Lange Nacht der Münchner Museen im Amerikahaus

Micaiah Carter - Tender Heart

American photographer and director Micaiah Carter has quickly become one of the most recognized artists of his time. His works, staged with a sophisticated color palette and light, convey honesty and unadulterated emotion that is absolutely timeless - equally nostalgic, forward-looking and yet completely anchored in the here and now.

Tender Heart is a visual meditation on legacy, memory and the changing nature of identity. Across generations and through intimate gestures, this work traces a personal and collective journey where the past is not fixed, but lives on in the present, embedded in our skin, our style and our homes. Micaiah Carter was born into a world of reinvention, and each image embodies this truth: Black identity is fluid, delicate, resilient and constantly renewing itself.

The exhibition alternates between archival and contemporary photographs, family and strangers, domestic interiors and surreal silences, revealing a suspended space where time stretches and folds. Tender Heart is not only a gesture of remembrance, but also a premise for dreaming of the future. It simultaneously preserves memory and possibility, rooted in care and transformation.

This exhibition represents the essence of a personal lineage nourished not by boundaries or definitions, but by clarity, tenderness and the subtle rhythm of becoming.