Dance with Daemons

Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London, UK) is a critically acclaimed artist of German and Indian descent who lives in Berlin. He studied economics in Berlin and dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Tino Sehgal's work defies the conventional precepts of the exhibition by developing modalities of interactions and movement rather than static, material objects. Reflecting on history, sociology and art theory, the artist constructs situations in the form of choreography, encounters, discussions. He often calls on “interpreters” who come into contact with visitors to the exhibition through bodily movement, words or song. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, recently at the Centro Botín, Santander, (2023); Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2022); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2021), Odawara Art Foundation, Odawara (2019); Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin (2018); V-A-C Foundation, Moscou, (2017); Fondation Beyeler, Bâle (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016) ; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2015); Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo and CCBB, Rio de Janeiro (2014) ; Tate Modern ; (2012) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010. He won the Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Carsten Höller uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Born in Brussels in 1961, he now lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and Biriwa, Ghana. His major installations include Test Site, a series of giant slides for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (2006); Amusement Park, an installation of full-size funfair rides turning and moving at very slow speed at MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA (2006); Flying Machine (1996), a work which hoists the viewer through the air; Upside-Down Goggles, an experiment with goggles which modify vision; and the famous The Double Club (2008-2009) in London, which opened in November 2008 and closed in July 2009, that took the form of a bar, restaurant and nightclub designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture.

His Revolving Hotel Room (2008), a rotating art installation that becomes a fully operational hotel room at night, was shown as part of theanyspacewhatever exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 2009. For his 2015 exhibition Decision at the Hayward Gallery, he turned the whole building into an experimental parcours with two entrances and four exits, two of them being slides. His works have been shown internationally over the last two decades, including solo exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), the ICA Boston (2003), Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (2004), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010), Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2011), New Museum, New York (2011) Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna (2014), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2017), The Florence Experiment at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2018), Sunday at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2019) and most recently the exhibitions Behaviour at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (2019) and Reproduction at Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2019). 

Adam Haar Horowitz was in residence at LUMA Arles from october to december 2023.

Adam Haar is a scientist. He received his PhD from MIT, working between the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Medical School Center for Sleep and Cognition. He works to translate brain science into experiences and interventions, with a focus on sleep and dreams. He is a co-inventor of the Dormio device and Targeted Dream Incubation technique, which help people alter their dreams. Currently, he is building tools for nightmare treatment with psychiatrists at the US Dept of Veterans Affairs, co-organizing MIT’s Dream Engineering Symposium focused on scientific ethics, and designing a Dream Hotel with artist Carsten Höller. Adam’s work has been presented in Nature, Science, National Academy of Sciences, Harper’s, Cannes, and the World Economic Forum.

Pierre Huyghe’s works often present themselves as situated networks, a continuity between a wide range of intelligent life forms (biological, technological) and matter that learn, modify and evolve. They are immersive, contingent and constantly changing environments. They are sites of possibility, excess of fiction, indeterminate and indifferent to categories and witnesses.

For several years, Pierre Huyghe’s works investigate alternatives to the Human perspective, thereby giving to the viewers the feeling that they are not always expected, in the manner of Untilled (dOCUMENTA (13), 2012) and Untitled (Human Mask) (2014).

Pierre Huyghe (born in 1962, Paris) lives and works in New York. His work is internationally known and presented in various exhibitions around the world. Huyghe has received several awards, including the Nasher Sculpture Prize (2017); Kurt Schwitters Prize (2015); Roswitha Haftmann Award (2013), the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award (2010), the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum (2002), the Special Award from the Jury of the Venice Biennale (2001), and a DAAD in Berlin (1999-2000). Most recently, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Okayama Art Summit 2019.

Recent exhibitions include UUmwelt, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018);The Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum, New York (2015). In 2012 -2014, a major retrospective of Huyghe’s work travelled from the Centre Pompidou (Paris) to the Ludwig Museum (Germany) and to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including After ALife Ahead, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany (2017); Tino Sehgal at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms at the 14^th Istanbul Biennial (2015), dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012) among others.

