Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming
curatorial team: Jessie Robertson (Modern Art Oxford), Gabriela Sitek (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź)
ms1, 43 Gdańska Street
9 October 2026 – 14 March 2027
Opening: 9 October 2026, 6.00 pm
Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is the first retrospective in Poland dedicated to the work of this pioneer of digital art, new media, and net art. The exhibition spans over four decades of the artist’s interdisciplinary activity, presenting a practice that is visionary, radical, and critical, yet not devoid of humor. Throughout her body of work, Treister reveals relationships between technology, global surveillance networks, power, science and mysticism.
Prophetic Dreaming reveals numerous astonishing and often unsettling predictions about future events, rooted in insightful and critical analysis of history and contemporaneity, which remained central throughout the artist’s career. The exhibition guides the viewer along a chronological path through the work of Suzanne Treister (b. 1958, London), showcasing the diversity of her activities across the internet, interactive technologies, painting, video, photography, and drawing.
Among her early works, the exhibition presents the series Video Game Paintings (1989–91), Fictional Videogame Stills (1991–92), and SOFTWARE (1993–94), which presents hypothetical software applications, that anticipated the apps through which we now mediate our daily lives. The exhibition also features her latest projects, such as HEXEN 5.0 (2023–2025), which analyzes the workings of artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, and quantum physics through tarot cards and alchemical diagrams.
A central focus of the artist’s work is the issue of saving the world for future generations. Treister seeks hope in the building of grassroots communities, counterculture, and an ethics of care. Exploring alternative belief systems, fostering solidarity and creating alternative worlds are just a few of the strategies the artist employs in pursuit of this goal.
This retrospective of Suzanne Treister continues Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź’s long-standing interest in the artist’s work, whose numerous artworks are held in the museum’s collection. Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming is presented at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in cooperation with Modern Art Oxford, where it was first shown in the autumn of 2025. It will be reimagined by MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK in 2027.