From Cleveland to Venice and Back Again, Everlasting Plastics Comes Home

SPACES is pleased to welcome Everlasting Plastics back to its Cleveland home. Originally premiering in the U. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and then travelling on to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 2024, this compelling group exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists and designers to examine our complex relationship with plastic.

This project includes site-specific works by Xavi Aguirre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Architecture); Simon Anton (Detroit-based designer); Ang Li (Northeastern University School of Architecture, Assistant Professor); Norman Teague (University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor in the School of Design); and Lauren Yeager (Cleveland-based sculptor). Each work considers our relationship with plastics, encouraging discussion about the ways the material both shapes and erodes contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment, while also suggesting potential alternatives and necessary re-imaginings for the ways in which plastics are deployed. Rather than offering a straightforward critique, Everlasting Plastics considers the material’s cultural pervasiveness and the entangled, often paradoxical connection we share with it.

Save the dates!

Public Opening Celebration from 6 to 9 pm Friday, September 26

Plastic Homecoming: Dress Up. Show Up. Support Art from 5 to 10 pm on November 1

Everlasting Plastics is curated by Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving. The Cleveland exhibition is generously supported by the Beyer Family Foundation, with in-kind donations by Process Creative Studios, Inc.

On view at SPACES from September 26 to January 17, 2026

SPACES
2900 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
spacescle.org

EVENTS:

Everlasting Plastics, September 26–January 17, 2026. Public opening celebration 6-9pm Friday, September 26

Plastic Homecoming: Dress Up. Show Up. Support Art, 5-10pm Saturday, November 1