Body, Performance, and Action: Works from the Hirmas Collection surveys six decades of actions and performances, examining the practices of some of the field’s leading figures.

The exhibition traces how, since the mid-twentieth century, the use of the body became a political practice capable of questioning and transgressing structures of power as well as social and aesthetic conventions.

The exhibition presents works by Alfredo Jaar, Ana Mendieta, Anthony McCall, Arnulf Rainer, Artur Żmijewski, Boris Mikhailov, Carlos Amorales, Carlos Leppe, Carlos Martiel, Carolee Schneemann, Tercerunquinto, Diego Vega Solorza, Douglas Gordon, Enrique López Llamas, Erik Tlaseca, Eugenio Dittborn, Graciela Carnevale, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Judy Chicago, Lara Favaretto, Lotty Rosenfeld, Marina Abramović, Melanie Smith, Oleg Kulik, Paul McCarthy, Ragnar Kjartansson, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Robert Kinmont, Robert Longo, Roman Signer, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Santiago Sierra, Seba Calfuqueo, Sigurður Guðmundsson, SUPERFLEX, Teresa Margolles, Torbjørn Rødland, Tseng Kwong Chi, Tunga, VALIE EXPORT, Vito Acconci, Yves Klein, Yvonne Venegas, and Zhang Huan.

Curated by Virginie Kästel

Photo credit: Paul McCarthy, ‘Plaster Your Head and One Arm into a Wall‘, 1973. Photographic diptych. © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.