Watch Now: Panel Discussion on ‘Carmen Herrera: The Paris Years, 1948 – 1953’, Lisson New York

26 June 2025

On Thursday 12 June, Lisson Gallery hosted a panel discussion on ‘Carmen Herrera: The Paris Years, 1948 – 1953’. The panellists include Mónica Espinel, Editor of the forthcoming Carmen Herrera Catalogue Raisonné; Lynn Gumpert, former director of the Grey Art Museum, NYU, and independent curator; and Roxanne Ilias, Doctoral Candidate, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Centre André-Chastel. The panel was moderated by Sarah Douglas, Editor-in-Chief, ARTnews.

From 1948 to 1953, Carmen Herrera lived in Paris, immersing herself in the city’s dynamic postwar artistic community while frequently traveling to New York and Havana. Herrera’s years in Paris were a time of creative freedom and intellectual exchange, particularly through her participation in exhibitions such as the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where she exhibited alongside other prominent figures such as Theo van Doesburg, Max Bill, and Piet Mondrian, as well as younger artists associated with Venezuela’s Los Disidentes, Brazil’s Concretists, and Argentina’s Grupo Madi. The city exposed her to key modernist movements such as Bauhaus and Russian Suprematism, which deeply influenced the shift toward her own uniquely minimal language.

Film by Park Boulevard Productions.