The Gatherers Book Launch

Join leading thinkers for a discussion celebrating The Gatherers, a catalogue published on the occasion of the MoMA PS1 exhibition bringing together original texts on issues relating to waste, accumulation, and excess. Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances, the publication features newly commissioned texts on each of the show’s fourteen artists, as well as a longform essay by Chief Curator Ruba Katrib that contextualizes their practices within larger art historical trends, from Dutch still lifes to post-war assemblage. Katrib will moderate a conversation between catalogue contributors on the promises and failures of neoliberalism, the shifting constructions of East and West, and the explosion of new technologies.

The exhibition is on view throughout the 2025 NYABF, and catalogues will be available for purchase on site.

Edited by Ruba Katrib.
Foreword by Connie Butler.
Contributions by Ruba Katrib, Kristy Bell, Amber Esseiva, Anette Freudenberger,
Sheldon Gooch, Summer Guthery, Estelle Hoy, Quinn Latimer, Laura McLean-Ferris,
Camila Palomino, Filipa Ramos, Nadim Samman, Fabian Schöneich, and Jeppe Ugelvig.
Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances.

Artists
Karimah Ashadu (British-born Nigerian, b. 1985)
Tolia Astakhishvili (Georgian, b. 1974, with Dylan Peirce and Maka Sanadze)
Miho Dohi (Japanese, b. 1974)
Andro Eradze (Georgian, b. 1993)
He Xiangyu (Chinese, b. 1986)
Samuel Hindolo (American, b. 1990)
Geumhyung Jeong (Korean, b. 1980)
Klara Liden (Swedish, b. 1979)
Jean Katambayi Mukendi (Congolese, b. 1974)
Nick Relph (British, b. 1979)
Selma Selman (Bosnian, b. 1991)
Ser Serpas (American, b. 1995)
Emilija Škarnulytė (Lithuanian, b. 1987)
Zhou Tao (Chinese, b. 1976)