Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa: A New Humanism explores Jaume Plensa’s career-long engagement with themes common to our shared humanity such as dreams, desire, justice and mortality. While Plensa’s oeuvre is marked by diversity in format and media, the human condition remains the primary subject of his art, which traverses the personal and collective, individual and universal. Featuring both monumental and intimate-scaled sculptures and select two-dimensional works that span four decades, this is the first retrospective for the artist in the United States.

The art of Jaume Plensa has almost become synonymous with Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, after the 2021 opening of his marble Utopia in the Garden Pavillion in the Welcome Center. The defining qualities of the installation—a focus on the human form; unity of distinct individuals; hushed and introverted tone—recur in many of the Plensa’s other works over of the past four decades.