Artist talk: October 11, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

This fall, MoMA PS1 presents the first US solo exhibition of photographer Inuuteq Storch (Kalaaleq, b. 1989), tracing the artist’s practice over the past decade. On view October 9, 2025, through February 23, 2026, in the museum’s first-floor galleries, Soon Will Summer Be Over highlights Storch’s approach to imaging moments of intimacy, mundanity, and sublimity across Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), often focusing on his hometown of Sisimiut—a town of 5,500 people just north of the Arctic Circle. Using film cameras, many handed down from friends and family, Storch documents the textures, rhythms, and infrastructures of communities navigating the crossroads of Inuit traditions, Danish colonial influences, climate crises, and the pressures of globalization.

The environment, with its dramatically shifting seasons and prolonged solstices, pervades Storch’s work, even when not directly pictured. Keepers of the Ocean (2019), the earliest series in the exhibition, was shot over the course of four years and portrays the artist’s community in Sisimiut, moving between the granularity of everyday life—laundry hanging to dry, careful arrangements of tchotchkes—and the vastness of sea and sky. Other bodies of work include Soon Will Summer Be Over (2023), a record of life in Qaanaaq, one of the northernmost towns in the world, and What If You Were My Sabine? (2025), a new series inspired by a romance with an East Greenlandic woman. An interest in Greenland’s photographic history—both quotidian and professional—is integral to Storch’s practice. In Porcelain Souls, he surfaces photos from the 1960s to 1980s taken by his parents. The video installation Anachronism (2015–20) collages found footage of Inuit life at the cusp of modernization in the mid-20th century. Toggling between historical moments, Storch surfaces the abiding potency of self-imaging in the face of narratives forged from outside perspectives.

Inuuteq Storch is a photographer and artist from Sisimiut, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). In 2024, Storch represented Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale, as the first Greenlandic artist to do so. He attended the International Centre of Photography, New York, and the Fatamorgana School of Photography, Copenhagen. Storch has exhibited at the Sharjah Art Biennial; Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland; Frankfurt Ray Triennale; FOFA Gallery, Montreal; Nordatlantens Brygge Art Institute, Copenhagen; Gammel Strand Kunsthal, Copenhagen; and Center for Photography, Copenhagen, among other venues. His work is in the collections of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark, among others.

The exhibition is organized by Jody Graf, Associate Curator, MoMA PS1.