🍾🥂 Come celebrate with us! 🍾🥂
Join us for the final hours of our exhibition. There is a lot to celebrate and we want to share this incredible journey with you. We're immensely grateful for our growing community and the shared passion that brings us all together. Let’s raise a glass to the artists, the fusion of Art & Science and ecological care that has fueled our this exploration.
Dive deep into the themes of interspecies collaboration, post-humanist ethics, and environmental stewardship that have shaped our current exhibition, "Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care," through a meaningful dialogue with an incredible panel of artists.
🎤 Moderated by Elena Soterakis & Doug Chapman of BioBAT Art Space
To learn more about our exhibition, please see our press release.
ClimART Cafe
Saturday, March 9, 1:00 pm
In this art-exhibition-meets-Climate-Cafe, you’ll have the opportunity to share your emotions about the climate crisis with a caring, concerned community, while being surrounded by artwork at the intersection of biology, technology, and care. Art has the capacity to resonate with our deepest emotions. This purposeful pairing with the exhibition “Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care” at BioBAT Art Space will make for a unique Climate Cafe experience.
🔗 Free to REGISTER
Embodying Ecological Futures: Health, Happiness and Identity
Saturday, March 9, 4–5:30pm
What can we learn about building healthy global futures from the traditional relationships indigenous communities practice with their ecological systems? In this talk, Baines shares what she has learned from indigenous Maya and Garifuna communities from Belize during her 15 years of anthropological research, focusing on how embodying ecological practices are linked to healthy communities and healthy lives. In the context of change (temporal, environmental, geological, climate), she takes a sensory approach to highlighting relationships with the land, the forest, and wild and domesticated plants and animals, and the links between relational practices and health, broadly defined. She defines heritage as a fluid and changing set of practices and, as such, is critical in our consideration of ecological future-making and building cultures of care.
Kristina Baines is a sociocultural anthropologist with an applied medical/environmental focus. Her research interests include indigenous ecologies, health, and heritage in the context of global change, particularly in Belize, New York City and Los Angeles, in addition to publicly engaged research and dissemination practices. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, Guttman Community College, Affiliated Faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the Director of Anthropology for Cool Anthropology.
Robotic Painting Performance, by Karen Ingram & OpenTrons
Saturday, February 3rd, beginning at 2 pm
As part of her “Biogenetic Blooms” yeast painting collaborations, Karen Ingram will make living art using a liquid handling robot, the Opentrons OT-2. The OT-2 will be deployed to make imagery with tiny droplets of genetically modified yeast on agar. The yeast will bloom into colorful, living art. Stop by the artspace to see completed living artworks, and to see the robot in the act of producing a painting.
Shihori Yamamoto, inside her Womb installation, I am here to love you, Image Credit: Shihori Yamamoto
Brewing Serenity: A Tea Ceremony in Shihori Yamamoto's Womb Installation, with Tea Arts & Culture
Sunday, February 4th, from 2 - 5 pm
20-minute Timed Entry
(Registration Required info@biobatartspace.com
Experience a unique fusion of traditional tea culture and contemporary art. This event invites guests to sit in Yamamoto’s “womb sanctuary” and be enveloped by radial drawings cascading from the dome's apex while bathing in the sound of the artist’s recorded heartbeat emanating from outside the tent walls. This auditory experience is paired with soft lights which pulse, synchronized with the recording of heartbeat. As you sit in the tent, the rhythmic heart-lights filter through the womb’s walls creating a nurturing, immersive ambiance.
This installation not only artistically represents our universally shared, biological beginnings inside a womb, but also seeks to unify humanity’s experience in a shared, introspective space. Yamamoto's installation is a "psychological refugee tent" for participants. Join us for this intimate, transformative tea ceremony, and for a dialogue between the tranquility of tea arts and the profound message of human connection conveyed through Shihori Yamamoto's work.
Image Credit: Elaine Young
ALIVE / DEAD | Projection Mapping Meditations + Pop UP
February 10th, 12-5pm with an artist talk at 2:30pm
How do the ways we care for biological life change between their living, semi-living and non-living states? from birth to death? across industries as a source of information and material? in public and private conversation?
‘Meditations’’ brings these questions to life by projection-mapping hand-painted text originally printed on an upcycled military uniform. Scrolling text spills from the ceiling through the headless and handless figure into a pool of words melting through the floor. Join Elaine Young | STUDIOPHORIA for an artist talk. Deep dive into: why Faust, Icarus, Prometheus and Essay on Blindness appear on capsules of her DNA; and how all the ways the act of breathing was portrayed in the media during covid inspired her latest fashion collection - which launches today, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. Happy Lunar New Year! Come through to shop the pop-up!
