September 19 - November 3, 2007
Stalking With Stories
curated by Antonia Majaca and Ivana Bago
Stalking with Stories explores the idea proposed by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben of the immemorable or a longing for something that never really existed. The show will expand on the idea of "time-flaneur" through micro-narratives to formulate an unstable and fragmented cartography of spatial and time collisions. It also investigates how cultural mythologies are inscribed into personal time-space-memory equations.

November 7 - December 22, 2007
Land Grab
curated by Sarah Lookofsky and Lillian Fellman
What does it mean to occupy a piece of land today? As real estate prices skyrocket throughout many of the world's metropolises, it is increasingly difficult to sustain a space. Whether concerning ownership and real estate acquisitions or the more parasitical practices of squatting on private or public property, the artworks in Land Grab explicitly concern the claiming and naming of space. The artists in the exhibition relate to a long history of artistic practices where the site of placement is intrinsic to the piece itself. However, in opposition, or precisely as a response to, much work of the sixties and seventies, these pieces do not consider 'unused' or 'abandoned' territories as a 'blank slate' where the artwork can properly come into its own. Moreover, every piece acknowledges that no relationship to land is apolitical, thereby paying specific attention to socioeconomic, historical and political contexts that are always bound up with the specificities of topography. These works are more than just site specific. Often the work demonstrates how the possession, habitation or designation of a site alters the place itself.

January 9 - February 16, 2008
The Promotion Show
curated by the public
apexart is holding an open call competition for submissions from individuals and collaborative groups to produce a 30-second commercial about apexart. The commercials will be available for viewing on a public-access video site, where the public is encouraged to visit and cast votes for their favorite apexart commercial. The top ten commercials will be on view as part of an innovative living room style installation at apexart. The top five commercials will be viewable on the apexart website, and the winner of the competition will have their commercial aired on NY1 and Channel 13. The Promotion Show was conceived with the goal of examining other areas of creative practices in contemporary culture and to challenge the traditional art world promotional model. The exhibition is also intended to assist us in diversifying our audience and the creative participants we work with.

February 20 - March 29, 2008
Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality
curated by Boris Groys
Combing theoretical text and film footage, the videos in this exhibition are used to transmit knowledge, to comment on the news, to spread religious and ideological propaganda, or to be used in the framework of education. The topic of all these texts is, actually, the videos themselves: their images, their repetitiveness, their specific relation to the dream of achieving immortality through repetition.

April 2 - May 10, 2008
Lots of Things Like This
curated by Dave Eggers
This show will explore a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified by contemporary people like David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Nedko Solakov, and Tucker Nichols. This kind of art, which we refuse to name, is somewhat crude, usually irreverent, and always funny. It exists somewhere between one-panel cartoons and text-based art. Dave Eggers is an author and founder of the San Francisco independent book-publishing house McSweeney's; the monthly magazine The Believer; a daily humor website; and Wholphin, a DVD quarterly of short films. In 2002, Eggers opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he teaches writing to high-school students and runs a summer publishin g camp.

May 16 - May 31, 2008
The Blue Print. From The Ground Up.
curated by high school students from Satellite Academy
apexart once again partners with high school students from Satellite Academy to present their exhibition The Blue Print. From the Ground Up. The student curators organize all aspects of the project including developing interpretations of artists' work, writing publicity materials, and developing the exhibition theme. Through installation, new media and fine arts, these Curatorial Studies students explore works of art that address different relationships of power in the city.

June 4-14, 2008
Come Out & Play
apexart presents two weeks of special events and programs. Check back for details and a full schedule.

July 2 - August 2, 2008
Nessie Does New York: Monetizing Myth, Legend & Culture
For one month, Nessie comes to Lower Manhattan and apexart becomes the Loch Ness giftshop, stocked with items ranging from authentic stuffed Lochness monsters to mugs and key chains. This show is a critical exploration into issues about the commercialization of art, myth and culture.