The Kitchen Announces 2025 Spring Gala Honoring Lucinda Childs, Wu Tsang & Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros

The Kitchen is proud to announce its 2025 Spring Gala, honoring Lucinda Childs, Wu Tsang and Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros.

The evening will feature remarks by Adrienne Edwards and Elizabeth Streb accompanied by a slate of performers still to be announced. In addition to honorary co-chairs Charles Atlas, Philip Glass, Jacqueline Humphries, Simone Leigh and Fred Moten, the gala co-chairs include Sarah Arison, Olivier Berggruen and Michi Jigarjian. The 2025 Spring Gala will take place on May 22, 2025, at City Winery in New York. Ticketing information is available here.

The Spring Gala—the organization’s largest event of the year—celebrates individuals who are pillars of the art world and who, through their respective commitments and contributions, play a pivotal role in advancing and supporting the avant-garde. The 2025 honorees—Lucinda Childs, Wu Tsang and Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros—are champions of experimental art and continue to shape The Kitchen’s expansive mission.

Lucinda Childs is a world-renowned choreographer who, in addition to work for her own group, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies around the world. In 1979, she choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In September of this year she will direct a new production of Philip Glass’ Satyagraha.

Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary. Her projects have been presented at museums, biennials and film and theater festivals internationally, including most recently at the 2022 Edition of the Venice Biennale. Tsang is a 2018 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow.

Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros are visionary leaders across the field of contemporary art. As Chair of The Kitchen’s board of directors, Robert Soros has helped support and define its experimental mission over the past three decades. Jamie Singer Soros sits on the board of the New Museum in New York, the Women’s Council of the Dia Art Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In addition to his leadership at The Kitchen, Robert Soros serves on the boards of the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MoMA in New York and serves as the Board Chair at MoMA PS1 in Queens.

Each year the Spring Gala brings together The Kitchen’s diverse and prestigious community to celebrate its recent season of programming and exhibitions. From its temporary space at Westbeth Artists Housing, The Kitchen remains adaptable—committed to making its rich Archive accessible to the public to ensure that artistic legacies are protected and uplifted while developing programs that platform artists who are attuned to the world as it shifts and shapes. In addition to purchasing tickets to its Spring Gala, items can also be purchased from The Kitchen’s store—such as a one of a kind edition from trailblazing artists, or a garment from The Kitchen’s recent collaboration with Études Studio celebrating its 50+ year Archive—all in support of groundbreaking, genre-defying artists.

The Gala Benefit Committee includes 47 Canal, Philip and Shelley Aarons, Sarah Arison, Jody and John Arnhold, Olivier and Desiree Berggruen, Bloomberg Philanthropies, James Keith (JK) Brown and Eric Diefenbach, Judith Church and Ed Schlieben, Nora Clancy, Suzy Coue-Wilson, Molly Davies, Elisa Durrette, FLOX Studio/Sloan Leo Cowan, Larry Gagosian, Barrie Glabman, Hilary Goldsmith, Agnes Gund, The Keith Haring Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, Michi Jigarjian, Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, Colleen Keegan/Muriel Pollia Foundation, Glenn Ligon Studio, Julie Mehertu, Yana Peel, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Effie Phillips-Staley & Marisol Staley, Carolyn Ramo, Eric and Fiona Rudin, Cindy Sherman, Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros and Martine Syms.