Rocking to Infinity
Kukje Gallery hosts Louise Bourgeois: Rocking to Infinity, focusing on the final two decades of the artist’s career. The exhibition gathers sculptures, drawings, and fabric suites that meditate on intimacy, memory, and time. The title, drawn from Bourgeois’s own writing, evokes the image of a mother rocking a child to sleep. This gesture of security and tenderness resonates throughout the works on view.
Immersive wall installations pair gouaches and watercolors that revisit themes of the self, the couple, family, and the spiral. The gallery’s center hosts major sculptures which explore emotional bonds and the passage of time. The Hanok space introduces a rarer body of drawings on coffee filters, made in 1994, where circular compositions bridge domestic material with reflections on cycles, abstraction, and organic form. All together, the works reveal Bourgeois’s late practice as both intimate and monumental.
name: Rocking to Infinity
artist: Louise Bourgeois
gallery: Kukje Gallery
location: Seoul, South Korea
dates: September 2nd — October 26th, 2025
installation view, Louise Bourgeois: Rocking to Infinity, image courtesy Kukje Gallery
Gabriel Chaile’s debut New York solo exhibition, Esto es América, o qual é o limite?, presents new adobe sculptures created on site at Marianne Boesky Gallery, alongside drawings and photographs. Drawing from the artist’s ongoing exploration of what he calls the ‘genealogy of form,’ the works draw from the material and formal traditions of Indigenous communities in northeast Argentina while linking them to broader histories across the Americas. The sculptures are at once monumental and anthropomorphic. Their surfaces are covered with dense networks of line drawings, resist straightforward interpretation while holding onto layers of cultural memory.
The exhibition incorporates influences from Chaile’s time in Montana, where he observed a No Kings Day protest that shaped the atmosphere of the new works. Charcoal drawings on canvas echo the markings on the sculptures, while photographs from the protest offer a documentary counterpart. The title itself, half in Spanish and half in Portuguese, reflects Chaile’s negotiation between statement and question, declaration and doubt: ‘This is America’ followed by ‘What is the limit?’
name: Esto es América, o qual é o limite?
artist: Gabriel Chaile
gallery: Marianne Boesky Gallery
location: New York, NY
dates: September 4th — October 18th, 2025
image © Macy Rajacich, courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery
lee bul: from 1998 to now
The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art presents Lee Bul: After 1998, a large-scale survey tracing nearly three decades of work by one of Korea’s most influential contemporary artists. Bringing together around 150 pieces, the exhibition spans performance, sculpture, installation, and drawing, examining Lee Bul’s sustained inquiry into the body’s entanglement with society, technology, and systems of power. Together, a range of works illuminate her engagement with utopian modernity’s ideals and contradictions, and the recurring human pursuit of perfection.
Organized in collaboration with M+ Hong Kong, the exhibition unfolds as a landscape where individual memory and historical fragments intersect with broader sociopolitical references. The show charts the evolution of Lee Bul’s practice, and highlights her role in expanding conversations around humanity’s past and imagined futures.
name: Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now
artist: Lee Bul
museum: Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
location: Seoul, South Korea
dates: September 4th, 2025 — January 4th, 2026
installation views, ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now’, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, 2025. courtesy of the artist and BB&M © Lee Bul, photo by Jeon Byung-cheol
Design Disco Club
During Paris Design Week 2025, Pli Office presents DESIGN DISCO CLUB, an exhibition dedicated to a new generation of designers and architects reshaping contemporary practice. Drawing on the collective energy of disco, the project frames design as a space of freedom, emotion, and shared experience, while questioning the balance between industrial and human rhythms. With scenography by Paf atelier, the exhibition stages a diverse spectrum of works that reflect the shifting temporalities of production and the commitments that define today’s creative landscape.
The show features contributions from around 40 emerging creators alongside legendary fashion houses like Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marine Serre, Marie-Ève Lecavalier, and Mugler. A range of objects are each presented as an example from a multifaceted moment in design. With a series of talks, DESIGN DISCO CLUB adopts the spirit of a club to become a gathering space for imagining the cultural forms of tomorrow.
name: DESIGN DISCO CLUB
gallery: Pli Office
location: Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
dates: September 6th — 12th, 2025
image courtesy Pli Office
This fall, Paris marks the 40th anniversary of The Pont Neuf Wrapped with a citywide tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, supported by the City of Paris, stages a free outdoor exhibition along the Seine. Titled Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Paris Projects, the installation highlights the couple’s close relationship with the French capital, where they lived, worked, and realized a series of landmark projects over several decades. The program also includes the naming of a public square in their honor, underscoring the city’s recognition of their enduring cultural impact.
Paris served as both the starting point and central site for Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic collaborations. Their interventions included Wall of Oil Barrels — The Iron Curtain (1961–62), Wrapped Statue, Trocadero (1964), The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1975–85), and L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (conceived in 1961, realized posthumously in 2021). Artist JR will revisit the Pont Neuf with a new project that will transform the iconic bridge into a stone-like cave in the summer of 2026.
name: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Paris Projects
artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
location: Paris, France
dates: September 6th — October 30th, 2025
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85 — image by Wolfgang Volz © 1985 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation
Sweets and Paradise
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art presents Sweets and Paradise, a new exhibition of photographic works by Ralf Peters. Recognized as a leading figure in conceptual photography in Germany, Peters uses digital manipulation to reframe everyday objects, landscapes, and environments, unsettling the line between reality and construction. His practice asks viewers to reflect critically on how images shape perception.
