Since its founding in 2015, Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum has produced ambitious projects inspiring communities across Denver, New York City, San Antonio, Chicago, Mexico City, Prague, Venice, and more to venture beyond traditional institutional spaces. Established by founder Laura Merage and led by founding Executive Director + Chief Curator Cortney Lane Stell, the Denver-based nonprofit has collaborated with 240+ regional, national, and international artists across 170+ sites, stewarding projects in a historic farm on the U.S.-Mexico border, a former Chinese laundry site in a mining town, and a wastewater management campus, among others.

To honor the nonprofit’s ten-year anniversary, Black Cube will host three exciting, experimental group exhibitions in the museum’s home city of Denver: flood (June 21), SWEAT (September 18), and What We Hold On To (September 5–December 12). All exhibitions are curated by Cortney Lane Stell.

flood and SWEAT draw on the infrastructures of a pool party and a nightclub respectively, blurring the lines between contemporary art, celebration, and community. These one-day exhibitions not only nod to the often-fraught relationship between art’s serious intellectual work and its festive contexts, but also call back to the transience of Black Cube’s popular Drive-In series (August 2017, December 2017, and August 2018)—a trio of one-night-only presentations that employed vehicles as spaces for unconventional art.

While flood and SWEAT promise cathartic, ephemeral experiences, What We Hold On To is, in turn, concerned with what is retained. The exhibition roots Black Cube by reopening the nonprofit’s headquarters warehouse space as a venue for artists’ investigations into the act of storage—what we keep, hide, archive, or preserve.

flood
June 21, 2025 | 4—7 pm | TAXI Campus, 3455 Ringsby Ct, Denver, CO
A one-afternoon experimental exhibition that uses a pool party as its frame, exploring the intersections of contemporary art, leisure, and ecology. Featuring a reactivation of Matt Barton’s Community Forms (2021) and newly commissioned performances and installations by artists Amber Cobb, Anthony Garcia Sr., Rick Griffith, Elle Hong in collaboration with Joshua Ware, Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, and Bradley Klem. DJ sets by Bimbonita and Hotcakez. Includes free and ticketed components.

SWEAT
September 18, 2025 | 8pm—12am | A secret location, Denver, CO
A one-night experimental exhibition that blends the formalities of a museum fundraiser and the curatorial rigor of an exhibition with the physical release of a nightclub. Ticketed, with all proceeds going to support Black Cube. Featuring Elle Hong in collaboration with Raw Groove, Laura Shill in collaboration with John Lake and Joshua Ware, Anthony Garcia Sr., Joel Swanson, Frankie Toan, Kaitlyn Tucek in collaboration with chef Morgan Bolling, and Gamelan Tunas Mekar.

What We Hold On To
September 5—December 12, 2025 | Black Cube Headquarters (BCHQ), 2925 S Umatilla St, Englewood, CO
Black Cube’s Headquarters building (BCHQ) reopens to the public with this group show that explores the concept of storage through physical, emotional, and cultural lenses. Featuring Amber Cobb, Martin Creed, Kimberly Faber, Cristóbal Gracia, Viviane Le Courtois, Phillip Andrew Lewis and Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kija Lucas, Anuar Maauad, Marsha Mack, Irene Delka McCray, Laleh Mehran, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, SANGREE, Derrick Velasquez, and Marek Wolfryd.