Discover the exhibition Dana Lixenberg — American Images
For the first season of 2026, the MEP is delighted to present American Images, the first solo exhibition in a Parisian institution dedicated to the Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg. MEP Studio will host two exhibitions that bring together the questions of identity, territory, and memory, opening the season with Joel Quayson, followed by Johny Pitts.
© Dana Lixenberg
Courtesy de l’artiste et de Grimm Amsterdam | London | New York
Dana Lixenberg — American Images
Spanning more than three decades, the exhibition brings together a committed and deeply human body of work, weaving a multilayered portrait of the United States in which celebrities and lesser-known individuals are approached with equal care and portrayed with dignity.
Born in Amsterdam, Lixenberg sees the United States through the fresh, discerning eyes of a foreigner, offering a nuanced perspective on the myth of the American Dream. After arriving in New York in 1989, Dana Lixenberg began to develop a photographic language grounded in empathy, mutual trust, and attentive engagement. In doing so, her portraits offer a counter-narrative to prevailing media representations of America, a perspective that remains deeply relevant today.
This exhibition is in co-production with
© Dana Lixenberg
Courtesy de l’artiste et de Grimm Amsterdam | London | New York
MEP Studio
Vidéo, 4’28min
© Joel Quayson
Joël Quayson — How do you feel?
The MEP presents the first solo exhibition by Ghanaian-Dutch artist Joel Quayson, winner of the 2025 Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents. Working primarily with photography and video, he examines the multiple layers of his identity: culture, religion, gender and sexual orientation, as well as how they interweave and sometimes clash.
In the second part of the season, the MEP welcomes the British artist Johny Pitts. Bringing together twenty years of visual research devoted to the African diaspora in Europe and around the world, Johny Pitts presents his project Black Bricolage in the MEP Studio. Photographs, archives, personal documents, and testimonies are interwoven through plays of reflection, blur, and assemblage, offering a subtle and nuanced representation of contemporary Afro-descendant experience.
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