“Pillow Fighters” - Collective Exhibition
Date: 6 June 2025 - 26 June 2025
Location: Kunstbar, Den Haag, 2025
Curated by: Linda Del Rosso, Almira Tanrikulu, Nicola Caporaso
Featuring artists: Ana Maria Suso, Emma Steenma, Julie Hyunkyung Cheon, Laura Ǵī, Mattia Papp, Miranda Devita Kisler, Nora Taher. Raziel Perin, Sofiia Dubyna, Studioderluminaire, Zoya Sardashti, Goya Cooking Collective
The collective exhibition Pillow Fighters reclaimed softness, intimacy, and care as radical, embodied forms of resistance. In a world shaped by demands for toughness, productivity, and performance, the exhibition foregrounded the power of tenderness.
Queer romanticism was presented not as a contradiction, but as resistance. Feminism appeared not as a doctrine, but as a practice of unruly care, collective repair, and interdependence. Art was positioned not as neutral, but as an active tool for unsettling colonial narratives and for shaping new vocabularies.
Unfolding like a slow riot, stitched, tangled, and deliberately unfinished, Pillow Fighters brought together sculpture, fabric, gesture, voice, and movement. It asked: What happens when play is taken seriously? If touch becomes a language? If care refuses to remain quiet or contained?
The exhibition transformed the gallery into a space of radical softness, where play became serious, vulnerability became strength, and care emerged as a public gesture. It invited visitors to imagine forms of relating that move beyond binaries of hard and soft, strength and fragility, insisting on tenderness not as retreat, but as a mode of resistance.
The exhibition included a rich program of performances, workshops, collective dinners, and finally, a Pillow Fight inside the gallery.