Join us for a conversation between Nicole Eisenman and Robin Peckham in celebration of Eisenman's solo exhibition ‘Fallen Angels’ at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong.

About the Exhibition

Nicole Eisenman’s ‘Fallen Angels,’ as the title suggests, is the artist’s most down-to-earth show in years. Comprising eleven new paintings and three sculptures, the exhibition narrows the field of vision to three sites of middle-class living: home, work, beach. Nearly all of the paintings are easel-sized, while two of the sculptures (made with a table and a chair, respectively, from Eisenman’s studio) feel like accidental readymades, even ex situ. The contraction of scale and contemplative tone stands in contrast to Eisenman’s reputation for crowded tableaux and picaresque social scenes, but the work is no less demanding. Here, figures linger, hesitate, repeat themselves; time settles into familiar spaces. The ambition lies not in spectacle but in attention, in the difficulty of staying with what is close at hand. The first two sites—home and work—have collapsed into each other. The third offers no escape.

About Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in both the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Solo exhibitions include 'What Happened' at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2023), traveling to Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2023) and MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (2024); 'Heads, Kisses, Battles: Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns' at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (2021), traveling to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (2022), Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France (2022), and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands (2022); 'Giant Without a Body' at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2021); 'Sturm und Drang' at the Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX (2020); and 'Baden Baden Baden', at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (2019). Having established herself as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded her practice into the third dimension.

About Robin Peckham

Robin Peckham is the Executive Director of the upcoming JD Museum in Shenzhen. Previously, he served as Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas and Editor-in-Chief of LEAP. His curatorial work spans art, technology, and popular culture, and his exhibition Art Post-Internet was named by ARTnews as one of the 20 most important exhibitions of the 2010s.