Special Event
Performance: "Opening" by Felipe Steinberg
Apr 9 2026 | 11:15am - 12pm

84 Church Street SE
Best Buy Theater
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

A man leans over a table to read through notes in a darkened room, lit by one table lamp

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Performance begins at 11:15AM (Doors at 11AM)
 
Opening is a 45 minute lecture performance by Brazilian artist Felipe Steinberg that looks at how spaces like theaters and cities shape our ideas about democracy. Using the story of a historic circular theater in Houston, Steinberg explores what happens when audiences and performers share the same space and invites us to think about democracy not as something fixed, but as something we create together through gathering, conversation, and participation.
 

'The research and presentation of Opening is supported by Onassis AiR. Presented in conversation with Never Spoken Again: Rogue stories of Science and Collections, on view at the Weisman through May 17, 2026.

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Felipe Steinberg

Felipe Steinberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers constructed meanings of the local and the global through processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualization. He enlists various types of media and systems of circulation to explore the thickness between social spaces and interpersonal encounters. Steinberg attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York (2019), The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2016-2018), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). He was an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha (2019), and RAW Material Company, Dakar (2019). His work has been presented in venues such as Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah; Visual Arts Center-University of Texas, Austin; 1After320, New Delhi; and SESC, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. He has been awarded the Idea Fund Prize - The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2017), and support from the Houston Arts Alliance Artists Individuals Grant Program (2018), among others. Steinberg is the co-founder of ACCA, Art and Culture in Contexts of Authoritarianisms, a working group studying, discussing, and articulating collective and individual responses to contexts of authoritarianism with a special focus on Brazil.

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