Things To Come: porn saves the world in Maja Malou Lyse’s ‘bimbo sci-fi’

The Danish artist’s new show premieres at the 2026 Venice Biennale – here, she discusses her fictional future where ‘porn stars rule the world’ and how it reflects our relationship with images today

Things To Come: porn saves the world in Maja Malou Lyse’s ‘bimbo sci-fi’
Maja Malou Lyse, Things To Come (2026) film still

“A lab is such a slutty place. If you put a woman with huge fake tits in a real laboratory, it instantly looks like a porn set.” The Danish artist Maja Malou Lyse is calling in from an elegant palazzo in Venice, but she’s remembering a very different visit to the world’s largest sperm bank – located, by chance, in her hometown in Denmark – where the line between cold, scientific reality and erotic fantasy wearshellip;

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