On View: April 23-June 13
The Kitchen at Westbeth (163B Bank Street, 4th Floor Loft)
Opening day hours:
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm (Free)
In Spring 2026, The Kitchen will debut a newly commissioned project by Tromarama, the Indonesian art collective founded in 2006 by Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans, and Ruddy Hatumena. Known for their investigations into hyperreality and the porous boundaries between virtual and physical worlds, Tromarama creates immersive, multimedia environments that merge video, installation, and algorithmic processes. Marking the collective’s first institutional exhibition in the United States, their project at The Kitchen extends their ongoing inquiry into the blurred lines between labor and leisure through the use of artificial intelligence. Departing from earlier works that mined social media data, Tromarama will develop a new work using context conditioning to an AI model, using their personal literary and music archives. This more intimate dataset becomes a lens through which the artists examine how personal and social histories are reinterpreted and remixed by generative technologies. The installation will be activated by live performances, dialogues, and community workshops throughout the run of the exhibition, ultimately positioning the exhibition itself as a dynamic site of critical exchange—one that invites audiences to consider how technological mediation structures both private and collective experience.
Tromarama: Upon a Machine is organized by Robyn Farrell, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Senior Curator.
Funding Credits
The Kitchen’s programs are made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors, The Kitchen Global Council, Leadership Fund, and the Director’s Council, as well as through generous support from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Teiger Foundation; and in part by public funds from the Manhattan Borough President, New York City Tourism Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Kitchen acknowledges the generous support provided by the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY). As a coalition of small to mid-sized multidisciplinary arts organizations, CANNY is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of arts nonprofits throughout New York.