Ted Soqui, Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

Preview

17.5 2024

Stockholm

Join us at Moderna Museet for an evening of delightful debauchery to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product”. Step into the wondrous world of Vaginal Davis, have a drink (or two), enjoy the music, and party with the OG punk goddess.

Preview

Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

Date

Friday 17 May 2024

Time

At 18–20
Speech by Museum director Gitte Ørskou and Curator Hendrik Folkerts at 18.30

Place

In the exhibition, floor 2

Pris

Free admission

Believe the hype: Vaginal Davis! She’s every lilly white punque rock boys taboo love fantasy.

Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

Award-winning artist, acclaimed author and international blacktress Vaginal Davis is coming to Stockholm. In her pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy.

“Magnificent Product” is her first major solo exhibition.

Read more: Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

Photograph of Vaginal Davis looking into the camera with a surpriced face — Vaginal Davis. Photo: Hector Martinez

“Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product” also takes place at the following partner institutions in Stockholm:

Nationalmuseum

3 May–20 October 2024
We highlight Ms. Davis’s painting practice as well as her life-long fascination with Oz in a new installation in the Nationalmuseum’s The Old Library.

Accelerator, Stockholm University

17 May–15 September 2024
In the exhibition titled “Choose Mutation”, which includes a live performance, Vaginal Davis’s work with (and as part of) the CHEAP art collective takes center stage.

Index – Swedish Foundation for Contemporary Art

17 May–1 September 2024
In a new installation titled “Vaginal Davis’s Hofpfisterei”, we dive into Vaginal Davis’s writing practice, from her years as teen correspondent in Los Angeles and her groundbreaking zines that held scenes together, to her mature years as a friction-writer.

MDT (Moderna Dansteatern)

4 September 2024
Together with My Wild Flag dance and performance festival, we are bringing Vaginal Davis’s cinerama movie experience to MDT! Please join Ms. Davis for an annotated screening of Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz” (1979) and Miloš Forman’s “Hair” (1979) on September 4.

Tensta Konsthall

7–8 September 2024
At the end of this “magnificent product”, you are invited to a weekend-long festival with lecturinas, performances, and screenings.