Prints & Editions by Jeff Koons

Launched on the occasion of the gallery’s special presentation of works by Jeff Koons at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, this Viewing Room features a selection of prints that spans the artist’s influential career and some of his most iconic subject matter.

Koons is internationally regarded for bold, often monumental works that hold a mirror up to contemporary culture in order to empower the viewer, as he notes, toward achieving a state of personal transcendence. Since the 1980s, Koons has also executed prints and limited editions that bring key motifs from his various series to an even wider audience. The works’ mechanical reproduction elaborates the artist’s Pop-inflected vision of consumer culture: by mining his own work as readymade, he underscores the reproducibility of such imagery.

Presented here is a comprehensive selection of prints that display the wide range of work from the artist’s career and represent a variety of series, including Banality with the artist’s 1988–1989 Art Ads, a portfolio of four lithographs based on the advertisements Koons placed in Arts, Flash Art, Artforum, and Art in America to publicize the