Sam Durant in 'Beyond the Manosphere'

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen present Beyond the Manosphere. Masculinities Today. The international group exhibition was shown at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam earlier in the year and is now on view at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen until January 24, 2027.

What does masculinity mean today? With the rise of the “manosphere” — a loose network of online spaces in which a dominant, misogynistic masculinity is asserted, amplified by the spread of Trumpism — the question has taken on new urgency. The exhibition’s title was chosen not to affirm the manosphere but to break it open: if we understand masculinity as a “sphere,” what can be recognised within it? Bringing together works that speak of power, dominance, and violence as much as of their subversion and reversal, the show opens a critical perspective — surfacing types, clichés, and cultural tropes, but also stories of love and desire. Drawing on works from the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen alongside loans and new commissions, it examines masculinity as a vehicle and staging of power, and as a lived reality that can be contradictory, banal, unstable, and tender at once.

Artists: Arlette, Karimah Ashadu, Sophie Calle, Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Sam Durant, Hans Eijkelboom, EMIRHAKIN, Hamishi Farah, Sylvie Fleury, Julio Galán, Solomon Garçon, Sven Gex, Jasmine Gregory, Amanda van Hesteren, Zhana Ivanova, Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy, Tetsumi Kudo, Basir Mahmood, Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie, Melle, John Miller, Marlie Mul, Sands Murray-Wassink, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paul Pfeiffer, Pope.L, Sara Sadik, P. Staff, Diamond Stingily, SoiL Thornton, Salman Toor, Alex Vivian, Bruno Zhu, Selina Zürrer.