MARIA TSAGKARI PARTICIPATES IN THE GROUP EXHIBITION “PICTURE PERFECT”
We are very happy for our fellow Maria Tsagkari, whose project #Loveshots, which we presented for the first time back in 2020 at the exhibition “Unhappy Monuments”, is now travelling to Brussels as part of the group exhibition “Picture Perfect: Beauty through a Contemporary Lens” at BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts.
In 2023, #loveshots continued its journey at EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, within the exhibition “Modern Love”, curated by Katerina Gregos. Currently, the project arrives in Brussels, mapping the emotional and political geography of women’s bodies in the age of social media, digital surveillance, and constructed self-image.
Part II of #loveshots turns to beauty as a construct—a complex field of desire, control, and resistance. The work invites participants to become directors, producing anti-stories that challenge dominant norms while connecting personal and collective experience through a cinematic journey. Each contribution becomes a frame: a polyphonic narrative and an act of emancipation.
Beauty through a Contemporary Lens
After exploring love in 2024, physical beauty is the second thematic exhibition at Bozar focusing on what motivates us as humans. Through the lens of photography and video, made from the 1960s to today, this exhibition explores how artists depict and challenge established norms of who is considered beautiful. Unveiling the pressures and excess of what it means to be beautiful today, the works in this exhibition offer a diverse range of propositions, from the critical to the emancipatory.
Bozar Arcade, the space dedicated to interactive digital artworks and video games in Bozar, will be integrated into the exhibition.
With works by: Ibrahim Ahmed, Yumna Al-Arashi, Francesca Allen, Sarah Amrani, Susan Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Alexandra Barancovà & Jae Perrins, Baloji, Valérie Belin, François Bellabas, Kwame Brathwaite, Nakeya Brown, Juno Calypso, William Cobbing, John Coplans, Eli Cortiñas, Nicola Costantino, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Mélanie Courtinat, Sara Cwynar, Rineke Dijkstra, Philippe Durand, Sylvie Fleury, Bryce Galloway, Moshtari Hilal, Anne Horel, Sanja Iveković, Yuki Kihara, Sandra Lazzarini, Ethel Lilienfeld, Linder, Lucy&Bart, James McColl, Ana Mendieta, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Zanele Muholi, Zed Nelson, J.D. ‘Okhai Oijekere, ORLAN, Frida Orupabo, Guillaume Pauli, Andrés Pérez, Cara Phillips, Momo Pixel, Angelo Plessas, Marilou Poncin, Chantal Regnault, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Errol Stanley Sawyer, Cindy Sherman, Marianna Simnett, Sin Wai Kin, Ruofu Sun & Alice Yu, Ryudai Takano, Amélie Testenoire – Lafayette, Maria Tsagkari, Kristina Varaksina, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hannah Wilke, Hank Willis Thomas, Garry Winogrand, Aviya Wyse.
Picture Perfect
From 02/03/2026 to 08/03/2026
Saturday 7 March, 10:00 → 18:00
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 → 18:00
BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS
*Maria Tsagkari is an ARTWORKS Visual Arts Fellow
Maria Tsagkari, #loveshots, 2026
William Cobbing, Will.je.suis, 2020, video, courtesy of the artist.
Marianna Simnett, Blue Moon (video still), 2022. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin
Sylvie Fleury, Current Issues (July/August 95), 1995, video, sound, 41 min 51 sec, courtesy of the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.