Opening of the exhibitions Magnanrama & Hito Steyerl

Magnanrama

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

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—and at times into collision.

With Nathalie Magnan, Shu Lea Cheang, Cindy Coutant, Chloé 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.

Curated by

Mathilde Belouali

Hito Steyerl

From February 20 to May 31, 2026, the Villa Arson art center presents Mechanical Kurds by Hito Steyerl.

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 “autonomous” technologies. Mechanical Kurds thus reveals the bodies, territories, and conflicts rendered invisible in the making of AI, and examines the political violence embedded in images and algorithms.

Curated by

Marie-Ann Yemsi

Practical information

Opening reception on February 19, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Free admission

Free parking nearby: 39 Av. Stephen Liégeard, 06100 Nice

Villa Arson, 20 Av. Stephen Liégeard, 06100 Nice