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Last week to see Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: “Present Tense (Roll Call)." 🖼️On view through June 28, Syjuco’s largest w...
06/22/2026

Last week to see Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: “Present Tense (Roll Call)." 🖼️

On view through June 28, Syjuco’s largest wall installation to date transforms BAMPFA’s Art Wall into a meditation on radical pedagogy, archives, racialized narratives, and the classroom ritual of announcing one’s presence. If you haven’t spent time with it yet, this is the moment.

And the project will continue in a new form after it comes down. On July 12 at 1 PM, join us for “The Future of Present Tense," a workshop in the Art Lab where participants will repurpose printed materials from the deinstalled artwork into mini publications and free-form collages.

Learn more at the link in bio. ✂️

Swap Circle at BAMPFA is next Sunday! ♻️Join SWAP CIRCLE and BAMPFA on June 28 for an afternoon of community, creative e...
06/21/2026

Swap Circle at BAMPFA is next Sunday! ♻️

Join SWAP CIRCLE and BAMPFA on June 28 for an afternoon of community, creative exchange, and joyful rethinking of how we consume. Bring up to twenty clean clothing or accessory items you’d be proud to gift to someone else, receive tokens for accepted items, and use them to “shop” the swap. 👚

Participation is free, RSVP is required, and registered Swap Circle participants receive 50% off gallery admission at BAMPFA on the day of the event. Details are at the link in bio. 🎟️

Coming this August: “Made in Berkeley: The House That Zaentz Built." 🎬Take a peek at this summer film series, which cele...
06/20/2026

Coming this August: “Made in Berkeley: The House That Zaentz Built." 🎬

Take a peek at this summer film series, which celebrates the extraordinary filmmaking legacy of Berkeley’s Fantasy Studios building. Home to Fantasy Records and headed by Saul Zaentz, the studio became a major site of film production from the early 1970s onward, helping bring landmark documentaries and award-winning literary adaptations to the screen. 🎥

Sat / Aug 1 @ 7 PM — VIVIEN’S WILD RIDE by Vivien Hillgrove, United States, 2025 — Vivien Hillgrove in Person
Fri / Aug 7 @ 7 PM — WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN by Steven Okazaki, United States, 2007 — Steven Okazaki in Person
Sun / Aug 9 @ 2 PM — THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Philip Kaufman, United States, 1988 — Vivien Hillgrove in Person
Sat / Aug 15 @ 3:30 PM — PROMISES by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado, United States, 2001 — Justine Shapiro in Person
Wed / Aug 26 @ 7 PM — NO STRAIGHT LINES by Vivian Kleiman, United States, 2021 — Vivian Kleiman and Mel Y. Chen in Conversation
Sat / Aug 29 @ 7 PM — TONGUES UNTIED by Marlon Riggs, United States, 1989
Sun / Aug 30 @ 3:30 PM — SKIN OF GLASS by Denise Zmekhol, United States, 2023 — Denise Zmekhol and Teresa Caldeira in Conversation

Presented with the Berkeley Film Foundation the series features exceptional documentaries made at Fantasy Studios over four decades, with several filmmakers joining us in person. Start planning your August at BAMPFA at bampfa.org/madeinberkeley or the link in bio. 🍿

Not to miss on June 25: West Coast Estonian Days: ROLLING PAPERS at BAMPFA. 🎬Meel Paliale’s ROLLING PAPERS offers a char...
06/19/2026

Not to miss on June 25: West Coast Estonian Days: ROLLING PAPERS at BAMPFA. 🎬

Meel Paliale’s ROLLING PAPERS offers a charming, offbeat portrait of contemporary youth culture in Tallinn, following hapless rappers, stoned philosophers, film nerds, and others searching for meaning—or at least a little warmth. A fitting centerpiece for the Bay Area’s Estonian Days Festival, the program also includes Natalia Mirzoyan’s animated short WINTER IN MARCH.

