The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a major exhibition dedicated to Igshaan Adams, weaving together textile art, memory, and contemporary dance into large-scale installations. 🎨✨

Curated by Lekha Hileman in galleries 204 and 208, this presentation brings together textile works born from a collaborative dialogue between the South African artist and dancers.

🎨 Weaving Memory: The Body's Archive

📅 From May 5 to November 1, 2026

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00-20:00. July and August: Monday to Sunday: 10:00-20:00

📍 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao

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📖 Movement Translated into Tapestries

The exhibition investigates movement and its traces through Adams's collaboration with the Garage Dance Ensemble in O’okiep. Dancers moved across canvases placed over painted linoleum, leaving dance imprints that register shared gestures of liberation and connection.

Originating from performances held in Athens in 2024 with South African and Greek dancers, these monotypes evolved into large-scale tapestries. Suspended in space on curved hooks, the textiles reveal both sides, accompanied by woven floating clouds.

🎨 The Material World of Igshaan Adams

Drawing on his upbringing in Bonteheuwel under apartheid segregation, Adams (Cape Town, 1982) turns rope, wire, and beads into intricate explorations of race, religion, memory, and domestic patterns, approaching weaving as a communal and bodily act of repair.

ℹ️ Good to know: Located in galleries 204 and 208. Closed on Mondays, except during July and August.

✨ An evocative exploration of memory, rhythm, and spatial empathy.