I read something the other day that said a specific life-altering event happens once a month to a certain type of person. The comments had a lot of feelings in both directions, about this being above or below average, terrible or exciting, but I couldn’t understand how to derive meaning from a quantification like that. The significance of something happening once, or in the case of this exhibition 77 times and counting, feels like an
impossible equation to parse. I have a google sheet open one tab over from here, called stampede, with 168 rows, each for someone who has participated over the past eight years at Horse & Pony (née HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts). It’s comforting to be able to quantify these years, to fondly look at the list of names arrayed next to the numbers, to filter through them depending on when we first met them, or who else they showed here with. But I assume these numbers are also wrong. I know we must have forgotten someone (we’re sorry!) or missed a response in our spam folder. To be honest, on a practical level these oversights are a precondition for this show taking place. As much as we would like to gather up everything that has happened here and deposit it in one massive pile in the middle of the floor, the space wouldn’t be able to take it; its history would cause it to collapse. And our entire project here has been to chisel away the layers of the past, leaving just enough hints for each person we’ve worked with to build something new. So we’re excited to share this necessarily abbreviated, but no less all-encompassing, overview of the first eight years of Horse & Pony.
In 2022, we’ll shift the way shows at Horse & Pony take place: on the ground floor we will welcome Xanadu, a venue for weekly screenings of artists’ moving image work (with occasional forays into broader time-based practices). Horse & Pony will take up residence in the basement, focusing on more intimately-scaled exhibitions with longer run times. Before then, though, we’re thrilled to invite everyone we’ve ever worked with to another Horse & Pony show.

Including work from Shahin Afrassiabi, Matt Ager, Josefin Arnell, Diana Artus, Khaled Barakeh, Aram Bartholl, Julie Beugin, David Blandy, Elijah Burgher, Julia Colavita, Beth Collar, Zuzanna Czebatu, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Caroline David, Lucinda Dayhew, Herbert de Colle, Cheryl Donegan, Claude Eigan, Paul Ferens, Kasia Fudakowski, Michele Gabriele, Dakota Gearhart, GeoVanna Gonzales, Monika Grabuschnigg, Seamus
Heidenreich, Nate Heiges, Kathi Hofer, Nick Jeffrey, Jake Kent, kg, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Nuri Koerfer, leckhaus, Carol Anne McChrystal, Ryan McNamara, Liz McTernan, Zoë Claire MIller, Adrien Missika, Robert Muntean, Nightmare City, Yotaro Niwa, Florian Oellers, Omsk Social Club, Anne-Sofie Overgaard, Silas Parry, Tamen Perez, Angelo Plessas, Tobias Preisig, Hannes Ribarits, Tina Ribarits, Liz Rosenfeld, Lorenzo Sandoval, Fette Sans, Isa Schmidlehner, Maximilian Schmoetzer, Jonas Schoeneberg, Sarah Schoenfeld, Pacifico Silano, Louise Sparre, Jennifer Sullivan, Valinia Svoronou, Anna Szaflarski, Johanna Tiedtke, Viktor Timofeev, Titre Provisoire (Marcel Dickhage & Cathleen Schuster), Marie von Heyl, Derick Decario Ladale Whitson, Helga Wretman, Thomas Yeomans, Lauryn Youden, & Anna Zett.