Skin to Skin is Sandra Mujinga’s first museum show in Austria. The Norwegian artist takes over the central exhibition space of Belvedere 21 with an expansive installation combining sculpture, sound, and reflection. Repetition becomes an artistic strategy to explore (in)visibility, community, and transformation.

At the heart of the installation stands a mysterious group of 55 identical, larger-than-life figures—ghostly, hybrid beings that resemble avatars, deep-sea creatures, or apparitions from another dimension. They embody both protection and kinship, fragility and power. Drawing on animal survival strategies such as camouflage and nocturnality, as well as ideas from science fiction, Afrofuturism, and posthumanism, Sandra Mujinga creates an atmosphere where multiplication becomes a strategy for disappearance.

With her work, Mujinga poses fundamental questions about visibility, identity, and transformation, guided by her keen interest in bodies and skin. Mirrored objects heighten visual multiplication and sensory stimulation, while an electronic soundtrack adds an acoustic dimension to this seemingly speculative world. Inspired by Naomi Klein’s concept of the doppelgänger, Skin to Skin explores how repetition and abstraction allow bodies to resist clear interpretation—opening up new spaces for speculative resistance amid (digital) control and surveillance. Skin to Skin invites us to imagine fluid, hybrid, and defiant forms of existence beyond conventional categories—poetic, political, and radically contemporary.