Upcoming programs
When There is No One Left to Sit
Sayeda Misa Sourour
September 19th - October 24th, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 19th, 8:00pm - 11:00pm
When There is No One Left to Sit presents recent works by Sayeda Misa Sourour. Images on film capture scenes from across Cairo—the artist’s familial home—alongside sculptures gesturing toward the form of the Monobloc chair.
The “plastic chair” is perhaps the closest any common object has come to a platonic ideal. It occupies a transcultural, international seat as a designed object, carrying within it the potential to unite the globe in a state of post-xenophobic euphoria.
This two-year project began in Egypt in the summer of 2023. The images are less an attempt at spectacle than an act of commemoration—not tied to a singular event or time, but to the condition of being-in-place. Photographs of these manufactured seats function as portraits of neighbors, family reunions, elders, patrons of the afternoon sun, and observers of the bustle(…)
Two Roses and a Briar Pipe
Scherben and the Goethe-Institut Chicago
September 19th - October 24th, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 19th, 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Exhibiting artists: John Neff, Morag Keil, Connor Crawford, Adrian Piper, Jasia Rabiej
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 film DESPAIR, a chocolate manufacturer named Hermann Hermann slowly goes mad against the backdrop of Weimar Germany’s descent into fascism. As his wife drifts in and out of the narrative with her artist lover Ardalion, Hermann concocts a doppelganger scheme in order to stage his own murder. The title of this exhibition is taken from a nondescript still life painting that Hermann glimpses in the artist’s studio of two rosebuds and a tobacco pipe. On the back of the canvas someone has drawn a crude swastika. The artist claims offhandedly that it was drawn by his neighbor’s son, and only Hermann reacts in rational alarm. Filming both political and psychological fragmentation with characteristic detachment, Fassbinder blurs the boundaries between sanity and delusion to reveal the two faces of social life - one floral, labored, and mundane, the other scrawled and violent.
Art x Aid: For Palestine
Saturday, Sept 27th | 12PM @ Co-Prosperity
Join us at Co-Prosperity for a workshop, market, and concert to support @gazamutualaidsolidarity and @gazasoupkitchen! Suggested donation provides you with entry into the market and drink ticket.
Suggested donation: $10 at the door or RSVP in bio
**We will not turn people away for lack of funds.
Afterwards, head over to Humboldt Park and join @__thesurface__ at Punks 4 Palestine.
This concert is open to the public and donations are welcome but not required for entry!
*NECESSARY PAID ENTRY*
Workshop - 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Join a Chicago-based artist in a watercolor workshop where you will learn to paint Palestinian landscapes and flora.
*All materials included!
*SUGGESTED DONATION ENTRY*
Vendor Market - 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This one day pop-up market is perfect for finding new gifts for the upcoming Holiday season!
**All of the proceeds from ticket and table sales will go directly to Gaza Soup Kitchen and Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity!
Past PROGRAMS and exhibitions
About Co-Prosperity Chicago
Co-Prosperity is a gallery and HQ for Public Media Institute: a non-profit organization that brings you independent media projects like Lumpen Magazine, Lumpen Radio, and Lumpen TV, a gallery in upstate New York, Buddy (an artist store at the Chicago Cultural Center), and MdW: a coalition of artist-run organizations in the Midwest!
Come visit us at 3219 S MORGAN ST, Chicago, IL, and follow us on Instagram to see our Open Hours!