20.02.26 – 31.05.26
Magnanrama
Portraits, Networks, and News of Nathalie Magnan
Opening on February 19, 2026, from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
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
An exhibition co-produced by Villa Arson, Nice; Centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins, City of Embrun; and Bétonsalon – Centre for Art and Research, Paris, presented in three chapters and conceived with the collaboration of Reine Prat.
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Exhibition on view from February 20, 2026 to May 31, 2026
Opening on February 19 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Opening hours: daily, except Tuesdays, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Free admission, no reservation required.
Address: Villa Arson, 20 Av. Stephen Liégeard, 06100 Nice
