Project space P! calls it quits after five-year run in Chinatown, New York

After five years at Broome Street, P! Is moving onto other projects, a transition that was foreseen when founder Prem Krishnamurthy and gallery director David Knowles signed a five-year lease back in 2012. “P! on Broome Street was always meant as a kind of limited-time offering,” explains Krishnamurthy via Art News.

The upcoming season, which will open next month with a solo show by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens, will culminate in May 2017 with “Epilogue”, an aptly titled exhibition by French artist Céline Condorelli. P!’s last year will feature a series of “self-reflexive” shows, engaging with the “uneasy questions” of “display strategies, curatorial models, identity hijinks, conflictual processes, and financial structures” that the gallery has often foregrounded in its five-year run.

In a press release, the group behind the art venue has expressed its wish to focus on a number of future projects — including editorial collaborations, curatorial endeavours and exhibitions — and “looks forward to an expanded mission and further permutations.”