Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests

Holtermann Fine Art is pleased to present Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and his London debut.

Brandon Ndife: Palimpsests features work made in 2023 – 2024, including wall-based sculpture, freestanding structures and works on paper. The exhibition takes its title from the concept of a palimpsest – a surface layered with traces of previous marks or writings – an idea that resonates with Ndife’s ongoing exploration of history, transformation and overlay.
Born in 1991 in Hammond, Indiana, and now based in Brooklyn, Ndife alters familiar domestic objects into layered, poetic sculptures. Cast-off furniture and household stuffs are reworked with resin, wood, foam, cement and other materials resulting in works that exist between the sculptural and the painterly – the poetic state invoked by palimpsest.

An exhibition text by Jon Wood accompanies the show.

About Brandon Ndife
Brandon Ndife (b. 1991, Hammond, Indiana) lives and works in New York. His work is currently on view in A Garden of Promise and Dissent at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, and in Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. A site-specific sculpture–commissioned by Lighthouse Works–is also on view at Fishers Island, New York (through December 2025).
Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York (2022); Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (2022); Bureau, New York (2020, 2019); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2018); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2016). Notable group exhibitions include Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2023); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (2022); Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); and the Aspen Art Museum (2020). A graduate of The Cooper Union and Bard College MFA, Ndife has work in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

About Holtermann Fine Art
Holtermann Fine Art has been dealing internationally in 20th century and contemporary art since the early 1980s. Holtermann Fine Art has been instrumental in the formation of several important private museum collections and has successfully negotiated sales of works by artists including Georg Baselitz, Tony Cragg, Robert Gober, Anselm Kiefer, Edvard Munch, Claes Oldenburg and Charles Ray to public and private institutions including the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Hubei National Museum, Wuhan, the Kistefos Museum, Norway, and M+, Hong Kong. Holtermann’s Cork Street gallery opened 2019 on the site of Peggy Guggenheim’s prewar London gallery. Shows at the gallery expands Holtermann’s core activity of showing and placing important sculptural works in urban and natural settings. Exhibitions have included works by Nick Cave, Tony Cragg, Georg Baselitz, Peter Buggenhout, Antony Gormley, Sterling Ruby and Woodrow/Deacon as well as younger artists like Tony Matelli, Jorge Otero-Pailos and Olivia Bax.