Opening Reception:
Datos Helados | Soft Tidal by Federico Bolagno-Romero & Mathías Chumino
Curated by Will Rubenstein

Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 6–10 pm (performances from 8–10 pm)
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
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Please join us for the opening reception for Datos Helados | Soft Tidal, an exhibition by Federico Bolagno-Romero & Mathías Chumino, curated by Will Rubenstein. The event presents performances by Yellow Tears, Imminent Death, and Daren Ho beginning at 8 pm.

RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.

This exhibition will remain on view until June 27th, 2026. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.

Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.

About the Artists
Mathías Chumino / C03RA (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice explores territories where the human, the non-human, and the machinic intertwine within an accelerated present shaped by technology. Through a critical, experimental, and poetic approach, his work creates immersive and conceptual spaces that expand forms of perception and question the hierarchies between matter, information, and agency. His trajectory includes exhibitions, residencies, and live performances in museums, biennials, and international festivals such as Ars Electronica, MUTEK, and Mapping Festival, as well as presentations in Argentina, Chile, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, the United States, and beyond.

Federico Bolagno-Romero (Montevideo & New York) is a sound and media artist whose work explores acoustic space, electronic synthesis, and the somatic dimensions of frequency. His practice extends into sculpture, where infrasonic and ultrasonic audio lives as physical material. Through the real-time integration of multiple sound sources and live urban data, his work moves between composition, performance, and object-making; tracing the threshold between designed and lived acoustic experience. For the last fifteen years, Bolagno-Romero has been embedded in New York’s audio culture, working across institutional and underground contexts alike. His work has been presented at Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires; Subte, Montevideo; Ochiai Soup, Tokyo; and at numerous venues and galleries throughout New York.

About the Curator
Will Rubenstein is a producer and curator based in Queens, New York. He is the founder of Vial, a music label and residency program dedicated to experimental electronic music and media art. Rubenstein’s recent projects include cofounding DUST (2021–2024) and organizing Hope Is Not (2024) by Stefan Alexandrej Cvitanic at Mery Gates Gallery.

Opening Dinner: What’s Left in the Remaking
A dinner at CUE organized in partnership with Off-Menu
Food by chefs Annie Faye Cheng, Srishti Jain, and Shauna Saneinejad
Drinks by Drink Dio, Mai Vino, Màkku, De Soi and Less Than 0.5

Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2025
Time: 6:00–10:00 pm
Tickets: Sliding scale, $50–$250 (see here and below)

Join us in the gallery for a special dinner event in collaboration with Off-Menu, a publication centering behind-the-scenes voices in food, to celebrate the opening of What’s Left in the Remaking. This group exhibition, which doubles as a benefit initiative, brings together the work of thirty NYC-based alumni artists and mentors of CUE from over the past decade. 

All works in the exhibition offered for sale. The event and exhibition come at an urgent moment, and raise crucial funds for CUE’s deeply relational and robust model supporting emerging and underrepresented artists who take risks and challenge existing boundaries of practice. The dinner will be the first chance to reserve works in the show.

Chefs Annie Faye Cheng, Srishti Jain, and Shauna Saneinejad, brought together by Off-Menu, will present a collective, site-specific, multi-course meal inspired by the exhibition. Guests will have a first look at the artwork, enjoy food and drink, and gather with our community of visionary alumni artists and mentors who are contributing their work and energy in solidarity with CUE. 

See the full list of participating artists here.

About the Event Partner

Off-Menu is an independent, community-driven magazine exploring the world of food and drink with a focus on storytelling. Through intentional visual narratives, we aim to highlight the people working behind the scenes–producers, chefs, baristas, front of house, back of house and beyond.

About the Chefs

Annie Faye Cheng is a cook and writer based in Queens, NYC. She currently works as a whole-animal butcher. Learn more about her work at @achg.kitchen and www.anniefayecheng.com.

Srishti Jain is a Californian-Indian author, recipe-developer, and pastry chef. Her first cookbook, Make It Plant Based!, was released by Artisan in Spring 2025, and focuses on the produce-forward nature of Indian and Californian cooking. She is known for her supper clubs and pop-ups in San Francisco, New York, London, and beyond, as well as her work as a chef at various New York restaurants. She lives in New York with her fluffy black cat, Clam.

Shauna Saneinejad is the culinary producer and food artist behind Joon Eats, focused on connecting cultures and communities through dinners and edible tablescapes for both brands and individuals. She has collaborated with Diane von Furstenberg, J. Crew, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, MAC Cosmetics, Care of Chan, and more. Her personal project, Joon Dinner, tells the story of the brand’s beginnings and purpose. Her German-Jewish grandfather (on her mother’s side) taught her how to make pickles. Her Iranian-Muslim grandmother (on her father’s side) made torshi (Iranian mixed pickles). Both embraced the merging of families—and their pickling styles merge in Joon Eats’ Persian Pickles. Joon Eats’ goal is to remind diners that we have the capacity to live together, from all origins, when given the opportunity to learn from one another.

Graphic Design: Yuha Lotus Cho

Related Exhibition
To learn more about What’s Left in the Remaking, a group exhibition and a benefit with NYC-based alumni artists and mentors of CUE, see here. 

Support
Drinks for this event are generously donated by Drink Dio, Mai Vino, Màkku, De Soi and Less Than 0.5%.

Food Activation by Tsohil Bhatia x Red Flower Collective
at NADA House on Governors Island

Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 2–4 pm
Nolan Park House 17, Governors Island
Accessible by ferry from Manhattan and Brooklyn
See directions to Nolan Park here, and ferry info here.

Please join us for a special food-based activation by Tsohil Bhatia for Red Flower Collective, a communal eating and research collective of which they are a co-founder. The event is hosted by the New Art Dealers Alliance as part of the programming for NADA House, where CUE presents a new sculptural work by Bhatia, Untitled (Rano) in conjunction with their solo exhibition This Fire That Warms You.

The menu for the event will consist of aloo kachori, dahi bhalla papdi chaat, and masala peanut chaat. Come try it all! Food will be available until it runs out.

Red Flower Collective collaborates with artists, chefs, and curiosities-in-residence, and affirms queer and diasporic identities as they manifest themselves through food. The collective explores the kitchen as a forum in which to receive generational knowledge, and prioritizes the recipes derived from this research.

The event is free and all are welcome (donations are appreciated and support the work of Red Flower Collective). Bhatia’s sculpture, Untitled (Rano), will be on view at NADA House through October 27th, with public hours Friday–Sunday, 11 am–5 pm. No registration is required to attend either the event or public hours.

Register for updates via Luma here. (Please note that registration does not guarantee food—come early to ensure it’s still available!)

Read more about the work at NADA House here. To learn more about the artist’s solo exhibition at CUE, mentored by Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), see here.