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Jenkin van Zyl – Lost Property Jenkin van Zyl (b. 1993), a London-based artist and filmmaker already widely recognized as one of the most compelling young artists working today. Van Zyl’s work seeks to question notions of individuality and collectivity, exploring how community-building can foster belonging, allyship, and resistance.Jenkin van Zyl (b. 1993), a London-based artist and filmmaker already widely recognized as one of the most compelling young artists working today. Van Zyl’s work seeks to question notions of individuality and collectivity, exploring how community-building can foster belonging, allyship, and resistance.

ARoS June 2025

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JOANA SCHNEIDER - OTHERWORLDLY Joana Schneider creates spacious installations and sculptural environments that intertwine themes from natural and fictional realms. Her work initiates a dialogue concerning nature, the human body and the profound impact of early childhood experiences on young adults. By creating fantastic environments, that reference non-human and human-made worlds, Schneider explores how these elements shape humans' perceptions of beauty and youth. https://www.joanaschneider.nl/about

4/5/2025, Otherworldly, Groninger Museum, NL

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Gregory Crewdson | Untitled, Winter (Blue Period) 

Laurie Simmons | Long House (TV Room), 2004

Pedro Almodovar. Christopher Makos. 1985, IVAM

Popular

IVAM Valencia feb 2024

What is “popular”? Popular is not fame or celebrity. Popular is not the products of mass culture. Popular is not pop. Popular is not the art of the people, nor the identity of the country, nor the symbols of the nation. The popular is not the product of the proletariat or the craftsmanship of the working classes. The popular is not folklore. The popular is not clichés or tourist souvenirs. The popular is not visual candy, one-euro merchandise, advertising royalties. Popular is somewhere in-between all of that, underneath all that, yet something different. popular is an exhibition and an investigation – showing is a form of knowledge – that aims to answer this question.

The popular is a form of imagination, often words, images and things, created through gestures, actions and celebrations, in many different ways. The popular has a performative, plastic, shifting nature, always metamorphosing, closer to ritual than monument, liturgy devoid of theology.

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Manu Arregui - Harmony of Senescence

Views of Harmony of senescence. 2020. Installation of 3 synchronized HD-Video channels. 24.13 min. Variable measures

2023 https://bilbaomuseoa.eus/en/home/

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Guggenheim Bilbao dec 2023

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SHEELA NA GIG, CREATION, 1978 Monica Sjöö

From “Through Time and Space: The Ancient Sisterhoods Spoke to Me”

Moderna Museet Stockholm June 2023

https://guide.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/collection/monica-sjoo/sheela-na-gig-skapelse/

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Diana Markosian

Santa Barbara Exhibition | Fotografiska Stockholm

17 MARCH 2023 - 27 AUGUST 2023 

Photographer and filmmaker Diana Markosian explores the nature of family and the American dream. At the age of 7, the family abandoned their life in Moscow for California, leaving behind Markosian’s father. Inspired by the soap opera, Santa Barbara, Markosian creates her own world through a series of staged photographs and a narrative video, reconsidering her family history from her mother’s perspective and coming to terms with the profound sacrifices her mother made to become an American. The exhibition Santa Barbara will be shown at Fotografiska Stockholm from March 17 to August 27.

read more: https://www.fotografiska.com/sto/en/utstallningar/santabarbara/

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Peter Lindbergh

Lightness of Being : Fotografiska Stockholm

16 JUNE 2023— 15 OCTOBER 2023 

Lightness of Being has around 100 works in no particular chronological order. We are shown all the elements that inspired Peter Lindbergh in his work, from industrial landscapes to coastlines, from science-fiction to dance and 1920’s expressionism, as we dive into the art of creating striking narratives within the framework for a fashion cover.

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LAURIE ANDERSON

LOOKING INTO A MIRROR SIDEWAYS

1.4 – 3.9 2023

STOCKHOLM 

Laurie Anderson is a legendary figure in American avant-garde art, experimental music and independent culture. In this exhibition, Laurie Anderson explores the potential for presenting a narrative in the museum space. Here, earlier works meet new productions, in a reflection on time and being, silence and clamour.

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IN THE BLACK FANTASTIC

NOV. 19, 2022 – APRIL 10, 2023

HAL 2 Kunsthal Rotterdam

Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2014 © Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Mandrake Hotel Collection 

UP TO AND INCLUDING MONDAY 10 APRIL. Step into an immersive experience at the intersection of reality and fantasy worlds. In the Black Fantastic shows seductive, exuberant and colourful works by eleven contemporary artists from the African Diaspora. With boundless imagination and technical virtuosity, the artists are addressing racism and social inequality. Inspired by folklore, myth, science fiction, spiritual tradition, and Afrofuturism, they are imagining new worlds and possibilities.

https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/intheblackfantastic/

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Carlos Sáez - EXO-corpse 2020 Pieza de automoción, hierro, platico y resina Automotive part, iron, plastic and resin IVAM Valencia Sept 2021

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THE FANTASTIC 70S ARCHITECTURE COLLAGES OF DIETER URBACH Seen at IVAM Valencia 10 sept 2021 read more at https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/16582825

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Ulay - S’he

In the early period of his artistic activity (1968–1976) ULAY undertook a thematic search for understandings of the notions of identity and the body on both the personal and communal levels, mainly through series of aphorisms, Polaroid photographs, and intimate performances. He introduced the term “performative photography”. “As soon as I began using the Polaroid camera, mainly pointing it at myself – a practice I called Auto-Polaroid – I immediately discovered its performative elements. Taking Polaroids was a performative act for me: I performed in front of the camera. These were intimate actions, carried out in the absence of a live audience, ephemeral in nature, yet arrested in time through the Polaroid.”[3] Taking hundreds of self-portraits, each manipulated in a myriad of ways (f. e. S’he, Soliloquy, White Mask, Elf, Traumatic Fears from the Renais sense series, cca 1972–75), ULAY developed an approach that was novel in both method and subject matter, using the camera as a tool to investigate and modify identity, whilst exploring socially constructed issues of gender. “ It is impossible to talk about Ulay without talking about Polaroid. Vice versa, it is not possible to talk about Polaroid without referring to the work of Ulay either."[4]

https://www.ulayfoundation.org/about

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Iris van Herpen ～ Roots of Rebirth

Iris van Herpen shows her latest collection ‘Roots of Rebirth’ during Paris Haute Couture Week on January 25th 2021. 

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Iris van Herpen ～ Shift Souls

On January 21st, 2019, Iris van Herpen presented her latest Haute Couture collection, titled 'Shift Souls' at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The collection was inspired by early examples of celestial cartography and its representations of mythological and astrological chimera, Van Herpen was particularly taken with "Harmonia Macrocosmica," a star atlas by the German-Dutch cartographer Andreas Cellarius, published in 1600. With the advances in DNA engineering and the first successful creations of human/anima hybrids called 'Cybrids', the mythological dreams of Humankind since the dawn of civilization are shifting to the canvas of science. While the scientific and ethical implications of 'Cybrids' are still unclear, this collection expresses the fact that this reality is upon us. "For 'Shift Souls' I looked at the evolution of the human shape, its idealization through time and the hybridization of the female forms within mythology. Specially the imagination and the fluidity within identity change in Japanese mythology gave me the inspiration to explore the deeper meaning of identity and how immaterial and mutable it can become within the current coalescence of our digital bodies” — Iris van Herpen Runway video by Blitzkickers

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwJb0-20Ad4