Performance by the Foulbrood Orchestra
February 17th, at 5:00 pm
John Roach, Thessia Machado, and Ranjit Bhatnagar perform with unconventional instruments to evoke life within a beehive. The audience will be led on a sonic exploration through a number of remarkable spaces in the iconic 1919 Brooklyn Army Terminal, culminating in the reverberant 18,000-square-foot Dark Space.
Arrive early to explore the exhibition ‘Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care’, sample a honey-based beverage, purchase some extraordinary honey-confections by B-Line Ice Cream (while supplies last), and receive a special bee-themed door prize!
Elaine Young, STING / (Yellow) / Honeybee— Assemblages of microscopic images
Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14th, 5–7 pm
Exhibtion Dates: October 14, 2023 – March 2, 2024
Curated by: Elena Soterakis & Eve Barro
Exhibiting Artists: Aradhita Ajaykumar Parasrampuria, Katie Hubbell, Elaine Young, Karen Ingram, Laura Kung, Juyon Lee, Lolo Ostia, John Roach, Iz Nettere, Shihori Yamamoto, Suzanne Head
Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care serves as a nexus of art, biology, technology, and ethics, raising the essential question: How can the concept of “care” extend beyond the human sphere? By inviting viewers to see care as a dynamic force that sustains and nurtures all beings, this curation encourages us to break free of the hierarchical limitations often associated with the term.
"Embodied futures," as conceptualized within this exhibition, refers to a future where bodies, ecologies, and technologies merge. The artists challenge us to imagine a world where “care” becomes an inherent part of the fabric of existence, inspiring empathy and reciprocity across species and ecosystems.
Special Thanks to Co-Organizers Carolyn Hall & Clarinda Mac Low of Genspace, Junho Lee & Katherine Plourde of NARS Foundation, and DB Lampman of Makerspace
This exhibition is made possible by the collaborative efforts of Genspace, NARS Foundation, Makerspace, Sunset Park Open Studios BioBAT Inc., SUNY Downstate, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and the New York Economic Development Corporation.
Brooklyn Army Terminal’s Atrium
🔆 Sunset Park Open Studios 2023
Open Studios & Gallery Hours:
Saturday, October 14th, 1 - 5 pm
Sunday. October 15th, 1 - 5 pm
Sunset Park Open Studios SPOS is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events, and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public. This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.
Sunset Park Open Studios is a project of Sunset Park Wide Open, a non-profit organization founded in Fall 2023 by Sunset Park artist studios, galleries, and community organizations to recognize and promote the vibrant creative culture of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 is presented by the following partner organizations and individual supporters: Art Cake, BioBAT Art Space, Context Space, Genspace, J&M Studios, John Avelluto, Makerspace NYC, NARS Foundation, Robert Melzmuf, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Thomas VanDyke Gallery & Yi Gallery.
OPENING RECEPTION: TIDES OF LIGHT / VIBRANT MATTER PHASE II
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 6, 6-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 6, 2023 – September 9, 2023
Artist: Yoko Shimizu
Curator: Elena Soterakis
Tides of Light, Phase II of Yoko Shimizu’s largest solo exhibition in America. Shimizu’s new collection of work invites viewers to appreciate how non-human life can inform the artistic process and be welcomed as an intelligent and creative collaborator. Drawing inspiration from the scientific exploration of natural elements, Shimizu makes the invisible visible, creating a series of installations that explore the intelligent properties of living systems.
LA MAGNA
Performance: Saturday, May 6 at 9pm
Tides of Light | After Party | BioBAT Dark Space
La Manga is a Brooklyn-based cultural identity laboratory inspired by the spirit of the modern and ancestral people of the Colombian Caribbean coast. La Manga have performed at Lincoln Center Joe's Pub, Nublu, MoMA PS1, Museum of the City of NY, Queens Theater, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Organized by: Matteo Rini
OPENING RECEPTION: VIBRANT MATTER
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: October 8, 2022 – April 26, 2023
Artist: Yoko Shimizu
Curator: Elena Soterakis
Vibrant Matter is a solo exhibition by Japanese bio-artist and researcher Yoko Shimizu that features a selection of the artist's work exploring the dynamism, agency, and expressive potential of living systems. Working with plants, microbial organisms, and natural phenomena as subject matter, material, and artistic collaborators, Shimizu's work probes and reveals the invisible intra-acting forces that animate processes of creation, adaptation, growth, and transformation in all organic matter.
