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Join us at LUCA School of Arts (Brussels) for a conversation with artist Tarrah Krajnak, whose multidisciplinary practice — spanning photography, performance, and poetry — investigates questions of identity, lineage, and the construction of visual history. Krajnak draws on personal and collective narratives to question how images shape memory, authorship, and representation. Her acclaimed work, held in major international collections and featured in exhibitions worldwide, reimagines the canon of photography through feminist and decolonial perspectives. The conversation will be moderated by Sonia Voss.
Free (registration required)
Conversation : 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Location : LUCA School of Arts. Rue des Palais 70, 1030 Brussel
In English
Tarrah Krajnak (b. Lima, Peru 1979) is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak is currently based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Zander Galerie, Cologne/Paris. Krajnak is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently awarded the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, the Hariban Grand Prize, from Benrido, Kyoto, Japan, and The Lewis Baltz Research Award from Le Bal, Paris.
Krajnak has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Her work was featured in recent issues of Aperture, British Journal of Photography, The Eyes Journal, and European Photography.
Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Pinault Collection, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others.
Sonia Voss is an author and curator. Specializing in East German and Eastern European photography, she has presented exhibitions such as Corps impatients. Photographie est-allemande 1980 – 1989 (Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2019; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2022); The Forms of Things, The Forms of Skulls, Forms of Love. Lithuanian Photographs from the Collections of the BnF and the Centre Pompidou (Paris Photo/Grand Palais, 2024); and Sibylle Bergemann. The Monument (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2025), as well as edited related publications. In 2021, she was invited by Les Rencontres d’Arles to curate the Louis Roederer Discovery Award. She has also showcased the archives of photographers George Shiras (L’Intérieur de la nuit) and Kusukazu Uraguchi (Shima no ama) through exhibitions and publications, and regularly collaborates with contemporary photographers.