New-Media Visions, Metamorphic Dolls and Russell James in Berlin
Three exhibitions opening across Europe pair established practices with striking new bodies of work: Suzanne Treister’s technologically charged retrospective in Łódź, Noah Umur Kanber’s dialogue with Ovartaci in Aarhus, and Russell James’s latest photographic presentation in Berlin.
Suzanne Treister’s “Prorocze śnienie” opens at ms¹, Museum of Art in Łódź, on 9 October and remains on view through 14 March 2027. The exhibition is the first retrospective in Poland devoted to the British pioneer of digital, internet and new-media art, bringing together more than four decades of work across interactive technologies, painting, video, photography and drawing. Early series including “Video Game Paintings” and “Software” appear alongside “HEXEN 5.0,” which addresses artificial intelligence, the climate crisis and quantum physics. An English curator-led tour with Treister and curators Jessie Robertson and Gabriela Sitek follows on 10 October.
Museum Ovartaci to Open Noah Umur Kanber’s First Danish Museum Exhibition
Museum Ovartaci in Aarhus will open Noah Umur Kanber’s “Kuk kuk, er det mig der er skør?” on 5 November, marking the artist’s first exhibition at a Danish art museum. Kanber’s work will be shown alongside that of Ovartaci in an exhibition examining identity, gender, metamorphosis and life beyond fixed social categories. For the project, Kanber has created 56 dolls, one for each year Ovartaci was hospitalized. The dolls will be presented with ceramics, copperplate etchings and works on paper, bringing Ovartaci’s mythological universe into a new visual language. Kanber will also perform at the opening at 5pm.
Image: Camera Work, Berlin
Russell James’s ‘It’s About Time’ to Open at Galerie CAMERA WORK in Berlin
Galerie CAMERA WORK will present Russell James’s “It’s About Time” in Berlin from 10 October to 14 November 2026. The exhibition gathers more than 30 works, including numerous new nudes and portraits being shown worldwide for the first time, alongside famous and previously unknown backstage photographs. Listed works include “Bella Swimming at Ruby Falls” from 2019 and “Stella Maxwell, Lady Gaga and Elsa Hosk” from 2016. The Berlin presentation is described as the opening event in an international exhibition series continuing at museums and art institutions worldwide. James will sign works at the gallery on 10 October at 14:00.