Cildo Meireles, born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1948, where he still lives and works. Since the late 1960s, he develops a radical and poetic practice, at the crossroads of the conceptual and neo-concrete movements. His complex, multi-sensory installations and sculptures, which often invite audience participation, explore political, philosophical and aesthetic realms.

Meireles's work has been exhibited internationally, including the Biennales of Venice (1976, 2003, 2005, 2009); São Paulo (1981, 1989, 1998, 2010); Lyon, (2001, 2011) Istanbul (2003, 2015) and Documenta (1992, 2002). The artist has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at renowned institutions, including Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, (2019); Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Cerrillos (2019); Fundação de Serralves (2014); HangarBicocca, Milan, (2014); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2013); Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (2010); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico (2010) and Tate Modern, London (2008). He was one of the founders of the Experimental Unit of the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro in 1969, and in 1975 he edited the art magazine Malasartes. 

Federico Campagna was in residence at LUMA Arles from april to june 2024.

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His work revolves around the metaphysical aspects of imagination and the possibility of modifying the present “reality-system”. His latest books, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History (Bloomsbury, 2025), Prophetic Culture (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Technic and Magic (Bloomsbury, 2018) explored how ‘worlds’ can be born, destroyed, and created anew. In The Last Night (2013), he looked at contemporary work as a form of religion. His books have been translated in German, Italian, Norwegian (forthcoming), Spanish, and Turkish. 

Federico Campagna works as Lecturer in Philosophy and World-Building at The Architectural Association (London) and ECAL (Lausanne). He is the co-founder of the Italian philosophy publisher Timeo, the director of rights at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso Books, and editorial consultant for philosophy, theology and mythology for the Italian publisher Einaudi. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, an MA from Goldsmiths University of London, and a MSc and BSc from Bocconi University in Milan.

He frequently collaborates as public speaker, podcaster and writer with some of the main international museums, contemporary art galleries and biennales. His work has been presented in numerous international institutions, including the Beyeler Foundation, Basel; the Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel, Germany; Tate Modern, London; Transmediale, Berlin; Serpentine Gallery, London; Jameel Art Centre, Dubai; MACBA ­– Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome. 

Precious Okoyomon was in residence at LUMA Arles from october to december 2020.

Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet and artist. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life.

They have had one-person exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau, Zurich; the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Performance Space New York, New York; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid Foundation, Madrid; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz. They were included in the Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn; the 58th Belgrade Biennial, Belgrade; the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice; the 2022 Okayama Art Summit, Okayama; the 11th Sequences Biennial, Reykjavik; the 2023 Thailand Biennial, Chiang Rai, as well as in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; LUMA Westbau, Zurich; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; LUMA Arles, Arles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Nigerian Pavillion, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz. Okoyomon’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and LUMA Arles. Okoyomon was the 2021 recipient of the Frieze Art Fair Artist Award, as well as the 2021 Chanel Next Art Prize. In 2024, But Did You Die?, their second book of poetry, was co-published by the Serpentine and Wonder Press.

Philippe Parreno studied at École des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, and Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He lives and works in Paris, France. Parreno is a French artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning critical acclaim for his work that spans a diversity of media, including film, sculpture, drawing, and text. Parreno radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking the exhibition itself as a medium and placing its construction at the heart of his process. Exploring the possibilities of the exhibition as a coherent “object” rather than as a collection of individual works makes it into a true open space, a format that differs on each occasion, and a frame for things to appear and disappear. Parreno conceives his exhibitions as a scripted space where a series of events unfolds. He seeks to transform the exhibition visit into a singular experience that plays with spatial and temporal boundaries and the sensory experience of the visitor, who is guided through the space by the orchestration of sound and image. For the artist, the exhibition is less a total work of art than a necessary interdependence that offers an ongoing series of open possibilities.