About

Since 2018 houseguest has served as a DIY anti-commercial gallery located within the living room of artist, Megan Bickel. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, the space holds five-six exhibitions a year exploring & questioning various topics relevant to the zeitgeist. Here, artists, poets, architects, other curators, and musicians are encouraged to interact with and activate the room that serves their practice. In 2022 houseguest was curated or operated by Brooklin Grantz while Megan was living in Chicago, and then ceased operations in 2024 whilst Megan was adjuncting and determining her next steps in life, and will open again at the end of 2024.

Until March of 2020 when impacts of Covid-19 began to impact us all in the U.S, each exhibition was partnered with a small SUPPERCLUB lab dinner, occasionally with collaborating chefs from around the region. The archive for this project can be found here.

Gallery Hours

Gallery Hours: Opening Receptions, Fridays from 6-9p and by appointment.

P R E S S

2023

“Katie Hargrave & Meredith Lynn: Exposing the Insidious Camouflage of Bad Outdoorsmen.” SHANNON CYNOWA. Burnaway. Atlanta, Georgia.

“In the Weeds. Review and interview with artistic researcher and theorist, Gian Luigi Biagini Nathaniel Hendrickson. Ruckus. Louisville, Kentucky.

2020

“FEMME MAISON” Anna Blake, Ruckus. Louisville, Kentucky

“Textile Show at houseguest gallery Explores Technology and Motherhood.” Natalie Weiss, WFPL Louisville (NPR Syndicate).

2019

numinous low road; numinous hall (retrospectives on change)” Hunter Kissel, Ruckus. Louisville, Kentucky

2018

“The Good American.” Jessica Oberdick, Ruckus. Louisville, Kentucky.

The Memory Closet.” Kevin Warth, Ruckus. Louisville, Kentucky.

Read about Team B's Model Unit, and our philosophies in Ruckus