You are VARIATIONS: archival presentation
Line up: Anchan/Anna Daučíková & Christina Della Giustina

YOU ARE VARIATIONS: Anchan/Anna Daučíková and Christina Della Giustina is a multi-chapter exhibition and performance project that traces the artists’ collaboration since the mid-1990s. Its different components explore how their evolving relationship has shaped their engagement with embodied language, non-binary thinking, and radical openness.

Following an exhibition at Vleeshal in Middelburg earlier this year, from October 31 till November 8 2026, If I Can't Dance will be hosting the project's second chapter: an archival presentation that foregrounds the artists’ experimentations with performance as a feminist and queer methodology.

Emerging from a two-year research process, the presentation includes records of their performance work from the 1990s to the present. Photographs, video documentation, scores, ephemera, and correspondence trace the encounter between two individual practices, the collaboration it sparked, and the new pathways it opened over the following decades.

Please note that the exhibition spans two venues: If I Can't Dance and the neighbooring space puntWG.

BIOGRAPHIES

Anchan/Anna Daučíková (b. 1950, Bratislava. Lives and works in Prague) is an artist working with photography, video, and performance. Alongside their artistic work, they are a co-founder and activist in several women’s NGOs, most notably the Slovak feminist organization and journal Aspekt, and in the 1990s they have been a spokesperson for LGBT rights in Slovakia. Their academic career includes teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Christina Della Giustina (b. 1965, Switzerland. Lives and works in Amsterdam) is an artist and pedagogue. She completed her doctoral studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is lecturer and course leader of the Master of Fine Art at HKU, Utrecht. Her artistic research practice deals with relationships and generates trans-disciplinary collaborations across scientific, spiritual, and sound-based modes of working.

OPENING HOURS

Tues–Fri: 15–19hr 

Sat–Sun: 13–18hr

Opening 31st October: 15–19hr 

(Monday 2 November: closed)

CREDITS

you are vARIAtions is co-curated by Sara Giannini and Martha Jager and is part of a long-term commission initiated by If I Can’t Dance together with Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art.

[ID: Digital collage juxtaposing two images. On the left side there is a photograph documenting a performance action by Anchan/Anna Daučíková in which they are cutting glass on a wooden table placed in front of book shelves. On the right side, a graphic score by Della Giustina where three columns of words in German combine the term "Die Krankheit" with other terms and short sentences. In two instances, smaller words are placed on top of the columns with the text becoming less legible.]