HEREart provides emerging and early career visual artists and curators access to space at an active, well-located multi-arts center. HEREart exhibitions creatively work with our unique spaces and engage the crowds with artwork that is made to function within a busy environment. This focus on interactive space naturally leads HEREart to function as the center of a community of artists.  Similar to the performance program at HERE, HEREart encourages artists to expand and explore their relationship to art by providing several levels of artistic participation – from curating a large group show or participating in one of our interactive, on-going exhibits as artist, curator, or spectator.

HEREart's location as an entryway to the theatres within our facility ensures a diverse and eclectic audience will experience the art. HEREart embraces its alter ego as a lobby for HERE's performance spaces and encourages artists to react and respond to this with their exhibits. HERE is a very appropriate place for today's active and interactive visual art: art that often moves, makes noise, and physically engages the viewer. Many visitors to our galleries are unintentional – they happen upon it on the way to a performance or the café.  HEREart seeks to snag these passer-bys and engage them in a dialogue with the space in which we move.  HEREart is invested in supporting artworks of all media and various content, but we concentrate on new work that in some way addresses the special conditions of our space.

-Kristin Marting

Artistic Director 

 SUMMER SUBLET SERIES

Featuring 14 innovative performances at HERE throughout the summer, this hybrid performance series provides bold artists with subsidized space and equipment as well as technical and administrative support.

80 Collaborators  | 40 Performers  | 1 Lily

A self-uprooted lily goes on a quest to combat its oppressors and destroy nostalgia!  In his latest work, playwright and actor Taylor Mac responds to an ever-growing homogeny in the world around him.  Through puppets, elaborate costume designs, live music, and vaudevillian theatrics Mac brings back the macabre, and reveals our national pastime of melancholy remembrances. Named one of New York's best in 2007 by both The Village Voice and The New York Press, Taylor Mac is a theatre artist working in the genre of pastiche.

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