studio program_Agnes Questionmark
July - October, 2024
Introducing Agnes Questionmark(@agnesquestionmark), who will be using 99 Canal’s STUDIO 3 to further her research into medical and scientific practices, and to conceptualise an installation in collaboration with 99 Canal in New York City for spring 2025.
Agnes Questionmark is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and installation. She recently completed a residency at The Odin, a bioengineering lab in Austin, Texas, with biohacker and artist Zayner. Their collaboration began with the creation of QuestionGen (0.0022 ml), part of her larger installation Cyber-Teratology Operation, currently on view at the 60th Venice Biennale in the Garden of the Virgins. QuestionGen (0.0022 ml) is an anti-medicine containing 0.002288998764 ml of the artist’s DNA, encapsulated and paired with a misinformative leaflet. This work aims to reclaim and repurpose medical devices, expanding the possibilities of the human body through imaginative freedom and exploring physical and mental alternatives.
Questionmark’s practice explores the boundaries of self-identity through genetic experiments, surgical operations, and artificial reproductive processes, challenging normative concepts of identity. By placing her body and her audiences in spaces where conventional human norms are disrupted, she critiques the biopolitical implications of transgender and trans-species bodies in a human-dominated world.
Text by Ginervra de Blasio
Agnes Questionmark has recently been included in the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Malta Biennale, Valletta; Konig Galerie, Berlin; the 14th Gwangju Biennale, and at the MAXXI Museum, Rome. Her recent long durational performances include CHM13hTERT (2023), at SpazioSERRA in Milan and TRANSGENESIS (2021), presented by The Orange Garden in London.
“Agnes Questionmark, if an artist manipulates the body by fusing flesh and technology. What the exhibition in Lucca looks like,” Finestre sull'Arte, 2025
“An exhibition to understand the body through art, science fiction and... surgery,” domus, 2024
“Agnes Questionmark: Nexaris Suite,” e-flux, 2024
“MFA Fine Arts Student Explores Human Identity at Venice Biennale,” Pratt News, 2024
“Agnes Questionmark,” LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 2024
“Agnes Questionmark’s Cyber-Teratology Operation,” THE BROOKLYN RAIL, 2024
“Sculptor and Biohacker Agnes Questionmark Crafts Tentacular Transness,” ARTnews, 2024
“Behind the performances of Agnes Questionmark,” Collater.al, 2024
“Agnes Questionmark on Humans, Aliens, and Sea Creatures,” HYPERALLERGIC, 2023
Studio Program | 99 Canal
The Studio Program is a one to three-month opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists based both within and outside New York City.
Collaborating with artists, galleries, and institutions, our selection process draws on the insights of the local creative community to ensure a continuously diverse and vibrant studio cohort.
The program initially launched in 2022 as a response to the lack of affordable spaces in Manhattan and provides access to an intimate and context-specific environment to work in.
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