{"id":487152,"date":"2025-10-10T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:54:11","slug":"jeff-koons-returns-to-gagosian-with-first-new-york-show-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487152\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Koons Returns to Gagosian with First New York Show in Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJeff Koons<\/a> will return to Gagosian<\/a> next month with\u00a0\u201cPorcelain Series,\u201d his first solo show at the gallery since 2018\u2019s\u00a0\u201cEasyfun-Ethereal\u201d\u00a0and his first major exhibition in New York in seven years. Opening November 13 at 541 West 24th Street, the show marks Koons\u2019s first dedicated presentation of his\u00a0\u201cPorcelain\u201d\u00a0works\u2014new and recent sculptures and paintings that trace the continuity of beauty and mythology across centuries.<\/p>\n

\n\tKoons was among Gagosian\u2019s marquee artists for nearly two decades before leaving that gallery, and David Zwirner<\/a>, in 2021 to join Pace<\/a>. His move to Pace was framed at the time as a bid to\u00a0focus on new work and production models,<\/a>\u00a0but no full-scale New York exhibition followed. After three years with Pace\u00a0Koons rejoined<\/a> Gagosian in 2025, debuting new work at Frieze New York this past May.<\/p>\n

\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Fairgoers<\/p>\n

\n\tKoons\u2019s time at Pace was brief and reportedly turbulent. In 2024,\u00a0Artnet News\u00a0columnist Kenny Schachter wrote that a new body of porcelain-inspired sculptures\u2014ambitious even by Koons\u2019s standards\u2014pushed the gallery into\u00a0uncomfortable financial territory<\/a>. Pace had, according to Schachter, brought on outside investors and sunk tens of millions into fabrication before the project stalled over cost overruns. When funding dried up, Koons left the gallery soon after.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis critical and commercial standing has cooled in recent years. Although\u00a0Rabbit\u00a0(1986) still holds the record for the most expensive work sold by a living artist, his sales have slowed, and public attention has waned. Still,\u00a0Artnet News\u00a0reported last year that several well-connected collectors and dealers have been quietly working to help revive his market.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0\u201cPorcelain\u201d\u00a0sculptures, modeled on 18th- to early-20th-century figurines, depict mythological figures like Diana and Venus alongside animals and lovers in mirror-polished stainless steel coated with transparent color. The accompanying oil paintings merge landscapes, gestural brushwork, and metallic leafing with engravings by Agostino Carracci, Marcantonio Raimondi, and Johann Sadeler.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe\u00a0Porcelain Series\u00a0is in dialogue with art from ancient times through history to this moment,\u201d Koons said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Koons will return to Gagosian next month with\u00a0\u201cPorcelain Series,\u201d his first solo show at the gallery since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,31757,4022,77,31759,31760,31761,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-487152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-david-zwirner","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gagosian","14":"tag-jeff-koons","15":"tag-pace","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115347381534523744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}