Tino Sehgal
M2, Lobby
2026.03.03. – 2026.06.28.
Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) studied political economics and dance. He questions how art can exist without material objects, with his practice that produces neither physical objects nor documentation. Instead, his works—mediated through the body, language, and human encounter—take the form of what he calls “constructed situations,” realized through interaction between visitors and “interpreters” who sing, dance, or initiate conversation.
This exhibition presents eight “constructed situations,” including a new work, alongside sculptures from the museum collection, selected by the artist. Unfolding simultaneously at the museum entrance, garden, lobby, and M2, his works exist only in the present moment—never to be repeated.
Sehgal has staged the B1 floor with green beaded curtains by Félix González-Torres. Within this space, three “constructed situations” rotate on a six-week cycle, maintaining a sense of discontinuous continuity. In a separate space populated by Auguste Rodin’s bronzes, Sehgal’s seminal work Kiss (2002) is brought to life by a couple, inferring iconic moments in art history. On the first floor, a solo choreographic work Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things (2000) unfolds, while figurative and abstract sculptures stand facing one another, as if on the verge of dialogue. Visitors become an integral part of these “constructed situations” as they make eye contact with sculptures, pass through the beaded curtains, and encounter the interpreters.
In an age of digitalization, Sehgal’s refusal of any documentation invites us to reconsider what art essentially is—and what it means to experience it without digital mediation. What remains is not an image or an object, but a memory: art composed through human connection and sensory perception alone.
* Photography and video recording are restricted in this exhibition.