everybody

Numerous movements of the 20th and 21st centuries have fought to make these structures visible, to question and break through them, and to celebrate the body as a place of freedom.

In her book *Everybody – A Book about Freedom*, author Olivia Laing explores some of these processes.

Looking toward the 21st century, Laing raises this concerned observation: “The victories we’ve won were hard-fought but not secured for eternity, and now there is a threat of a relapse into conditions we thought we had overcome.”

Inspired by Laing’s book, the group exhibition *everybody* takes up this theme. The artworks on display focus on the body not as a static category, but as a dynamic construct shaped by social, historical, and emotional inscriptions.

In their works, the participating artists reflect on and imagine both individual and collective body politics. Through their objects and installations, they create spaces of experience for radical vulnerability, connectedness, autonomy, and resistance. This gives rise to an open space for negotiation, in which bodies are not merely represented, but felt, challenged, and celebrated.

“everybody” is an attempt to rethink bodies and imagine them in utopian contexts.

Featuring Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, EVA & ADELE, Carolyn Lazard, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Janne Kummer, Luís Lázaro Matos, and Lauryn Youden.

At the performance festival of the same name on September 13, 2026, the exhibition’s themes will be expanded to include live performances. The festival will take place as part of Berlin Art Week 2026.

Curated by Eva da Silva Antunes Alves.