What follows the heartbreak
What follows the heartbreak opens May 22 in our showroom. The opening takes place from 18:00 to 21:00.
You can visit the exhibition between May 22 and July 19 2026. Our opening hours are Wednesday to Sunday from 14:00 – 19:00, and every first Friday of the month from 14:00 – 21:00.
This exhibition is an invitation to grieve together. To listen to what our bodies tell us, and how these stories connect us to bigger political realities. To make space for new forms of life that grow out of breaks and cracks.
The artists in this exhibition process grief through video, photography, installation and paintings. Their works do not explain grief. They listen to it, they embody it and make room to transform within it. This space offers room for you as well.
This is What follows the heartbreak.
By: Mitsitron
With:
Chupan Atashi
Ro Buur
Dafni Melidou
Manju Sharma
Tianyi Zheng
Campaign Image:
Xiaoyuan Gao
Misitron (they/them) is an artist and program maker at MaMA and Varia. They explore collective ways of giving voice to grief, both as a personal and political process. By using queer methodologies of sound and performance they seek to break through binary thinking and shift toward multi-layered experimentation. This results in moments of holding space for listening and shared reflection.
Chupan Atashi is a photographer and artist who creates installations using photography, video, sound and performance around themes of grief, transformation, memory and identity. Through personal images, fragments and reflections, Atashi explores how experiences from the past continue to shape the present. Their work moves through themes of displacement, violence and change, while asking how the self can hold infinite iterations of being.
Ro Buur is a multidisciplinary artist working with a growing analogue archive of everyday life and close relationships, including family, chosen family and queer community. Their work often takes place within the Dutch landscape, close to water, and reflects moments of care, intimacy, stillness and change. For Buur, archiving is a way of holding on to memories while also making space for transformation and connection.
Dafni Melidou works with photography, video, scent and installation. In their work, Melidou explores how images, smells and sensory experiences shape the way we understand social inequality and ecological vulnerability. By bringing different media together, Melidou explores themes such as migration, belonging and care, creating space for dialogue and reflection.
Manju Sharma is an artist whose work explores migration, family history, memory and the search for belonging. She grew up in the United Kingdom after her family left India, and works between personal experiences and collective histories shaped by colonialism and displacement. In a series of 22 self-painted tarot cards based on family photographs, Sharma reflects on loss, migration, silence and her relationship with her late mother. Through painting, she returns to memories and gives shape to emotions and conversations that remained unspoken for a long time.
Tianyi Zheng (Tin-e) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working between Hong Kong and the Netherlands. Through moving image, installation, found objects, text and performance, her work explores how spaces can carry memories, emotions and experiences of migration and displacement. By researching homes, cities and everyday spaces, Zheng examines how personal and collective histories continue to shape the present.
