NEWS
2026
April 2 - May 29: HUMANITAS. Exhibition at AMVB – Archive and Museum for Life in Brussels
At the invitation of AMVB, the exhibition HUMANITAS will feature two key works from the oeuvre of the artist duo Åsa Lie and Jadran Sturm. 61 Days Proceeding Sociological Performance (1991) reflects on the geopolitical situation in Greenland via interpersonal relationships. Humanitas (1995) examines connections between the public and the private with family artefacts and interpretations of humanism. Neither work has previously been exhibited. Lotte Beckwé (art historian), Merzedes Sturm-Lie (daughter and artist), and Åsa Lie are curating the exhibition and entering into dialogue with AMVB’s rich archive.
The opening will be accompanied by a new cassette featuring previously unreleased sound works by Åsa Lie and Jadran Sturm, published by RFTS. In addition, Merzedes Sturm-Lie will present a performance through which she engages in dialogue with her parents’ archive.
2024 - 2025
The Jadran Sturm & Åsa Lie Foundation was awarded a generous subsidy by the Flemish Department of Culture within the Pilotprojects Heritage Legacies in Art (Pilootprojecten Nalatenschappen Kunstenerfgoed). The one year project focused on key works within Åsa and Jadran's joint oeuvre and aimed at digitalising and inventorying the archive, activating the keyworks through workshops and interviews, and making their oeuvre and archive accessible to a wider audience.
Partners within this project were M HKA – CKV Flemish Centre for Art Archives, AMVB – Archive and Museum for Flemish life in Brussels and Jubilee – platform for artistic research.
Realised with support from Flanders - State of the Art
