Meet the MaMA program makers of 2026
“This year, our ever-changing showroom will transform to reveal the invisible history of shadow geologies, soft whispers from the dark, ghost workers on palm oil fields, and invasive species caught on ships."
Every year, MaMA invites a group of emerging cultural workers to take on the role of program maker as part of our learning and working talent development trajectory. Working closely with MaMA’s team, the program makers develop an exhibition and accompanying public program from the first idea to the final realization in the showroom.
"Then it will change into a monument to grief, a loud chorus of disappointment rooted in a reality that feels impossible to imagine a bright future for."
Peer-to-peer learning is at the core of the trajectory. Program makers work both collectively and individually, transforming a personal and or socially urgent theme into an exhibition that speaks to a wider public. Rather than being expected to do everything alone, the trajectory centers collaboration, reflection, and shared responsibility.
This year, our ever-changing showroom will transform to reveal the invisible history of shadow geologies, soft whispers from the dark, ghost workers on palm oil fields, and invasive species caught on ships. Then it will change into a monument for grief, a loud chorus of disappointment rooted in a reality that feels impossible to imagine a bright future for. We will end the year with a showroom filled with plants and food, like the connective tissue that binds family members and traditions together.
"We will end the year with a showroom filled with plants and food, like the connective tissue that binds family members and traditions together.”
For 2026, we are proud to introduce our program makers Ruby Reding, Mitsitron, and Sean Seil.
Ruby Reding
Ruby Reding is an artist based in Rotterdam, working with sculpture, poetry, and moving image. Her practice explores our disconnection from resource supply chains, infrastructures, and from one another. Through fieldwork at sites such as water engineering structures, mines, and factories, and by working with scrap materials and archives, Ruby seeks ways of building intimacy with material realities shaped by extraction and late capitalism.
Mitsitron
Mitsitron is a sound artist and program maker whose practice explores where personal and political grief intersect. Working with sound, performance, and ritual, they investigate collective ways of giving voice to grief as both a personal and political process. Their work creates moments of pause and release, resisting the pressure of constant action and instead making space for listening, tending, and shared reflection.
Sean Seil
Sean Seil’s practice centers on food, cooking, and working with organic materials as collective and relational processes. Drawing on intergenerational relationships with plants and non-human life, Sean explores how knowledge is shared through preparation, conversation, and care. Their approach brings living materials into the exhibition space and foregrounds storytelling, language, and collaboration as ways of shaping meaning together.
We’re excited to share their projects with you throughout 2026!
Starting with Ruby Reding’s exhibition, opening February 27.
