Shilpa Gupta – Gemhyung Jeong – Jumana Manna
May 24, 2026 – September 20, 2026
In the summer of 2026, the Collection Lambert renews its special commitment to women artists by turning its attention to the Near, Middle, and Far East.
The Avignon institution invites three major artists who maintain particularly strong connections with these regions, which lie at the heart of the world’s upheavals.
Hailing from Palestine (Jumana Manna), India (Shilpa Gupta), and South Korea (Geumhyung Jeong), these artists share a practice marked by a series of physical and sensitive journeys that offer perspectives as profound as they are global on contemporary artistic and political issues.
Through a multiplicity of forms and mediums (videos, installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, sound works, performances), and through both contemplative and immersive experiences, the works produced or presented in the three monographs unfold as a series of narratives and songs.
In these sideways steps that extend throughout the historic rooms of the Collection Lambert, they accompany us through the turmoils of a world whose darkness we must counter with poetry.
Shilpa Gubta
Born in 1976 in Bombay, where she studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art from 1992 to 1997, her works have been shown in major international institutions, including the Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Louisiana Museum (Copenhagen), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), the Mori Museum (Tokyo), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), at the Lyon Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale, the Mac/Val (Vitry-sur-Seine), the New Museum Triennale (New York), and the Centro Botín (Santander)…
Through a rich multidisciplinary practice (videos, installations, sculptures, photographs…) that often draws on collaborations with researchers from diverse fields—scientific, technological, linguistic—Shilpa Gupta focuses on situations of alienation and domination produced by systemic racism, religious extremism, or tense border zones.
The works she produces often take monumental forms and maintain a particularly singular relationship with the spaces they inhabit, offering visitors an immersive or interactive experience that is as poetic as it is powerful.
Jumana Mana
A Palestinian-origin artist, she was born in Princeton (United States) in 1987, grew up in Israel, and currently lives in Berlin. She holds degrees from CalArts in Los Angeles, the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
She has participated in numerous festivals and exhibitions, including Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), BAFICI, IFFR Rotterdam, Tate Modern (London), Marrakech Biennale 6, and the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s Young Palestinian Artist Award (2012) and the Ars Viva Prize for Visual Arts (2017), and was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in Berlin.
Jumana Manna’s work primarily takes the form of sculptures, installations, videos, and films. In a sophisticated blend of fictional narratives and factual material—drawing on both biographical elements and historical archival documents—her practice illuminates the political upheavals created by power relations and systems of domination in postcolonial societies. In these works, memory—both of minds and bodies—emerges as the foundational basis for the construction of individuals and their destinies.
Geumhyung Jeong
A Korean artist whose work spans performance, dance, choreography, theater, video, and installation, Jeong explores the relationship between the human body and the objects surrounding it through productions that combine the languages and techniques of contemporary dance, puppet theater, and visual arts.
In the physical interaction between her body and objects, an ambiguity arises: who controls whom? Geumhyung Jeong studied acting at Hoseo University in Asan, dance and performance at the Korean National University of Arts, and animation filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (both in Seoul). She has exhibited in prestigious international institutions, including ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, 2024), FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena, 2020), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 2019), Tate Modern (London, 2017), and Atelier Hermès (Seoul, 2016).
Geumhyung Jeong presents her first solo monograph in France.
The exhibition consists of a series of installations and performances staged within the framework of the renowned Festival d’Avignon, which has chosen to celebrate the Korean language in 2026.