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Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool

Louise Bourgeois, Twosome, 1991.

Until Apr 18, 2026
542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, United States

From the beginning of her career, in the late 1930s, to her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois returned to the same themes: early childhood trauma, motherhood, and female sexuality. Although she’s best known for her giant bronze spiders, as well as her watercolors in reds and pinks, Bourgeois worked in many forms and mediums. “I am the author of my own world with its internal logic and with its value that no one can deny,” she said. Abstraction is the focus of this exhibition, which brings together Bourgeois’s late sculptures, reliefs, and works on paper—many never before shown—along with earlier pieces. It also includes the 1991 installation Twosome, in which a black tank glides in and out of a larger one, representing the mother-child relationship. —Jeanne Malle

Photo: Elad Sarig/Louise Bourgeois © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth