Moyra Davey
06 Dec 2025 - 08 Feb 2026
Opening: December 5, 2025, 7pm
Curators: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein, Krisztina Hunya
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents the first institutional survey exhibition in Germany of New York-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Moyra Davey. Combining autobiographical elements with a research-driven approach, Davey has developed a unique essayistic practice that interweaves image and text. Her work reflects a fondness for engaging with iconic texts and authors whose work spans the fields of memoir and psychoanalysis to art history, and juxtaposes deliberations on artistic creation, with personal stories drawn from her New York City surroundings and beyond.
The exhibition spans more than three decades of Davey’s practice and foregrounds the artist’s distinctive method of collaging and revisiting found or self-produced images and fragments of text. In addition to photo series, the presentation focuses on Davey's experimental film practice.
Accompanying the exhibition is the publication Portrait Mode (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne), featuring a new essay by the artist.
Moyra Davey (*1958 in Toronto) lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo, 2022); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (solo, 2020); documenta, Kassel / Athens (2017); Mumok, Vienna (solo, 2014). Davey received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2018. Recent books include Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020), and The Shabbiness of Beauty (Mack, 2021).
Curators: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein, Krisztina Hunya
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents the first institutional survey exhibition in Germany of New York-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Moyra Davey. Combining autobiographical elements with a research-driven approach, Davey has developed a unique essayistic practice that interweaves image and text. Her work reflects a fondness for engaging with iconic texts and authors whose work spans the fields of memoir and psychoanalysis to art history, and juxtaposes deliberations on artistic creation, with personal stories drawn from her New York City surroundings and beyond.
The exhibition spans more than three decades of Davey’s practice and foregrounds the artist’s distinctive method of collaging and revisiting found or self-produced images and fragments of text. In addition to photo series, the presentation focuses on Davey's experimental film practice.
Accompanying the exhibition is the publication Portrait Mode (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne), featuring a new essay by the artist.
Moyra Davey (*1958 in Toronto) lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo, 2022); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (solo, 2020); documenta, Kassel / Athens (2017); Mumok, Vienna (solo, 2014). Davey received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2018. Recent books include Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020), and The Shabbiness of Beauty (Mack, 2021).