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Alexander Berggruen, established in 2019 and based in the Upper East Side of New York City, presents both historic and contemporary exhibitions with living artists.

Now Open!Yoab Vera: Spirit of Hope — Sueños DiurnosJanuary 21-February 25, 2026https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibition...
01/22/2026

Now Open!

Yoab Vera: Spirit of Hope — Sueños Diurnos
January 21-February 25, 2026
https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/yoab-vera-spirit-of-hope-suenos-diurnos/

Yoab Vera works in a meditative state, distanced mentally from his immediate surroundings. This is coupled with an extremely tactile approach—pushing oil sticks across the face of the canvas, spreading the pigment by hand, rubbing it into crags of the surface—that brings him as close to the painting as physically possible, as if he could thereby extend the reach of his touch. To catch the natural movement of light in the studio, Vera builds up the surface. The artist’s hand follows the light’s path to compose an image informed by the memories associated with this kind of light. These marks are offered to be re-traced by the gaze of the viewer, whose own thought combines with the work and becomes a part of its meaning.

Press release by Patrick Zapien.

Now OpenPurposeJuly 9-August 21, 2025https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/purpose/ The group show Purpose traces h...
07/10/2025

Now Open
Purpose
July 9-August 21, 2025

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/purpose/

The group show Purpose traces how contemporary and historic artists approach image-making with deep intention. This exhibition explores two primary approaches: repurposing culturally recognizable images and meticulously constructing imagery. These artists breathe new life into found imagery, employ digital manipulation, and/or use intricate craft techniques. Purpose surveys how images shape our identities and cultural memory, individually and collectively. The included works—paintings, sculptures, photography, and textiles—challenge the boundaries between creator and conductor, between viewer and consumer, and between process and product.

Madeline Peckenpaugh: Chosen PlacesMay 21-June 25, 2025Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 21, 5-7 pmMadeline Peckenpaugh’...
05/20/2025

Madeline Peckenpaugh: Chosen Places
May 21-June 25, 2025

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 21, 5-7 pm

Madeline Peckenpaugh’s paintings invite and destabilize a viewer’s culturally trained perception of the landscape to explore nature, memory, and the self. There is a reconciliation of opposites: the deep space of the real world and the flat space of the canvas. Through iterations of adding, blurring, and scraping paint to veil and expose prior layers, Peckenpaugh creates scenes that oscillate between landscape and abstraction, challenging a viewer’s sense of reality.This ambiguity lends mystery to the implied landscape as she probes the perceptual slips between corporeal experience, memory, and imagination.

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/madeline-peckenpaugh-chosen-places/

Open Now!Yuri Yuan: Hide and SeekApril 16-May 14, 2025Artist-led Walkthrough: Saturday, May 10, 2 pmhttps://alexanderber...
04/17/2025

Open Now!

Yuri Yuan: Hide and Seek
April 16-May 14, 2025

Artist-led Walkthrough: Saturday, May 10, 2 pm

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/yuri-yuan-hide-and-seek/

Yuri Yuan’s landscape and interior paintings explore existential themes of longing and loss through ambiguous figure-ground relationships. While these themes could evoke melancholy, Yuan consistently offers a symbol of hope—often represented by light. Known for framing her work as either “looking in” or “looking out,” she deepens this concept in her solo exhibition Hide and Seek. True to her preference for open-ended narratives, Yuan leaves it uncertain whether her figures are hiding, seeking, or doing both simultaneously. Through visual symbolism, metaphor, and magical realism, she reveals how a subject’s surroundings can reflect internal psychological states.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

Now OpenA Direct Response to Light: 21st Century PaintingCurated by Dexter WimberlyMarch 5-April 9, 2025Curator and Arti...
03/06/2025

Now Open

A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting
Curated by Dexter Wimberly
March 5-April 9, 2025

Curator and Artist Walk-Through: Saturday, March 8, 2 pm

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/a-direct-response-to-light-21st-century-painting/

A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting brings together a diverse group of artists who use figurative painting both to tell personal stories and to reflect the times in which we live. This exhibition highlights the continued importance of painting in the 21st century, an era when technological innovations often relegate traditional art forms to the sidelines. These artists demonstrate that painting is anything but obsolete; instead, it proves itself a dynamic, adaptive, and resonant medium, capable of addressing critical contemporary issues and imagining possibilities for our collective future.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

Closing soonStephanie H. Shih: Domestic BlissJanuary 22-February 26, 2025https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/step...
02/19/2025

Closing soon

Stephanie H. Shih: Domestic Bliss
January 22-February 26, 2025

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/stephanie-h-shih-domestic-bliss/

Stephanie H. Shih’s hand-painted ceramic sculptures of 1990s consumer goods playfully evince the tensions in modern family life. Her ceramic renderings of cleaning supplies, exercise equipment, and foods of convenience are connected by an emotional proximity to the body and self, yet, seen together, expose the underlying conflicts of domesticity under consumerism. Pitted against one another are convenience and wellness, lust and loneliness.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

Opening this evening!Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, Raul De Lara, Tahnee LonsdaleDecember 11, 2024-January 15, 2025alexand...
12/11/2024

Opening this evening!

Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, Raul De Lara, Tahnee Lonsdale
December 11, 2024-January 15, 2025

alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/raul-de-lara-shanique-emelife-sihan-guo-tahnee-lonsdale/

Opening Reception: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 5-7 pm
Artist-led Walkthrough: Saturday, Dec. 14, 2 pm

Through painting and sculpture, Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale render varying manifestations of bodily forms through symbolism, allegory, abstraction, and spirituality. Emelife and Lonsdale paint the essences of figures, capturing their vitality through simplified shapes. Meanwhile, De Lara sometimes offers plants as proxies for people, and Guo paints disintegrating abstractions that feature bodily shapes.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

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1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3
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10075

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