Images from Vera Was Here including a photo dump from my image research file. You have four days left to see it before it closes.
1. Bitsy Knox, ‘Veronicas: (…)III’, 2025. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
2. Dala Nasser, ‘Adonis River’, 2023. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
3. Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, ‘Pivoting point // Heston’, 2023. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
4. Nora Al-Badri, ‘Babylonian Vision’ (detail) 2020. Photo: JB Béranger
5. Nicole Khadivi- Seen From Somewhere, 2023 and As Time Was, 2025. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
6. Francisco de Zurbaran - Veronicas Veil (ca 1635 - 1640) at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Photo by Bitsy Knox and referenced in her work for Vera Was Here
7. Christ cures the bleeding woman. Print by Adriaen Collaert, c. 1580 - c. 1590. The bleeding woman is linked to the legend of St Veronica that Bitsy draws from in her Veronicas series.
8. Veronica’s Veil is traditionally displayed at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on the fifth Sunday of Lent
9. The Afqa Grotto and Waterfall which is the source and spring of Nahr Ibrahim(Adonis River) in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. This is where Adonis, the lover of Aphrodite is said to have been killed. This is one of two sites where Dala Nasser made Adonis River (2023)
10. The Gardens of Adonis by Weguelin, John Reinhard; Northampton Museums & Art Gallery. A scene where women celebrate Adonia - a festival where women mourned together in Ancient Greece . The many mourning ceremonies that Adonis has has given rise to is what sparked Dala Nasser’s interest in this mythological figure.
11. Another scene of Adonia from a wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE
12. The Death of Adonis (1700-1710), a marble sculpture by Giuseppe Mazzuoli
13. A google-earth screenshot from Heston, west London. The area where Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole grew up and returned to make the work ”Pivoting point // Heston”, 2023, presented in Vera Was Here.
14. JB Camille Corot -”The Little Shepherd, 1855. An early example of a Clichés-verre print - a technique that was invented mid 19th century. This is the technique Agunbiade-Kolawole used for her work ”Pivoting point // Heston”, 2023,
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From yesterday’s opening of Art and Truth-Telling @bildmuseet with performance by Avant Joik. Curated by @ancarujoiu and @amback
A collaboration between Bildmuseet and @gaaltijesaemienmuseume grounded in southern Sábmie marking the process of the Truth Commission for the Sámi people on the Swedish side of Sábmie.
With artist
Avant Joik (Matti Aikio, Katarina Barruk och Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje), Sissel M Bergh, Niklas Blindh, Monica L Edmondson, Mats Jonsson, Johanna Minde, Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund, Lisa Nyberg, Julia Rensberg, Birgitta Ricklund, Risfjells Sameslöjd (Doris Risfjell och Sven-Åke Risfjell) och Elme Ämting.
GIBCA 2025:
”a hand that is all our hands combined”
Curated by @christinalehnert
Noor Abed- A Night We Held Between 2024
Lydia Ourahmane- Haraga – The Burning, 2014
Georgia Sagri- Gone, Gone Beyond,2025
Raven Chacon - Silent Choir, 2017
Hanni Kamaly- ”Moussard Yahia”, 2022 (this sculpture was included in Hanni’s solo ”THIS LAND 4 ALL” that I curated at Accelerator in 2022 ☺️)
Hans Haacke- DER BEVÖLKERUNG-2000-
Christian Nyampeta - Carnets d‘Amerique, 2025
Kiluanji Kia Henda and Tiago Mena Abrantes - Work Won’t Fix It, 2025
Final bit of summer holiday in London this weekend together with Sander. Saw many great things.
Leigh Bowery! @tate
The premiere of @evestainton ”The Joystick and The Reins” @boldtendencies
Ed Atkins @tate Britain
Chris Ofili-”Requiem” @tate Britain a mural tributing artist friend Khadija Saye and other Grenfell Tower victims
Do Ho Suh -Walk the House @tate
The new V&A East Storehouse @vamuseum
Bernice Mulenga @autoitalialive
Blackpink concert at Wembley Stadium 🎀
London Transport Museum 🚇
St Paul’s
Art Basel
Parcours curated by @steffihessler
Francesco Arena
Clementine Keith-Roach
Shahryar Nashat
Marianna Simnett
Sturtevant
Art Basel Unlimited :
Marinella Senatore
Ayan Farah
Danh Vo
Franz West
Basel Social Club:
Sophie Jung
Karin Borer
Anthea Hamilton
Brochevski
Leonora Carrington
Collective Heartbreak with Linus Riegger, Miriam Borella, Rondi Park, Alyona Hrekova, Loka, Linus Finn Riegger, Didde Larsen, Fanny Adriana Dunning, Thy Truong, Alberto Papparotto
Dala Nasser- ”Xíloma. MCCCLXXXVI” @kunsthallebasel . A reconstruction of the Byzantine church of Kabr Hiram in Qana, southern Lebanon.
Dala Nasser’s work ”Adonis River” will be presented this autumn at @acceleratorsu in the exhibition ”Vera Was Here”
Final weeks of Goldin+Senneby’s exhibition ”Flare-Up” curated by @ricjulin@acceleratorsu
Hurry hurry -you still have time to catch it: closes Sunday June 15th
Photos by Jean-Baptiste Béranger
