Postcard from New York I Sept 01 -Sept 05, 2025
- Art Dealer Street
- Sep 4
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 5
Here is our weekly Postcard from New York, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!
In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.
Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!New York 2025
In Museums
MODERN EUROPEAN CURRENTS
@THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM, NYC 15 JUL, 2025 - 22 MAR, 2026 Experimentation and heightened creativity characterized the European avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century, as artists pursued multifaceted stylistic innovations. Modern European Currents examines this dynamic period through nearly twenty paintings and watercolors from the Guggenheim’s holdings by influential figures from the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian Empires—including Natalia Goncharova, Vasily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Liubov Popova, and Egon Schiele. The exhibition invites audiences to engage with celebrated collection highlights, such as Franz Marc’s Yellow Cow (1911), as well as hidden gems, among them Heinrich Campendonk’s Farmer with Horse and Wagon (1918), which has not been shown since entering the collection in 1948. This Collection in Focus presentation illuminates a seismic moment of transnational interchange and transformation, when artists tested new possibilities for visual representation. Discover more
In Galleries
HAUNTED KOREAS: MINA CHEON RETROSPECTIVE 2005-2025
@KODA HOUSE 30 AUG - 28 SEP, 2025
KODA in New York proudly presents the solo exhibition of global activist and Korean new media artist Mina Cheon, "Haunted Koreas: Mina Cheon Retrospective 2005-2025" (August 30-September 28, 2025), programmed under the theme of "Peace-Building." The survey show is a distinctive curation of her art known as "Polipop," inspired by pop art and social realism, churned political pop art. The selected works span her art career as an art activist and human rights advocate, from early works to recent art activism, new media, and installation, as well as an extensive collection of Cheon's series of "Dreaming Unification Protest Peace" paintings, offering a new perspective on the flags of a unified One Korea. Each of these paintings, born from the artist's stream of unconsciousness along with her counterpart North Korean art persona "Kim Il Soon," is a powerful peace protest, shedding light on the intricacies of communication, love, and a shared vision of a harmonious future for Haunted Koreas. The call for unification within the Koreas is a concerted effort to desire peace on earth, for dreaming global peace is about healing and reconciliation of tempered worlds divided.
In Brooklyn
IT WOULD HURT US - WERE WE AWAKE -
@NARS FOUNDATION
29 AUG - 16 SEP, 2025
The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to present It would hurt us – were we awake –, a group exhibition featuring work from the Season III, 2025 International Residency Artists: Jayden Ashley, Doreen Chan, Elizabeth Chang, Alessandro Di Lorenzo, Gill Gatfield, Kimin Kim, Shivani Mithbaokar, Maya Smira, Cass Yao, Giorgia Volpe, Kay Yoon, and Tony Zhao, curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Daniela Mayer.
It would hurt us – were we awake – presents twelve international artists whose works drift along the mutable edge of sleep and waking life, where inner sanctuaries are unsettled by invisible architectures of external power. Shaped by today’s pervasive climate of ambient anxiety, the exhibition reflects on how sites of rest and refuge—mental, bodily, or built—are rendered precarious by elusive, often existential forces. Across media, the artists explore these fragile barriers, navigating the tension between safety, vulnerability, and the subconscious.
Outside
URMODERN - BRITTA MARAKATT-LABBA @HIGH LINE
01 APR, 2025 - 06 MAR, 2026
Britta Marakatt-Labba is a celebrated artist belonging to the Sámi people, an Indigenous transnational population of Sápmi, a region that stretches across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. She is renowned for her contemporary artistic style and visual storytelling methods that bridge Sámi culture and the Nordic landscape. Inspired by her heritage, Marakatt-Labba employs vibrant colors and traditional Sámi handicrafts, called duodji, to create intricate embroidery work, using fine wool, silk, and linen on white fabric grounds. Her pieces serve as powerful narratives, addressing issues such as land rights, environmental concerns, and cultural preservation while challenging stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. Through her work, Marakatt-Labba poignantly reflects on Sámi life and their deep connection to the land.