Current exhibitions
Here Is Our Hole In The Ground
Curated by Jess Bass & Yue Xu
October 16 - November 26, 2026
Opening Reception: October 16th, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The exhibition premieres new work by: Jess Bass, Camille Casemier, Maurício Chades, Corey Smith, Odette Stout, and Yue Xu, who use the metaphor of the rabbit — its body, social structures, habitat, and ecosystem — to playfully explore the dynamics of power within global, complex networks of ecology, economics, government, and politics. Through the image, biology and lore of the rabbit, the artists weave personal stories with larger socio-political narratives, examining how power is distributed, expressed, concealed, and resisted.
Second Hand
Molly Blumberg
October 16 - November 26, 2026
Opening Reception: October 16th, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
In Second Hand, Molly Blumberg presents a body of work that embraces processes of un-functioning and re-functioning. Objects slump, reach, and join one another, sometimes seamlessly and sometimes by force. She collects and transforms detritus, exploring what might grow when things are broken apart and reassembled. A broken chair droops into a bodily blob, bedsprings reach out with new appendages, organic matter is sealed in resin as it decays inside its shell. This work seeks potential in malfunctions and misfires. Out of the breakdown of an intended function objects become something else(…)
PMI Let’s Co-Prosper Anniversary Party
Friday, November 6th 2026 | 6 - 10pm
@ Co-Prosperity 3219 S Morgan St
In 2026, Public Media Institute is celebrating another year of making, broadcasting, publishing, gathering, organizing, and figuring things out together. Join us on Friday, November 6 for the PMI Let’s Co-Prosper Anniversary Party — a celebration of the people, projects, and communities that have shaped Public Media Institute over the years.
For one night, we’re digging into the archives. Expect photos, videos, posters, publications, ephemera, and other artifacts from across PMI’s history — from Lumpen Radio, Lumpen Magazine, Co-Prosperity, Buddy, MdW, and the many exhibitions, events, broadcasts, mutual aid efforts, and experiments that have happened along the way.
This isn’t a formal dinner or gala. It’s a party: a chance to gather with old friends and new ones, revisit some of what we’ve built together, and help support what comes next.
The evening will include: A Screen Printing T-Shirt Workshop, Spinning Wheel Raffle, Tacos, Live Music & more!
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!