed us to expand an international audience and artist base. From 2009 to 2019 we opened a second Brooklyn location, The Boiler, which was a more expansive space in a former factory boiler room that allowed us to mount ambitious installations, performances, and other events such as Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder’s In Orbit, a thirty-foot diameter kinetic wheel that the artists lived on for ten days in early 2014.
Pierogi’s Flat Files, an integral part of the gallery since its inception, are ever-changing with new work added regularly and have traveled to many locations, including: Gasworks (London), Cornerhouse (Manchester), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Brooklyn Museum, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The Andy Warhol Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bard and Vassar Colleges, and Kent State University, among others.
A selection of works held in the Flat Files will be available for viewing at Pierogi during the anniversary exhibition.
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