{"id":69240,"date":"2026-01-07T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/programmation\/agenda\/vernissage-des-expositions-hito-steyerl-magnanrama\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:49:07","slug":"vernissage-des-expositions-hito-steyerl-magnanrama","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/programmation\/agenda\/vernissage-des-expositions-hito-steyerl-magnanrama\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening of the exhibitions Magnanrama & Hito Steyerl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nathalie Magnan \u00e0 Santa Cruz, ann\u00e9es 1980 \u00a9 Fonds Nathalie Magnan, INHA-Collection Archives de la critique d’art, Rennes.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Video still, Hito Steyerl, Mechanical kurds, 2025 ; Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps, and Esther Schipper Berlin \/ Paris \/ Seoul.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

Magnanrama <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From February 20 to May 31, 2026, the Villa Arson art center presents Magnanrama. Portraits, Networks, and News of Nathalie Magnan<\/em>, a group exhibition dedicated to Nathalie Magnan, media theorist, filmmaker, cyberfeminist and hacktivist, sailor of seas and internets, who passed away in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing together numerous archival materials and films that trace her trajectory, and gathering around her artists with whom she collaborated or whose practices extend her own, the exhibition forms a collective biography that sheds light on the contemporary relevance of an important yet still too little-known figure in the history of media, technology, feminism, and LGBTQIA+ struggles. From the 1980s to the 2010s, Nathalie Magnan brought these fields of thought and action into dialogue\u2014and at times into collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Nathalie Magnan, Shu Lea Cheang, Cindy Coutant, Chlo\u00e9 Desmoineaux with Bobby Brim and Ada Lanerd, Guerrilla Girls, DeeDee Halleck, Barbara Hammer, Old Boys Network, Paper Tiger TV, Julia Scher, The Yes Men, VNS Matrix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mathilde Belouali<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hito Steyerl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From February 20 to May 31, 2026, the Villa Arson art center presents Mechanical Kurds<\/em> by Hito Steyerl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a video installation blending documentary fiction and critical speculation, the artist explores invisible micro-labor chains, the geopolitics of images, and the mechanisms of delegation that shape so-called \u201cautonomous\u201d technologies. Mechanical Kurds<\/em> thus reveals the bodies, territories, and conflicts rendered invisible in the making of AI, and examines the political violence embedded in images and algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Ann Yemsi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical information<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Opening reception on February 19, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free parking nearby: 39 Av. Stephen Li\u00e9geard, 06100 Nice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Villa Arson, 20 Av. Stephen Li\u00e9geard, 06100 Nice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":69094,"template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[283,320],"class_list":["post-69240","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-exhibitions","mec_category-vernissage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/69240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69240"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=69240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}