The study investigated whether the congruence between the shape of the single target and the shape of the overall pattern of stimuli, as well as the regularity (equal distances among stimuli) of that pattern, could facilitate the maintenance of information in visual working memory (VWM). We observed strong evidence in favor of the congruency effect, and moderately positive evidence for the regularity effect. Both effects were relatively weak, but easily identifiable with the quite large samples we examined. These data support and largely extend the existing evidence showing that Gestalt principles of perceptual organization, which are well known to organize visual perception, influence also the active maintenance and access of information in VWM during the absence of perceptual stimulation.