In its first two years, the New York Kunsthalle mostly presents exhibitions by emerging artists who in many cases are inspired by the ruin itself or by the traces and left overs from the film studio. Quite a few of them eventually appear in biennials and established New York institutions. 

Among those are Nancy Rubins, Dan Peterman, Kirsten Mosher and Sonia Labouriou, who are represented in the 1993 exhibit Enclosure - it goes up while construction work on the building is still in progress, and the equipment is used for some of the large scale installations. In the early spring of 1994, the still partially ruined Kunsthalle becomes an ideal backdrop for the exhibit Sarajevo, Witnesses of Existence. The participants had been originally selected for the Venice Biennale but because their city was shut off by the military they were unable to leave. Susan Sontag and George Soros join a diplomatic and financial effort backed by a UN guarantee to allow the artists to leave Sarajevo temporarily and to show their work in New York. This successful intervention brings recognition to the Kunsthalle far beyond the art world, especially when Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sontag, and Annie Liebowitz participate in a film screening and poetry reading on location. George Soros and many other celebrities are present at the opening. That same year, Louise Bourgeois gives a multiple of a large bronze claw titled Give or Take in support of the Kunsthalle. William Wegman also produces a portfolio of dog photographs under the open sky - he calls it Roofless and donates it to the non-profit. Under the same title, MK directs a documentary that shows the artist's intimate collaboration with his canine stars at the Kunsthalle. Before the fire, Wegman had collaborated on a production with the TV-station Nickelodeon at Mothers Film Stages - the images of his three dogs were presented like the famous movement studies of Eadweard Muybridge. Wegman had given permission to MK to document the filming under the auspices of the Kunsthalle. With Wegman’s help, both MK documentaries are combined to a thirty-minute-film titled Wegman at Work. In the winter of 1994, the film premiers at Angelika Film Center along with Wegman's own film,The Hardy Boys. The well-attended event is followed by a fundraising reception at Sonnabend Gallery where the Roofless portfolio is exhibited for several weeks in support of the New York Kunsthalle. Link: invite to the Filmpremier,Card for Portfolio