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SOUL STAKE: Degenerate Art Show Closing Reception and Wearable Sculpture Encore April 18, 2026Soul Stake Closing Reception: April 18, 7pm-12amWearable Sculpture Activation ENCORE: April 18, 10:30pm-11:30pmLocation Provided with Ticket Purchase Admission: $25Featuring artwork by Amalia Wilson, Brothers Sick (Ezra Benus and Noah Benus), Catching on Thieves, Catia Colagioia, China Rain, Ciara DeMelo, Ellen Foster, Emil A. Meal, Eva Wu, Holland Fox, Jenna Robb, Jules Malice, KellyAnne Mifflin, Layla Marcelle, Lily Xie, Micah Lockman-Fine, Rah Gerg, Rob McKinney, Sam Van Pelt, Sadie Rose Smiley, Sasha Rindisbacher, Scratch Williams, Sloane Solley, Thomas Lapine, Thomas Lauria, Vallyn Murphy, Yianni Kourmadas, Zuha NasimWearable Sculpture Activations by Eva Wu, China Rain, Emil A. Meal, Thomas Lauria, Micah Lockman-Fine, Catia Colagioia, Jenna Robb, Rah Gerg, Amalia Wilson, Catching on Thieves, and Masina.Wearable Sculpture Activation Live Scored by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://chaia.online/">Chaia</a>Philadelphia, PA — Soul Stake: Degenerate Art Show is a reappropriation and confrontation of the 1937 Nazi propaganda exhibition Entartete Kunst that transforms a history of censorship into a catalyst for resistance and collective healing. Through immersive installation, performance, and a wearable sculpture runway, Soul Stake confronts generational trauma, authoritarian resurgence, and the cyclical nature of cultural repression while galvanizing Philadelphia’s artistic community to remember, resist, and reimagine the future.Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) sought to mock and condemn modernist, expressionist, and nonconformist artists by making an example of their work. The Third Reich seized more than 5,000 artworks from public and private collections and displayed 650 of them as examples of decadence, weakness, mental illness, and racial impurity. These works were positioned in direct opposition to those deemed adequately German in their clarity and purity, and the exhibition was held concurrently with in the Great German Art Exhibition. Some artists appeared in both exhibitions, underscoring the instability and arbitrariness of cultural judgment under authoritarian rule. Following the exhibition, the Third Reich auctioned off the confiscated works to fund the war. Thousands of paintings that did not sell were burned on March 20, 1939.Soul Stake positions remembrance as an active force. By staging a contemporary response to Entartete Kunst within a warehouse in Southwest Philadelphia, the artists transform a site of industrial residue into a space of reckoning and possibility. The project asserts that creative freedom is not a given but a collective stake, one that must be continually defended, embodied, and renewed.