Together with the audience, Malina Suliman blurs the boundaries.
You can experience this extraordinary performance for yourself:
- Date: Sunday 6 September 2026
- Time: 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
- Venue: Bonnefanten, The Studio #11, second floor
- Who is it for? All ages
- Please note: free on presentation of a valid admission ticket. Booking required!
Performance artist
The performance features singing and dancing by Malina Suliman, blending traditional Afghan styles with modern techniques. Ultimately, the artist and the audience come together in an encounter, and everyone walks ‘into the sea’. It is the sea depicted in the artwork Walking in the Sea, the centrepiece of The Studio #11: Malina Suliman. The world map, made from earth and pigments, was handcrafted by Suliman. It is an extremely precise and labour-intensive process on which she spent a month working at the Bonnefanten in the run-up to the exhibition.
Performance Malina Suliman, 2024 Photo Carlos Felipe Guzman
Unlimited performance
The performance marks the end of the exhibition The Studio #11*. The floor-filling world map made of earth and pigments, Walking in the Sea, is broken up and cleared away in a musical and theatrical performance. In this way, the artwork is reminiscent of a mandala, a Buddhist sand painting, which is also erased shortly after its completion. This emphasises the transience and fragility of existence and the world. Everything we think we know for certain can change in the blink of an eye. During the performance, the map gradually dissolves into earth, serving as a critical gesture towards the idea of fixed geographical boundaries. Through this act, Suliman challenges boundaries as political constructs: temporary, imposed and maintained by systems of control.
I sign up!Header: Performance Malina Suliman, 2024. Photo Carlos Felipe Guzman