The New Museum reopens to the public on March 21, 2026, expanding its Bowery home to double its gallery space and introduce new public areas. Opening weekend offers free admission and a major new exhibition, highlighted by Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental site-specific installation created for the new Atrium Stair.
Saturday, March 21, 11 AM to 6 PM | RSVP* Sunday, March 22, 11 AM to 6 PM | RSVP* *Admission is free throughout the reopening weekend (March 21–22).
Be part of the New Museum’s reopening day on March 21, 2026. Explore the expanded OMA-designed building, experience the inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, enjoy DJs, city views, and artist-led activations—and encounter Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental new commission for the Atrium Stair.
Visitors can explore New Humans: Memories of the Future, a major exhibition bringing together more than 200 artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers to reflect on how technological and social change reshapes what it means to be human. Throughout reopening day, the museum will host special programming including DJs, city views from the expanded spaces, and artist-led activations.
A central highlight of the new building is a major commission by Klára Hosnedlová, created specifically for the Atrium Stair. Her large-scale installation winds a spine-like metal structure draped in flax-based textiles through the vertical core of the space, enclosing a suspended sandstone-and-glass sculpture detailed with intricate embroideries. Gradually revealed as visitors move through the building, the work merges references to Eastern Bloc architecture and science fiction with traditional craft techniques, reflecting on memory, labor, gender, and time.
Klára Hosnedlová (b. 1990, Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic) lives and works in Berlin. Her work is the subject of a major presentation at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart opening in May 2025.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Basel (2024); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (2023); the 16th Lyon Biennale (2022); X Museum, Beijing (2022); Baltic Triennial 14, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2021); 54th October Salon Belgrade Biennial (2021); 7th Athens Biennial (2021); Fondation Cartier, Paris (2019); Vila Tugendhat, Brno (2017); and the National Gallery Prague (2015).
