Constant in the Big 🍎 and a Tribute to Rebels ✊🏽

The No Kings March (October 18, 2025) was twenty times larger than the 1963 March on Washington, best known for Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. By several measures — total number of protest events and sustained activity — anti-Trump demonstrations in 2025–2026 have exceeded the levels seen in earlier comparable periods. 

Maybe we need the disintegration of traditional structures of power for ordinary people to find the leader within themselves — their humanity, their integrity, and their voice. Who knows? Hope dies last, right?

The thing with platitudes is that they feel stale until you live their meaning. So until next time, remember: the darkness makes the stars shine brighter.

Kim
Director Fondation Constant

TEFAF 

14-19 March 2026, MECC Maastricht
Borzo Gallery stand 447/449] will have a unique premiere this Tefaf: the iconic painting Ode à l’Odéon [see at the head of this newsletter], which has been on view at Kunstmuseum since 1974.

This major New Babylon painting was one of the first after a temporary painting stop, where Constant only worked on his architectural models. It’s inspired by the 1969 student uprising in Paris. 

This majestic work will be flanked by Two Towers [1959] and works by amongst others Charlotte Caspers, Rakuko Naito, Jan Schoonhoven, and herman de vries.

TEFAF 

14-19 March 2026, MECC Maastricht
Jaski Gallery [stand 510] shows a  painting from 1951 “Figure Against Purple Background” [1951] from the rarely available CoBrA period with the sculpture “Entangled Bird” [1947]. This last one is also a unique object since very few objects by Constant from that period remain. 

NEW HUMANS

21 March 2026, New Museum, New York City
With the exhibition New Humans. Memories of the Future the New Museum in NYC opens its doors again on 21 March after an extensive period of building a new wing, which will double the museum’s exhibition space. 60,000-square-foot building expansion is designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson.

New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures. The exhibition includes six works of art by Constant.