Lucy Williams: Radiant City

Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce Radiant City, an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Lucy Williams. This exhibition will mark the gallery’s third solo presentation with Williams and will be on view from November 6, 2025, through January 8, 2026. The exhibition coincides with Williams’s new publication, Radiant City.

Williams’s works are fastidiously engineered to produce uncanny miniature worlds suspended between the second and third dimensions—facades that are simultaneously industrial and tactile. Drawing on modernist buildings and interiors, Williams redefines collage through intricately crafted mixed-media bas-reliefs. Her sleek, serene scenes of period architecture ripple with texture and aqueous reflections. She simulates the tiled surfaces of swimming pools, the austere facades of Brutalist buildings, and the regimented rows of libraries and bookcases. Painstakingly hand-crafted, Williams constructs her works in ascending layers of varying materials such as paper, Plexiglas, wood veneer, fabric, piano wire, and thread.