PILLOW FIGHTERS
EXHIBITON CURATION AND PRODUCTION FOR KUNSTBAR GALLERY, DEN HAAGCurator and Graphic Designer
Pillow Fighters was a group exhibition I co-curated with Almira Tanrikulu and Lin-
da Del Rosso, presented in June 2025 at Kunstbar, The Hague. We oversaw the
project from concept to realization, developing its visual identity, program, and
exhibition design while selecting the participating artists and works.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
The exhibition reclaims the right to softness, intimacy, and care as radical, embodied forms of resistance. In a world that often demands toughness, productivity, and performance, the exhibition insists on the political power of tenderness.
Queer romanticism is no longer a contradiction, it is a form of resistance.
Feminism, here, is not a doctrine of restraint, but a site of unruly care, collective repair, and interdependence. Art is not a vessel of neutrality, but a tool of liberation from colonial narratives and and building new, liberated vocabularies.
Pillow Fighters unfolds like a slow riot, stitched, tangled, unfinished. Through
sculpture, fabric, gesture, voice, and movement, it asks: what happens when play
is taken seriously? When touch becomes a language? When care refuses to stay
quiet or small?
Pillow Fighters transforms the gallery into a space of radical softness, where play
becomes serious, vulnerability becomes strength, and care becomes a public, political gesture. It invites us to imagine new ways of relating that reject binaries of
strength and fragility, hard and soft. In doing so, it opens a space for tenderness
not as retreat, but as insistence, a soft, powerful blueprint for collective survival.
Featuring works by: Ana Maria Suso, Emma Steensma, Julie Hyunkyung Cheon,
Laura i, Mattia Papp, Miranda Devita Kistler, Nora Taher, Raziel Perin, Sofiia Dubyna, Studioderluminaire, and Zoya Sardashti.
For the exhibition’s finissage, we staged a real pillow fight in the gallery, inviting strangers to unleash their
inner child and follow their instincts. These photographs capture the moments before and after the fight.
inner child and follow their instincts. These photographs capture the moments before and after the fight.
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