AMSTERDAM – The group exhibition When Things Are Beings, on view at the Stedelijk Museum through April 10, 2023, explores the inner forces of objects in many different ways. Each of the designers and artists who made the 24 projects in the exhibit takes their own path to linking the material and the immaterial worlds. Spanning 13 rooms, the works forge connections between ideas and objects, spirituality and materiality, and link social issues to tangible phenomena. All of them play with the question of whether “things” can have a soul, using a wide range of media: video, soundscape, textiles, assemblage, object design, jewelry, sculptures, photography, printing, painting and performance.