[April 10, 2026] Join us for a once-in-50-years celebration honoring Franklin Furnace’s Golden Anniversary.
[January 27, 2026. 6:00pm EST] A public lecture on the history of the American reception and impact of one of the most radical Parisian late avant-gardes: the Lettrist movement.
[December 11, 2025. 4:00-7:00pm CST] Inspired by Bettina’s cycles of making, Franklin Furnace is invited to present an activation within the exhibition space on December 11, 2025.
[December 4, 2025] The inaugural Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium was jointly organized by Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and Cai Foundation. It was a full-day event curated by Paul Holdengräber and featured two keynote speeches and three panel discussions.
November 13, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. ET at Franklin Furnace's new location in LIC. We celebrated this year's 12 grant recipients from three categories: FUND, XENO Prize, and Jacki Apple Award.
[Oct 2025—April 11, 2026] A retrospective gallery show anticipating its 50th anniversary in 2026. Included in the exhibition are works by Martha Wilson, Jenny Holzer, Tehching Hsieh, Dread Scott, and more.
[July 12 - November 2, 2025] A showcase of artists' books created in the 1970s and collected by the influential Brooklyn organization. The exhibition is guest-curated by Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art president Mark Waskow.
[July 4 (Fri) – July 19 (Sat), 2025] Pre-Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of Franklin Furnace. It introduces the groundbreaking activities of Franklin Furnace―still relatively little known in Japan. It focuses on avant-garde and time-based art forms such as artists’ books and performance art, and highlights FF’s global efforts to support emerging artists and archive their ephemeral works.
On December 1, 1995, Dan Perjovschi and friends ERASED HIS SHOW on the Day Without Art, an annual event proposed by Visual AIDS to acknowledge the devastation of the AIDS crisis.
Open Call for submissions: Dry Run: A Night of Student Performance Art. On Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm in Pratt Institute’s Student Union, Dry Run is co-presented by Franklin Furnace and PerformVu.