The Facts
On October 22, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a round-up of new Edmund de Waal projects. The artist's solo exhibition "the eight directions of the wind" opens at The Huntington in Los Angeles with new site-specific installations incorporating text and natural materials. His installation "Library of Exile" will join the Warburg Renaissance at the Warburg Institute in London, and de Waal plans to donate nearly 2,000 books from the work to Mosul University Library in Iraq. The release also notes his new book "How to Begin," the second edition of "The Pot Book," and his inclusion in "Sacred Splendor" at The Jewish Museum in New York.
The Signal
For collectors and curators, the Warburg placement and Mosul donation extend the conceptual afterlife of "Library of Exile," transforming a gallery-scale installation into an instrument of reconstruction and underscoring de Waal's standing as a public-art thinker. The simultaneous publishing, museum shows, and honors—including the Isamu Noguchi Award and France's Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres—confirm demand for work that bridges ceramics, text, and memory across institutional contexts.
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- Artists: Edmund de Waal, Theaster Gates
- People: Rainer Maria Rilke, Theaster Gates, Hanya Yanagihara, Hartwig Fischer, Elif Shafak, Moïse de Camondo, Judith Kerr
- Galleries: Galerie Max Hetzler
- Museums: The Huntington, The Jewish Museum, New York, Warburg Institute, British Museum, Noguchi Museum, Musée Nissim de Camondo
- Locations: London, Los Angeles, New York, Mosul
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