Opening Weekend: What We Hold On To

What We Hold On To
On view: September 5–December 12, 2025
Opening weekend: Friday, September 5–Saturday, September 6

Join Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum for an opening weekend (September 5 + 6) in celebration of our second 10-year anniversary exhibition: What We Hold On To. This group exhibition 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.

Featuring works by Amber Cobb, Martin Creed, Kimberly Faber, Cristóbal Gracia, Viviane Le Courtois, Phillip Andrew Lewis and Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kija Lucas, Anuar Maauad, Marsha Mack, Irene Delka McCray, Laleh Mehran, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, SANGREE, Derrick Velasquez, and Marek Wolfryd.

Opening Weekend Schedule:

Friday, September 5 @ BCHQ

Opening reception: 6—9pm
Celebrate the start to What We Hold On To and the re-opening of BCHQ to the public! A number of exhibition artists will be in attendance.

Saturday, September 6 @ BCHQ
Public viewing hours: 11am—4pm
Drop by any time within this window to view What We Hold On To.

Artist talks: 11:30am—12:30pm
Hear more from several artists featured in the exhibition. Check back here or on social media for the latest details!

Artist workshop with Kija Lucas: 1—4pm
Participate in Lucas’s ongoing series Objects to Remember You By: An Index of Sentiment. Bring an object of sentimental value to have it photographed by the artist and added to her running archive of meaningful items.

Image Credit: Katherine Simóne Reynolds, A different kind of tender (film still), 2023. Two-channel color video with sound. Courtesy the artist.