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  • The exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future at New Museum in New York in Fall 2025 explores what it means to be human alongside the rapidly advancing field of AI and robotics.
  • New Humans will include over 150 artists from 50 countries, covering the early decades of the 20th century to the present day.
  • The exhibition will inaugurate the museum's building expansion, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson.

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New Museum in New York has announced the exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future for Fall 2025. The opening will coincide with the inauguration of the museum's expanded building. In the context of the acceleration of advancements in AI and robotics, the exhibition revisits the perennial question of what it means to be human.

New Humans takes a look at the artists, creators and thinkers whose ideas and creations have fueled technological innovation and advancements. In contrast to the common exhibition model, New Museum artistic director Massimo Gioni has opted for a more global and transcultural selection, offering visitors a concentrated and comprehensive overview.

A sparkling glass plate with multiple holes that evoke stars and an odd contraption in the center.
Constellation and Habitat of the Hydrospatial City, 1973, acrylic and light, 43 5/16 27 5/8×3 7/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

With over 150 artists from 50 countries covering the period from the early decades of the 20th century to the present day, the scope of ideas and materials covered by the exhibition is massive. Karl Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots serves as the initial point of departure for this retrospective journey into the future; the intervening one hundred years have seen a flourishing of fiction, visual art and philosophies that speculate about the content of the future and how we, as human beings, would interact and assimilate into it.

New Humans will encompass both historical and contemporary works, with the greats of 20th century art such as Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Ibrahim El-Salahi, H.R. Giger, Hannah Höch, Tatsuo Ikeda, Gyula Kosice, El Lissitzky and Eduardo Paolozzi juxtaposed in dialogue with contemporary artists such as Anicka Yi, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani and Andro Wekua.

The exhibition will inaugurate the museum's building expansion, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. New Museum will soon release more details about New Humans, in addition to its full 2026 schedule, which will include the first New York museum presentation of Arthur Jafa.

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