The Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley
11 April - 16 August 2026
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
On view all summer at New York's Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is the Haas Brothers's largest exhibition to date by far: Uncanny Valley, a mid-career survey spanning 85 objects created between 2014 and 2025. Accompanying the exhibition is a major monograph from Phaidon.
Surveying a practice that is playful and whimsical yet grounded in a sophisticated technical approach, the exhibition aims to thoughtfully and entertainingly traverse the artists’ career arc and maturation within the realms of design and contemporary art.
Prominently featured, among other bodies of work, are the Haas Brothers' intricately beaded sculptures, some of which contain hundreds of thousands of antique Venetian glass beads. Examples of their newest paintings, embodying the trajectory of the artists' work in the contemporary art space distinct from design, are also be on view.
While they are best known for their riotously colorful biomorphic forms; genitalia-adorned furniture; and pun-infused titles, an intellectual, conceptual, and technical rigor grounds their practice. Marrying their respective personalities and strengths—Simon’s penchant for analysis and systemization, and Nikolai's playfulness, humor, and creativity—the duo finds new ways to balance substance with irreverence in each body of work.
Coinciding with the presentation of Uncanny Valley at MAD, Marianne Boesky Gallery will present The Strawberry Tree (2023)—a monumental, cast bronze tree adorned with intricate, beaded foliage and glowing, blown-glass strawberries—at the gallery in Chelsea (507 West 24 Street).
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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information and credit lines are in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition.
