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Sopera de Yemayá, 2020

April 14, 2023 – March 31, 2024
TBA21 on st_age
Past
TBA21 on st_age
Loans

Claudia Comte

After Nature

May 11 – August 22, 2021
MNTB Madrid
Past
TBA21–Academy
MNTB Madrid

Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion, 2005
Commissions
Collection

Hylozoic / Desires
(Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser)
As Grand As What, 2021
Commissions
Collection

Carsten Höller
Aufzugbett, 2010
Commissions
Collection

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs, 2011
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Chris Watson
Deep Blue Notes, 2013
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Tony Myatt, Paul Modler, Peter Worth, Pascal Wyse

Underwater Ambisonic Recordings, 2013
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Carsten Höller
Giant Multiple Mushrooms (Large and Small), 2014
Commissions
Collection

Carsten Höller
Half Clock, 2014
Commissions
Collection

Doug Aitken
no history, 2005
Commissions
Collection

Jonathas de Andrade
O Levante, 2013
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line Scale Model, 2007
Commissions
Collection

Alexei Borisov, Olga Nosova and VTOL
Player 0-8-0, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

The Murder of Crows, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová
After the Order, 2006
Commissions
Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato queriendo ser Fray Tomás González y escuchando abajeños con la banda de Zacán,

incapaz de comunicar la frustración de no poder reconocerme como un narciso iracundo, pobre, obediente, castoy para acabarla de chingar, desplazado, 2014
Commissions
Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato fronterizo y chispeante abrazando el retrato de Gilberto Bosques, escuchando pirekuas y tragando esquites afuera de la catedral, 2014
Commissions
Collection

Emanuel Danesch & David Rych
Minority Logbox: multiple degrees of representation, 2006
Commissions
Collection

Bryce Dessner, David Sheppard, Evan Ziporyn
Propolis, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Hernan Diaz Alonso / Xefirotarch
TBA21 Patagonia, 2010
Commissions
Collection

Peter Zinovieff
Bridges from Somewhere and Another to Somewhere Else, 2010
Commissions
Collection

Peter Zinovieff
Good Morning Ludwig, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Zavoloka & Kotra
Graftal, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Olafur Eliasson
Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010
Commissions
Collection

Zavoloka

Volution, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Cerith Wyn Evans
A Community Predicated on the Basic Fact Nothing Really Matters, 2013
Commissions
Collection

Jana Winderen
Between Dry Land, 2010
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs: Departure Iceland, 2012
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Thom Willems
Das Gewicht von Licht, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Chris Watson
Snaefellsnes, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Camille Henrot
Saturday, 2017

JG Thirlwell
Euthanasia, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Terre Thaemlitz
TML #25, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Cevdet Erek
Neither the time nor the place for dancing (NTNPD), 2010
Commissions
Collection

Cevdet Erek
Calendar 1, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Nedko Solakov
A BG Bar, 2006
Commissions
Collection

Omer Fast
Continuity, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Christian Fennesz
follow blind, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph-Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament/House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005
Commissions
Collection

Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph-Namibia-Edition. (Utgard - The African Twintowers), 2005
Commissions
Collection

Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam
Some Questions on the Nature of Your Existence, 2007
Commissions
Collection

Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam
Middle Way or Independence?, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Julian Rosefeldt
The Soundmaker / Trilogy of Failure (Part I), 2004
Commissions
Collection

Julian Rosefeldt
Stunned Man / Trilogy of Failure (Part II), 2004
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie
The Midnight Line, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Franz Pomassl
Sonax, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Gelatin
Gelatin Pavilion – Some Like It Hot, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Ghostigital
Cannibal in Tuxedo (internal/external), 2010
Commissions
Collection

Bruce Gilbert
ab intra, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Dan Graham, Tony Oursler & Laurent P. Berger
Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty: The Storyboard, 2004
Commissions
Collection

Ariel Guzik
The Nereida Capsule, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Carl Michael von Hausswolff
No Rest Even for the Static (Matter II), 2010
Commissions
Collection

Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad
Golden Days (Remedios, Colombia, 2012), 2013
Commissions
Collection

Florian Hecker
Rotating psychoacoustic tuning curves, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Jorge Otero-Pailos
The Ethics of Dust: Doge's Palace, Venice, 2009
Commissions
Collection

Zsolt Olejnik
Spin, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Richardas Norvila / Benzo
Reappearance (Part V and Part VI), 2012
Commissions
Collection

