{"id":2773,"date":"2025-09-05T02:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/2773\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:26:05","slug":"kadist-to-close-san-francisco-art-space-after-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/2773\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadist to Close San Francisco Art Space After 14 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKadist<\/a>, a Paris-based nonprofit known for commissioning works by key artists, will shutter its San Francisco space after 14 years, bringing an end to one of the city\u2019s richest non-commercial art venues.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe organization announced the closure<\/a> on social media late on Thursday evening, writing only: \u201cExhibitions, events, residencies, and conversations: it would be impossible to include everything.\u2060\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOver the last 10 years, we\u2019ve shifted more and more of our attention and work to international collaborations with museums in different parts of the Americas and the world, so while we are closing this venue, KADIST is continuing,\u201d Joseph Del Pesco, Kadist\u2019s Americas director, told Mission Local<\/a>, a San Francisco\u2013based publication. Del Pesco said Kadist did not face funding issues.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOpened in 2011, five years after the organization was founded in Paris, Kadist\u2019s San Francisco space was defined by its globalism, with solo shows mounted for artists ranging from Hank Willis Thomas to Jota Momba\u00e7a, from Wadada Leo Smith to Pio Abad, from Ad Minoliti to Erick Beltr\u00e1n. Kadist also staged a range of group shows, including a 2015 version of \u201cA Journal of the Plague Year,\u201d a celebrated exhibition about contagious illnesses mounted by Hong Kong\u2019s Para Site two years earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tKadist was launched in Paris by Vincent Worms and Sandra Terdjman, and will continue to operate a space in that city. The organization also holds a collection of more than 2,000 artworks.<\/p>\n

\n\tLynn Hershman Leeson, a San Francisco\u2013based artist, told Mission Local that Kadist\u2019s closure marked \u201ca loss to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the onset of the pandemic, a string of influential art spaces have closed in San Francisco, including nonprofits like the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and commercial galleries like Gagosian and Ratio.3. These closures have spurred discussion beyond San Francisco about whether the city\u2019s art scene is declining, but critics and dealers based there have rebutted those reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n