Am Nuden Da Collective Challenges Art World Roles Through Ephemeral Sessions and Institutional Critique

Am Nuden Da, a three-person collective operating in London since at least 2009, deliberately blurs boundaries between gallery, curatorial entity, and artist group. Their early 'sessions' in the East End included Session_2_Flags in January 2009, featuring 41 contributors like Rut Blees Luxemburg and David Raymond Conroy, and Session_7_Words the same year with Aleksandra Domanović and Cerith Wyn Evans. These exhibitions typically lasted only two days. In 2010, abandoning their physical space intensified their institutional critique through the Press Release series, where curators realized exhibitions from the collective's pre-written texts. For a 2013 touring show at Chez Valentin in Paris, they painted 'Facebook blue' over wall imperfections, questioning exhibition platforms. Their project Let's Not Dispute the Useless... stages five single-day solo shows for artists including Gerry Bibby and Kerstin Brätsch in cryptic locations like Trouville, France, with no public, only conversations later published. The collective consistently subverts hierarchies between artist, curator, and viewer.