Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming

Discover fantastical narratives and the covert, unseen forces at work in the world through Suzanne Treister’s explorations of society’s relationship to technology.

Prophetic Dreaming is the first major institutional retrospective by pioneering digital and para-disciplinary artist Suzanne Treister (b. 1958). Spanning more than forty years, the exhibition maps Treister’s visionary practice and investigations into new technologies, networks of power, alternative belief systems, and the futures they prefigure.

From the prophetic early paintings of the 1980s to her groundbreaking digital works of the 1990s, the exhibition charts Treister’s evolution through key projects including those of her time-travelling alter ego Rosalind Brodsky, and the influential HEXEN 2.0 series, a Tarot deck and group of alchemical diagrams connecting cybernetics, surveillance, countercultural movements and internet histories. Her recent project, HEXEN 5.0 (2023-25) continues this trajectory, critically examining AI, the climate crisis, and quantum science.

Prophetic Dreaming highlights the many astonishing, sometimes humorous and often unsettling moments of premonition which have recurred throughout Treister’s career. The exhibition reveals her prescient practice as a means of comprehending the complexities of the present while imagining new possibilities for what is yet to come.

Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming is accompanied by a major new publication co-published with cosmogenesis that includes contributions from Lars Bang Larsen, Patricia Domínguez and Val Ravaglia.