materials: detritus from the street along with found objects… GDR glazed brick as base
A Tabletop Sculpture in the Time if Cholera, made at Lichtenberg Studios has been installed at a public site in Berlin at the request of and in association with Lichtenberg Studios.
May 1- indefinite 2025
materials: ceramic, mixed media, formica rectangle, on granite base 2025
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND IS GETTING BIGGER
For the first time, UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, which takes place in and around the Hudson Valley will include UPSTATE OPEN STUDIOS Although Chris Costan lives/works in NYC she has a place in the Hudson Valley where the focus is on the studio. For this open studio visit you will find a mix of early work and current work.
July 19/20 2025
Saturday and Sunday
11-6pm
https://www.upstateopenstudios.org
https://www.upstateopenstudios.org/map
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL0WF1fxhn3/?igsh=OHE1MXdxd3liMmxz
The Bee, the Flower and the Electric Field, an intervention
acrylic paint, ink on rice paper 2025
Chris Costan will contribute to ALLES VII along with a group of German and international artists. Costan’s The Bee, The Flower and the Electric Field, a travel version of an intervention piece will be included in this group exhibition:
ALLES VII (Everything 7)
studio im HOCHHAUS
Against the background of increasing discussion of the economization of the fine arts and, in particular, ever higher records for prices on the art market, a broad movement is growing that is questioning these developments. Artist run studio im Hochhaus is a publicly funded gallery.is located on the ground floor of a high-rise, a 1980s GDR housing project. The program provides a perspective on cultural/art spheres alongside the internationality that is already present in Berlin.
studio im Hochhaus
July 15 to September 7, 2025
Zingster Straße 25 | 13051 Berlin
Öffnungszeiten: Mo – Fr 10-18 Uhr, So 14-18 Uhr
Four “interventions” produced in Berlin are included in the group exhibition “and Other Works on Paper”. Subsequent to this showing, they will be placed in public places within the district of Lichtenberg, Berlin.
Kapitel 78: Wenn das Wissen im Irrtum begründet ist -
und andere Arbeiten auf Papier.
Eröffnung am Mo, 14.04.2025 um 20:00 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Di-Fr, 16:00-18:00 Uhr
Art Salon ist eine Plattform, bei der sich Künstler
und Besucher treffen können. Die Teilnahme an der jeweiligen
Ausstellung ist nach Anmeldung / Rücksprache direkt möglich.
Der Titel kann eine Inspiration sein, muss aber nicht zwingend
bearbeitet sein. Die Arbeiten werden um 19:00 des jeweiligen
Montag Abends gebracht, und dann zur Eröffnung um 20:00
aufgebaut / gehängt.Abgeholt werden die Arbeiten dann am nächsten Montag, unter
der Woche ist die Ausstellung zu den angegebenen Öffnungszeiten
zu besuchen.Des weiteren kann es am Eröffnungsabend zu spontanen Aktionen
kommen, so dass auch schon mal ein Konzert zur Eröffnung stattfand.
ATELIERHOF KREUZBERG
SCHLEIERMACHERSTRAßE 31
10961 BERLIN
Chris Costan will present a lecture and visual presentation at Lichtenberg Studios where she is an artist-in residence.
Lichtenberg Studios has been the home of an international artist-in residence programme since 2010. It is located on the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period building which houses the Lichtenberg Museum. The museum resides in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, in the historic Tuchollaplatz Square, Berlin
This presentation was made possible by the artist-in-residence program, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin.
April 9, 2025, 7pm
Türrschmidtstraße 24, 10317 Berlin, Germany
Returning to Lichtenberg Studios after an initial residency in 2019, Costan will spend the month of April, 2025 continuing her public project, a series of Interventions. The month long previous residency in November of 2019 prompted Costan’s ongoing Interventions project. Since that the first Lichtenberg Studios visit, she has created, installed and documented over 180 art interventions in New York City, the Hudson Valley, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC as well as in many locations in Europe such as France, United Kingdom and Berlin and Cologne.
Beginning in 2006, Lichtenberg Studios has been the home of an international artist-in residence programme, located on the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period building which houses the Lichtenberg Museum. The museum resides in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, in the historical Tuchollaplatz Square, Berlin.
http://lichtenberg-studios.de/en/2025/07/chris-costan-2/
Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
March 30-May 2, 2025
Watermelon Sugar, 9
textile collage on paper
7 X 19 inches
Costan will be represented by 4 textile collages in A Legacy of Making curated by Joanne Mattera. This group exhibition artfully operates under the premise that the work of artists of Italian-American origin reflects their background. Or not. The textile collages selected for this show have been part of Costan’s oeuvre since 2011. This vein of her work have never before been shown.
Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
September 3rd - October 15th, 2024
Reception: Saturday, September 14th, 2024
in Secure, 1, 2019
Mt tape on montage on paper
11 X 8 inches
Artists representing a variety of media and orientation will be shown at Alles VI, curated by Uwe Jonas, Berlin
ALLES VI
Im Hochhaus
studio in the HIGH-RISE
Zingster Strasse 25 | 13051 Berlin
July 9- September 9
opening July 9, 2024
Gymboree
collage, acrylic, ink, painted animation cell swatches on watercolor paper on panel
40 X 28 inches
3 early works (c1994) or Costan’s will be exhibited at Zero Art Fair, as part of Upstate Art Weekend.
365 West Pond Lily Road in Elizaville, NY in the Hudson Valley
11am until 6pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
July 19th - July 21st, 2024
https://www.zeroartfair.com/
#zeroartfairs
Treasury, 2004
Collage and metallic sewing notions on rice paper
12 X 9 inches
Earlier collage work of Costan's will be included in a group exhibition of former artist residents of Loft Nota Bene at Galeria Cadaques. Cadaques, located in the Basque region of Spain is an “artists’ town on the Mediterranean Sea. Salvador Dali's home, which has been transformed into a small museum, can be found there. Costan spent a month at Loft Nota Bene in 2004.
Galeria Cadaques
c/hort d’en sanes, 7
17488 Cadaques, Spain
hours: 18:30-21:30
June 22 - July 17, 2024
opening: June 22
https://www.galeriacadaques.com/en/exhibitions-new/
Costan is included in a book which presents the work of visual artists of Italian American descent.
The survey contains a foreword by Dr. Joseph Sciorra, director of Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City. He writes: "this book is a welcome updating of previous investigations concerning the Italian American visual artist.”
Costan is among a range of artists whose examples of artwork and a personal story are featured. This hardcover volume features 266 color photographs, an illustrated essay by the books editor that contextualizes the artwork. At a time when ethnicity and cultural legacy are part of the art world conversation, Italianità makes a relevant contribution.
Edited by Joanne Mattera
Published by Well-Fed Artist Press, 2024
296 pages, hardcover, 8½ x 11 inches
$72.50
Available through BookBaby and Amazon
A River Runs to Thee, Rivers of the World
acrylic, ink on watercolor paper, each 30 X 22 inches
unique edition of 24 pieces
The Wall Gallery is opening International Waters, featuring a small group of American and German artists. Petra Flierl, Martin Colden, Gregor Wiest, Hagen Klennert and Frank Lambertz with the American artists, Bill Nogosek, Richard Dennis, Anna Patalona, Chris Costan and Chad Abbley.
The Wall Gallery will feature 8 of Costan’s rogue interventions. All versions are titled, ‘A River Runs to Thee’ (or) Rivers of the World were created in 2020 at the earliest moments of the Covid Pandemic. Two intervention pieces will be located in the gallery with six interventions on the streets in Red Hook.
Check out this review of the show.
International Waters
curated by Scott Pfaffman
61 Seabring Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn (F train)
October 7th - November 12th, 2023
I Believe, IV
collage/textile scraps on textile on paper
Two of Chris Costan’s textile collages have been selected for the group exhibition, A Legacy of Making and will take place at the Calandra Institute in New York.
This show addresses a discernible Italian art tradition — represented by a group of contemporary Italian American artists. The various works share a sense of Italianness covering a range from the clearly articulated to the suggested to the non-existent… all generally connected to italianità.
A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
Curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2023/11/an-italian-american-colloquy-with-joanne-mattera-and-john-avelluto.html
25 W 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York City
September 27th, 2023 - January 12th, 2024 NEW END DATE; April 15, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, September 27th, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
(212)-642-2094
Costan will be included in an international group of artists in ALLE V at Hochhaus in Berlin, Germany. The show runs from July 4-August 23, 2023
Studio in HIGH BUILDING
HOCHHAUS Zingster Strasse 25 | 13051 Berlin
hours: Mon - Fri 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. - 6 p.m
Costan has been awarded a Rauschenberg Emergency Grant through New York Foundation for the Arts May 2, 2023
Mortality (or the Verrazano Narrows)
Three of Chris Costan’s interventions will appear in “Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens” a group show with Jennifer MacGregor guest-curating for Ecoartspace at Stand4 Gallery. The original intervention paintings will be placed in the gallery, with digitally printed versions installed on 5th Avenue in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn.
