September 12 — October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: September 12, 6–8pm
New York: 21st Street
Celebrated for his language-based, sculptural practice, Lawrence Weiner’s inaugural exhibition at Gladstone, AS OFTEN AS NOT, addresses timeless issues of change: cataclysmic events, entropy, and borders that impede our lives today, which are read via his own language and graphic style. Gladstone's installation has been specially designed for the gallery’s 21st Street location and will include an installation on the building's façade.
On September 14th, from 12–6pm, e-flux will screen films by Lawrence Weiner at the e-flux Screening Room at 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY. The screenings will be divided into three segments, approximately 90 minutes each. A selection of Weiner's sound performance works will be played during breaks between the segments.
In Spring 2026, Primary Information will publish a facsimile of Weiner's 1969 manuscript Terminal Boundaries on view during the exhibition.
About
Photo: Matt Tammaro
Lawrence Weiner was born in Manhattan in 1942 and raised in the South Bronx, and lived and worked between New York City and Amsterdam. Weiner has been the subject of a major retrospective survey at the Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2007-2009). Other retrospectives have been shown at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2004); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2000); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (1994); and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA (1990). Solo exhibitions include the Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2021); Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico (2020); Museo Nivola, Orani, Italy (2019); Milwaukee Art Museum (2017); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2016); Blenheim Art Foundation, United Kingdom (2015); South London Gallery, United Kingdom (2014); Villa Panza, Italy, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (2013); and the Jewish Museum, New York (2012). Weiner participated in Documenta 5, 6, 7, and 13 (1972, 1977, 1982, 2012); the 36th, 41st, 50th and 55th Venice Biennales, Italy (1972, 1984, 2003, 2013); and the 27th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006).
The artist was the recipient of major honors, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1983), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1995), a Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999), an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Graduate Center, CUNY (2013), the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation Prize (2015), and the Wolf Prize and the Aspen Award for Art (2017).
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