LIVE PERFORMANCE, SYCHRONY, BY LORENA MAL
SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH @ 5PM
Please join us for the live presentation of Synchrony, a concert by Lorena Mal with piano performers Lauren Aloia, Ian Miller, Daniel Rudin and Madeline Smith.
This composition is based on the heartbeat data of all living organisms found publicly to date on scientific literature, as polyrhythmic relations to experience different bodies across states of sleep, hibernation, calm and activity.
This concert is presented at BioBAT Art Space’s main lobby gallery located on the Brooklyn waterfront entrance.
Pianos sponsored by Steinway & Sons.
*This event is free and open to the general public.
COMMON FREQUENCIES
May 1—October 15, 2021
Common Frequencies presents the work of a group of multidisciplinary Mexican artists focusing on active listening and invention to envision new collaborative systems. The artists in the exhibition are Marcela Armas, Tania Candiani, Gilberto Esparza, Interspecifics and Lorena Mal. Common Frequencies is curated by Elisa Gutiérrez.
This six-month bi-lingual exhibition will include a series of musical performances, art-sci workshops, guided visits and other events that will be free and open to the general public.
Still from “Unraveling”, Laura Splan, 2020
UNRAVELING
NEW ANIMATIONS BY LAURA SPLAN
ANIMATIONS MADE WITH MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE AND SARS-COV-2 PROTEIN STRUCTURES
August 15–October 31, 2020
Viewing with Artist Present: Saturday, August 15, 2020, 1–4 PM
Gallery Hours | By Appointment
Laura Splan’s solo exhibition is running in conjunction with the start of her 9-month artist residency at BioBAT Art Space. Unraveling is a new series of animations developed in collaboration with biotech company Integral Molecular during her uCity Science Center Bioart Residency.
Project support provided by The Science Center, Integral Molecular, and The Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.
Patricia Olynyk, Mutable Archives, video performance installation
Patricia Olynyk
Panel: artists Shimon Attie, Ellen K. Levy, and Monika Weiss; curator and art historian Hannah Klemm; and cultural historian Rebecca Messbarger. moderated by artist patricia olynyk
Date: March 8, 4–6pm
The Mutable Archive Panel + Reception
BioBAT Art Space is pleased to host an interdisciplinary panel on "The Mutable Archive", a multi-layered performance video project by Patricia Olynyk, which speaks to the problematics of human archives and renewed nationalistic obsessions with Othering and difference. By interrogating the mechanics of storytelling, the work probes the biological body and its cultural entwinements, the fragility of human life, racial profiling, and gender bias by demonstrating the fictitious foundations of human taxonomy itself.
Olynyk invited collaborators – artists, musicians, scholars, historians, a medical ethicist, a philosopher, an opera singer, and a spiritual medium – to write speculative narratives from an inventory of photographs of human specimens collected by 19th-century Viennese anatomist, Dr. Josef Hyrtl. Each performed script, a 4K cinematic video, exposes the roles of assumption and subjectivity in science.
A wine and cheese reception will follow the panel discussion.
Left: Meredith Tromble, Right: Dawn Sumner
TALK: ARTIST MEREDITH TROMBLE IN CONVERSATION WITH ASTROBIOLOGIST DAWN SUMMER
Date: January 11, 3–5pm
Curiosity & Creativity: What Makes a Successful Art/Science Collaboration?
Join us for this highly anticipated event as artist Meredith Tromble and astrobiologist Dawn Sumner give us a rare glimpse into the origins of their work together, their creative process, and what is in store for their future projects. In 2011, Sumner was part of a team that invited Tromble to play with the interactive, 3D visualization tools being developed at the University of California, Davis. The collaboration that sprang from that first visit is still going strong, having led to a series of digital artworks, sculptural installations, several performances, and four published papers. Tromble, whose work is currently on view in Umwelt at BioBAT Art Space, and Sumner, who is known for her research on early life in Antarctica and her contributions to the Mars Curiosity science team, will discuss their long-term collaboration and, in general, the ways in which artists and scientists can mutually inform each other’s work.
OPENING RECEPTION: UMWELT
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 7–9pm
Exhibition Dates: November 1, 2019 – March 30, 2020
Artists: Christine Davis, Patricia Olynyk, Meredith Tromble
We are pleased to announce our most ambitious exhibition to date Umwelt, featuring the work of Christine Davis, Patricia Olynyk, and Meredith Tromble. In addition to the main gallery we will be exhibiting a series of immersive installations in "The Dark Space", a 15,000 sq/ft additional space that we are opening for the first time.
