All social problems manifest in different forms in culture: migration is not only presented in literature or documentary, but also in art exhibitions. How these different approaches are interrelated and what social and political stance they show in highlighting certain forms of identity politics is important to see. Art exhibitions just as fiction or film can be conceived as a lieu de memoir, a path between memory and history: a possible way for self-construction through a non-linear, non-teleological narrative, in which mythic, ethnic, or family history gain importance with the help of new imaginative forms. The exhibitions I analyse, on the one hand, pose the question to what extent the search for a migrant’s identity are imagined and imaged through different media, and aim to present a strong criticism on cultural and political ideology. On the other hand, contemporary exhibitions are presented as public spaces or platforms in which different experiences and interests can voice themselves and generate civil action to correct harms and provide means for survival for those left on the margins. Although it is a question to what extent they can intervene in the social and political framework, their cultural presence and political claims, nevertheless, present a point where mere critical reception seems insufficient.