Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool
"Gathering Wool explores the artist's complex relationship to abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. These will be installed alongside a selection of earlier works to illuminate the consistency of Bourgeois’s themes and her development of a symbolic abstract language."
Related events include the US Premiere of ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Rage to Understand’ a documentary film by Marie-Ève de Grave. See here for more.
Louise Bourgeois, Gathering Wool, 1990. Photo: Peter Bellamy, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between
"GIRLS explores the beauty and complexity of girlhood. How has girlhood been represented? How is it remembered? And how does the idea of ‘the girl’ continue to shape visual culture and fashion?"
This group exhibition includes footage and garments from Bourgeois's 1992 performance She Lost It and other archival materials.
Louise Bourgeois, Le Cannet, France, 1922. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
Louise Bourgeois: The Evanescent and the Eternal
"This marks the first major museum exhibition on Bourgeois in Korea in 25 years and features iconic pieces from the Leeum collection, including the monumental spider sculpture Maman (1999) and the evocative Cell XI (Portrait) (2000), alongside more than 110 works from throughout the artist’s career. The exhibition will also offer a glimpse into Bourgeois’s mind through a selection of her personal writings, providing audiences with a deeper understanding of her inner world and artistic motivations."
Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Black Days), 2006. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
Upcoming event:
Mire Lee on Louise Bourgeois, November 22, 2025, 2pm, Dia Beacon
"'Every day,' Louise Bourgeois said, “you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.” For her, making art entails trying to translate experience into form—an operation that she compares with exorcism. In Bourgeois’s works on view in these galleries, organic formations fuse with the inorganic materiality of the media in which they are rendered, be it marble, wood, or bronze…"
Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider, 2003. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York