153 1/2 Stanton Street NY, NY 10002
info@kleioprojects.com 860-782-1030
Located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Kleio Projects is an exhibition and cultural events space primarily dedicated to promoting cutting edge contemporary work from the Middle East. Kleio Projects aims to foster emerging and mid career artists by providing a space open to dialogue and cultural debate as well as offering events that highlight visiting and local artists at the forefront of contemporary cultural practice.
Current Exhibition
Self Portrait As A Monster Truck vol.2 The Reckoning
Curated by Benjamin Martins
September 16th - November 3rd 2011
Opening reception September 15th 6-9pm
In 2010, a movement began, not with a a whimper, but with a rumble. Inspired by Maud Taber-Thomas and curated by Benjamin Christopher Martins, “Self Portrait as Monster Truck” was an opportunity for purest artistic expression, a framework upon which an artist could hang their individual expression, displaying their truest self projected upon a neutral subject. The upcoming “Self Portrait as Monster Truck Volume 2: The Reckoning” promises to up the artistic ante, with both muscle and heart on full display, featuring some of the most talented names of modern art alongside extraordinary emerging artists, to benefit K-12 Arts programs in Greater New York City. The question is not what kind of artist are you; rather, it is what kind of monster truck would you be?
Past Events
AUGUST 15TH 6-9pm
Past Exhibitions
antinormanybody: Experimental Video and Portraiture
curated by Barrak Alzaid
June 24th - August 10th Opening Reception June 23rd 7-9pm
Rather than consider the body as a fixed object of study, this exhibition draws on experimental video and portraiture to explore the radical potentiality of bodily presentation. Each of the short films or pieces in this series offers up alternative paradigms for embodiment and the affinity or contact between bodies by disrupting environments or revealing the body's haunting traces. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of talks and artist interventions.Artists included are Negar Behbahani, Mirak Jamal, Raed Yassin, Fatima Al Qadiri, Lyndsy Welgos, Monira Al Qadiri, and Marwa Arsanios, and will be accompanied by a series of talks and artist interventions.
FIGMENT 2011
June 10th - 12th
