Artist Dan Colen and his nonprofit Sky High Farm are launching a new biennial exhibition titled “TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END,” opening June 28 at a historic apple cold storage warehouse in Germantown, New York. The exhibition, curated by Colen, features over 50 artists including Alvaro Barrington, Nan Goldin, Roni Horn, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and marks the farm’s relocation from its original 40-acre site in Ancramdale to a new 560-acre property in Ancram. The biennial serves as an alternative fundraising model for the organization, which grows nutritious food for communities lacking access to fresh produce and has never sold its harvest.
The biennial matters because it represents an innovative fusion of art and social impact, using a recurring exhibition to sustain a nonprofit that addresses food insecurity and systemic inequities in agriculture. Sky High Farm, which became a separate nonprofit in 2020, also runs a farmer training fellowship and micro-grants program for marginalized groups, demonstrating how art-world initiatives can directly tackle broader societal issues like food access and ecological sustainability.