May 27, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8 PM

In Conversation: Lynne Cooke and Ulrike Müller

Join curator Lynne Cooke and artist Ulrike Müller for the finissage event of Ceija Stojka: Making Visible. In their discussion, Cooke and Müller will address both the retrospective exhibition and the impactful artistic legacy of the Austrian-born Roma artist and activist.

Making Visible features the work of Roma artist, activist, writer, lyricist, and singer Ceija Stojka (1933-2013). Comprising more than sixty artworks, as well as a selection of sketchbooks, archival material, and documentary films made during Stojka’s lifetime, the exhibition explores the fullness of Stojka’s production as a visual artist, centered in her Roma life and heritage. Spurred by the resurgence of extreme right nationalism in Austria and abroad, and by her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, Stojka created works of profound beauty and horror that resonate today in strikingly contemporary terms.

ASL interpreters will be available during this event.

Lynne Cooke

Independent Curator and Writer
Ulrike Müller

Working from an expanded notion of painting, Ulrike Müller mobilizes vocabularies of color and shape that are politically and emotionally charged and encourage figurative readings. Her work extends into social and architectural space and moves between different contexts and publics, it invites collaboration and seeks to expand its modes of production in processes of exploration and exchange. Alongside small-scale paintings in vitreous enamel, Müller also produces expansive wall paintings, textiles, and prints.

Ulrike Müller was a co-editor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and from 2009-2012 organized the collaborative project Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists. Her interest in archives and collections has lead to curatorial projects such as The Animal Within, about the role of animals in modern art (mumok, Vienna, 2021-22).

Müllers work has been show at the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (Mumok, Vienna, 2015), in the Whitney Biennial (New York, 2017), the 57th Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, 2018), in the international exhibition of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), at the Los Angeles County Museum (2023) and at the Ludwigforum in Aachen (2023-26). It is included in numerous collections.

Ceija Stojka: Making Visible is made possible by Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art; the Robert Lehman Foundation; the Republic of Austria’s Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS); and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Support for the exhibition catalog is provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Special thanks to the Ceija Stojka International Association.