The exhibition is based on the contrast between the actor and the extra in the cinema. An actor represents a process of embodiment, vocality and the ability to give direction to an activity. An extra is a voiceless figure in a background crowd: body without embodiment. If the extra, in contrast embodies anything at all, it is a conflict of location. Works that have the figure of the extra as a subject have often be read as social and/or political allegories.

Actors & Extras will include work by Irina Botea, Jeremy Deller & Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Christian Jankowski, Mark Lewis, Aernout Mik, João Onofre, Julika Rudelius, Krassimir Terziev, Clemens von Wedemeyer, and historical propaganda footage.

Actors & Extras is a collaboration of argos and Siemens Arts Program, supported by Mondriaan Foundation and Levis.