FRAGMENTATION
contemporary art museum
selects, preserves, and presents fragments of contemporary art
A new art experience every day.
Feel art.
Fragmentation Museum, with its networks and fragments, is itself a work of art, a new form of contemporary art in constant evolution.
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Johannes Langkamp – Frames, Traces, and Perception
Johannes Langkamp explores how small shifts in materials, framing, and everyday situations can change the way we see. Through playful…
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Lee Bul – The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun, Hauser & Wirth Chelsea
Lee Bul’s The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun explores the tension between utopian ideals, the body, and technological progress through…
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Doris Salcedo, Untitled (2003) – Istanbul Biennial
For the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Doris Salcedo filled an urban void with around 1,500 wooden chairs, creating a monumental…
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Rachel Youn — Unruly Vessel (2026), Scuola Piccola Zattere, Venice
Artificial palm fronds row without going anywhere. In Unruly Vessel, salvaged wellness machines stubbornly keep working: their movement draws us…
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SpY — CYCLES N2 (2026), NUR Festival, Kazan
Fifteen rings rise and fall, yet no single viewpoint allows us to grasp them once and for all. CYCLES N2…
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Andreas Angelidakis — Escape Room (2026), Greek Pavilion, Venice
Suspended columns, reflections and an illuminated floor: the pavilion seems to have lost its stability. With Escape Room, Andreas Angelidakis…
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Martin Messier — Sewing Machine Orchestra, Wonderspaces Austin
The sewing machines begin to play by themselves. Their pulses fall into step, lamps flicker, and the rhythm intensifies: a…
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Žilvinas Kempinas — Fountains, Reykjavík Art Museum (2013)
It looks like black water. In fact, strips of magnetic tape are being lifted by electric fans. For Žilvinas Kempinas,…
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Zimoun — 9 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, 10 metal bowls ø 67 cm (2026)
Nine motors, cotton balls and ten metal bowls form a sound installation at Studio Zimoun in Bern. Repeated mechanical gestures…
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Batten and Kamp — Beauty Seeker Seeker (2026)
A robot carries an orchid and solicits our gaze. Beauty Seeker Seeker turns a sophisticated machine into a mobile vase…
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Gregory Orekhov — Shadow of Light (2026), Bonneville Salt Flats
A black square interrupts the white expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Gregory Orekhov uses light-absorbing fabric to create a…
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Neil Dawson — Horizons (1994), Gibbs Farm
A sheet seems to float above a hillside. Yet Horizons is a steel sculpture: Neil Dawson turns the landscape into…
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Christopher K. Ho — Waterloo! (2026), Ellie Rines Gallery, New York
Twenty candelabras and a carpet of barricades: domestic comfort meets the imagery of revolution.
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Vincent Leroy — Fractal Swarm, Tanzania (2025)
In Fractal Swarm, Vincent Leroy combines carbon fibre, 3D-printed elements, bearings and mirror film. Presented in a Tanzanian landscape, this…
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Luke Jerram — Mirror Moon
Mirror Moon translates lunar terrain into a stainless-steel sphere that people can touch. Using NASA topographic data, Luke Jerram brings…
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Rashid Al Khalifa — Crate Maze – White (2025–2026)
Created in 2025 and presented at Art Basel Unlimited in 2026, Crate Maze – White turns storage crates into a…
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Chiharu Shiota — Threads of Life, London (2026)
This filmed visit to Threads of Life at Hayward Gallery moves through Chiharu Shiota’s world. Threads and objects compose spaces…
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Vincent Leroy — Point Cloud, Beijing (2026)
Presented at Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing, Vincent Leroy’s Point Cloud unfolds a large-scale structure in urban space. The video…
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Dana Awartani — May your tears never dry, you who weep over stones (2026)
At the Saudi pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Dana Awartani spreads out handmade earthen patterns. The installation evokes endangered architectural…
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Luke Jerram — Stepping Out, London (2026)
At Southbank Centre, Luke Jerram turns movement into musical composition. Footsteps on a stairway and coloured areas on the ground…
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Vincent Leroy — Eccentric Lenses, Bali (2026)
In the rice fields of Munduk, Bali, Vincent Leroy places a moving assembly of Fresnel lenses. Their off-centre rotations break…
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Lina Lapelytė — We Make Years Out of Hours, Berlin (2026)
At Hamburger Bahnhof, Lina Lapelytė combines collective building with singing. Wooden cubes form a space that visitors can transform.
