Nan Goldin Embraces Her Cinematic Side in 'This Will Not End Well'

Summary • Acclaimed American photographer Nan Goldin opens This Will Not End Well, her first major European retrospective, at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan • The exhibition features the largest corpus of slideshows presented together, alongside two recent works and the artist's first sound installation

“I have always wanted to be a filmmaker,” says photographer Nan Goldin. “My slideshows are films made up of stills.” It's this cinematic sensibility that underpins This Will Not End Well, the first major European retrospective dedicated to Goldin, the filmmaker, now on view at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Originally presented at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the evolution of one of contemporary photography's most influential voices, in an intimate, immersive jo