The exhibit will be on display at the gallery and at locations throughout Bay Ridge with film screenings at the Alpine Cinema.
Artists included: Rebecca Allan, Aaron Asis, Chris Costan, Kate Dodd, Peter Edlund, Kristin Reiber-Harris, Ellen Coleman-Izzo, Sergey Jivetin, Nathan Kensinger, Rita Leduc, Christopher Lin, Nikki Lindt, E.J. McAdams/ Jimbo Blachly, Nancy Nowacek, Benjamin Swett.
Chris Costan’s three interventions;
BLOOD BLOOD (or the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab)
MORTALITY (the Verrazano Narrows)
OTHERING (or the Diamondback Terrapin)
Check out this review from Brooklyn Paper.
Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center
414 78th St, Brooklyn New York
April 15- June 17, 2023
Evergreen Review - Karen Schifano interviews Chris Costan
“In the middle of the night, as I was up worrying about climate change, I thought again of Chris Costan's interventions and of the interview we did for Evergreen Review. Feeling powerless as we all do, Chris found a way to use that frustration and energy to make art and put it out into the world, everywhere she traveled. I applaud this project!” - Karen Schifano
F/W issue of Evergreen Review, January- February 2023
Three pieces from a series of Costan's Tabletop Sculpture in the Time of Cholera are featured in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of The Evergreen Review. They are paired with the poetry of Amber Atiya who lives/works in Brooklyn. The Evergreen Review is a literary magazine founded in 1957. It has existed intermittently since then featuring the work of Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bertolt Brecht, Amiri Baraka, James Purdy and Edward Albee. It has always been known as a publisher that launched an assault on American propriety: literary, sexual, and social presenting writers. Fall/Winter, 2022 issue, Evergreen Review
Opening of The Patriot at O’Flahertys Gallery
“The Patriot", a huge exhibition commemorating the moving of locations for O'Flaherty's on the Lower East Side. This show Includes artists using all mediums and featuring artists of all abilities. Rogue and pandemonium in spirit and sensibility with the hanging reflecting a mood of rebellion. This show harks back to times past when the New York art world was less structured and more open. Covered by Hyperallergic, Cultured Mag, New York Times and Time Out. An irreverent remembrance of times past was the mood. July 14-August 10 2022.
"For its summer 2022 show, flippantly titled “The Patriot,” the gallery burnished its lack of pretense.
Perhaps the bombshell art movement we’ve all been waiting for will crawl out of its clutter and turn the exhibition into 2022’s equivalent of the “Ninth Street Show.”(what it is and) what's actually desired —is a new model for art’s circulation and display, one less strangled by notions of business". - Jerry Saltz
collage, montage, ink, acid free paper 16.5 X 10.5 inches, 2018
Summertime Hues, a Pop-Up Group Exhibition associated with Upstate Art Weekend, Lemon Sky Projects, Kingston NY. July 22-24, 2022
Commemorating the 3rd annual Upstate Art Weekend, lemon sky projects is presenting a pop-up exhibition whose theme embraces a joie de vivre, with most of the artists spending significant time of living in the Hudson Valley. The show engages in a vibrant dialogue-- rough hewn bricolage approaches, counterbalancing more refined techniques--an explosion of color and textures to lift the spirits.
Artists: Jesse Bransford, Judith Braun, Colby Cannon, Susan Carr, Chris Costan, Anne Devine, Louis Constant Duit, Phyllis Galembo, Tommy Grenas, Clarity Haynes, Lisa Kirk, Anne Leith, Carmen Lizardo, Dylan Musler, Michael Rodriguez, Karen Schifano, Melissa Stern, Diane Tenerelli, Jonathan Williams.
66 W Chester St
in the back garden
Kingston NY
Hours:
Friday, July 22 noon-7pm
Saturday July 23 noon-7pm
cool off —-at a cold beverage reception—-: Sat July 23 5-7pm
Sunday July 24 noon-5pm