NEWS | MONUMENTAL GLASS-INSTALLATION (4,000-SQUARE-FOOT) BY NNENNA OKORE AT JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL | BALTIMORE/USA |

We are pleased to announce the release of the monumental glass-installation "an ætiology of things" by Nnenna Okore in Baltimore/USA. After four years of dedicated work, Okore's new 4,000-square-foot installation has finally been unveiled at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nnenna Okore drew on biologic and ecologic forms, in order to develop an ætiology of things, embodying a site for generative thinking and artful experience for viewers and users. Metaphorically, the art piece is a visual stage upon which familiar elements spark conversations, inquiries, or understandings of our shared experiences with the delicate, transient, amorphous, and ever-changing attributes of the planet. The artist writes: The invitation to infuse art into the vast wall space of this medical facility inspired me to consider how the fields of knowledge between sciences and arts are connected, re-imagined, and blurred. Put differently, my vision for this design is to activate a space that inspires and energizes, while suspending the fences between the art and science, in a manner that enlivens compelling visual experiences and provocations driven by the sense of wonder in how and why things come to exist and matter. I hope that "an ætiology of things" evokes a curiosity that goes beyond the usual spheres of reference to engender conversations around the complex visual intricacies, artistic language, learning, and metaphoric/scientific interpretations of things.

Nnenna Okore (*1975 Canberra, AUS) was born in Australia, raised in Nigeria, and works in the United States. She is a Professor of Art at Chicago’s North Park University. During her undergraduate studies at the University of Nigeria, she mentored under El Anatsui, who had a retrospective solo exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in 2019. She recently completed a major site-specific installation, Between Earth and Sky, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Her monumental glass work, *Together We Belong, Here *— produced by Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich — was unveiled by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, USA in 2025. Her first solo show in Munich under the title The Way Things Are is currently on view at Ludwigstr. 7. Okore's work continues to shape global conversations in contemporary art.

Artist: Nnenna Okore Title: an ætiology of things Materials: Hand-painted ceramic pigments and etched glass Dimension: 43 feet by 140 feet Year: 2026 Fabricator: Mayer of Munich