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Credit: Yatreda
The Light Within
This immersive installation of digital art explores themes of resilience, creativity and power through the works of leading contemporary female digital artists. It reimagines how women are perceived in society, challenging stereotypes and redefining the narrative around femininity.
The exhibit is curated by ArtRepublic Global and presented in collaboration with Spotlight Initiative.
On display until 25 March 2025
Credit: UNFPA
A World for Women, by Women: Infinite Possibilities
This exhibit highlights the strength and resilience of women and girls worldwide, showcasing their stories of empowerment, progress, and transformation. Through AI-enhanced digital innovation like Infinite Woman and a series of powerful photographs, it features the challenges women face and the boundless opportunities that emerge when rights, choices, and autonomy are upheld.
This exhibit is organized and endorsed by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
On display until March 21, 2025 (Infinite Woman) & mid-April, 2025 (Photographs)
Credit: Leasho Johnson
The Stories of Us
This exhibition explores the universal ideals of equality and solidarity through a series of sculptures created by artists from across the African diaspora to honour our global community and the future we can create together. The sculptures represent the themes of Origins, Emancipation, Good Trouble, Me Reimagined, and Us Reimagined.
This exhibit is organized by The Stories of Us and endorsed by The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery (Department of Global Communications).
On display until 24 April 2025
Upcoming Exhibits
Credit: Amrit Khurana
Perceptions of Sentience
Perceptions of Sentience is a group exhibition of artworks by twenty-four neurodiverse artists. It is curated to inspire dialogue about mental health and the alternative pathways through which environmental awareness is processed and expressed. The exhibit is in connection with World Autism Awareness Day (2 April).
This exhibit is organized by Strokes of Genius, Inc. and endorsed by 51³Ô¹Ï Population Fund (UNFPA).
Coming March 2025
Ongoing Exhibit
Drawing by Hugh Ferriss for the Board of Design, 1947.
UN Headquarters: A Workshop for Peace
The exhibition features archival images of the planning and building of UNHQ between 1949 and 1952 and photos of the recently renovated compound. The exhibition also includes photos of the recently renovated UNHQ (renovation: 2008-2014).
The exhibition is organized by the Department of Global Communication.