This January, Wönzimer Gallery in Los Angeles invites art lovers to see what happens when imagination dismantles hierarchy and redistributes value — starting with something as humble as cardboard. Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities, a group exhibition curated by artist Ann Weber, re-examines the everyday material so often overlooked that we barely register its presence beyond the recycling bin. Spoiler: once you experience it in these hands, cardboard stops being mundane.
Running from January 2–30, 2026, this exhibition foregrounds cardboard as a medium not of utility, but of expansive possibility — innovation, transformation, metaphor, and meaning. On view are ambitious sculptures, experimental wall pieces, architectural works, and reimagined design objects that coax this unpretentious material into surprising new worlds.
A Cross-Section of Global Creativity
Curator Ann Weber, known for her monumental cardboard sculptures, brings together an international roster of twelve artists who each redefine what cardboard can be. Whether sculptural, architectural, painterly, or conceptual, the works in this exhibition dismantle assumptions about value, permanence, and beauty.
Whether sculptural, architectural, painterly, or conceptual, the works in this exhibition dismantle assumptions about value, permanence, and beauty.
Other featured artists include Shigeru Ban (Tokyo), whose sustainable architectural practice famously incorporates cardboard tubes to create rapid-response shelters, blurring the line between art, design, and humanitarian architecture. Jodi Hays (Nashville) and Edgar Ramirez (Los Angeles) manipulate, layer, and color cardboard into richly textured wall works that oscillate between painting and sculpture. Narsiso Martinez (Los Angeles) presents ink and charcoal works on found cardboard that speak directly to labor, migration, and lived experience, while Leonie Weber (Brooklyn) transforms crumpled and dyed cardboard into compositions that evoke textile traditions. The exhibition is further enriched by contributions from Samuelle Richardson (Los Angeles), Michael Stutz (San Diego), Hector Dionicio Mendoza (Salinas), and Jebila Okongwu (Rome), each offering a distinct approach to reshaping cardboard’s physical and conceptual potential.
What unites this diverse group is a shared belief, “cardboard is not simply packaging or detritus.” In their hands, it becomes sculpture, narrative, environment, and social proposition. The exhibition highlights sustainability and reinvention, encouraging viewers to reconsider the material world around them and to see beauty in places they might otherwise overlook. An artist talk is planned for January 15th, where selected artists share insights about their work, process, and relationship to cardboard. Located in Los Angeles’s Lincoln Heights, Wönzimer Gallery’s industrial space provides a fitting stage for the exhibition’s blend of ingenuity and subtle critique.
Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities
January 2 – 30, 2026341-B S Avenue 17, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Images © Wönzimer Gallery