Jeff Koons Releases Second Skateboard Collaboration With THE SKATEROOM

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Jeff Koons is known for testing the limits of the art world, and he’s doing so again this holiday season by releasing his second collection of skateboards with THE SKATEROOM, a social enterprise committed to empowering international skate through art and social impact initiatives.

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The new release is comprised of multiple collectible art decks, including one triptych, one diptych, and a solo deck, each in edition of 200. The triptych features Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series, Wilson Supershot) from 1985, Koons’ iconic sculpture exploring existentialism through three basketballs floating at midpoint in a glass tank half-filled with water. Pink Panther alongside a 1950s pin–up model appears on the diptych. Titled Pink Panther Skateboard, the porcelain sculpture depicted is part of Koons’ 1988 Banality series, a group of 20 sculptures that were metaphors for the viewer’s cultural guilt and shame, addressing how to overcome it. Lastly, the solo deck New Shelton Wet/Dry 10 Gallon Doubledecker Skateboard presents two new wet/dry vacuum cleaners in pristine plexiglass boxes lit with fluorescent lights. The work has existential and philosophical references, such as the duality of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness.

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Just like his first collaboration with THE SKATEROOM in 2021, 10% of sales will be donated once again to social skate projects as well as The International Center for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), a nonprofit organization empowering the global community with the tools, training, and technology to create a safer world for children.

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The Jeff Koons collection is now available exclusively at MoMA Design Store in Midtown and Soho in New York, and online via theskateroom.com and store.moma.org.

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