Sunday, August 3, 5-9pm :
Catching Clouds | A Pop-up Exhibition
by Mahtola Wittmer
@Mothership NYC (upstairs)

A returning sailor onboard Mothership NYC, Mahtola Wittmer trained as a graphic artist and worked in that field before studying at the Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst; Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig; and Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in the departments of media art, performance, installation and communication. She has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad ever since the beginning of her art studies. Her work has been featured in venues such as Aargauer Kunsthaus; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstmuseum Olten; and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. In 2021, her work was awarded the prestigious Solo Exhibition Prize of the Kunstgesellschaft Luzern. As the winner of Manor Kunstpreis Zentralschweiz Luzern, she was given a second solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern and had her first monograph published in 2024.

For 2025, Mahtola Wittmer has been awarded a research grant from the municipality of Lucerne. This summer, she is spending her time as an artist-in-residence at Mothership NYC in New York – made possible through Atelier X of the Albert Koechlin Foundation. Wittmer’s work explores the tension between the inner and outer, the personal and the political. Through recurring themes such as social structures, emotional states, role models, and interpersonal relations, she seeks to give form to the intangible and bring it into public discourse.

COME JOIN US FOR THIS MAGICAL ONE-DAY ONLY SHOW!!!

Pick a Card, Any Card
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 24, 6-9pm
Art Gotham, 125 Rivington St, NYC
Marking our peer community’s 20th anniversary in 2025, this show unites 25 Mothershipper artists jointly representing 20 countries. This exhibit is the first in an ongoing international tour: Up next are additional shows in Brazil, Italy, South Africa, and more to come—anchors aweigh!
This initial round presents the 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot deck. For the subsequent exhibitions, we will also add interpretations of the 56 Minor Arcana cards by other Mothershipper artists from all over the world. When all artworks are complete, we will print an actual Tarot card deck—feel free to reach out if you want one!
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Press Release/Curatorial Statement

GOS Wknd 2025: Friday, May 30, 7-11pm  | Saturday, May 31, 12-6pm
Our current batch of international sailors are thrilled to be part of the long-standing neighborhood tradition, GOS weekend, during which local artists all across Greenpoint open their studios to the public. (Use this phone browser-compatible artist map to plan your route!) On our platform, we’ll present films, theater & visual arts – including the New York leg of Fake gALLeRY’s DADA tiny ART SHOW +WORLD TOUR!!! On Friday night, multiple live acts:
~Reading from Blood in the Water by Actor/Writer Jorja Bentley (Australia) & local talent
~Shorts with Q&A by filmmaker/conceptual artist/DADA gallerist Allison Beda (Canada)
~Favorite Tunes by our favorite Brooklyn superstar  Katy Gunn (US) on her magic violin

Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 12-6pm + by appointment
@Sky Box behind Last Frontier NYC  
520 Kingsland Ave, Greenpoint

Come join us for another rare peek inside the hidden space on the far end of Last Frontier NYC! 
Where Is the Fucking Happiness  is a pop-up solo exhibition by visual artist Krista Autio 
(born in Tampere, Finland, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium). 

For the seventh time in a row, Finland has taken first place in the World Happiness Report's ranking of the world's happiest countries in 2024. According to the European Drug Report 2022, Finland is also the European country with the highest percentage of drug-related deaths among people under 25. A strong dualism characterizes Finland: On the one hand, it is a country with one of the best-functioning societies in the world; on the other hand, it is a place where loneliness and sadness often prevail. These two contrasting realities raise various questions. Therefore,artist Krista Autio asks herself: Where does the happiness always associated with Finland come from? Do Finns live happier lives than the inhabitants of any other country in the world?
The figure depicted in Autio’s work is enveloped within a black forest. There is no sadness in their eyes, not even the hint of a smile, they are immobile in the vastness of nature surrounding them. Finland has the “jokamiehen oikeudet”, the “everyman's right” to experience the forest and enjoy nature. The character portrayed in the painting returns to their familiar nature, their place of refuge, and together with their only companions, a dog spotted with the colors of Finland, a bottle of wine and a cigarette, they wistfully think back to their happy moments and perhaps finds them not so much in the joy of past experiences, but in the stability, in the things that remain.
The inherent ambiguity in this fragment of life echoes some of the most dystonic Finnish realities: the relationship to alcohol; to nature; to animals, which for some people are their only company and only love. For Autio, happiness is to be experienced subjectively, without dogma or fixed rules, so her work and the questions they raise remain open to individual interpretation.

