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10/04/2026

📕 BLOOM – Special Edition Box by artist Dagmar van Weeghel is now available. Presented for the first time at Unseen Photo Fair, it’s a limited edition work, signed and numbered. This S.E. box (27×32 cm), created using anthotype with purple cornflowers, brings together five platinum portraits (20×25 cm) alongside Queen’s Flower photographs.

🔗 Link in bio for orders.

Visit us and see the artist’s solo show BLOOM: The Act of Remembrance, extended until 18 May.

📍 Rua da Emenda 72, Chiado, Lisbon

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26/03/2026

Dagmar van Weeghel — BLOOM • Featured on the cover of Het Parool and inside this week’s edition.
Presented during Art Rotterdam / Unseen Photo Fair.

Developed over four years, the series reactivates 19th-century photographic processes and botanical techniques to reflect on the absence of women of African descent in European visual history, questioning the foundations of the photographic archive.

📍 Visit us at Booth J8, Rotterdam Ahoy
📆 Until March 29

23/03/2026

📸 Dagmar van Weeghel at UNSEEN PHOTO 2026

Following its presentation in Lisbon, BLOOM by Dagmar van Weeghel now travels to the Netherlands, where it will be featured in the prestigious “The Past Present” section of UNSEEN PHOTO 2026, now part of Art Rotterdam. The artist will be represented by THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE at the fair, taking place from 26 to 29 March at Rotterdam Ahoy.

Curated by Hedy van Erp, this section offers a contemporary perspective on analogue photography up to the year 2000, bringing together artists who reactivate archives and historical techniques to restore depth and meaning to the past.

With BLOOM: Reclaiming Presence Through Botanical and Photographic Memory, Dagmar van Weeghel returns to the 19th century to question the foundations of the photographic archive. Developed over four years, the series brings together historical photographic processes, botanical practices, and floriography, reflecting on the absence of women of African descent in European visual history.

Using an original 1868 carte de visite camera, hand-made floral pigments, and anthotypes, the artist challenges photography’s claim to truth, proposing a reconfiguration of memory, image, and representation.

📍 Visit us at Booth J8, Rotterdam Ahoy, The Netherlands
📆 26–29 March 2026

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23/02/2026

We would like to thank everyone who visited our booth at Cape Town Art Fair, where we presented Constellations of Listening — a curatorial selection bringing together works by Ana Malta, Barbara Wildenboer, Cássio Markowski, Ibrahim Bemba Kébé, Osvaldo Ferreira, and Sanjo Lawal.

Dedicated to the theme of Listen, this edition of the fair offered us the opportunity to share six distinct artistic practices which, while formally diverse, converge in a sensitive and critical reflection on memory, ancestry, interconnection, and the subtle resonances that shape contemporary experience.

We extend our sincere gratitude to the artists, and to all the visitors, collectors, curators, and professionals who accompanied us and contributed to the success of this presentation. Your presence and dialogue were invaluable.

For those who were unable to attend, or who wish to revisit the works, the project remains accessible through our Viewing Room.
Link in bio.

21/02/2026

We are proud to be part of Cape Town Art Fair 2026, presenting our curatorial project at Booth B9 (Main Section) from 20–22 February at the CTICC.

This video offers a glimpse into THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE booth — conceived as a space of expanded listening, where material, colour, texture, and gesture invite a slower, more attentive mode of engagement. Bringing together works by Ana Malta, Barbara Wildenboer, Cássio Markowski, Ibrahim Bemba Kébé, Osvaldo Ferreira, and Sanjo Lawal, the presentation unfolds as a constellation of voices that resonate across geographies and generations.

Rooted in the notion of listening as an ethical and embodied act, the project explores memory, ancestry, interconnection, and the subtle vibrations that shape contemporary experience. Each work contributes to a shared dialogue in which tradition meets experimentation, and where the visual becomes a site of resonance rather than mere display.

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17/02/2026

INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR | 20—22 FEBRUARY 2026 | CTICC • The Art Fair Week has officially commenced.

THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE is pleased to be exhibiting once again at the largest and leading contemporary art fair on the African continent. This year, we present works by Ana Malta (Portugal, 1996), Barbara Wildenboer (South Africa, 1973), Cássio Markowski (Brazil, 1972), Ibrahim Bemba Kébé (Mali, 1996), Osvaldo Ferreira (Angola, 1980) and Sanjo Lawal (Nigeria, 1997) — a transcontinental dialogue engaging with memory, identity, tradition, and contemporary resonance.

Visit us in the Main Section, Booth B9.

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12/02/2026

🎥 BLOOM – Behind the Scenes
Step into the world of BLOOM – The Act of Remembrance, the solo exhibition by acclaimed Dutch photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, opening today at 6:30 PM at THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE, Lisbon — with the artist present.

The result of four years of research, this series offers a reflection on the historical scarcity of representations of women of African descent within European visual archives, through the use of 19th-century photographic techniques, botanical practices, and the language of flowers (floriography).

The exhibition brings together contemporary portraits, platinum–palladium prints, anthotypes, and hand-tinted photographs using natural pigments made by the artist from foraged wildflowers.

📍 Rua da Emenda 72, Chiado, Lisbon
📆 On view until 18 April
🔗 Link in bio

06/02/2026

SAVE THE DATE: 12 Feb | 6:30–9 PM
We are delighted to announce the opening of BLOOM, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Dutch photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, at THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE.

Premiering in Lisbon, BLOOM offers a poetic and critical reflection on the historical visibility and representation of African women, through 19th-century photographic techniques, botanical practices, and overlooked visual archives.

Several works are hand-tinted using natural pigments created by the artist from foraged wildflowers — weaving together ecology, affect, and the politics of representation.

🔗 More info: link in bio
📍 Rua da Emenda 72, Chiado, Lisbon

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16/12/2025

✨ 6ª feira, dia 19, às 18h ✨Ana Malta lança o catálogo da exposição Impermanentia e o print exclusivo “Não há ventríloquo sem boneco”, da sua autoria.
A edição artística — limitada a 45 exemplares assinados e numerados — estará disponível na galeria, com a presença da artista para dedicar os exemplares adquiridos.

Durante o evento, terá igualmente lugar a ativação performativa da obra Impermanentia, proporcionando ao público um momento singular de metamorfose e reinvenção da peça central da exposição.

📍 Rua da Emenda, 72 — Chiado, Lisboa
🔗 Mais informação e aquisição do print: link na bio

Contamos com a sua presença.

10/12/2025

A Agenda Cultural de Lisboa destaca a exposição "Impermanentia" de Ana Malta, patente na THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE em Lisboa, até 24 de Janeiro.
Conheça o mais recente corpo de trabalho da artista, que se tem destacado no panorama da arte contemporânea portuguesa.

Em 2025, Ana Malta sobressaiu nas duas principais feiras de arte contemporânea da capital, tendo sido distinguida com o Prémio de Aquisição MEXTO Property Investment, atribuído no contexto da ARCO Lisboa, e com o Prémio Mouseion – Art Law House, no âmbito da Drawing Room Lisboa.

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05/12/2025

✨ Obra em Destaque: Impermanentia de Ana Malta
No coração da exposição da jovem artista portuguesa, encontra-se a obra que lhe dá nome: um livro de artista em permanente transformação.

Criado sobre suporte têxtil, Impermanentia desdobra-se, desmonta-se e recompõe-se — ora livro, ora pintura de dupla face — refletindo a própria lógica da exposição: a impermanência da forma, da memória e da identidade.

Entre objeto e pintura, íntimo e performativo, esta obra assume-se como um organismo vivo, que se metamorfoseia a cada gesto. Uma metáfora da cultura enquanto corpo em movimento — sujeito à erosão, à reinterpretação e à mudança contínua.

📍 Impermanentia pode ser vista na THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE até 24 de janeiro.

13/11/2025

A artista Ana Malta convida para a inauguração de Impermanentia!

Este sábado, 15 de novembro, a partir das 18h30! Durante o ato inaugural também pode presenciar o happening “Papel de Parede”, produzido pelo coletivo artístico Vês.Três, do qual a artista participa.