Interference

Opening on April 2 at CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art, Interference brings together 14 new exhibitions and curatorial projects that probe the hybrid conditions, change, and adaptation that have defined life and, in turn, contemporary art and curatorial practice, since the start of the pandemic. Each exhibition is independently curated by a member of CCS Bard’s graduating class and draws upon the Marieluise Hessel Collection and CCS Bard’s Library and Archives to put forward original research on emerging and overlooked contemporary art and artists. 

A complete list of exhibitions and projects follow below, organized alphabetically by curator name.

Operational Excellence
Featured artists: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Ignacio Gatica, and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer
Curated by Isabella Achenbach

Frame (traced)
Featured artist: Alan Ruiz, Louise Lawler, and Liam Gillick
Curated by Eduardo Andres Alfonso

Entre fotos y cuadernos, entre cosas y recuerdos
Featured artists: William Camargo, Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez, groana melendez, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, and Kyle Richardson
Curated by Angelica Arbelaez

Emaús
Featured artists: Armando Salas Portugal, Feliciano Béjar, Mathias Goeritz, Wilfredo Prieto and Christodoulos Panayiotou
Curated by Eugenia Braniff

Lustrous like plastic
Featured artists: Heman Chong, Christopher K. Ho, Bo Wang, and WangShui
Curated by Junni Chen

Up River Studies: Carcerality and the American Sublime
Featured artists: Frederic Edwin Church and Zoe Scruggs
Curated by Sofia Thieu D’Amico

Archives of the Tympanum
Featured artists Rita Ponce de León and Raquel Rabinovich
Curated by Laura Hakel

Informator
Featured artists: Doruntina Kastrati and Dardan Zhegrova
Curated by Hana Halilaj

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: audience distant relative
Featured artist: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Curated by Min Sun Jeon

Friends of Elliptical Orbits
Featured artists: Saeed Abu-Jaber, Elias Anastas, Yousef Anastas, Mothanna Hussein, Yazan Khalili, Maha Maamoun, Ibrahim Owais, and Ala Younis
Curated by May Makki

DISTRESS TOLERANCE
Featured artists: Brittni Ann Harvey, Mona Hatoum, Bryce Kroll, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Rodney McMillian, Janine Antoni, and Bri Williams
Curated by Claire Sammut

Beast, Chimera, Kin
Featured artists: Anne Chu, Jia Sung, Yi Xin Tong, and Frank WANG Yefeng
Curated by Danni Shen

whereabouts
Featured artists: Cudelice Brazelton IV, K.R.M Mooney, and Bat-Ami Rivlin
Curated by Dominika Tylcz

Back to Back
Featured artists: Ngu Asongwed, RP Boo, and chukwumaa
Curated by Guy Weltchek

Visiting information
The Hessel Museum of Art is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm by advance reservation. To reserve your timed tickets please click here. All exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public. For a seat on the free chartered bus from New York City for the April 2 opening please call T +1 845 758 7573 or email crobertson [​at​] bard.edu. Reservations for the bus are required.

The Hessel Museum of Art is located in a single-level facility. Parking is available outside of the building in an ADA-compliant parking lot which has four accessible parking spaces at the end of the paved entrance way. To read our full Accessibility Policy, please see our website here.