CLOSING RECEPTION: SUMMATION & ABSENCE
Date: August 16, 2019, 7–9pm
Please join us in celebrating the closing of our current exhibition, Summation & Absence. There will be good food, good wine, and good people!
EXHIBITION: SUMMATION & ABSENCE
Dates: May 17–August 16, 2019
Artists: Suzanne Anker, Nancy Cohen, Vita Eruhimovitz, Lorrie Fredette, Michal Gavish, Elaine Whittaker
Curators: Etty Yaniv, Christina Massey
BioBat Art Space is pleased to announce Summation & Absence, an exhibition consisting of tactile, immersive installations where the artists engage in research that explores the human condition. By methodically drawing on the natural world, each installation opens a fresh portal into what is at stake for life on this planet, inviting the viewer to reflect on the beauty and complexity of life within a vulnerable ecosystem.
Artist Talk: Nancy Cohen & Michal Gavish
Date: June 22, 2019, 3–5pm
BioBAT Art Space is pleased to host an artist talk with Nancy Cohen and Michal Gavish, featured artists in our current show, Summation and Absence, curated by Etty Yaniv and Christina Massey.
Opening Reception: Summation & Absence
Date: May 17, 2019, 7–9pm
Join us for the opening reception of Summation & Absence, an exhibition consisting of tactile, immersive installations where the artists engage in research that explores the human condition. The exhibition is on view through August 16, 2019.
Artist Talk: Tarah Rhoda
Date: March 9, 2019, 3–5pm
Tarah Rhoda received her BFA in 2010 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She is currently based in Brooklyn and is the manager of the SVA Bio Art laboratory, where she researches live materials and explores the intersection of art, science and technology. Yanking at the micro and macro, her work investigates the body as a miniature world—one with landscapes, weather, and systems of self-maintenance that produce a spectrum of minerals and artifacts. Her most current project investigates the remarkable relationship between chlorophyll and hemoglobin.
Artist Talk: Tanya Chaly in conversation with scientist John Petrini, PhD
Date: January 26 2019, 3–5pm
Tanya Chaly was born in Sydney, Australia and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a visual artist and works across a variety of mediums using painting, drawing and printmaking. In her practice she examines ideas of the Natural World; the history of Natural Science, notions of nature and classifications of Wilderness and the fetishization of Nature. Currently she has been looking at Ecosystems, both the macro and micro relationships within these systems. She creates layered and involved worlds drawing on a wide range of influences from Gothic, Primitivism, Eastern Philosophy, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences.
John Petrini, PhD, is the Chair of the Molecular Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute and the Director of The Functional Genomics Initiative. His research focuses on the repair of chromosomal breaks and the activation of the DNA-damage-induced cell-cycle checkpoints. Dr. Petrini received his PhD from University of Michigan Medical School.
Artist Talk: Richelle Gribble
Date: January 7, 2019, 7–9pm
Richelle Gribble is a Los Angeles based artist who creates mixed media paintings and drawings, prints, videos, puzzles and sculptures that contemplate the intersection of humanity, technology, and nature. Richelle has exhibited at solo shows in Los Angeles, New York, Japan, and international orbit around Earth etched on 2 rockets and 4 satellites as part of her conceptual series Overview. Winner of 2016 Grand Prize Award for solo exhibition and representation at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY with inclusion in Art Market San Francisco, Texas Contemporary, and Miami Project. Richelle has completed 13 art residencies as part of her project The Nomadic Artist, where she travels the world to reflect social and environmental changes across the globe.
Exhibition: Spontaneous Emergence of Order
Dates: January 4–March 15, 2019
Artists: Tanya Chaly, Tarah Rhoda, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Richelle Gribble
Curators: Elena Soterakis, Jeannine Bardo
BioBAT’s inaugural art exhibit, Spontaneous Emergence of Order, featured four interdisciplinary artists who create works based in science and technology. These artists approach their practices like a scientist, incorporating deep research, observation, exploration, and experimentation. Their works connect us all to the natural world and our place in it and their journey lends beauty and understanding to the abstract.
Opening Reception: Spontaneous Emergence of Order
Date: January 4, 2019, 7–9pm
Artists: Tanya Chaly, Tarah Rhoda, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Richelle Gribble
Curators: Elena Soterakis, Jeannine Bardo
BioBAT’s inaugural art exhibit, Spontaneous Emergence of Order, featured four interdisciplinary artists who create works based in science and technology. These artists approach their practices like a scientist, incorporating deep research, observation, exploration, and experimentation. Their works connect us all to the natural world and our place in it and their journey lends beauty and understanding to the abstract. On view through March 15, 2019.