David Zwirner to Present New Works by Yuskavage, Schutz, and Bernhardt at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

David Zwirner has announced its participation in the 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, anchoring its presentation with significant new works by Lisa Yuskavage, Dana Schutz, and Katherine Bernhardt. The gallery’s selection for the fair traverses distinct thematic territories, juxtaposing the introspection of the artist’s studio with chaotic depictions of labor and large-scale commentary on environmental precarity.

A central feature of the booth is Lisa Yuskavage’s Peacock in the Garret (2024). This painting extends a body of work commenced in the late 2010s that positions the artist’s studio as a theatrical stage, populated by recurring characters from her oeuvre. Yuskavage employs sfumato—a Renaissance shading technique—to render a diffuse red atmosphere, creating a soft environment illuminated by iridescent light entering through an arched window. The composition balances miscellaneous foreground objects with the presence of a peacock at the windowsill, a motif referencing Western art history’s ancient symbol for immortality.

Providing a stark counterpoint to Yuskavage’s atmospheric interiority, Dana Schutz presents a new painting, The Cooks (2025), alongside a sculpture titled Lesson on a Boat (2025). Schutz’s practice often situates figures within impossible, high-pressure conditions, and The Cooks depicts a brutalized kitchen scene where the distinctions between human figures and animal carcasses appear to dissolve. The narrative details include a figure crawling to capture a lobster and a cook sustaining a violent blow, all while a fire burns in the background. Characteristic of Schutz’s exploration of futile exertion, the subjects remain intently absorbed in their tasks, seemingly oblivious to the surrounding destruction.

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Beyond the confines of the booth, Katherine Bernhardt’s commissioned work Superstorm (2025) will be installed in the fair’s UBS Lounge. Spanning thirty feet, this canvas utilizes the scale afforded by Bernhardt’s industrial studio in St. Louis to expand her lexicon of American pop vernacular. The composition eschews traditional perspective, flattening imagery such as the Pink Panther, consumer goods, and tropical motifs into a single plane. The artist notes that the work functions as an expressive free association that alludes to environmental instability, positioning its subjects within a catastrophic weather event. Additionally, Bernhardt’s painting Emergency (2025) will be on view at the UBS Art Studio exhibition Beyond Pop: Art of the Everyday.

The gallery will also highlight Jeff Koons’s Balloon Venus Lespugue (Red) (2013–2019), a sculpture from his Antiquity series. The work reinterprets the Venus of Lespugue, a Paleolithic statuette discovered in 1922, through Koons’s signature balloon phrasing. By transposing the exaggerated curves of the ancient fertility figure into towering, geometric abstraction, the piece engages in a dialogue with modernist history while collapsing the timeline between prehistoric artifacts and contemporary production.

The presentation is rounded out by new works from Oscar Murillo, Chris Ofili, and Nate Lowman, as well as a historical selection featuring Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Joe Bradley, Marlene Dumas, William Eggleston, Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Neo Rauch, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Raymond Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Miami Beach Convention Center December 2025

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