#cute. Islands of Bliss?

2020 413 ppmAA

#cute. Islands of Bliss?

With more than five hundred million posts on Instagram alone, #cute is one of the most popular hashtags ever. Cute can mean dainty, sweet, or twee, and we come across it in all aspects of life. Animal babies, unicorns, rabbit ears—cuteness is closely related to consumer culture and has not only taken social media by storm, but also product design, advertising, robotics, and art.

Works by AES+F, Magda Archer, Ruth van Beek, Chris Berens, Lenn Blaschke, Thorsten Brinkmann, Antoine Catala, Miguel Delie, Ruud van Empel, FALK, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Gregor Gaida, Carla Gannis, Jill Greenberg, Johan und Diana van Halen, Chris Haughton, Guy Hoffman/Miguel de Andrès-Clavera/Michael Suguitan, Jugendkulturarchiv Frankfurt a. M., Aya Kakeda, An-Sofie Kesteleyn, Kolle Rebbe, Yasushi Koyama, Karina-Sirkku Kurz, Reiner Leifried, Les Deux Garçons, Brenda Lien, Loretta Lux, Rachel Maclean, Jonathan Monaghan, NEOZOON, Marc Paeps, Birte Philippi, Pierre et Gilles, @Pokeschorsch, Jochen Raiß, Christoph Ruisz, Mark Ryden, Corinna Schnitt, Annette und Erasmus Schröter, Erasmus Schröter, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Oliver Sieber, Melissa Sixma Lingo, Maren Steffens, Maija Tammi, Juergen Teller, Nikita Teryoshin, Katie Torn, Underlook, die Unheimlichen, Jonas Vogt/Stephan/Bogner/Philipp Schmitt, Anastasia Ward, Uli Westphal, The Yes Men