NEW YORK, NY.- Pace’s first presentation at Abu Dhabi Art since 2011 will focus on modern and contemporary sculpture, featuring works rendered in glass, steel, bronze, ceramic, aluminum, metal, marble, and other materials by Lynda Benglis, Alexander Calder, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Indiana, Alicja Kwade, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Arlene Shechet, Tony Smith, and James Turrell.

In the fair’s atrium, Pace will present a monumental 12-screen installation—titled Persistence of Life in the Sandfall (2024)—by the international art collective teamLab, whose 17,000-square-meter art museum, teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, opened this year in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District.

The gallery’s booth will also feature paintings, works on paper, and mixed media compositions by Nigel Cooke, David Hockney, Beatriz Milhazes, Robert Nava, Adam Pendleton, Richard Pousette-Dart, Marina Perez Simão, and Hank Willis Thomas.

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Abu Dhabi Art include:

● James Turrell’s installation Light Chop, Circular Glass (2021), a mesmeric work that speaks to the artist’s enduring engagement with the materiality of light and space

● A group of small-scale maquettes and a hanging mobile created between the 1950s and 1970s by Alexander Calder, whose dedicated museum Calder Gardens is now open in Philadelphia—and one of his most iconic works, Cirque Calder (1926–31), is now on view at the Whitney Museum in New York (red mobile)

● A marble LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana, who is the subject of a forthcoming book to be released by Pace Publishing in early 2026

● A welded steel sculpture, Maquette for Sun Disc/Moon Shadow V (1976–79), by Louise Nevelson, whose major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France runs from January 24–August 31, 2026

● Two recent sculptures by the duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who presented their first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Pace this fall

● SunderState (2025)—a sculpture consisting of polished glass, a clock, and a patinated bronze base—by Alicja Kwade, whose solo exhibition at M Leuven in Belgium is on view through February 22, 2026

● A new glazed ceramic, painted hardwood, steel, and gold leaf composition created this year by Arlene Shechet, who, as part of Art Basel Paris’s public program, recently presented a large-scale sculpture on the city’s Avenue Winston Churchill

● A 2001 maquette for Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s monumental Plantoir sculpture

● Lynda Benglis’s everdur bronze sculpture Lucky Strike (2024), a glistening and reflective composition that evokes a sense of movement, flux, and organic growth

● Tony Smith’s 1962 cast bronze sculpture We Lost, which reflects the artist’s longstanding interest in geometries of the natural world and the formal possibilities of crystalline structures

teamLab’s Persistence of Life in the Sandfall (2024)

As part of its presentation at Abu Dhabi Art, Pace will exhibit teamLab’s interactive digital work Persistence of Life in the Sandfall (2024) on a freestanding wall in the fair’s atrium. This 12-screen work, which chronicles the life spans of flowers and the shifting of sand, reflects teamLab’s explorations of what it has termed “Ultrasubjective Space”—the dissolution of the perceived boundary between the world of our physical bodies and the world of an artwork. When viewers approach the flowers in the work, they scatter and die. When they approach the falling sand, it breaks up.

Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko in Tokyo in 2001, teamLab is an international collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. Known for its multisensory, immersive work, teamLab explores the relationships between humans and the world, encouraging new modes of perception through its pioneering, technologically advanced installations. In recent years, teamLab has presented solo exhibitions at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco; Amos Rex in Helsinki; TANK Shanghai; and many other institutions and venues around the world. In 2025, the collective opened teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, a 17,000-square-meter museum in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District.