Sandra Mujinga presents her most ambitious project to date, Skin to Skin, at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Transforming the museum’s lower-level gallery into an immersive, otherworldly environment, the Norwegian artist creates a realm where light, sound, mirrors, and sculpture merge. Fifty-five towering figures, created in collaboration with Kvadrat, populate this unearthly setting.  

For these sculptures, Mujinga worked with 550 metres of Arda, a knitted upholstery textile designed by Swedish studio Front for Kvadrat Febrik. The textile reproduces complex natural forms, structures, surfaces, and colours found deep in the wild. The double-knitted textile mimics textures and tones discovered, photographed, and 3D-scanned by Front. 

Inside Skin to Skin, green mutating light floods the space, reshaping our perception of colour, texture, and form. Shadows throb across the surfaces, as the textile itself seems to shift in tone. Mujinga’s electronic soundscape moves between grounding and disorienting, enveloping the visitor in a fluctuating, liminal atmosphere.  The installation explores multiplication as concealment. At first glance, the figures appear identical, but their replication suggests something else: transformation across time, stages of a body’s life, or an unseen collective. In this environment, the figures might be human, aquatic, or extraterrestrial—entities caught between species, dimensions, or states of being. Mirrors expand their numbers, creating an army of reflections that further destabilise the viewer’s sense of scale and direction.

Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam

13 September 2025 – 11 January 2026
Monday - Sunday, 10am – 6pm

About Sandra Mujinga

Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989, Goma, DRC) is one to watch: groundbreaking and radically contemporary. She is an artist, DJ, and musician. Her interdisciplinary practice combines visual art and performance, music, and online platforms. Her work includes performances, sculptures, installations, film, and sound, through which she creates alternative realities that question our view of the world. In 2021, she won the Preis der Nationalgalerie. Her work has been shown at institutes including the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Yokohama Triennale, and the Venice Biennale (The Milk of Dreams, 2022). She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel (Time as a Shield, 2024), MdbK Leipzig (Fleeting Home, 2023), Hamburger Bahnhof (BMSWR: I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022), Malmö Konsthall (Closed Space, Open World, 2022), Swiss Institute New York (Worldview, 2021), and Vleeshal Middelburg (Midnight, 2020), among others. 

About South into North

South into North is a curatorial and art-advisory agency specialising in contemporary art commissions. Founded by curators Francesca Astesani and Julia Rodrigues in 2013, South into North has been working with Kvadrat since 2015 on their ambitious program of art collaborations and commissions. 

Art projects include, amongst others: Kapwani Kiwanga, Plot at Haus der Kunst München (2020), Pipilotti Rist, Open My Glade at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (2019); Adelita Husni-Bey, Chiron at New Museum, New York (2019); Karl Holmqvist, Untitled (WHAT? WHEN? WHY? WHO?) at Kvadrat HQ, Denmark (2018); Roman Signer, House at Kvadrat HQ, Denmark (2017);  Philippe Parreno, Anywhen at Tate Modern, London (2016); Goshka Macuga, To the Son of the Man Who Ate the Scroll at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2015), amongst several others.

About Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Stedelijk Museum is dedicated to enriching lives through art. Its renowned collection, exhibitions, publications, research, and educational programmes offer compelling perspectives on the world today, engaging with themes that resonate across society and individual experience.

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