Sep 13-14, 2024
@Sky Box behind Last Frontier NYC  
520 Kingsland Ave, Greenpoint

Come join us for the reveal of a hidden space on the far end of Last Frontier NYC! NOISE is a pop-up solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Luísa Ramires (Portugal). The show presents the works she has produced during her 3-month New York residency spanning two platforms: Mothership NYC and Kunstraum. It is an exploration of the concept of noise as a record of life in the city.

Sound Shapes by Mothership NYC
Sep 4-8, 2024: Booth 27 @ VOLTA New York 2024
Chelsea Industrial
535-551 W 28th St, New York

Fair Opening Hours:
Wed, Sep 4 | VIP Private View | 5-9 pm
Thur, Sep 6 -S at, Sep 7 | 12-8 pm
Sun, Sep 8 | 12-5pm

June 1-2, 2024
12-6 PM | Sound Healing Session: 2-3 PM
@Mothership NYC
252 Green Street, Bklyn

Our current batch of sailors are thrilled to be part of the long-standing neighborhood tradition, GOS weekend, during which local artists all across Greenpoint open their studios to the public. (Use this phone browser-compatible artist map to plan your route!) On our platform, we’ll present paintings, sculpture, installation, and video work, as well as an experimental, multidisciplinary sound healing session.

Lisa Hennig-Olsen POP-UP EXHIBITION
May 24-26, 2024
Opening Night: Friday, May 24, 6-8 PM
Weekend Hours: May 25-26, 12-4 PM
Guesthouse Gallery below @LastFrontierNYC
520 Kingsland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

We are thrilled to invite you to this solo show by our multitalented sailor, Lisa Hennig-Olsen, in our satellite gallery down the block from #MothershipNYC!
In addition to paintings, sculpture and video work, we'll treat you to live DJ sets and spectacular views from the roofs above, which are home to the unique Kingsland Wildflowers bird sanctuary! Please click for more info.

Studio 52 | TRIANGLE! 
Gotzinger Str. 52, 81371 Munich, Germany
Opening: Thursday, June 1, 2023 | 6-9pm

Come join our New York crew of Mothershipper artists
@ the brand new art tank Studio 52 in the historic Bauch von München!
~ Duo Livia & Fred
~ Elena Greta Falcini
~ Stefanie Gerstmayr  
~ Sol Kjøk
~ Rolf-Maria Krückels
~ Ernesto Morales
Edition launch with musical teaser by Duo Livia & Fred: Saturday, June 3, 6pm
SPECIAL EVENT: 06.06.2023 Concert by Livia & Fred at Pasinger Fabrik 

FEAT. @ Edicola 51
Piazzeta Madonna degli Angeli 2, Turin, Italy
Nov 4-8, 2022
Opening: Friday, Nov 4, 6-10pm
A crew of six Mothershippers set sail for Turin for the Artissima Art Fair:
Eight nations represented in the brand-new gallery Edicola 51 in the historic city center!
Our sailors on site:
~ Stefanie Gerstmayr
~ Elena Greta Falcini
~ Katy Gunn
~ Sol Kjøk
~ Rolf-Maria Krückels
~ Marcin Ryczek
~ Ernesto Morales

LIVESTREAM PERFORMANCE
from Mothership’s MAIN DECK
Sat October 17, 2020, 5PM

Brutta ma Buona (Ugly but Good) began as a solo exploration that communes and reckons with lineage that developed into a work for an intergenerational cast of Carol Chave, Joy Douglas, and Jessie Winograd. Originally planned to premiere in September at Triskelion Arts, the dance and weaving project is reconceptualized as a 20-minute work for livestream.
Choreography by Trina Mannino in collaboration with the Performers and Donna Costello
Performances by Carol Chave / @chave.carol, Joy Douglas, and Jessie Winograd
Sound Score by Laurel Snyder / @laurelgraces
Videography by @thefleetnyc
All proceeds from ticket sales will go to Black Girl Freedom Fund 
With support in part by Triskelion Arts and Brooklyn Arts Council

EMBODIED ACTIVISM WORKSHOPS ON OUR MAIN DECK!

Covid Summer 2020: Our friends at CreateART and Embodied Activism present a week of donation-based movement workshops and talks centered around Climate Awareness. All donations go to WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a Harlem-based nonprofit working to fight environmental racism at the city, state, and federal levels. Featuring dance and yoga classes from WE ARE NATURE choreographers Kelly Ashton Todd and Cameron McKinney.
For full schedule, to sign up and donate visit www.createartperformance.org.

Tues 9/22 4:00pm - Yoga with Kelly Ashton Todd at Mothership NYC
Thurs 9/24 4:00pm - Yoga with Alex Beaty at Mothership NYC

AN OFFICIAL CLIMATE WEEK NYC 2020 EVENT!