Olaf Nicolai
Welcome to the Tears of St. Lawrence, 2005
Commissions
Collection

Kollektiv/Rauschen
Entrapment, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
God, 2007
Commissions
Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
The Palace of the Summerland, 2014
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Lightning Testimonies, 2007
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Torn First Pages, 2004-2008
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Counting Sisters and Other Stories, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Scene of Crime, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Prediction, 1991/2012
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest: The Constitution, 2012
Commissions
Collection

Amar Kanwar
272 Varieties of Indigenous Organic Rice Seeds, n.d.
Commissions
Collection

Jónsi & Alex
All Animals, 2008/2010
Commissions
Collection

Japanther
It Never Seems to End, 2010
Commissions
Collection

Lee Ranaldo
Maelstrom, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Kutluğ Ataman
Küba, 2004
Commissions
Collection

Nevin Aladağ
Colors, 2008/2010
Commissions
Collection

Sanja Iveković
Mohnfeld, 2007
Commissions
Collection

Nikolaus Hirsch / Michel Müller and Cybermohalla Ensemble
Cybermohalla Hub, 2008

Ragnar Kjartansson
Stars Exploding, 2013

Simon Starling
Prouvé (Road Test), 2012
Past

Gelatin
A Vase is a Vase is a Base, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Arseniy Zhilyaev
Cobblestone Weapon of the Proletariaty, 2015

Arseniy Zhilyaev
Cobblestone Weapon of the Proletariaty, 2015

Ai Weiwei
Rare Towel, 2015

Ai Weiwei
Rare Towel, 2015

Erick Beltrán
Hephaestus’s Dream, 2015

Erick Beltrán
Hephaestus’s Dream, 2015

Réquiem for Harley Warren (Screams from Hell), 2015

Marguerite Humeau
Réquiem for Harley Warren (Screams from Hell), 2015

Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Voyant, 2015

Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Voyant, 2015

Stankievech
Anbarium, 2015
Collection

Stankievech
Anbarium, 2015
Collection

Julian Charrière
The Third Element, 2015

Julian Charrière
The Third Element, 2015

Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
b/NdAlTaAu, 2015

Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
b/NdAlTaAu, 2015

Ursula Mayer
Luminous Lining, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth
Past

Želimir Žilnik
Soap in Danube Opera, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Renata Poljak
All One Knows, 2006
Commissions
Collection

László Csáki & Szábolcs Pálfi
Agár - The Hungarian Greyhound Project, 2006
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line, 2008
Past
Commissions

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Evening Line, 2008
Commissions
Collection

Suzanne Treister
Rare Earth Project, 2014
Commissions
Collection

Ragnar Kjartansson
World Light - The Life and Death of an Artist, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Ernesto Neto
BasnepuruTxanaYubé, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Olaf Nicolai
Mourning and Melancholia
Past

Olaf Nicolai
Trauer und Melancholie, 2009/2012
Past

Janet Cardiff
The Walk Book (Edition), 2005
Publications
Commissions
Collection

Rirkrit Tiravanija | The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Past

Finnbogi Pétursson
Angelica, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Carsten Nicolai
morning line quanta, 2011
Commissions
Collection

Marine Hugonnier
ART FOR MODERN ARCHITECTURE - Österreichische Zeitung, 2015
Commissions
Collection

Mario García Torres
The Day Mankind Faded Away, n.d.

Erdem Helvacıoğlu
Timeless Waves, 2010
Commissions
Collection

Mario García Torres
The Day Mankind Faded Away, n.d.
Commissions
Collection

Mario García Torres
The Way They Looked at Each Other, n.d.
Commissions
Collection

John Bock – Malträtierte Fregatte
September 2006 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Past

Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker – No night No day
June 4–6, 2009 | Teatro Goldoni, Venice
Past

Gregor Schneider 7–8:30 PM, 05.31.2007
May 31, 2007 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Past

Armin Linke

Prospecting Ocean, 2018
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
October 2, 2008–January 11, 2009 | Seville
Past
Exhibitions
Commissions

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
May 13–November 26, 2017 | La Biennale di Venezia
Past

Em'kal Eyongakpa
Gaia beats/bits III-i/
doves and an aged hammock, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Tue Greenfort

Tamoya Ohboya, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Alexander Lee
ME-TI'A - An Island Standing, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Jana Winderen
bára, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Sissel Tolaas
Ocean SmellScapes, 2017
03.2017 : 10.5438700 / 84.4537700 / 10.5 / 84.5
TBA21–Academy
Commissions

Laura Anderson Barbata
Ocean Calling, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
June 7, 2011–2012 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
Past
Exhibitions
Commissions

