2025 Year in Review
In 2025, the Peter Marino Art Foundation in Southampton, New York, welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world to view works spanning from Ancient Egypt to the present day by internationally renowned artists.
Highlighting the Foundation’s fifth season was a summer-long exhibition of 90 photography works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). Designed by the artist, the installation featured photographs and prints in Mr. Marino’s collection from across Wolfgang Tillmans’s career and highlighted his ongoing inquiry into intimacy, perception, and the poetic potential of the photographic image. The influential artist has consistently redefined the medium of photography through a seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques and exhibition strategies. Tillmans is the first non-Brit and photographer to be awarded the Turner Prize and has been the subject of large-scale retrospectives at the Tate Modern, MoMA and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
In addition to Wolfgang Tillmans, the Foundation exhibited two new installations in 2025: Vienna 1900 Art & Decoration and Andy Warhol – 15 Minutes of Collecting.
Vienna 1900 Art & Decoration highlights Peter Marino’s collection of works from the Wiener Werkstätte and artists including Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Known for its modern designs and quality craftmanship, the Wiener Werkstätte were pioneers in merging art, design and utility demonstrating a holistic approach creating everything from furniture and paintings to textiles and tableware.
Complementing the Vienna exhibition, Ronald S. Lauder, cofounder and President of Neue Galerie, spoke at the August 16 “Brunch with Bob” event where he delighted a standing room only audience with his expertise of the Vienna Sucession from the perspective of a lifelong art collector.
Andy Warhol – 15 Minutes of Collecting featured thirty works by the pioneering American artist ranging from screen prints, drawings and photographs demonstrating Peter Marino’s connection with art collecting. Warhol hired Mr. Marino in the 1970s to renovate his Upper East Side townhouse and The Factory at 860 Broadway in New York City.
In tandem with the installation was a Tales from the Factory “Brunch with Bob” event on August 27. Hosted by Co-Associate Directors Bob Colacello and Isabelle Marino, who were joined by Peter Marino, ‘Baby’ Jane Holzer and Vincent Fremont, the panel featured a lively conversation covering Warhol’s work and interests spanning music, movies, books and collecting.
The Foundation’s summer programming continued with the “Peter Marino Book Club”, a series of author talks and book signings, which returned for its third year.
Photography was the common theme for the first three of four book events; Jonathan Becker presented his retrospective Lost Time on June 14 followed by Bruce Weber who debuted his monograph My Education on July 19. On August 2, artist Peter Halley and author Kristian Vistrup Madsen discussed their essays in the same-titled books Wolfgang Tillmans and shared