Secession
As an artist-run international institution exhibiting contemporary art, the Secession is an open venue for presentations of new creative ideas and engagements with the urgent concerns of our time. Confronting the complex realities of life and global challenges, we believe it is a core part of our mission to grapple with questions of cultural and social policy and showcase ambitious visions that spark public debate.
Now on view
4 exhibitions
JJJJJerome Ellis
An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673–1886
Bernhard Leitner
SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE
Lap-See Lam
192 Wing Lok Street
Beethoven Frieze
Gustav Klimt created the famous Beethoven Frieze for the XIV exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria Secession, which took place from April 15 to June 27, 1902. In this exhibition – conceived as a…
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Beaux Mendes
White Forest
Iza Tarasewicz
Moving Cause
Yoshinori Niwa
Travelling Backwards Along the Paths Taken by People Who Left Their Country
Lucie Stahl
In her photographic and sculptural works, Lucie Stahl addresses the ecological and psychological effects of extraction that shape our contemporary living environments. She investigates overproduction and related forms…
Sammy Baloji
"Photography came to the Congo, or to Africa in general, through colonial expeditions and played a major role in painting this image of the 'other,' of the savage or the foreigner... I ask myself: How can I, as an…
Yui Yaegashi
Yui Yaegashi develops her painting in a rigorous yet open engagement with systems. Textile elements were an important starting point for her artistic practice, serving both as a formal component and a conceptual…
Jake Elwes
Working at the intersection of machine learning, aesthetics, and ethics, Jake Elwes views AI not as an autonomous system but as a technology shaped by human biases and desires. Through moving image, sound, and…
Lili Dujourie
Lili Dujourie’s artistic practice has continuously evolved since the late 1960s, exploring the relationships between image, material, and perception. References to art historical traditions, literature, and cultural…
Merlin James
Merlin James’s work is profoundly shaped by the history of Western painting. Genres, motifs, and techniques are revived, shifted, and brought into new constellations, often with a subtle, almost mischievous lightness…
Mary Helena Clark
Mary Helena Clark’s precise image-sound arrangements conceive of cinema less as a narrative medium and more as a field for an experimental exploration of perception. In films, videos, and installations – her spectrum…
Frederik Marroquín
Frederik Marroquín’s art explores the intertwining of body, object, and space, conceiving sculpture not as a static form but as a choreographic setting. In installations, performances, and drawings, he develops what he…
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Sidsel Meineche Hansen's practice unfolds at the intersection of technology and class, approaching the body as a site shaped by overlapping economic and digital systems. In sculptures, CGI animations, videos, and…
Anders Sunna
Anders Sunna belongs to the Indigenous Sámi people, whose homeland, called Sápmi, extends across the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. His work arises from confronting the…
El Anatsui
El Anatsui primarily works with regional materials to create tectonic forms of great complexity, moving between object, surface, and environment. He transforms everyday disposable objects—liquor bottle caps, printing…
Jenna Sutela
Jenna Sutela creates “living sculptures” as well as audio and video works that explore open – relational, infinite – systems in biology, computer science, and language. Her artistic practice is a continuation of her…
