Miles Greenberg

The Current is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Miles Greenberg, on view June 20–October 17, 2026. Marking Greenberg’s Vermont debut and first presentation with The Current, the exhibition features the immersive video installations LE MIROIR and TЯUTH, which transform the gallery into an environment that envelops viewers in Greenberg’s durational performances. A highlight of the exhibition is LE MIROIR, presented for the first time in the United States.

Movement, endurance, and emotional transformation are at the root of Greenberg's practice. Working across video, performance, and sculpture, he creates large-scale, sensorially immersive environments in which the physical body becomes sculptural material. Although many of his works begin as durational performances, the resulting films are conceived as artworks in their own right rather than mere documentation. Through editing, scale, and installation, Greenberg transforms live actions into immersive video experiences that explore slowness, repetition, and the limits of physical and emotional endurance. Rigorous and ritualistic in methodology, his work heightens viewers' sensitivity to time, presence, and transformation.

LE MIROIR

LE MIROIR is a six-channel video installation arranged on six large monitors, displayed in a circle, enveloping the viewer within the performance space rather than presenting it frontally. Originally commissioned by ICD Brookfield Place Arts, the work was first staged live during the 2025 edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Marrakech's historic El Badi Palace, with curatorial direction by Touria El Glaoui, and then presented as a multi-channel video installation at ICD Brookfield Place Arts in Dubai. Its presentation at The Current is its first in the United States.

Inspired by Andrey Tarkovsky's 1975 film The Mirror, LE MIROIR is a surreal queer love story inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, shot between the live performance in Marrakech at El Badii Palace and the Emirati Desert on the border of Oman. The resulting work is Greenberg's most ambitious video piece to date.

LE MIROIR was created, directed, and performed by Miles Greenberg, with performances by Jean Paul Paula, and a soundtrack by Personal JJesus. Studio management by Yell Freeman.

TЯUTH

TЯUTH is a three-channel video installation by Miles Greenberg, commissioned by Stedelijk Bureau in 2024 and curated by Rita Ouédraogo. The work was filmed during Greenberg's seven-hour durational performance TЯUTH (2023), originally staged at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, New York.

First presented as a video immersive installation, audiences were invited to wear rubber boots and move through a 15-centimeter-deep reflecting pool, physically altering the reflected image through their own movement and dissolving the boundary between spectatorship and participation.

In the original performance, eight performers, their bodies coated in black oil and each carrying a sword, engaged in improvised paired encounters within a large vermillion wading pool. The arena became a site where combat transformed into choreography and physical endurance into image.

Drawing unexpected inspiration from the visual grammar of fighting video games, Greenberg edited the performance into a 15-minute film that echoes the surreal cinematic cutaways and heightened emotional states of the games that shaped his early visual imagination. Curated by Eric Shiner, the original performance continues Greenberg's ongoing exploration of the body as both subject and material—pushed to physical extremes, rendered monumental, and transformed through duration, repetition, and collective action.

ABOUT MILES GREENBERG

Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material, with the goal of making visible the poetics of the human form; particularly through the lens of the African diaspora. His performances are captured in real-time before the audience to generate later video works and sculptures. Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities. The result is something akin to a ritual space that invites both the performer and the audience to navigate, decipher and honour the emotions, often beyond language, that reside and resonate in the body.

At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, embarking on four years of independent research into movement and architecture. He has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović and has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Residency, NH (2026); Fountainhead Arts, Miami (2023); La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019); and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 & 2018), among others. In 2025, Greenberg was a teaching fellow at the Pina Bausch School in Essen, Germany. In 2023, he was featured on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the Art & Style Category.

He has exhibited and performed internationally at museums and galleries, including the Portland Art Museum (Portland), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Reiffers Art Initiatives (Paris), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Southbank Centre (London), The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), Pace Gallery (New York), Galleria Continua (Les Moulins) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, the Athens Biennale, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale.

OPENING FESTIVAL: SATURDAY, JUNE 20 

4:00–5:00 p.m.

Currently Speaking: Miles Greenberg in conversation with Rachel Moore

Artist Miles Greenberg joins Executive Director and Director of Exhibitions Rachel Moore for a special conversation exploring his practice, process, and the ideas behind his exhibition at The Current.

This event is free and open to the public; RSVPs are strongly encouraged as space is limited.

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5:00–6:00 p.m.

Exposed Opening Walkabout & Artist Talks

Opening celebration for the 35th annual Exposed outdoor sculpture exhibition, including recognition of Christopher Curtis and the late John Matusz, followed by a guided walking tour through Stowe Village with artist talks at select sculpture sites.

6:00–7:00 p.m.

Festival Celebration at The Current

Live music, refreshments, and complimentary food on the lawn at The Current.

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All festival activities are free and open to the public.