Volume Gallery announces Jonathan Muecke’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, opening April 10, 2026, from 5 to 8 p.m. Muecke’s practice is one of persistent material exploration yielding highly intentional forms.
Through iterative cycles of observation, experimentation, and re-understanding—Muecke patiently tests material, scale, and form against one another. He follows the physicality of the material, allowing an internal logic to emerge from inherent aesthetic and technical possibilities. Raw materials are cast, pressed, slotted, and joined, with altogether new methods often developing from the depth of this inquiry.
Each object in the exhibition is a proposition—an answer to a prompt of the artist’s own creation. The works range across the matrix of Muecke’s practice, from chairs and tables cast in carbon fiber to inscrutable geometric sculptures, together capturing a moment in an ongoing and self-referential body of work. Each piece carries the recognizable parameters of point, line, and plane but made unfamiliar through unknown processes, materials, and sometimes function. Always engaged with human scale, the works contain both familiar and unknown characteristics.
Jonathan Muecke will be on view through May 30, 2026.
Jonathan Muecke and Nile Greenberg
In Conversation
Saturday April 11, 2pm
Please join us for a conversation between artist Jonathan Muecke and architect Nile Greenberg at Volume Gallery on Saturday April 11 at 2pm amongst Jonathan Muecke’s solo exhibition.
Jonathan Muecke has evolved a practice that resists standard divisions among design, art, and architecture, instead focusing on refined forms that investigate notions of positive and negative space, positional relationships, and the innate desire to read notions of functionality into objects that relate to human scale. He studied architecture at Iowa State and with the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, before studying design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2014 he was awarded the architectural pavilion commission from Design Miami and in 2015 he was awarded a USA Knight Fellowship. His first collection with Knoll debuted in 2025. Muecke’s works are in the collections of several museums including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. Recent museum exhibitions include Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago and Constellations & Affinities: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection at The Cranbrook Art Museum.
Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of Abel Nile New York. ANY recently guest edited the 2025 issue of Flash Art Volumes on the theme of Crisis Formalism— a dossier of architectural responses to re-integrate architectural form and crisis. Nile serves as Architecture Editor at The Brooklyn Rail, overseeing a section that focuses on the relationship between architecture and art. His published works include co-authoring “The Advanced School of Collective Feeling” (Park Books, 2023), a study on the relationship between physical culture and housing in the 1920 and curating the exhibition “Two Sides of the Border” at Yale. Nile is the 2025-26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow at University of Illinois Chicago. He has taught at Columbia University GSAPP and Cornell University AAP. His work has been presented at the 2025 Venice Biennale, ETH Zürich, Cornell University, Spazio Maiocchi, the AIA Center for Architecture, Rice University, Harvard GSD, University of Melbourne, The Cooper Union, University of Colorado. ANY was recognized as New Practices New York 2020-2023 by AIANY. Nile Greenberg holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
