21.05.2025
MACBA surveys Coco Fusco’s incisive poetics with works that question the perversity of power and address complex issues such as homeland, identity, colonialism and race
Balancing unflinching criticism with artistic sensitivity, Coco Fusco is the subject of the MACBA exhibition, I Learned to Swim on Dry Land, which runs from 23 May 2025 to 11 January 2026.
The exhibition features around a hundred works by the US artist of Cuban descent whose artistic practice ranges from video art and performance to photography and essays.
Cuba is central to the project, as is the United States and its immigration policies, the rise of the right wing and colonial legacies within a discourse where Fusco always prioritizes the collective.
Fusco investigates the systems of power that traverse both the art world and contemporary thought and defends the need for institutions that allow artists to be critical of the system.
The exhibition is curated by the museum’s director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and is developed in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, New York, and supported by the Ford Foundation.
The opening of the exhibition, on the afternoon of 22 May, will be preceded by a conversation between the artist and curator together with the poet Néstor Díaz de Villegas and Sandra Ceballos, artist and founder of Espacio Aglutinador.
Alongside the exhibition in May, MACBA will host the Cuban independent film series “Memory is a Landscape in Ruins”, curated by José Luís Aparicio.
Cuba is central to the project, as is the United States and its immigration policies, the rise of the right wing and colonial legacies within a discourse where Fusco always prioritizes the collective.
Fusco investigates the systems of power that traverse both the art world and contemporary thought and defends the need for institutions that allow artists to be critical of the system.
The exhibition is curated by the museum’s director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and is developed in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, New York, and supported by the Ford Foundation.
The opening of the exhibition, on the afternoon of 22 May, will be preceded by a conversation between the artist and curator together with the poet Néstor Díaz de Villegas and Sandra Ceballos, artist and founder of Espacio Aglutinador.
Alongside the exhibition in May, MACBA will host the Cuban independent film series “Memory is a Landscape in Ruins”, curated by José Luís Aparicio.
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MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona is holding a press conference on Wednesday, May 21, at 12:00 pm, to announce the ‘Coco Fusco. I Learned to Swim on Dry Land’ project.
Photo: Still of Coco Fusco, “Your Eyes Will be an Empty Word”, 2021. MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. © Coco Fusco, VEGAP, Barcelona.
Photo: Still of Coco Fusco, “Your Eyes Will be an Empty Word”, 2021. MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. © Coco Fusco, VEGAP, Barcelona.
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