Salman Toor | Beyond the Manosphere – Masculinities Today

Salman Toor is included in Beyond the Manosphere – Masculinities Today, a group exhibition on view at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam through August 2, 2026.

The exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of 35 artists, whose works on view were made between the 1960s to the 1990s. Beyond the Manosphere explore masculinity as an agent and performance of power – but also as a lived reality that can be conflicting, banal, unsteady, and tender. This presentation approaches masculinity as a broad and layered phenomenon, beyond dominant clichés. Across these works, masculinity appears not as a stable or unified identity but as a contested field of representations, gestures, desires, and contradictions. Dominance and aggression coexist with fragility and banality; control with exposure; fantasy with failure. 

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Stedelijk Museum website.