Current Exhibition

January 12, 2012 - April 6, 2012

Object Migration

Our second exhibition of the yearlong Migration theme focuses on the objects in our lives that drive and lure us onward in our own migrations. We invited our friends and collaborators to bring us Objects with migratory stories. With more than 50 objects on display, this exhibition is a transitory museum of terrestrial transitions. Some objects speak of intensely intimate moments while others tell geologic tales of absolute indifference. [more]

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ARCHIVAL EXHIBITS

Our exhibition spaces include several archival installations that accrue and slowly evolve: Hall of the Gowanus, Reanimation Library, Morbid Anatomy Library and the Museum of Matches. Come and spend a quiet hour or two browsing the books, studying old maps, examining curious artifacts.

Projects-in-Residence

Since its inception, Proteus has created or absorbed eight Projects-in-Residence, located in spaces adjacent to the central gallery. Some of these projects grew directly from our yearlong exhibitions, while other initiatives were invited to join based on their shared love of books, their wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, and their desire to engage the community in inclusive interdisciplinary explorations.

Fixers’ Collective
Hall of the Gowanus
Morbid Anatomy
Museum of Matches
Observatory
Proteotypes
Reanimation Library
Writhing Society

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Study Hall

Proteus Gowanus invites you to join Study Hall, a place for quiet contemplation, study and work. Members use the Proteus galleries and reading rooms to work in quiet community with others in a setting filled with art, artifacts and books. [more]

Ongoing Events

Wednesdays at 7pm

Writhing Society

The Writhing Society, open to writers and non-writers alike, practices methods of constrained writing invented by the French group Oulipo and others.  [more]

Third Thursday of every month

Fixers Collective

The Fixers Collective is a social experiment in improvisational fixing. Bring your broken thing and together we will see what can be done.  [more]

Saturdays 1-5pm and
by Appointment with the Artist

The Bureau of Unknown Destinations

Beginning on January 12, the Bureau of Unknown Destinations, a project by artist Sal Randolph, will offer temporary displacements to members of the public seeking to experiment with their migratory impulses.  Make a booking for a day’s journey [more]

Upcoming Events

Saturday, January 28, 7-9pm

Berlin Tunnel Project Opening Reception

Join us for the Berlin Tunnel Project, a collaboration between the artists Tatiana Istomina (Soviet Union), Barbara Westermann (Germany), Sasha Chavchavadze (United States) which is based on an installation inspired by a declassified CIA document describing 
a tunnel that was dug from West to East Berlin during the Cold War. [more]

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