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Upcoming and current exhibitions

Current:

Hypercreatures: Future Mythologies, Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl, 22 March – 5 October 2025.

Fixing Futures, Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, 5 April – 31 Aug 2025.

Upcoming solo shows and installations:

Shadowscapes: Turner and Quantum, Orlean House Gallery, London, opens 9 Oct and runs to March 2026.

Qlimate Tongues, ArtScience Museum, Singapore from 20 June 2025.

Recent:

Eat My Multiverse, Museum of Moving Image, New York City, 11 April 2025.

slimeQore, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, 7 June 2025.

Eat My Multiverse, Sonar+D, Barcelona, 11 June 2025.

Quantum Visions, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, closed 8 June 2025.

Sound installation Qlimate Tongues at ArtScience Museum, Singapore from 20 June

Heaney’s first ever sound installation Qlimate Tongues (2024) will open at ArtScience Museum Singapore from 20 June.

See here for further details

Eat My Multiverse, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, 12 June

Heaney performs Eat My Multiverse at Sonar on 12 June at 4:30pm on the Stage+D.

Further information on Sonar’s website here.

Eat My Multiverse, Museum of Moving Image, New York City, 11th April 2025

Heaney will perform Eat My Multiverse at the Museum of Moving Image, New York City at 7pm on the 11 April 2025.

Eat My Multiverse interrogates how quantum computing’s potential is reduced to commodified, consumable forms driven by capitalist greed. Artist Libby Heaney deploys a live virtual environment to challenge sanitized narratives that obscure the magical and queer aspects of quantum phenomena. The piece is drawn from Heaney’s own memories and associated emotions, exploring quantum as a metaphor for self. For MoMI’s monumental Redstone Theater screen, Heaney has used IBM’s quantum computers to create a real-time multiverse that she will also enter as she performs through her webcam feed. The performance invites a reconsideration of the concessions raised among the fundamental poetics of science, human existence, and market forces.

Entangled Slimifications, Barbican, London, 23rd March 2025

Part of Barbican’s Fertile Ground programme curated by Susanna Davies-Crook.

March 23rd, 2025.

Hypercreatures: Future Mythologies, Max Ernst Museum

Ent- (many paths version), (2022) and 1,800,000,000,000,000 Quantum Hybrids, (2021) are part of the major group show Hypercreatures: Future Mythologies,

Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl,

22 March – 5 Oct, 2025.

Interviewed by Frieze Magazine

Heaney was interviewed by Emily May for Frieze Magazine for “Will Quantum Computing Change Art?”

‘Every time something happens, the universe branches into two,’ explains Heaney. ‘There’s an almost infinite number of universes where everything that could happen, happens.’ She herself created Heartbreak and Magic in 2024, a VR experience at Somerset House shaped by the comfort she took in quantum physics after the tragic death of her sister. ‘Science says that she should still exist in some parallel universe,’ Heaney says.