AMOCA Dialogues: New Voices from the Museum Collection

AMOCA Returns to Marble Hall with Its Second Major Pop-Up Exhibition

Following its inaugural launch in 2025, this new chapter continues to activate Cardiff’s cultural landscape ahead of the museum’s permanent opening in central Cardiff in 2026. Where the first exhibition foregrounded Black voices from Africa and its diaspora, this second edition turns toward a dynamic cross-section of women and nonbinary artists from the museum’s growing collection.

A Curatorial Position
AMOCA Dialogues Wales: New Voices from the Museum Collection reflects the museum’s long-term vision: to build a collection that expands representation, deepens dialogue, and situates Wales within an international contemporary art conversation.

Bringing together intergenerational practices across painting, sculpture, and material experimentation, the exhibition foregrounds artists whose work interrogates figuration, abstraction, identity, and the politics of the body. Portraiture becomes psychological terrain. Material becomes language. Scale becomes presence. Rather than framing representation as a temporary theme, AMOCA positions this exhibition as an institutional commitment — a declaration of how the museum intends to collect, exhibit, and engage over time.

Sculpture in Dialogue with Architecture
Marble Hall’s historic architecture provides a resonant setting for works that anchor the exhibition spatially. Contemporary practices are placed in tension with the formality of the site, creating a dialogue between monument and movement, permanence and change. The encounter between historical architecture and contemporary expression underscores AMOCA’s ambition to root an international conversation within Cardiff itself.

The exhibition features internationally acclaimed artists, including:
Ellen Antico, Cristina BanBan, Kinga Bartis, Math Bass, Julie Beafils, Lynda Benglis, Merikokeb Berhanu, Sara Berman, Darcy Brenna, Pia Camil, Cristina Canale, Saskia Colwell, Kim Dacres, Bernadette Despujols, Lunita-July Dorn, Simone Haack, Heidi Hahn, Aurel Haize Odogbo, Connie Harrison, Donna Huanca, Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen, Vera Iliatova, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Hayv Kahraman, Soli Kiani, Sally Kindberg, Maria Klabin, Chantal Khoury, Julia Kowalska, Conny Maier, Jessie Makinson, Yassi Mazandi, Cristina de Miguel, Jesse Mockrin, Bridget Mullen, Cecilia de Nisco, Paulina Olowska, Katherine Olschabaur, Elizabeth Peyton, Elsa Ruoy, Angela Santana, AnnLeda Shapiro, Constance Tenvik, Issy Wood, Rachel Zhang, Anna Zimmerman, Autumn Wallace and Sixten Sandra Österberg.