Stedelijk Museum to Launch 'Beyond the Manosphere' Group Exhibition on Masculinity
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the group exhibition Beyond the Manosphere – Masculinities Today from April 17 to August 2, 2026. The show brings together 35 artists and features works made between the 1960s and the 1990s by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tetsumi Kudo, Hans Eijkelboom, Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, Pope.L, Sophie Calle and Sylvie Fleury alongside new commissions and recent pieces by Arlette, EMIRHAKIN, Hamishi Farah, Reba Maybury, Paul Pfeiffer, P. Staff, Salman Toor and others. The exhibition is organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, where it will travel, and draws on works from both collections plus loans.
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The project examines masculinity as a contested field of power, performance and lived experience rather than a fixed identity. It includes site-specific commissions such as SoiL Thornton’s Husband Chair and a new performance by Zhana Ivanova, with additional performances scheduled for April 18, May 9, May 10, June 13 and June 14, 2026. A catalogue published by Bierke with contributions from Judith Butler, Hannah Black and others accompanies the exhibition, which is positioned as an institutional response to polarized online discourse on gender.
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- Artists: Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tetsumi Kudo, Hans Eijkelboom, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Pope.L, Sophie Calle, Sylvie Fleury, Reba Maybury, Hamishi Farah, SoiL Thornton, Zhana Ivanova, Paul Pfeiffer, P. Staff, Salman Toor
- People: Melanie Bühler, Rein Wolfs
- Museums: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
- Locations: Amsterdam
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