Pae White
May 1, 2026, 3:30-4:30pm | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
With a practice that transverses sculpture, tapestry, graphic design, and large-scale installation, Pae White probes both material and motif. She explores the limits of a medium’s possibility and often upends its associations, repurposing everyday substances into sensory and revelatory new arrangements: Yarn becomes painting. Automotive lacquer is applied to organic forms. Jacquard weavings take on sculptural qualities. Paper is mistaken for bronze. For the artist, every artwork feels like a test, and nothing ever feels fully resolved. In this conversation, White joins Kimberly Bradley to discuss notions of beauty, craft, and processes of creation, particularly in relation to the artist’s newest body of work—on view in her solo exhibition “pushmi-pullyu” during Gallery Weekend Berlin at neugerriemschneider’s Christinenstrasse location.
The work of Pae White (b. 1963, Pasadena, California) combines scale and delicacy to repurpose everyday substances into sensory and revelatory new arrangements. White participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2010) and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Selected solo exhibitions include those at Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara (2025); San José Museum of Art, San José (2019); Saarlandmuseum, Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken (2017); MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna (2013); Langen Foundation, Neuss (2013); South London Gallery, London (2013); The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2011); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2011); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (2010); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2007); Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2006); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2004). White lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kimberly Bradley is an art critic, culture journalist, editor, and educator based in Berlin. She has written for publications ranging from frieze to The New York Times; edited catalogues and artist books for institutions including KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, and Gropius Bau; and for a decade taught courses in contemporary art practices at NYU Berlin. She is a commissioning editor at Art Basel Stories and in 2024 was the curator of Art Basel Conversations in Basel and Miami Beach.