In 2025, Black Cube is celebrating a decade of innovative artist-forward projects and programming. We're thrilled to present the second of three anniversary exhibitions: What We Hold On To, on view September 5—December 12, 2025.
Opening reception and programming details coming soon!
What We Hold On To is a group exhibition that explores the concept of storage—not just as a logistical process, but as an emotional, psychological, and cultural condition as well. Presented at Black Cube Headquarters (BCHQ) in a former industrial warehouse, this exhibition gathers local, national, and international artists whose works consider storage in an expanded sense: through trauma and memory, loss and tradition, hoarding and healing, preservation and release. A full artist list is forthcoming.
Referencing both BCHQ’s warehouse infrastructure and the behind-the-scenes infrastructure of collecting museums, artworks in What We Hold On To are presented on custom pallet racking. This pallet racking is sheathed in translucent, hand-sewn fabric panels that simultaneously display and conceal. Within this ghostly gallery space, artists in What We Hold On To ask: What do we choose to maintain, preserve, or hide away? What is archived, inherited, or left behind?