Jeff Koons will return to Gagosian next month with “Porcelain Series,” his first solo show at the gallery since 2018’s “Easyfun-Ethereal” and his first major exhibition in New York in seven years. Opening November 13 at 541 West 24th Street, the show marks Koons’s first dedicated presentation of his “Porcelain” works—new and recent sculptures and paintings that trace the continuity of beauty and mythology across centuries.
Koons was among Gagosian’s marquee artists for nearly two decades before leaving that gallery, and David Zwirner, in 2021 to join Pace. His move to Pace was framed at the time as a bid to focus on new work and production models, but no full-scale New York exhibition followed. After three years with Pace Koons rejoined Gagosian in 2025, debuting new work at Frieze New York this past May.
Koons’s time at Pace was brief and reportedly turbulent. In 2024, Artnet News columnist Kenny Schachter wrote that a new body of porcelain-inspired sculptures—ambitious even by Koons’s standards—pushed the gallery into uncomfortable financial territory. 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.
His critical and commercial standing has cooled in recent years. Although Rabbit (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, Artnet News reported last year that several well-connected collectors and dealers have been quietly working to help revive his market.
The “Porcelain” sculptures, 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.
“The Porcelain Series is in dialogue with art from ancient times through history to this moment,” Koons said in a statement.
