Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will hold its annual Spring Benefit on Sunday, May 17 from 5-9pm at the studio of Los Angeles-based artists The Haas Brothers.
ICA LA’s Spring Benefit brings together artists, patrons, collectors, and cultural leaders from across Los Angeles for a lively evening of art, unique dining, and live music.
All funds raised from the Spring Benefit will directly support ICA LA’s exhibitions and Learning & Engagement programs, which provide free access to groundbreaking art and education initiatives to DTLA’s Arts District.
Past hosts include Charles Gaines, Mary Weatherford, Yunhee Min & TOLO Architecture, and Glenn Kaino.
We look forward to an unforgettable evening with you!
HOST COMMITTEE: Barbara Bestor, Justin Boone, Tim Disney, Claudia Flores, Asuka Hisa, Glenn Kaino, Liana & Michael Krupp, Kate Lally & Paul Solomon, Sarah & Joel McHale. Marla & Jeff Michaels, Yunhee Min, Grace Oh & John Chan, Alison Palevsky, Sasha Palevsky, Neville Rhone Jr., Amanda Ross-Ho, and Mary Weatherford
For questions or corporate sponsorship opportunities, please reach out to Nick Stephens-Seckler at nstephensseckler@theicala.org.
The Haas Brothers—twins Nikolai and Simon (b. 1984; Santa Monica, CA)—investigate the slippery divide between art and design with humor, whimsy, and inventive originality. While they are best known for their riotously colorful biomorphic forms, genitalia-adorned furniture, and pun-infused titles, an intellectual, conceptual, formal, and technical rigor grounds their practice. Marrying their respective personalities and strengths, the artists’ practice integrates a studied, systematic approach to materials and processes with a commitment to dismantling the rigid social constraints, guiding them toward an emotional and spiritual resonance within their work.
The Haas Brothers have shown their work widely in the United States and abroad. Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley, their first major mid-career survey, opened at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI in 2025 and will travel to the Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami FL; and the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. The Haas Brothers’ work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The Haas Brothers live and work in Los Angeles, CA.
