WSA, 161 Water Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10038.
Please join us for a special evening in connection with the Regift exhibition recently held at Luma Westbau, Zurich. Marking SI's 40th anniversary, Regift brought together over 50 artists whose practices engage with questions of generosity, exchange, and value in contemporary contexts.
On this occasion, Yayoi Shionoiri will conduct the drawing for Rirkrit Tiravanija's Lucky No. 2, a proposal in which the artist invites viewers to enter a lottery whose winner receives the keys to his apartment. All lottery tickets will have number combinations possible with 1, 0, and 2 in the Thai lottery format, with 21 referring both to the artist's apartment number and his birthday, which makes it his lucky number. In this way, Tiravanija's work collapses distinctions between an artwork and mechanisms of gifting.
The evening will also feature a conversation between artist John Miller and SI Director Stefanie Hessler, a reading by artist Amy Sillman, and a contribution by artist Catharine Czudej related to her work from Regift, entitled Shirt Swap.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Catharine Czudej is an American artist and inventor based in New York. She holds an MFA from UCLA and a BFA from New York University. Her practice spans moving image, sculpture, and social infrastructure—notably the platform MAGICEARTH.tv and the retail project Practical Magic. Recent exhibitions include God is Good, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2025); and Happy Birthday, Josh Lilley, London (2023). Czudej's work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Swiss Institute, New York, and Sadie Coles, London. Forthcoming projects include a feature film adaptation of Don't Stop Moving and a monograph with Von Ammon Press. Czudej is the editor-in-chief of Island. She is represented by Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, and Von Ammon Co., Washington, DC.
John Miller is an artist and writer based in New York and Berlin. His artwork and criticism investigate the role of aesthetics within mass culture. His work is several museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He has had solo exhibitions at La Magasin, Grenoble; Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunsthalle Zurich; ICA Miami, and many others. This year Miller was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2011, he received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Miller is a Professor of Professional Practice in Barnard College’s Art History Department.
Amy Sillman is known for a painting practice that extends outward to printmaking, animation, writing, curating, zines, and site-specific installations. In all of these areas, she embraces abstraction, humor, conceptual inquiry, and rigorous improvisation. Currently her co-curated show Betty Parsons: An Expanded World is on view at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum. Sillman’s book Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings was first published in 2020 by After 8 Books in Paris, and is now in its fourth reprint.
Rirkrit Tiravanija is a Thai artist known for a practice that overturns traditional exhibition formats in favor of social interactions through the sharing of everyday activities such as cooking, eating and reading. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. He also helped establish an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located near Chiang Mai, Thailand. Tiravanija studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, the Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Canada, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. He has exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide. Major solo shows include: Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024); Luma Arles, Arles (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen (2022); and ICA, London (2019). Tiravanija’s work has been recognised with numerous prestigious awards including the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award, the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2004) and the 2010 Absolut Art Award.