Opening of Anna Barlik: Flags of Non-Existent Countries

Exhibition on View: May 23-July 5, 2026 at KODA House 407b, Colonels Row, Governors Island, NY

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 23, 2026 at 3-5pm

Artist Talk with artist Anna Barlik and Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, Curatorial Associate at MoMA: Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 3-5pm

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KODA, New York, presents the solo exhibition of Anna Barlik: Flags of Non-Existent Countries on view May 23-July 5, 2026 at KODA House 407b on Governors Island, New York. The artist’s new series lending title to the exhibition is a series of formal compositions that engage the visual codes of nationality while critically reinterpreting them. The starting point is the flag, as one of the most recognizable symbols of unity, identity and political belonging. In Barlik’s work, such order becomes destabilized — colors that are assigned to certain countries or places become re-ordered, deconstructured, and reconfigured, creating visual marks, or speculative emblems, for countries…