Modern Art Oxford presents a group show exploring movement.
Modern Art Oxford's summer 2025 exhibition is a group show exploring movement as a means to learn, connect and foster a sense of community. Featuring three new site-specific commissions from Jane Castree, Estampa and Leap Then Look, as well as works by VALIE EXPORT, Ana Mendieta, Harold Offeh, and Yvonne Rainer, amongst others. Movements for Staying Alive foregrounds and celebrates the vital movements of life.
Modern Art Oxford has invited artists and collectives to create touchable, participatory artworks which allow audiences to create their own experience of being in the space. Together they nurture an environment that engages audiences in a way that does not privilege sight over all other senses, and prioritises the bodily experience of a space, ideas and artworks.
Estampa’s commission fills Modern Art Oxford’s Ground Floor Gallery with a new participatory installation. The work uses digital means to emphasise the materiality of Modern Art Oxford's nearly 60-year archive and how the human body interacts with it.
In the Upper Galleries, Jane Castree’s new commission invites audiences to consider how physical movements can shift perspectives. Sculptural objects enable visitors to move over, under, through and around them, repositioning their viewpoint and other bodies in the space.
Leap Then Look takes over an entire gallery space with an interactive installation encouraging visitors of all ages to explore the gallery with their bodies.
Movements for Staying Alive brings together new commissions, restaged works, Modern Art Oxford’s archive, workshops and a programme of events to explore embodied ways of knowing and experiencing the world. The exhibition is an invitation to learn and unlearn collectively through sculpture, installation, sound, film and participatory work that inspires movements, making visitors active participants in the co-production of a shared experience.
Movements for Staying Alive: 28 June – 7 September 2025
Estampa commission: 7 June – 1 September 2025
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP
Further Information: Modern Art Oxford