Sarah Lucas NAKED EYE

One of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists makes her long-awaited Nordic debut at Kiasma.

Sarah Lucas is an influential and internationally acclaimed artist known for her irreverent and provocative use of satire in her sculptural practice.

Her exhibition at Kiasma offers a comprehensive overview of her career to date, showcasing sculpture, photography, and installations from the past four decades—including new and recent works—many of which have featured in celebrated exhibitions around the world. This marks Lucas’s first extensive solo presentation in the Nordic region.

Lucas works with everyday ‘readymade’ materials—furniture, food, cigarettes, and pantyhose—reassembling them in compositions that evoke the human body in all its fragility with desirousness, humour, and eroticism.

Lucas’s practice critically engages with unspoken assumptions surrounding gender, sexuality, and power dynamics. Her work questions societal perceptions of the body, while also probing traditional depictions of class and the complex relationship between art and social hierarchy.

Lucas weaves together these socially resonant themes with sharp everyday observations, often delivered with signature wit and a playful use of language.