John Akomfrah

Purple, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
May 22–September 19, 2010 | Istanbul
Past
Exhibitions
Commissions

Yasunao Tone
Raining, 2010
Collection

Santiago Roose
Tierra ebria, 2017

Santiago Roose
Determinaciones soco territoriales: Colonia, 2017

Cecilia Bengolea, Tryptique – Oneness, 2019-2020

Eduardo Navarro with BaRiya (Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini), Octo-Durga, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
Past
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Dream Dreaming a Dream Dreaming, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
Past
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

SUPERFLEX
Hunga Tonga, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

SUPERFLEX

Vertical Migration, 2021
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

SUPERFLEX
Dive-In, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

st_age
Season 1
Online September 28 – December 20, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
Past
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

Sissel Tolaas
Smell 3_4 2020, 2020
Past

Patricia Domínguez

Gaiaguardianxs, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Commissions

Himali Singh Soin
with David Soin Tappeser
Three experimental sound chapters from we are opposite like that, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Collection

Christian Salablanca
Geometría del Centro, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Collection

Courtney Desiree Morris

Sopera de Yemaya, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Collection

Yeo Siew Hua
An Invocation to the Earth, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
Past
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

Patricia Domínguez

The Ballad of the Dry Mermaids, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Commissions

Claudia Comte

The Day that Wood and Matter Wanted to Become Salt Water

July 5, 2021
MNTB Madrid
Programming
MNTB Madrid

st_age
Season 02
Online

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

Patricia Domínguez

The Hanging Testicles and the She-Spirit of Water, 2020
Commissions
Collection

Taloi Havini

Answer to the Call, 2021
TBA21–Academy
Exhibitions
Commissions

Diana Policarpo

CPMK2, 2021

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital

Dana Awartani
Come, Let Me Heal Your Wounds, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Collection

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

Huertos de los ch’olti, 2020

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Collection

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Una cita a ciegas con Ibn Zaydun, entre el aceite y el agua, 2022

Asunción Molinos Gordo

Barruntaremos, 2021

TBA21 on st_age
TBA21 on st_age
Digital
Artworks On view

Plata
Boeticus Salon, 2022

Abraham Cruzvillegas
El Campo de la Verdad, 2022
Collection

Plata
Vegetal Acupuncture: Plants for a Future without Petroleum, 2022
Past

Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive, 2022

AHF Jamaica
TBA21–Academy
Commissions
Collection

Walid Raad
Epilogue II: The Constables, 2021
Commissions
Collection

Walid Raad
Epilogue VII: The Gold and Silver;
Epilogue VIII: The Crates, 2021
Commissions
Collection

Seba Calfuqueo

Ko ta mapungey ka (Water Is Also Territory), 2020
Commissions
Collection
Artworks On view

Regina de Miguel
Nekya. Una película río | Nekya. A film river, 2022
Commissions
Collection

Rivane Neuenschwander
Espécie bandeira (Flagship species), 2022
Commissions

Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom, 2023
Commissions
Collection

Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano

Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas, 2023
Commissions
Collection

Simone Fattal
Young Boy, 2023

Ocean Space Venice
Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Collection

Simone Fattal

Pearls, 2023

Ocean Space Venice
Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Collection

Diana Policarpo
Cigua Tales, 2022
Collection

Mirna Bamieh

Bitter things: In the name of an Orange, 2024
Commissions
Collection

Center for Spatial Technologies
A City Within a Building: The Russian Airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater, 2024

C3A Córdoba
C3A Córdoba

Cristina Lucas
Round Around, 2022-2024.

C3A Córdoba
C3A Córdoba

Cristina Lucas
Tuftings, 2017-2024

C3A Córdoba
C3A Córdoba

Regina de Miguel

Life in Conamara, 2025
Artworks On view

Claudia Pagès Rabal

Aljubs i Grups, 2024
Collection
Artworks On view

Nadia Huggins

A shipwreck is not a wreck, 2025

Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Ocean Space Venice

Tessa Mars

A call to the ocean, 2025

Ocean Space Venice
Commissions
Ocean Space Venice
Artworks On view

Tarek Atoui

At-Tāriq, 2025
Collection
Commissions

Derek Tumala

Island in the Sun, 2025
Artworks On view

Gabi Dao

Sweet Blood in Stagnant Waters, 2025
Artworks On view

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

Cuna y arrullo, 2025
Artworks On view

Irene de Andrés

‘La Isla. A través del cauce’ (The Island. Through the Riverbed), 2023
Artworks On view

Minia Biabiany

dlo a rasin, 2024
Artworks On view