Recent, ongoing and upcoming exhibitions

The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves
Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
(AT, opening on 2 October 2025, curated by Sabine Folie and Synne Genzmer)

Videonale 20
Kunstmuseum Bonn
(DE, 11 April-18 May 2025, curated by Tasja Langenbach)

Six Samples of Disaster
Art Pavillon Zagreb
(HR, 14 December 2024-2 February 2025, curated by Dušica Dražić and Irena Bekić)

Communicating Vessels. Collection 1881-2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
(ES, opened on 26 November 2021 and exhibited for an unlimited period of time, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel)

PUH-POH-WEE, is now installed. This work was made possible at the invitation of Zin in Noord, an affiliate of Befimmo and the Flemish authorities. It is presented on the ground and first floors of the new Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire building in Brussels, and can be visited during office hours.

Collected

My work has been recently acquired by the National Bank of Belgium, Kanal Foundation in Brussels, Frac Grand Large in Dunkirk, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, S.M.A.K in Ghent and Museum M in Leuven (thanks to the Flemish Community Acquisition Committee)

From the archive

Thanks too meemoo and Rosas, Mozartmaterial, a commissioned videotape I made with Jurgen Persijn in 1992 was digitized and restored, and is now distributed by Avila. Akarova/Baugniet-l’entre deux guerres, another commissioned work I made with Jurgen Persijn in 1991, was also digitized and is now distributed by argos. They also took care of the digitisation of a work we made when still a student, in 1989, Une journée avec Madame Akarova.

Recent publication

On the occasion of my 2021-2022 solo exhibition at MUAC in Mexico City, a publication was made.
You can download your free copy here.

Zyklus von Kleinigkeiten digitized

Ana Torfs’ only feature film Zyklus von Kleinigkeiten (Cycle of Trifles, 1998) has been digitized by the Royal Belgian Filmarchive (Brussels) and Eye, the Dutch Film Archive (Amsterdam). This was celebrated with presentations in 2020 in deSingel (Antwerp) and Bozar (Brussels), in collaboration with Ictus Ensemble.

Web project Approximations/Contradictions reprogrammed in HTML5

Dia Art Foundation in New York has reprogrammed Ana Torfs’ only web project Approximations/Contradictions (2004) in HTML5 as Flash is no longer supported by most browsers. The size of the work has been adapted to contemporary screens. For an introduction to this work, based on the “Hollywood Songbook” by Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, look here.