Exhibitions

‘Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?’  

Princeton University Art Museum, USA (May - August 2024)
Co-curated with Susannah Baker-Smith

Touch served as both the conceptual foundation and sensory connection throughout “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?” 

Taking its title from a poem by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong the exhibition featured work by thirteen artists. It explored how touch can be expressed through photography, film, and video. The artworks examined a spectrum of physical encounters—from tender gestures between loved ones and charged interactions between strangers to tactile engagements with materials themselves.

Through these diverse works, the exhibition presented touch as a fundamental mode of communication, understanding and human connection.  
photos: ©Jason Hu

Franco Vimercati: The World in a Grain of Sand

Galleria Nazionale, Rome, Italy (June - September 2023)

The World in a Grain of Sand featured photographs of everyday objects that Franco Vimercati (1940-2001) and his family used in their Milan home. The photographs' beauty and fascination lies in their seemingly contradictory blend of intimacy and rigorous objectivity, banality and poetry.

The exhibition highlighted one of Italy's most intriguing yet understudied conceptual artists. Vimercati strips away traditional still life symbolism to create a visual space that reveals countless subtle traits and characteristics within ordinary objects.

Organized in collaboration with Archivio Franco Vimercati and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, this five-room retrospective featured works from 1974-2001, exploring Vimercati's conceptual and poetic approach to seriality and repetition.
photos: ©Adriano Mura 

To Walk in the Image

St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (March - May 2023)

To Walk in the Image directly responded to St. Carthage Hall's history as a former chapel, exploring themes of spirituality, ritual and humanity's relationship with the land. Early Christian chapels were often built on ancient pagan worship sites, where respect was woven into human behavior around the natural rhythms by which the land breathes, grows, dies back, and regenerates.

This circular, seasonal, and spiritual understanding of the land underpins the work shown in the exhibition. Phoebe Cummings, Sabine Mirlesse and Alexander Mourant explored both collective and individual connections, allowing materials to flourish, emerge, and re-emerge while considering what lies beneath us as well as beyond us.


photos: ©Ros Kavanagh

TRUST/vertrauen

Spinnerei, Leipzig (June - July 2021)

As Co-Artistic Director alongside Nina Strand, I led the creative vision for the 2021 edition of f/stop: Festival für Fotographie Leipzig. Together, we developed both online and on-site programming, taking full responsibility for the festival's concept, content, and presentation. Our approach was shaped by the challenges of operating during the pandemic.

The festival showcased work by: Hoda Afshar (IR/AUS), Viktoria Binschtok (GER), Ingrid Eggen (NO), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (USA), Laure Prouvost (FR), Carmen Winant (USA), and Guanyu Xu (CHN).

Digital programming included contributions from: Susanne Ø. Sæther, Onora O'Neill, Nigel Warburton, Lebohang Kganye, Salma Abedin Prithi, Dannielle Bowman, Clara Hausmann, Anthony Luvera, Fred Hüning, Delpire & Co, Whitney Hubbs, Katrina Sluis, and Jonas Lund.
photos: ©Walther Le Kon

¿Déjà Vu?

Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural De La Villa; Museum Lázaro Galdiano; Museu Del Romanticismo, Madrid, Spain (June 2019 - Sept 2019)

PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid's International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, is one of Europe's longest-running and most respected arts festivals. PHE provides a prestigious platform for established and emerging visual arts.

As guest curator my programme, titled ¿Déjà Vu?, was presented across three museum spaces and featured work by Elina Brotherus (Finland), Sharon Core (USA), Délio Jasse (Angola), Laura Letinsky (Canada), Patrick Pound (NZ/Australia), and Clare Strand (UK).

These artists engage with photography by critically examining its limitations, functions, expectations, history, and cultural legacy, challenging conventional understanding of the medium.
photos: ©Sebastián Bejarano

Playground: Elina Brotherus

Serlachius Museum Gustaf, Mänttä, Finland (June 2018 – Jan 2019)

Elina Brotherus is a Finnish artist whose work over the past twenty years has oscillated between rigorous explorations of art history and deeply personal autobiographical inquiry. Working primarily in photography and video, Brotherus shifted her practice significantly after an intense period of exploring personal life narratives.

