This thesis examines labyrinthine exhibitions as a curatorial model that promises disorientation, participation, and emancipation while simultaneously reproducing structures of control and subject formation. Grounded in the symposium Lose Yourself! – A Symposium on Labyrinthine Exhibitions as Curatorial Model (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2017), Viviane Joller traces how exhibitions such as Dylaby (1962) and HON – en katedral (1966) positioned the loss of orientation as a transformative aesthetic experience, with the aim to subvert institutional authority. Drawing on curatorial history and critical theory, the thesis situates the labyrinth not only as a spacial figure, but as a historical and ideological paradigm through which processes of self-loss and self-finding are organised. By engaging with thinkers such as Fred Turner, Tony Bennett, Simone Browne, Sara Ahmed, and ZakiyyahIman Jackson, the thesis argues that orientation within and beyond the curatorial context is never neutral, but shaped by racialised, colonial, and institutional power structures. The labyrinthine thus emerges as an ambivalent dispositif, that promises liberation through disorientation while simultaneously regulating visibility, mobility, and forms of subjectivity.