The exhibition brings together two recent series. In SWEETS, natural forms such as branches and leaves are digitally enhanced against vivid backgrounds, transforming them into visual compositions that waver between authenticity and invention. PARADISE introduces AI-generated gardens and architectural visions that draw from cultural and religious ideals, evoking both the desire for harmony and the unease of a digitally engineered utopia. Shown together, the works highlight the tension between nature’s fragility and technology’s promise of perfection, positioning photography as a space where beauty, illusion, and critique converge.
name: Sweets and Paradise
artist: Ralf Peters
gallery: Bernhard Knaus Fine Art Gallery
location: Frankfurt, Germany
dates: September 6th — November 22nd, 2025
Ralf Peters, Poppi Paradise, 2025, image courtesy Bernhard Knaus Fine Art Gallery
Lygia Pape. Tisser l’espace
The Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection unveils the first solo exhibition in France dedicated to Lygia Pape (1927–2004), a central figure of the Brazilian avant-garde. Serving as a prelude to the upcoming exhibition Minimal, Lygia Pape: Weaving Space is built around a major work from the collection, Ttéia 1, C (2003/2025). Formed from copper threads stretched across space, the installation immerses visitors in an environment where light and movement activate the work. This embodies Pape’s idea of ‘weaving space’ and redefines the viewer’s role in the artistic encounter.
The exhibition brings together key pieces from across Pape’s career, from her early abstract engravings to her monumental Livro Noite e Dia III (Book of Night and Day III, 1963–1976), as well as a selection of experimental films. Deeply informed by Brazil’s sociopolitical context, her work reflects a commitment to social transformation, dissolving the boundaries between art and life. The show highlights Pape’s place alongside Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica as one of the defining voices of Brazil’s postwar avant-garde.
name: Lygia Pape. Tisser l’espace
artist: Lygia Pape
gallery: Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
location: Paris, France
dates: September 10th, 2025 — January 26th, 2026
LLygia Pape, Ttéia 1, C (2003/2025), image courtesy Pinault Collection
Max Lamb: Crockery
Gallery FUMI opens Crockery, a new exhibition by Max Lamb in collaboration with ceramics manufacturer 1882 Ltd., on September 11, 2025. The series features slip-cast earthenware pieces produced from plaster models hand-carved by Lamb, extending his ongoing investigation into material possibilities. Made in Stoke-on-Trent, the works embody the technical rigor of 1882 Ltd. and the designer’s experimental approach, rethinking the role of ceramics in contemporary design.
With Crockery, Lamb turns to a medium traditionally associated with fragility and transforms it into functional forms that challenge assumptions about strength and durability. His interest lies in pushing ceramic beyond its conventional uses, exploring its viability as both a sculptural surface and as a material capable of bearing weight and shaping furniture. In doing so, the project reframes ceramic as both resilient and versatile, opening new ground for its role in design.
name: Crockery
artist: Max Lamb with 1882 Ltd.
gallery: Gallery FUMI
location: London, UK
dates: September 11th — 30th, 2025
image courtesy Penguins Egg Studio (Tom Wright) for Gallery FUMI
Carmen d’Apollonio: Salut, ça va, c’est moi
Friedman Benda New York hosts Salut, Ça va, c’est moi, the fourth solo exhibition by Carmen D’Apollonio, on September 11th. Known for her playful and idiosyncratic approach, the Swiss-born, Los Angeles–based artist expands her practice here with new materials and sculpted glass lampshades, pushing her work toward greater dimensionality and narrative depth.
The exhibition unfolds like a theatrical set, populated by personified lamps that perform across the gallery space — leaning, dripping, suspending, and wandering. D’Apollonio’s new glass elements amplify the dialogue between form, light, and shadow, revealing more of what was once hidden behind linen shades. Titles such as Why fall in love when you can’t fall asleep and If you ever have forever highlight her use of language as a candid, humorous, and empathetic extension of her practice, drawing viewers into a direct conversation that is both intimate and universal.
name: Salut, Ça va, c’est moi
artist: Carmen D’Apollonio
gallery: Friedman Benda
location: 515 W 26th St 1st Floor, New York, NY
dates: September 11th — October 16th, 2025
image © Friedman Benda
Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage)
Gagosian marks the U.S. debut of Richard Serra’s Running Arcs (For John Cage) (1992), opening September 12th, 2025, at the gallery’s West 21st Street space in New York. First shown more than three decades ago at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, the large-scale steel work returns on the exact anniversary of its original unveiling and will remain on view through December 20th.
The sculpture consists of three massive conical steel segments, each inverted in relation to the others and set in a staggered arrangement. Measuring 52 feet in length and 13 feet in height, the monumental forms embody Serra’s enduring investigation into weight, balance, and spatial perception, while also honoring his longtime connection to composer John Cage.
name: Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage)
artist: Richard Serra
gallery: Gagosian
location: West 21st Street, New York, NY
dates: September 12th — December 20th, 2025
Richard Serra during the installation of Promenade (2008), artwork © Estate of Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. image by Raphael Gaillard/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Pace Gallery presents The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles by Elmgreen & Dragset, on view from September 13th through October 25th. Spanning the gallery’s main space and adjoining south gallery, the show explores shifts in perception through acts of doubling, resizing, and spatial reduplication.
The Berlin-based duo, known for sculptural interventions that probe identity and belonging, uses the gallery’s architecture as both stage and subject. Each artwork appears at full scale in the main hall, while exact half-size versions are replicated in a carefully constructed miniature of that same space.
name: The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
artist: Elmgreen & Dragset
gallery: Pace Gallery
location: 1201 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California
dates: September 13th — October 25th, 2025