Happy Birthday David Altmejd! 🎉 The artist has always sought to absolve his conscious mind from the responsibility of creation, instead attributing his sculptures with their own agency. In his 2022 exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard, David summoned the spirit of the Hare, which he recognises as the Jungian archetype of the Trickster. Trickster is irrational and capricious, a catalyst for metamorphosis and messenger from the subconscious, spurring the artist's imagination to wilder transforma

Born on this day: #DavidAltmejd 🎉 David’s sculptures blur the boundaries of inside and outside; realism and abstraction; human and animal, appearing to be in a continuous state of transformation. In ‘The Whaler’ (2023), the artist explores Jungian theory of the collective unconscious, where ancestral memories become archetypes that establish instinctual behaviours. Here, the whale represents the unconscious whilst the readied harpoon attempts to exercise control over it. The artist has said, ‘A

Sculptures by David Altmejd | Visual Atelier 8

In Focus: David Altmejd’s ‘The Serpent’ (2025) at White Cube New York ✨🐍 Entering the first floor of the gallery, we are met with ‘The Serpent’, a monumental, winding serpent, composed of a chain of conjoined human heads, with its own head lifting to meet that of its conjurer, ‘Snake Charmer’. The reciprocal relationship between these two sculptures enacts a dialogue between creation and creator, between matter and design – a tension that David both interrogates and exalts. 📍 ‘David Altmejd: T

David Altmejd: ‘Once the piece was finished I could quite easily see each head as symbolising a moment in a life, so I thought of the serpent as being the symbol of a life.’ Watch the full film, where David explores his exhibition ‘The Serpent’, discussing the inspirations and processes behind the works on view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnrzwRhhwM Experience ‘The Serpent’ at White Cube New York until 19 April 2025. Video: © White Cube (Oresti Tsonopoulos). | White Cube

The Quail de David Altmejd au @mnbaq: de grands mondes à explorer pour vos minis 🥚✨ The Quail, 2008, David Altmejd © David Altmejd Photo: © MNBAQ, Idra Labrie | Club Parents