This pivotal change led her to draw inspiration from Fluxus 'event scores,' marking a new direction in her artistic approach. Playground featured work created between 2016-2018, representing the culmination of this transformative working method.

The resulting photographs and videos simultaneously question the artist's role and  photography and film's relationship to performance art.
photos: ©Elina Brotherus

Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography

Co-curated with Denise Wolff


Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge, USA (June 2018 - Sept 2018)
FOAM, Amsterdam (Dec 2018 - March 2019)
C/O Berlin (June 2019 - Sept 2019)
The Photographers' Gallery, London (Oct 2019 - Jan 2020)
Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden (Feb 2020 - September 2020)
The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (March 2021 - May 2021)


Food's formal complexity and rich symbolic meaning, combined with its everyday accessibility, has made it a frequently photographed subject. This exhibition explored food's representation and significance through three distinct themes.

Still Life served as the starting point, drawing from one of painting's most enduring genres. The photographs demonstrated how contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from this tradition and how the genre has evolved from the 19th century to the present day.

Around the Table examined how rituals and cultural identity  occur in food-centered gatherings, while Playing with Your Food showcased works that combine humor, playfulness, and irony in their approach. 

The exhibition also featured a display of cookbooks, connecting photographic representation with food's role in everyday life.
photos: ©Foam - Christian van der Kooy

Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood

The Photographers’ Gallery and The Foundling Museum, London (Oct 2013 – Jan 2014)
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago (April – July 2014)
Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Oct 2014 – Jan 2015)

Home Truths featured work exploring the lived experience and cultural symbolism of motherhood in contemporary Western society. Favoring autobiographical and documentary approaches, the exhibition drew on feminist traditions in both art-making and critical writing.

The project examined what it means to be a mother in the twenty-first century, confronting stereotypes, personal expectations, and cultural constraints while revealing the maternal self as possessing both agency and power.

Featured artists: Janine Antoni, Elina Brotherus, Elinor Carucci, Ana Casas Broda, Fred Hüning, Leigh Ledare, Hanna Putz, Katie Murray, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Tierney Gearon, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Ann Fessler.

Interview by The Photographers’ Gallery (video)
Interview by The Foundling Museum (video)

photos: ©Kate Elliot, Kai Caemmerer

How We Are: Photographing Britain

Co-curated with Professor Val Williams
Tate Britain, London (May-Sept 2007)

How We Are marked the first exhibition dedicated to British photography at Tate, presenting a comprehensive survey spanning from the 1850s to the early 2000s. With over 500 objects, the exhibition showcased renowned figures including Anna Atkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, and Madame Yevonde.

However, the exhibition extended far beyond canonical names to include postcards, family albums, medical photographs, propaganda materials, and social documents, offering a broader view of photography's role in British culture.

Crucially, the exhibition featured many women photographers and artists from diverse cultural backgrounds who have been historically underrepresented in British photography narratives, helping to reshape understanding of the medium's development in Britain.

How We Are: Photographing Britain | TateShots (video)
photos: ©Softroom

Face of Fashion

National Portrait Gallery, London (Feb-May 2007)

Face of Fashion explored the symbiotic relationship between contemporary portrait photography and fashion. Rather than attempting an encyclopedic or comprehensive survey, the exhibition offered a focused investigation into portraiture's evolving possibilities as it appeared in fashion magazines during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Featuring just five international photographers—Corinne Day, Mert & Marcus, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, and Mario Sorrenti—the exhibition allowed each artist's distinctive vision to emerge clearly. As a collective presentation it highlighted the significant transformations that have reshaped fashion imagery since the early 1990s.

Designed by Thomas Manss & Company
photos: ©Manns & Company