The Gatherers
Curated by Ruba Katrib with Sheldon Gooch
MoMA PS1, New York
1 April – 6 October 2025
As our lives become increasingly shaped by the glut of garbage and information, The Gatherers brings into focus current artistic practices grappling with global waste and excess. Featuring fourteen international artists—many showing for the first time in a US museum—the exhibition includes sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. While artists have rummaged for centuries, the exhibition underscores how retooling detritus has new meaning for a generation contending with the impacts of recent world orders, such as the ongoing fallouts and failures of globalization and neoliberalism. Artists in The Gatherers render politics as spatialized in the built environment, drawing attention to how histories reverberate into the future.
Installation view of The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Kris Graves
Installation view of The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Kris Graves
Installation view of The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Kris Graves
Installation view of The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Kris Graves
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar
Selma Selma performing Motherboard, 2025; The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, 2025. Courtesy of MoMA PS1, New York. Photo by Nathan Bajar