Nunu Fine Art in New York will present Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire from 6 March to 30 May 2026. Organised in collaboration with Sonnabend and Ubu Gallery, the exhibition brings together works by Hans Bellmer, Bruce Nauman and Rona Pondick, tracing a cross-generational dialogue around the body as subject and material.
Spanning the 1930s to the present, the exhibition includes vintage photographs from Bellmer’s La Poupée series, early 1970s videos and hologram studies by Nauman, as well as sculptures by Pondick, largely from the 1990s. Though separated by geography and era, the three artists share an interest in fragmentation and reconfiguration. Bellmer’s disarticulated dolls stage the body as mutable and psychologically charged; Nauman turns his own body into a site of endurance and experimentation; Pondick casts and recombines bodily elements, embedding teeth, heads and other fragments into unsettling sculptural forms.
Rather than presenting the body as a coherent whole, the exhibition foregrounds disassembly as a means of inquiry. Across photography, video and sculpture, each artist treats the body as a vehicle for probing desire, identity and the psychic self.
The exhibition will be available for view at Nunu Fine Art, 381 Broome Street, New York, NY 10012.
