Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring works by Aria Dean, Sandra Mujinga, and Tschabalala Self.
Born in Los Angeles and raised by parents working in the entertainment industry, the artist, writer, and curator Aria Dean (b. 1993 in Los Angeles, CA) questions the structures of collective and individual subjectivities, with a focus on deconstructing and reconfiguring their relationship to networks of visibility, representation, and power. Often taking Blackness as a starting point and borrowing from the formal languages of minimalist sculpture and structural/materialist film (film that values the demystification of the filmmaking process as an attempt to showcase the “real event” of filming as closely as possible), Dean grapples with traditional histories and investigates the potential of other narratives attuned to material, political, and technological realities.
Dean lives and works in New York. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions and performances include the Performa Biennial, New York (2025); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2024); The Power Plant, Toronto (2023); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2023, 2021); Progetto, Lecce, Italy (2023); CAPC, Bordeaux (2023); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2021); Artists Space, New York (2020); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2019); and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018). Significant group shows include the Whitney Biennial: Quiet As It’s Kept (2022); the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2019); The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2019); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); Swiss Institute, New York (2018); and the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2017), among others.
Working across installation, sculpture, performance, text, and digital media, Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989 in Goma, DR) explores shifting economies of visibility and opacity, self-representation, and the politics of surveillance. Her work is deeply invested in traces and concealment, what lingers, haunts from history, or slips away, and in how bodies are remembered. Often drawing from fossils and science fiction, she speculates on creatures from the past and conjures ghostly figures that resist fixed identities. Informed by post-human theory and the afterlives of colonialism, Mujinga envisions alternative worlds where technology, humans, and other beings merge in speculative and political acts of becoming.
Mujinga lives and works in Berlin, DE and Oslo, NO. In 2026, her most comprehensive solo exhibition to date will take place at the Belvedere, Vienna, AT. In 2025, Mujinga participates at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN. In recent years, Mujinga has been the subject of important solo exhibitions at institutions including Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (2025); Den Frie Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (2025); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH (2024); MdbK- Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, DE (2023); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE (2022); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE (2022); Sandefjord Kunstforening, Sandefjord, NO (2022); Munch Museum, Oslo, NO (2022); Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, SE (2021); and Bergen Kunsthall, NO (2019). She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions including PoMo, Trondheim, NO (2025); MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, IT (2024); Den Frie Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK (2024); DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, Berlin, DE (2024); Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US (2023); MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US (2023); Moderna Museet, Malmö, SE (2022); Tønder Art Museum, Tønder, DK (2022). Mujinga’s work is represented in major museums worldwide, including the Stedeljik Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art and Design, Amsterdam, NL; the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US.
In process and presentation, Tschabalala Self’s (b. 1990 in Harlem, NY) work explores the agency involved in myth creation and the psychological and emotional effects of projected fantasy. Self has sustained a practice wholly concerned with Black life and embodiment, with an intended audience from within that same community. In a flurry of stitches, Self assembles fully formed characters who, individually and situationally, hold power over their self-presentation and external perception. A power frequently denied to Black American people in their daily lives.R.
Self lives and works in Upstate New York. Her upcoming projects in 2026 include a sculpture commission for the facade of New York’s New Museum, and the historic Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square. Recent solo exhibitions in museums and public institutions include ESPOO Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Fi (2024); FLAG Foundation, New York, NY, US (2024); Swiss Institute, New York, NY, US (2024); CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE (2023); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH (2023); Consortium Museum, Dijon, FR (2022); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, US (2021); ICA Boston, Boston, MA, US (2020); Hammer Museum, CA, Los Angeles, CA, US (2019). Furthermore Self has participated in numerous group exhibitions at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, US (2024); The Shah Garg Foundation, New York, NY; US (2023), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US (2023); ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK (2022); Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, DE (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE (2021); Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, US (2021), Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, DE (2020); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE (2019); Rubell Museum, Miami, FL, US (2019); Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, US (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, US (2019); MoMA PS1, New York, NY, US (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL (2019); Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, US (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Raleigh, AR, US (2018); Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sète, FR (2018); Trigger, New Museum, New York, NY, US (2017).
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