Jeff Koons

A new sculpture from Jeff Koons’s first-ever NFT project, Jeff Koons: Moon Phases, is on view.

As part of Moon Phases, Koons will send a group of sculptures to the Moon on a rocket launching from the Kennedy Space Center later this year. Moon Phases is presented by Pace Verso in partnership with specialized digital arts and technology company NFMoon and multi-level space company 4Space. The project centers on the Moon as a symbol of human curiosity, determination, and achievement.

Exhibited on a plinth with the Chelsea skyline as its backdrop, the mirror-reflective, stainless-steel sculpture of the Moon on view in the Pace Verso NFT Showcase represents one component of Koons’s multifaceted project, which also comprises sculptures that will be installed on the Moon in perpetuity and NFTs that correspond with each sculpture on the Moon and the Earth. Like the other stainless-steel sculptures that will remain on the Earth as part of the project, the work in Pace’s upcoming exhibition features a small precious stone, positioned to indicate the location of the landing site of the Moon-bound sculptures. The sculptures remaining on the Earth can be understood in relation to Koons’s famed Equilibrium series and iconic stainless-steel Rabbit sculpture from the 1980s.