now on view
When form becomes attitude
with Karim Boumjimar, Fern Liberty Kallenbach-Campbell, Penny Slinger, Sevina Tzanou & Ivana Vladislava
20 june – 09 August 2025
Robert Grunenberg is delighted to present the group exhibition “When Form Becomes Attitude” with Karim Boumjimar, Fern Liberty Kallenbach-Campbell, Penny Slinger, Sevina Tzanou & Ivana Vladislava.
KARIM BOUMJIMAR
FERN LIBERTY KALLENBACH-CAMPBELL
PENNY SLINGER
SEVINA TZANOU
IVANA VLADISLAVA
When Form Becomes Attitude
20.06.2025 – 09.08.2025
This summer, Robert Grunenberg gallery presents the group exhibition When Form Becomes Attitude, bringing together five artistic positions that treat the body not as a fixed form, but as a vessel—for memory, ritual, and transformation. Across sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, textiles, and performative elements, the body becomes spell, membrane, echo, and interface—an unstable medium through which form expresses belief, desire, and becoming. Referencing—and inverting—Harald Szeemann’s landmark 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, materiality here becomes gesture itself. Form is not merely the outcome of an idea—it is the idea: embodied, symbolic, sensual. Surrealism, eroticism, animism, and humor run like subterranean currents through the exhibition. Contemporary and historical voices engage in a transformative dialogue.
Karim Boumjimar introduces a hybrid mythology into the space: three ceramic vessels featuring human-animal figures resemble cult objects, infused with North African symbolism, ancestral consciousness, and queer longing. His figurative drawings extend this universe into an intimate, mythical realm of fluid, sensual beings.
Fern Liberty Kallenbach-Campbell presents new tapestries—woven portraits that merge craft, pop culture, and personal mythology. Her subversively soft compositions treat the textile surface as both portal and persona.
Penny Slinger, whose iconic surrealist-feminist photographs from the 1970s—such as I Hear What You Say and Cake(recently acquired by London’s National Portrait Gallery)—anchor the show, explores the female subconscious through dreamlike and transgressive imagery.
Sevina Tzanou exhibits new large-scale, gestural paintings where the female body flickers between abstraction and appearance. Her color palette is both luminous and uncanny; her painterly approach raw and atmospheric. Combined with a pole-dancing pole, a dreamlike stage emerges—sacred and absurd—on which the body performs as symbol, phantom, and force.
Ivana Vladislava shows photographic fabric collages that blend camp, mythology, and vibrant kitsch. Her new series Pickle Me adds to this—a set of miniature self-portraits in preserving jars: grotesque, playful doppelgängers in which the self multiplies materially and metaphorically.
When Form Becomes Attitude brings together feminist, queer, and mythopoetic expressions. The exhibition sees the body not as a boundary, but as a threshold—between self and other, matter and spirit, memory and metamorphosis.
Opening
19 June 2025
6 – 9 PM
Exhibition on view
20.06.2025 – 09.08.2025
For more information, please contact the gallery: mail@robertgrunenberg.com
This exhibition is supported by
