Lisson Gallery at Art Mumbai 2025
31 October 2025
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural presentation at Art Mumbai 2025, showcasing works by Anish Kapoor, Olga de Amaral, Ai Weiwei, Shirazeh Houshiary, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Otobong Nkanga, Jack Pierson, and Masaomi Yasunaga. The booth brings together new and historic pieces from the gallery’s roster, creating a compelling dialogue between materiality and form. Spanning textiles, ceramics, photography, and sculpture, the presentation highlights each artist’s distinct approach to texture, structure, and concept.
Among the highlights is Anish Kapoor’s Organic Green Black mix to Cobalt Blue (2017), a mirror work that invites viewers into an immersive optical experience of color and void. The presentation coincides with Anish Kapoor: The Early Works, currently on view at the Jewish Museum in New York through February 1, 2026. Colombian artist Olga de Amaral is represented by her gold diptych, Dos partículas II (2015). Composed of two woven rectangular panels with fractured inner edges, the work recalls the rocky terrains of her native landscape and reflects her enduring fascination with alchemical transformation. This presentation of Amaral’s work runs concurrently with the artist’s solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery Los Angeles, her first in the city in nearly a decade.
Ai Weiwei’s Han Dynasty vases (206BC-220 AD) and industrial paint (2014) juxtapose ancient craftsmanship with modern artifice to question authenticity and cultural value. His Plate with Flowers (2014), created in Jingdezhen’s historic kilns, connects to the artist’s ongoing meditation on surveillance and freedom, a response to his 2011 detention in Beijing and subsequent act of resistance through daily floral offerings. Shirazeh Houshiary’s paintings emerge from poured pigment and graphite inscriptions formed by the repeated phrases “I am” and “I am not,” exploring the tension between material and spiritual presence. In her recent work, Cicada (2023), organic abstraction and accidental figuration intertwine.
Works from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s celebrated Seascapes series are also on view, echoing his concurrent exhibition Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes at the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York. Otobong Nkanga presents Tender Offering I, a sculpture composed of rope, Murano glass, and wood that meditates on exchange, care, and the interdependence of natural and human systems. Nkanga’s practice is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, on view through February 2026. Jack Pierson’s new word sculpture, YOU ARE THE MOON TONIGHT (2025), continues his exploration of language, longing, and emotional resonance, aligning with his ongoing solo exhibition at The Bass Museum of Art in Miami, on view through August 16, 2026.
Elsewhere on the booth is Masaomi Yasunaga’s Melting Vessel (2024). Departing from traditional ceramic techniques, Yasunaga constructs his sculptures primarily from glaze, embedding them in layers of sand or porcelain clay during the firing process. Excavated after cooling, these works appear as if unearthed artifacts, simultaneously primitive and contemporary, fragile yet enduring, affirming nature’s quiet dominion over human artifice. His inclusion at Art Mumbai precedes Yasunaga’s first major U.S. museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, opening December 2, 2025.
Image: Anish Kapoor, Organic Green Black mix to Cobalt Blue, 2017, Stainless steel and lacquer, 159.8 x 159.8 x 17.5 cm, 62 7/8 x 62 7/8 x 6 7/8 in © Anish Kapoor, Courtesy Lisson Gallery
