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Miu Miu Tales & Tellers
Shanghai, 5-7 June 2026
Miu Miu announces the third international iteration of ‘Tales & Tellers’ in Shanghai envisaged by Miuccia Prada, conceived by Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Exploring a complex intersection of fashion, cinema and contemporary art, Tales & Tellers takes as both inspiration and raw material the 31 individual works comprising Miu Miu Women’s Tales – filmic shorts, directed by women - and the seven interventions staged by female contemporary artists within Miu Miu’s seasonal shows between Spring/Summer 2022 and Spring/Summer 2025. At its heart, Tales & Tellers is an artistic celebration of the fundamental role of women as conveyors of knowledge, vessels of wisdom, and tellers of tales.
Originally envisaged by Miuccia Prada, this site-specific performance project is conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator and artistic director of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial - in collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich. Tales & Tellers debuted at the Palais d’Iéna as part of Art Basel Paris in October 2024; in 2025, it was re-imagined for the Terminal Warehouse in NYC. It is now entirely recalibrated for 2026 and expanded with the latest Miu Miu Women’s Tales films.
Throughout, the focus is on women: celebrating narratives defined and lead by female filmmakers, considerations of femininity and vanity, each film is literally brought to life through individual performance. Within the exhibition space, actors embody specific characters drawn from the anthology of films comprising Miu Miu Women’s Tales, and the cinematic components of the Miu Miu artistic interventions. Envisaged as ‘custodians’ of their respective stories, through their actions and repeated gestures, they represent their respective stories, tellers of their tales, in constant dialogue between the recorded image - present through screenings of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales films - and their new reality, dichotomies between fact and fiction, past and present. As performers are juxtaposed within the space, perspectives are further shifted and new narratives formed: through their interactions, the work becomes a celebration both of the individual woman and collective women.
Originally envisaged by Miuccia Prada, this site-specific performance project is conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator and artistic director of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial - in collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich. Tales & Tellers debuted at the Palais d’Iéna as part of Art Basel Paris in October 2024; in 2025, it was re-imagined for the Terminal Warehouse in NYC. It is now entirely recalibrated for 2026 and expanded with the latest Miu Miu Women’s Tales films.
Throughout, the focus is on women: celebrating narratives defined and lead by female filmmakers, considerations of femininity and vanity, each film is literally brought to life through individual performance. Within the exhibition space, actors embody specific characters drawn from the anthology of films comprising Miu Miu Women’s Tales, and the cinematic components of the Miu Miu artistic interventions. Envisaged as ‘custodians’ of their respective stories, through their actions and repeated gestures, they represent their respective stories, tellers of their tales, in constant dialogue between the recorded image - present through screenings of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales films - and their new reality, dichotomies between fact and fiction, past and present. As performers are juxtaposed within the space, perspectives are further shifted and new narratives formed: through their interactions, the work becomes a celebration both of the individual woman and collective women.
A spatial project as much as a performance piece, Tales & Tellers transforms according to its environs, dynamics inherently changing and interactions both physically and ideologically reframed. Here, is it rethought for the unique space of the Shanghai Exhibition Center. Dating to 1955, it is the earliest exhibition venue built following the founding of People’s Republic of China, a major event space for over half a century. Originally constructed in 1955 as the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, its form language combines Russian neoclassicism with elements of social realism.
These qualities resonate with the meaning behind Tales & Tellers, the construction and conveyance of ideologies and narratives - with physical installation designed by OMA / AMO. More than a neutral container, the space and cultural ambience of Shanghai become an active protagonist. It is an environment that reconfigures concepts and narratives, helping to define their interactions and intersections, to re-tell their tales.
Conceiver: Goshka Macuga
Convener: Elvira Dyangani Ose
Dramaturgy and Direction of performative & choreographic movement: Fabio Cherstich & Goshka Macuga
Exhibition branding: 2x4, New York
Exhibition design: OMA / AMO
Exhibition production: Activation Group
These qualities resonate with the meaning behind Tales & Tellers, the construction and conveyance of ideologies and narratives - with physical installation designed by OMA / AMO. More than a neutral container, the space and cultural ambience of Shanghai become an active protagonist. It is an environment that reconfigures concepts and narratives, helping to define their interactions and intersections, to re-tell their tales.
Conceiver: Goshka Macuga
Convener: Elvira Dyangani Ose
Dramaturgy and Direction of performative & choreographic movement: Fabio Cherstich & Goshka Macuga
Exhibition branding: 2x4, New York
Exhibition design: OMA / AMO
Exhibition production: Activation Group
GOSHKA MACUGA
Goshka Macuga’s practice connects different areas and methods of research. Her inquiries often focus on institutional histories, proposing unconventional associative readings of their social and political histories. Her strategic orchestration of existing materials, collectables, and archival documents supports the reframing of established narratives. She was included in Documenta 13 in Kassel in 2012; 8th and 5th editions of the Berlin Biennale; 53rd Venice Biennale, Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice, Italy; and How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial. In 2023, she created a sculpture titled GONOGO for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; was shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square in London in 2021; conceived Exhibition M, a large-scale commission for the MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019; and developed the ground-breaking project, To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy in 2016. In 2024 Goshka Macuga was elected a Royal Academician in the category of Sculpture by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Her work is part of considerable public collections, including TATE; MoMA; Government Art Collection; Arts Council Collection; MCA Chicago; Walker Art Center; Museum of Modern Art Warsaw; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; and Castello di Rivoli.
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
Currently, she is the curator and artistic director of Public Art Abu Dhabi, and served as director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, from 2021 to 2026. Dyangani Ose’s theoretical work has often focused on new forms of environments and platforms produced by artists in the absence of conventional institutions and contexts. She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, an advisor at Tate Modern Advisory Council, and a member of the Thought Council at Fondazione Prada. She has previously served, among other roles, as curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gothenburg; artistic director of Rencontres Picha Lubumbashi Biennial, Lubumbashi; and senior curator at Creative Time, New York.
She is a doctoral candidate in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University in New York, and has an Advanced Studies Diploma in Theory and History of Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, and a BA in Art History from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Goshka Macuga’s practice connects different areas and methods of research. Her inquiries often focus on institutional histories, proposing unconventional associative readings of their social and political histories. Her strategic orchestration of existing materials, collectables, and archival documents supports the reframing of established narratives. She was included in Documenta 13 in Kassel in 2012; 8th and 5th editions of the Berlin Biennale; 53rd Venice Biennale, Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice, Italy; and How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial. In 2023, she created a sculpture titled GONOGO for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; was shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square in London in 2021; conceived Exhibition M, a large-scale commission for the MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019; and developed the ground-breaking project, To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy in 2016. In 2024 Goshka Macuga was elected a Royal Academician in the category of Sculpture by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Her work is part of considerable public collections, including TATE; MoMA; Government Art Collection; Arts Council Collection; MCA Chicago; Walker Art Center; Museum of Modern Art Warsaw; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; and Castello di Rivoli.
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
Currently, she is the curator and artistic director of Public Art Abu Dhabi, and served as director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, from 2021 to 2026. Dyangani Ose’s theoretical work has often focused on new forms of environments and platforms produced by artists in the absence of conventional institutions and contexts. She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, an advisor at Tate Modern Advisory Council, and a member of the Thought Council at Fondazione Prada. She has previously served, among other roles, as curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gothenburg; artistic director of Rencontres Picha Lubumbashi Biennial, Lubumbashi; and senior curator at Creative Time, New York.
She is a doctoral candidate in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University in New York, and has an Advanced Studies Diploma in Theory and History of Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, and a BA in Art History from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
