Cooper & Gorfer. Utopia

Opening: May 9, 2026, 6:00 PM, Zielona Brama Branch The opening will be translated into Polish Sign Language

When the world around us is falling apart, do we stop dreaming of another? From May 9, at Zielona Brama, a branch of the National Museum in Gdańsk, you can see an exhibition by the Cooper & Gorfer duo, known for their groundbreaking approach to portraiture and combining photography with painting, textiles, collage, and video. "Utopia" gives a voice to women with migration experience.

The artistic duo Cooper & Gorfer, working in Sweden, consists of American Sarah Cooper and Austrian Nina Gorfer. Their work is a multi-layered story about identity, memory, and human experience. Cooper & Gorfer's works have been presented in institutions such as Fotografiska (Stockholm, New York), the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

The starting point of "Utopia" are the stories of eleven young women. The protagonists come from Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq (Kurdistan), and Iran. Some of them arrived in Sweden during the migration wave in 2015–2016, while others were born there to migrant families.