OSMOS

About the Gallery
OSMOS was initiated in 1997 as a project space in Berlin, and has since developed into a fully integrated concept for curatorial and editorial activities.

OSMOS currently has two locations. In New York City, OSMOS Address is located at 50 East 1st. Street in a Manhattan East Village storefront that was once a saloon frequented by Emma Goldman and other radicals. In Stamford, NY OSMOS Station is located at 20 Railroad Ave in the Catskills. For directions to either location, please visit our contact page.

OSMOS is composed of multiple operational components, with the key three being: OSMOS Address (Project space and operational headquarters); OSMOS Publishing (Quarterly Print Magazine and Artists Monographs); and managing artist’s estates. 

About the Presentation
OSMOS is presenting a series of historic and recent works by Australian Aboriginal activist artist Richard Bell, who uses his art as a political vehicle to challenge the Western and white power structures of the art world in provocative ways. A long-time advocate for the emancipation of all First Nations communities, Bell intertwines his art with his activism, calling into question injustices against the indigenous people of Australia. Following recent major exhibitions at documenta fifteen in Kassel, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Bell’s EMBASSY installation (2013-ongoing), was on view at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, in May 2023. Bell’s work operates both as an indictment against legacies of Western colonization — specifically, the expropriation of land from Aboriginal communities by the British — and as a statement of solidarity with global struggles for social justice, in particular with the Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter movements.