Exhibitions
Past
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON CLIMATE
June 17—October 22, 2023
This installation, a collaboration with Brooklyn Botanic Garden and The Nature Conservancy, featured a reimagined climate action sticker wall, including a new slate of inspiring and achievable climate actions, accompanied by a digest of important recent research about how we can all be part of the needed cultural shift on climate. A 30-foot-long photo montage—featuring many who visited the Climate Museum’s first Soho pop-up—illustrated the community we create when we take action for a climate safe and just future. This installation was part of Power of Trees, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 2023 exhibition and program series.
SOLAR PORTRAITS
September 19—21, 2023
The Climate Museum partnered with the Nest Climate Campus, a Climate Week center of gravity offering three days of free programming at the Javits Center. In partnership with the Nest, the Museum presented the pop-up exhibition Solar Portraits, a beautiful series by award-winning photographer Rubén Salgado Escudero that expresses the profound social impact of access to solar microgrids in energy poor places around the world (including the US). The pop-up included an opportunity for collective reflection.
THE CLIMATE MUSEUM POP-UP
October 2022—April 2023
The Climate Museum Pop-Up blended art, surprising social science, and action, leaving visitors inspired about what they can do on climate change. The show began with a new, epic postcard mural by David Opdyke: Someday, all this. After viewing this remarkable work, visitors were invited to recognize and lean into their own agency and commit to climate action, including: sending postcards to their representatives, having climate conversations, voting for climate-forward candidates and legislation, donating to a climate organization, and asking their banks to stop financing fossil fuel expansion.
36.5 / New York Estuary
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The Climate Museum partnered with artist Sarah Cameron Sunde to bring the culminating performance of 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 – present) to life in New York City. 36.5 is a series of nine site-specific performances and video art works that take place in bodies of water around the world. Sarah stands in a tidal area for a full cycle as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The public is invited to participate by joining Sarah in the water and by marking the passing hours from the shore; the local community is involved in all aspects of creating the work.
THE FLAG PROJECT
April 1—May 6 and June 5, 2022
In celebration of Earth Day and World Environment day, the Climate Museum collaborated with Rockefeller Center and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for Rockefeller Center’s annual, crowd-sourced art exhibition, The Flag Project. Artists of all descriptions from around the world, professional or not, were invited to submit original art on the environment and climate action. Winning designs were selected by the Climate Museum and UNEP, developed into eco-friendly biodegradable flags, and displayed on one of the 193 flagpoles that surround Rockefeller Plaza. The Flag Project has routinely featured both well-known professional artists and creators new to public display.
LOW RELIEF FOR HIGH WATER
Sunday, October 10, 2021
On Sunday, October 10 in Washington Square Park we presented a full day of participatory art and climate community building with artist Gabriela Salazar. Low Relief for High Water, Salazar’s remarkable sculptural installation and performance, was commissioned by the Museum to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day in April 2020, was postponed by the pandemic, and was introduced to the public at this event. While the sculptural installation and performance was a one-day event, an award winning team made a short film about the project.
BEYOND LIES
August 2021—March 2022
Beyond Lies was a public art collaboration with celebrated illustrator Mona Chalabi. This initiative featured a series of posters by Chalabi distilling extensive work by investigative journalists and academic researchers on the fossil fuel industry’s long-standing disinformation crusade. The campaign offered pathways to further learning and inspired community action to break the industry’s grip on climate policy.
Taking Action
June—October 2019
Taking Action featured hands-on learning about solutions for the climate crisis; a space to confront the barriers to their implementation; and an invitation to meaningful group action. It was inspired by the new youth climate movement, which was celebrated in a central photo gallery, and staffed principally by high schoolers.
Climate Signals
September—November 2018
Climate Signals was a public art installation of ten solar-powered highway signs by Justin Brice Guariglia. Unexpectedly staged in parks and public spaces across New York City, the signs flashed climate change alerts in five different languages.
The Climate Museum Hub
September—October 2018
For the Climate Museum Hub at Governors Island, we designed and operated our first temporary space. The galleries featured a photography exhibition, Climate Changers of New York, and a digital interactive, Create Your Own Climate Signal.
In Human Time
December 2017—February 2018
Our first exhibition presented a large-scale reproduction of Zaria Forman’s soft pastel drawing and a new photography and video installation by Peggy Weil. In Human Time was presented at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at the Parsons School of Design.
