As a draftsman, sculptor, teacher, politician, and activist, as well as action and installation artist, Joseph Beuys (1921, Krefeld – 1986, Düsseldorf) fundamentally changed the art of the twentieth century. His influence can still be felt today in artistic and…

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian presents ‘I am (not) a Monster’ at “Everyone is an Artis: Cosmopolitacal Exercises Joseph Beuys” exhibition! Taking place 27 mar to 15 aug 2021, at the k20 kunstsammlung nordrhein-westfalen, Dusseldorf. You can see more about the exhibition here!…

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian presents a new body of painting work exploring magic, nightlife and doppelgangers. New original paintings and prints available now.   The Magician, Algeria, is available as a limited edition x200 signed prints – Toner pigment powder, thinner,…

To celebrate I am (Not) a Monster, exhibiting at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Nelly and Elien discuss the film theory and philosopher Hannah Arendt! Hannah Arendt meets Pussy Riot. – Elien Haentjens in conversation with Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian…

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian’s latest film, I Am Not A Monster is screening at Refresh #3 on the 19th and 20th September 2020. You can buy tickets and there is more information available here .    Refresh #3 Is An Initiative Of The…

Nelly Ben Hayoun is taking part in this years Secret 7 exhibition to raise money for Help Refugees. This year is the seventh and final edition of Secret 7” and they have pressed 100x copies of the following tracks to 7” –Aretha Franklin…

Every Friday in summer in Viernna, frame[o]ut Open Air Cinema shows a provocative and diverse range of local and international cinema in the main courtyard of Vienna’s Museumsquartier, one of Vienna’s cultural and artistic hot spots. This summer, that programme includes…

Dorset’s annual Tolpuddle Festival is moving online, including its seminal Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival. I am (not) a monster” and director Nelly Ben Hayoun join Tolpuddle’s online programme this year, taking their place among a string of exciting “proto-professional, activist,…

Sweden’s Cinemafrica Festival goes digital in 2020, and Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios is joining them online! “I am (not) a monster” is screening as part of this digital programme, to be available online via the streaming platform Festivalscope. The film,…

On the 18th June 2020, I am (not) a monster will screen at Mu Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven as part of their Real Live Thursdays series of events! Nelly will also join the screening virtually, as part of a…

Nelly Ben Hayoun is being exhibited at Z33, the House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, in Belgium as part of The Work of Time/The Time of Work, an exhibit that explores the relationships between time, knowledge and learning. The…

From the 3rd February 2020you will be able to screen I am (not) a Monster on Bfi Player! Watch the film here! I Am (Not) A Monster Short Synopsis: In this impossible journey searching for the origins of knowledge, discover how…

On the 10th March 2020, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios will have their Luxembourgish premiere of  “I am (not) a monster” at Luxembourg Film Festival! Alongside the Luxembourg premiere of I am (not) a monster! Nelly is speaking about the film…

Update: Unfortunately, Z33’s opening has been postponed in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Nelly Ben Hayoun is being exhibited at Z33 in Belgium as part of a major relaunch and new programme of exhibitions. Please join us for the…

On the 26th January 2020, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios will have their Swedish premiere of  “I am (not) a monster” at Göteberg Film Festival! Buy your ticket here! With creativity and critical reflections as tools, Ben Hayoun’s outstanding I’m (Not)…

On the 12 December 2019, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios will have their second London screening of  “I am (not) a monster” at Bfi Southbank.  The film, which was also released on record by The Vinyl Factory was nominated for the…

Disaster Playground will be exhibited at Matadero Madrid, as part of the continuing exhibition Eco-Visionaries! Forty visionary artists and architects respond to the urgency of the environmental crisis threatening our planet and are occupying Nave 16 of Matadero Madrid to take…

Last Autumn, latest Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios project, ‘I am (not) a Monster’, was exhibited at the 4th Istanbul Design Biennale, A School of Schools. Now, in the coming months, the exhibition will be travelling to Arles, France! The exhibition…

The whispering muse and the worms of hell. Experiments on extraterrestrial gardening. A workshop lead by Cyborgs Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces and Nelly Ben Hayoun, as part of ‘Taller Mutante’, a week of investigating extraterrestrial…