MIU MIU TALES & TELLERS
New York, May 10-11 2025
Miu Miu announces a second iteration of ‘Tales & Tellers’ in New York envisaged by Miuccia Prada, conceived by Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Tales & Tellers is a Miu Miu project poised at the intersection between fashion, cinema and art - inspired by and featuring the film commissions that comprise Miu Miu Women’s Tales, and the artistic interventions from Miu Miu runway shows between Spring/Summer 2022 and Spring/Summer 2025, all featuring female creatives.
Originally envisaged by Miuccia Prada, Tales & Tellers is an ever-evolving site-specific installation and performance, conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Drawing together narratives, perspective and approaches, this storytelling is an exploration of constantly transforming ideas of femininity. It originally debuted in Paris in October 2024.
Drawing its title from the notion of storytelling as a conveyance of knowledge, from the idea not only of the importance of narratives but of the figures who communicate them, Tales & Tellers comprised physical installation, video and performance - from each artistic intervention from previous Miu Miu fashion shows and each of the films comprising the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series since 2011, a character is directly extracted, her actions re-imagined by an actor, alongside video projection of the original film. These performances were created in collaboration between theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich, Macuga and Dyangani Ose - in total, 36, spanning 7 artistic interventions, and the 29 Miu Miu Women’s Tales films.
Expanding on the presentation in Paris, the second iteration of Tales & Tellers reimagined the project for a new city, a shifted space. Staged at the Terminal Warehouse in New York, it continued Goshka Macuga’s exploration of the genesis of public space through a physical installation designed by OMA / AMO. In Paris, the performance staged at the Palais d’Iéna, where Miu Miu presents its biannual fashion shows, evoked a public square, examining interactions between different characters and divergent interpretations of femininity. In New York, however, an eerie nocturnal atmosphere symbolized the streets of the city as a surreal place. Here, external elements were brought in to disrupt and question the meaning of the space itself as well as trigger wider discussion.
Tales & Tellers also included screenings of all commissioned films.
Goshka Macuga is a Polish multidisciplinary artist, working in London. Macuga’s practice is based on historical and archival research, which informs multidisciplinary practice. The role of a curator, historian, and exhibition designer has been often attached to her practice. As an artist she questions historiography, political structures, and the pressing issues of our time as a form of institutional critique. In 2019, Macuga was commissioned to make a large-scale tapestry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has staged solo shows at galleries around the world, including New Museum, New York, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Tate Britain, London, Fondazione Prada, Milan and Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai. Macuga was included in Documenta 2012 and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008. She was elected a Royal Academican in 2024.
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
Currently the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Elvira Dyangani Ose’s theoretical work has often focused on new forms of environment 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, Fondazione Prada. She has previously served, among other roles, as curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha - Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and senior curator at Creative Time in New York. She is a doctoral candidate in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University in New York, and has a 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.
