The Spring 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky

4-1 Gracie Hadland presents Max Pitegoff & Calla Henkel

This event is free & open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.

See the full Spring 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, an artist duo, have worked together for more than a decade, developing a practice embedded in the founding and running of venues as sites of social and collaborative artistic work. They currently operate New Theater Hollywood, a black box theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard, in Los Angeles. Previously, in Berlin, they ran TV Bar, a bar and performance space; as well as New Theater, a storefront where they wrote and produced plays with artists, writers and musicians. Their “expanded documentation” of these spaces takes shape through filmmaking, photography, sculpture and writing, tracing the economic, political, and personal protocols and conditions under which shared spaces can exist.

Founded in 2024, New Theater Hollywood produces experimental theatrical productions with artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers and performers. The first year’s lineup included shows by PRICE, Stephanie LaCava, Casey Jane Ellison, Klein, Kalena Yiaueki, David Louis Zuckerman, Colin Self & Diamond Stingily, Jasmine Johnson, Karl Holmqvist/Arto Lindsay/Klara Liden, Ruby McCollister, and Lily McMenamy.

Henkel and Pitegoff's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Fluentum, Berlin, Germany; Reena Spaulings, New York, NY; O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany; MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland; Cabinet, London, United Kingdom; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY among others.

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Gracie Hadland is a writer and art critic based in Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in Artforum, Frieze, New York Magazine, GQ, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, X-TRA, Los Angeles Review of Books, Interview Magazine, Spike, the Believer, Momus, East of Borneo and others.

Image credits: Left: Gracie Hadland by Leah Rom, courtesy of the artist. Right: Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff by The Cobrasnake, courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.