Producer Rain Rannu joins us in person for the screening. Tickets and details are at the link in bio. 🎟️

“There’s a kind of magic to her work.” 🌿The Guardian has published a beautiful new feature on “Maren Hassinger: Living M...
06/18/2026

“There’s a kind of magic to her work.” 🌿

The Guardian has published a beautiful new feature on “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing," BAMPFA’s major retrospective celebrating five decades of Hassinger’s work across sculpture, performance, video, and installation.

The article by Veronica Esposito explores how Hassinger transforms everyday gestures and humble materials—twisting, knotting, breathing, walking—into works of extraordinary scale, care, and collective possibility. It also highlights the participatory spirit of the exhibition, including the workshops that invite audiences into Hassinger’s process of making. 📰

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/17/maren-hassinger-retrospective-berkeley-art-museum

Read the full story, then come experience “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” at BAMPFA. On view through November 29. Learn more about the exhibit at bampfa.org/hassinger or the link in bio. 🖼️

Next week: Frameline50 at BAMPFA continues. 🌈Join us on Wednesday, June 24, for VIRGINA, a newly restored Yugoslavian pe...
06/17/2026

Next week: Frameline50 at BAMPFA continues. 🌈

Join us on Wednesday, June 24, for VIRGINA, a newly restored Yugoslavian period drama that follows Stevan, the fourth daughter of a poor Serbian family who is raised as a boy. Set in early nineteenth-century Serbia, the film offers a striking exploration of gender, identity, and social convention. The screening will be introduced by q***r film historian, writer, and filmmaker Jenni Olson. 🎬

Experience Frameline50 at BAMPFA. Tickets and details are at the link in bio. ✨

Coming up June 25: Black Life: Transition as Miracle. ✨This improvisational performance brings together two performance ...
06/16/2026

Coming up June 25: Black Life: Transition as Miracle. ✨

This improvisational performance brings together two performance artists whose identities remain unknown to each other and to the audience until the day of the event. What unfolds is a live encounter shaped by presence, movement, trust, and the possibilities of transformation. 🌱

Organized by Black Life Guest Curator Gabriele Christian, Transition as Miracle concludes the yearlong series AS LONG AS THERE ARE CATASTROPHES, THERE WILL BE MIRACLES. Included with gallery admission. Details are at the link in bio. 🎟️

What an opening week for “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” 🩷Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Director'...
06/15/2026

What an opening week for “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” 🩷

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Director's Reception for this exhibition’s opening. It was a beautiful way to welcome this major retrospective to BAMPFA, surrounded by conversation, art making, movement, and community. 🌿

“Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” curated by Margot Norton, Chief Curator, and Anthony Graham, Senior Curator, with Omar Jason Farah, Curatorial Assistant is on view now until November 29, 2026. Get tickets and learn more about tours, workshops, and performances at bampfa.org/hassinger or the link in bio.

📸: Kelly Sullivan

Coming up June 20: FEAR AND DESIRE, Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film. 🎬Screening as part of “A Complete Stanley Kubr...
06/14/2026

Coming up June 20: FEAR AND DESIRE, Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film. 🎬

Screening as part of “A Complete Stanley Kubrick," this 1952 film is an early existential war drama about soldiers stranded behind enemy lines, already circling many of the questions that would haunt Kubrick’s later work: violence, power, absurdity, and the fragile logic of survival. This special program screens on a rare 35mm archival print, paired with two early Kubrick documentaries, FLYING PADRE and THE SEAFARERS. ✨

See the beginning of Kubrick’s feature filmmaking career at BAMPFA. Tickets and details are at bampfa.org/kubrick or the link in bio. 🎟️

06/13/2026

Artist spotlight: Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán 🎨

"In Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition," Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán draws from fragmented photographs in his family archives, using collage and painting to create new compositions rooted in memory, place, and belonging.

His painting "Las Gemelas De South TepaBerkeley" reflects on his upbringing in South Berkeley and the people who shaped him, including his mother and her twin sister. Through layered imagery, Muñoz-Guzmán honors family histories while creating space for new narratives to emerge.

See Héctor's work in "Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition", now on view at BAMPFA through July 26. Learn more at the link in bio. 🖼️

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