Anish Kapoor Presents New 'Mirror Works' in NYC
Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception.
Summary
- ‘Mirror Works’ spotlights Anish Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception
- The New York show arrives amid a major run of international museum exhibitions
A focused presentation of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor has opened in New York’s Lisson Gallery under the title ‘Mirror Works’, bringing together pieces created between 2010 and the present. The exhibition continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of scale, color, volume and material, foregrounding stainless-steel forms that shift and destabilize the viewer’s sense of space.
Known for transforming perception into a physical experience, Kapoor approaches sculpture not as a static object but as a spatial event. His reflective surfaces bend architecture, swallow light and return distorted images of the viewer, turning the gallery into an immersive environment that changes with every movement.
Among the works on view is “Non Object (Plane)” (2010), a folded sheet of highly polished stainless steel that leans against the wall with an almost improbable lightness. Its mirrored surface refracts the surrounding space, blurring the boundary between object and illusion. In “Double Vertigo” (2012), paired concave forms create a compounded optical pull, subtly disorienting viewers as reflections collapse inward.
A more recent work, “Untitled” (2023), presents a large stainless-steel cuboid organized around a central void. Rather than absorbing light, the interior reflects it, transforming emptiness into an active visual field. Meanwhile, “Stave (Red)” (2015) introduces a lacquered red surface, a color long associated with interiority in Kapoor’s practice, heightening both emotional charge and spatial tension.
The exhibition follows Kapoor’s recent presentation at the Jewish Museum in New York and coincides with his first U.S. institutional exhibition dedicated exclusively to painting at the SCAD Museum of Art, opening February 9, 2026.
Lisson Gallery
508 W 24th St.
New York, NY 10011
