For more than fifty years, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935 in New York, USA) has been one of the groundbreaking voices of her generation.

A pioneer of artistic self-promotion, she creates and embodies fictitious characters to raise key questions of identity, history and representation. Her work unites profound humour with subtle storytelling. Antin's cross-media practice – which includes photography, film, text, performance, sculpture and installation – invites us to take a fresh look at familiar narratives and discover surprising perspectives on how we see ourselves and society as a whole.

Antin has been probing the fluid existence of the self since the late 1960s, adopting various personae – king, ballerina or nurse – that embody different identities, historical references and inner contradictions.

This retrospective examines the complexity of Antin's oeuvre, demonstrating how timely and powerful her work remains today.