Ibrahim Mahama, Zoe Leonard and Aki Sasamoto.
World in My Eyes
Artist Talk Series
16.1 – 17.4 2026
Stockholm
World in My Eyes
Artist Talk Series
Dates
Friday 16 January: Ibrahim Mahama
Wednesday 25 March: Zoe Leonard
Time
18–19.30
Location
Mötesplats Mariatorget, Mariatorget 10
Language
English
Price
80 SEK, free admission for students
Buy tickets via Stockholms Stadsmissions Mötesplats Mariatorget
Contact: Camilla Carlberg, Moderna Museet
Launched in 2023, “World in My Eyes” is an artist talk series in Stockholm presented through a collaboration between Konstfack, Moderna Museet and the Royal Institute of Art, and is organized by Stockholms Stadsmission’s Mötesplats Mariatorget.
Its title drawn from the eponymous 1990s electronic music hit by English band Depeche Mode, the series aims to present artistic perspectives from a wide range of media that are changing the relationship between material processes and socio-political imagination.
In its third season, “World in My Eyes” presents Ibrahim Mahama, Zoe Leonard and Aki Sasamoto. Each artist contributes to both the discursive and formal hybridity of contemporary art at a moment of acute geopolitical volatility and increasing polarization.
IBRAHIM MAHAMA
Friday 16 January 2026
Ibrahim Mahama, born in Ghana in 1987, is an artist living and working in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale, all cities in Ghana. Though he was trained in painting and sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Mahama works most often in large-scale installations and architecture interventions. An abiding commitment to textile, collage techniques, and the oral histories of those involved in the construction of the built enviroment complicate the monumentality of his work, contributing to an incisive critique of contemporary global trade networks.
Ibrahim Mahama has had recent solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2023), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2022) and the Frac Pays de la Loire (2022). Mahama’s work was included in the Sharjah Biennial (2023), the International Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), the 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023), and Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017), among many other international exhibitions. Mahama founded the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Red Clay Studio, and Nkrumah Voli-ni, all spaces dedicated to exhibitions, research, and community-based learning in Tamale.
ZOE LEONARD
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Zoe Leonard was born in Liberty, a small town in upstate New York, in 1961 and has been based in New York City for most of her life. Rigorously conceptual, Leonard’s work combines photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Her photography considers the conventions of contemporary photographic culture, or the ordering of vision the medium enables.
Leonard was a member of ACT UP and the Women’s Action Coalition and participated actively in AIDS advocacy and queer political movements in New York in the 1980s and 1990s. She is a founding member of the queer artist collective fierce pussy, founded in 1991. Leonard has exhibited widely since the early 1990s, including Documenta IX and Documenta XII, as well as the Whitney biennials in 1993, 1997 and 2014. Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2018. She presented her landmark decade-long photography project Analogue in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo Reina Sofia in 2015. Other solo presentations have been organized by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Kunsthalle Basel, and Vienna Secession.
AKI SASAMOTO
Friday 17 April
Aki Sasamoto, born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1980, lives and works in Brooklyn. She is an artist who cycles through mediums tailored to each project, including performance, sculpture, video, and dance. Her practice is marked by interdisciplinary collaboration—with scientists, scholars, as well as other artists—and she identifies alternately as performer, dancer, sculptor, writer, and director.
Solo exhibitions of Aki Sasamoto’s work have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2025), the Queens Museum in New York (2023), Take Ninagawa in Tokyo (2017, 2022), and the Kitchen (2017). Her work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale and the Busan Biennial, both in 2022, as well as the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2016, the Gwangju Biennial in 2012, the 2010 Whitney Biennial 2010 and in Greater New York 2010 at MOMA-PS1 in New York, and the Yokohama Triennale in 2008. Sasamoto holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York.
Mötesplats Mariatorget
Mötesplats Mariatorget is a meeting place for conversation, community, exchange of knowledge and networking between people in different life situations, initiated and run by Stockholms Stadsmission.
World in My Eyes
Launched in 2023, “World in My Eyes” is an artist talk series in Stockholm presented through a collaboration between Konstfack, Moderna Museet and the Royal Institute of Art, and is organized by Stockholms Stadsmission’s Mötesplats Mariatorget.
Artists who have participated in previous seasons include Salman Toor, Cecilia Vicuña, Selma Selman, Jonathas de Andrade, Emeka Ogboh, Geo Wyex and Yazan Khalili.
