In Bloom

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532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel presents In Bloom, a group exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the gallery’s longstanding roster, as well as new additions. Featuring sculptures, paintings, mixed-media works, and more, In Bloom opens June 17, 2025 and runs through July 31, 2025. This will be the gallery's inaugural exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. 

Landing in Basel after over 16 years in Chelsea, New York, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is excited to present a spring show with all the characteristic features of the season. Tackling the motif of flowering, emergence, and cyclical return, the artists selected from the gallery’s roster are not necessarily showing the kinds of works they’re known for. Instead, the anima of reawakening, of embracing unprecedented shades of novelty, has goaded the 20 artists on view toward new forms, unfamiliar tones, atmospheric ruptures. 

Hung after the manner of a salon-style tableau, participating artists command their own vision, while demonstrating how their works can awaken new associations against the backdrop of the gallery’s expanding programming. Less like a collection than a a lightly coordinated swarm of gestures, each work on view jostles against the others without canceling them out. Blooming, a resurgent sense of presence, is not presented as a decorative, but treated as threshold, as event, a way of reconfiguring the surface of image, sculpture, and atmosphere alike.

Vitality is the watchword here—a movement both kinetic and metaphorical. In Bloom is less a singular theme than a curatorial topography where form and feeling rhymthmically collide. Several artists foreground entrenched tendencies in their works: their media, palette, concepts nevertheless creating a field of unexpected visual synchronies. 

Christine Nguyen’s crystalline cosmologies, Shuto Mizukami’s near-sculptural configuration, and Kazue Taguchi’s stained-glass-like luminal panels all expand the sense of blooming into gesture, light, and material duration. Paco Marcial’s BosoKustomKulturesoku, 2025, by contrast, operates at the register of material myth. Here, the bloom is mineralized, entropic—the wirey, hollowed-out chassis serving as a memorial, a reliquary for a form long since deserted. 

The cumulative effect of In Bloom is not disorientation, but a kind of attuned stillness. Delving into ideas of creation, existence, and personal reflection, the 20 artists on view give voice to renewal while not eschewing a certain air of lightsomeness and comedic delight. Several artists showcase new departures in their works: their media, palette, concepts creating a field of unexpected visual synchronies. Within this fecund jouissance the very sensation of centeredness becomes destabilized. Locked into the present moment, the exhibition traces out what it means to become—and to take risks, again and again—across fresh, luminous horizons. 

Participating Artists 

 Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ni Mhaonaigh, Yongjae Kim, Paco Marcial,  Christine Nguyen, John Alexander Parks, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Lily Prince, Danielle Riede, Danny Rolph, Alberto Alejandro Rodriguez, Robert Armstrong, Cecilia Danell, Shuto Mizukami, Patrick Neal, Morgan Ogilvie, Ramona Projer, Lennart Rieder, Tanja Selzer, Kazue Taguchi, Erin Turner, Michael Wang.

532 Gallery is located at 121 Hammerstrasse, 4057 Basel, CH. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm. For press inquires, please contact info@532gallery.com.