Amant is a non-collecting gallery in East Williamsburg. Founded in 2019, it operates a 31,000-square-foot campus with exhibition spaces, a performance venue, artist residencies, and a café, built on the premise of slowing down art.
Amant runs on a simple premise: slow art down. Founded in 2019 by collector and MoMA trustee Lonti Ebers, the non-collecting institution occupies a five-building, 31,000-square-foot campus on Maujer Street and Grand Street in East Williamsburg: concrete and white-rotated brick by SO–IL, sitting adjacent to a meat market and a truck depot. The campus holds exhibition galleries, the performance space Géza (which doubles for screenings, sound, and spoken word), the Kis Café & Bookstore, and four residency studios designed for research rather than fabrication. Artists come from outside New York, stay three months, and are expected to absorb the city rather than produce for it. The question Amant keeps asking: what happens to artistic thinking when the deadline is removed?
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