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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.

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/

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

03/06/2025

Open Now!

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

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

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

07/15/2024

Now Open
Yoab Vera: Reminiscence — Contigo Aprendí
July 10-August 22, 2024

Yoab Vera employs the motif of a sea horizon as a guiding structural event for contemplation. The origin of this modular seascape is geometrically abstract, and the artist approaches representation of a sunrise or sunset over water through intuitive mark-making. Using oil-stick, oil, and concrete, Vera integrates architecture, spirituality, and neuroaesthetics in what he terms “haptic contemplative painting.” Vera distills the complexity of passing time into the simple truth of the rise and fall of the sun, mindfully exploring reality through the present moment, the psychological components of memory, and the changing conditions of light.

Photos: Daniel Greer

04/12/2024

Now Open
Cara Nahaul: Tender Island
April 10-May 8, 2024

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/cara-nahaul-tender-island/

Cara Nahaul paints landscapes distilled to their essential geometry, weighted with bold, saturated colors. Continuing to paint from memory and reference photographs, Nahaul furthers her explorations of nostalgia, personal history, and physical and psychological travel. "Tender Island" marks Nahaul’s first exhibition with Alexander Berggruen.

In "Tender Island," Nahaul hones her focus on the contradictory pluralisms between her fond childhood memories visiting Mauritius while reflecting on, in her words, “the more unsettling and painful narratives that puncture those childhood memories, to consider how we can broaden our understanding of colonial legacies and the impact it had on generations long after.” These include her discomfort with the island’s reputation as a tropical tourist destination that overlooks the darker parts of its history, and speculation about her great, great grandfather’s experiences as an indentured laborer on Mauritian sugarcane plantations. Subtly implicating the history of the land, a Dantean journey unravels.

02/08/2024

Upcoming Exhibition
Drew Bennett, Laird Gough, Lyndsey Marko, Alexandria Mento, Dominic Musa, Ben Walker
February 28-March 27, 2024

Opening reception: Wednesday, February 28, 5-7 pm

Drew Bennett (b. 1981, Chicago, IL) has exhibited at Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. Bennett’s work is included in the collections of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA and Meta Open Arts Collection.

Laird Gough (b. 1981, Richmond, VA) received a BA in History, College of Charleston, SC. She studied at Instituto Lorenzo De’Medici in Florence, IT and at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. Gough held a recent solo show at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been exhibited at Object & Thing, East Hampton, NY and R & Company/Pitkin Projects, Aspen, CO.

Lyndsey Marko (b. 1990, Tampa, FL) received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at International Waters, Brooklyn, NY and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL. Marko will hold a forthcoming solo show at Gattopardo, Los Angeles, CA.

Alexandria Mento (b. 1989, Bethlehem, PA) received an MFA in painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT and a BFA in sculpture and painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. She has shown at Jack Siebert Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA; and ArtSpace, New Haven, CT. She was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize in 2018.

Dominic Musa (b. 1989, Poughkeepsie, NY) was an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, ME and was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Musa has exhibited in solo shows at de boer, Los Angeles, CA; Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK; and Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, CA.

Ben Walker (b. 1974, Chester, UK) has exhibited at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; and Leeds Art Gallery, South London Gallery, UK. Walker was awarded the Jack Hill Painting Prize.

Lyndsey Marko
Double Bind, 2024
oil on canvas
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm.)

01/16/2024

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang
January 17-February 21, 2024

Opening reception tomorrow, Wednesday, January 17, 5-7 pm

The artists in this group exhibition complicate our relationship with imagery and understanding. Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, and Kaifan Wang create diverse paintings and sculptures marked by turbulent but considered gestures across a spectrum of varying formal qualities such as color, texture, and material. Forms and constructed spaces slip from familiar to foreign as imagery and non imagery are warped by the artists’ memories, imagination, meditations on space and time, surroundings, and ancestry.

https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/ted-gahl-dustin-hodges-gabriel-mills-anna-ting-moller-soumya-netrabile-kaifan-wang/

Photos: Dario Lasagni

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Monday	10am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm

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