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Camille Henrot — Dogs, New York (2026)
At an entrance to Central Park, Camille Henrot brings together dog sculptures in bronze, stone, steel and concrete. Dogs carries…
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Sihwa Park — Diffusion TV (2025), SIGGRAPH 2026
Created in 2025 and exhibited at SIGGRAPH in 2026, Diffusion TV connects technological obsolescence with the fragility of living things.…
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SpY — Dislocation, Madrid (2026)
Dislocation makes time a sculptural material. Transformations and the position of the viewer define the object more than any definitive…
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Roberta De Caro — Over-Exposed, Thames-Side Studios (2025)
The gaze moving between screen, cable and space invites us to consider video as a distributed sculpture. Visible connections become…
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George Segal — Subway (1968), documentation 2026
This documentation, published in August 2026, recalls how sculpture can become a situation. The absence of movement turns everyday proximity…
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Jacob Hashimoto — Giant Arc, SFMOMA (2026)
The work lets us consider an image as an environment: no viewpoint captures the whole. Repeating a modest element produces…
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David Spriggs, Vision II (2018) – Messums Wiltshire
David Spriggs’s Vision II is built from layered, hand-painted transparent images that create the illusion of a three-dimensional event suspended…
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Pim Palsgraaf, Beneath the Surface (2024) – Fundación Valentín de Madariaga, Séville
Pim Palsgraaf’s Beneath the Surface transforms recovered wood, wallpaper, and plywood into a layered wall-based sculpture where architecture and decay…
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Julius von Bismarck, Das Reh (2024) – Art Basel
In Das Reh, Julius von Bismarck turns the familiar image of a deer into a strange and unsettling sculptural encounter.…
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Choe U-Ram, Round Table – 2014
Choe U-Ram’s Round Table presents 18 headless figures carrying a large black table while competing for a single “head” rolling…
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Hans Haacke, Blue Sail (1964–65) – SFMOMA
Hans Haacke’s Blue Sail transforms air into an invisible sculptural force, using a fan to animate a suspended sheet of…
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Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread (2012–13) – Park Avenue Armory, New York
Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread turns movement into connection, linking 42 swings to a vast field of fabric…
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Berndnaut Smilde – Nimbus
Berndnaut Smilde creates temporary indoor clouds that exist only for a few moments before dissolving. Through Nimbus, the cloud becomes…
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Jeroen Kooijmans – Work (1994)
In Work, Jeroen Kooijmans presents three men locked in a continuous cycle of effort, keeping one another in motion as…
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Altone Mishino – Shadows and Light, Pavillon des Arts, Châtenay-Malabry (2026)
In Shadows and Light, Altone Mishino brings together his Dark Paintings and Light Paintings in a dialogue between obscurity and…
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Ruofan Chen — Shower, Liste Art Fair Basel (2026)
Dust makes the material conditions of artistic production visible.
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Kingsley Ng & Angel Hui — Fermata: Hong Kong in Venice (2026)
Ordinary urban rhythms become material for slowing down attention.
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Haitham Al Busafi — Zīnah (Adornment), Venice (2026)
Visitors’ movements activate a sonic relationship between bodies and objects.
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Félix Luque — Perpétuité II (2022–2026)
Industrial repetition meets the chemical management of bodies.
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Zimoun — 12 prepared dc-motors, fenders ø75x188cm, 91m piano strings 0.8mm (2026)
Harbour objects become the resonating bodies of a listening space.
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Laura Colmenares Guerra — R€¥€R$€ (2024)
Mapping becomes a question of power and relationships with territory.
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Ralf Baecker — The Collapse of a Microcosm (2025)
An electronic memory becomes sensitive to changes in its surroundings.
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Jenna Sutela — Aeolian Suite (2026)
In Aeolian Suite, five kinetic sound sculptures turn Venice’s winds into characters. Their furry coverings recall the windscreens used to…
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Michail Pirgelis — HYLE (2026)
Aircraft fragments lose their function without entirely losing the memory of travel.
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Kilian Kretschmer — RELEASE (2026)
Letting go of a phone becomes an experiment in trust, self-portraiture and loss of control.
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Pola Bakhtina, Yan Kalnberzin and Alexey Nadzharov — O Medo é um Bicho Mau — pilot (2026)
Fear becomes an environment that bodies can move through and transform together.
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Merve Ertufan — Hold (2026)
Grasping an object and grasping an idea become two sides of the same uncertain gesture.
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Invisible Flock, Faqir Zulfiqar and Allah Jurio — Microtonal (2022; documentation 2026)
Clay instruments become a sound environment responsive to the people moving through it.
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Ivan Marušić Klif — Installation at Galerija Filodrammatica, Rijeka (2026)
Forty-eight salvaged cathode-ray screens become a visual instrument whose images travel, fragment, and reassemble in space.
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Christopher Kulendran Thomas — Peace Core (surround), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2026)
An AI endlessly re-edits American television aired just before 9/11, extending the final minutes of a presumed political innocence.
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Amanda Ross-Ho — Untitled Demolition (HYPHEN), Mattress Factory (2026–2027)
Demolishing and rebuilding the same wall turns a reconstructed family home into an active, physical, and deliberately unstable archive.
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Elisa Giardina Papa — She Flickered In and Out of History, ICA London (2026)
A volcanic island that appeared and then sank becomes an unstable screen where mapping, desire, and colonial power contradict one…
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Mildred Howard — Poetics of Memory, OMCA, Oakland (2026)
Super 8 film, translucent fabric, and architectural fragments turn family memory into a shared and unstable space.
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Mihai-Aureliu Savin — The Sculptor Sleeps Tonight (2025), CICA Museum 2026
The artist sleeps for eight hours while a 3D printer fabricates his self-portrait.
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Stefan Szeider — Spot On, Ars Electronica (2026)
A machine claims to read the identity, emotions and desires of the person seated before it.
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Jeffrey Gibson — THIS BURNING WORLD, San Francisco (2026)
An urban façade transforms landscape imagery into a public relationship with the living world.
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Nik Wallbaum — Lissajous, Shifting Signals, HfG Karlsruhe (2026)
Nik Wallbaum hacks a cathode-ray television to convert an audio signal directly into a luminous figure. The image does not…
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Sergio Maltagliati — Dio Fluviale: The Infinite Flow of the Unfinished (2026)
Sergio Maltagliati turns the unfinished into an operating rule. In relation to Michelangelo’s model of the River God, his audiovisual…
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Displazik, Zara Calcabrini & 1KA — La Métamorphe (2026 documentation)
Initiated in 2011 and comprehensively reconfigured since 2024, La Métamorphe connects Zara Calcabrini’s body to an interactive video and sound…
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Playmodes — Liquid Tiles, Light + Building Frankfurt (2026)
One hundred and twenty-six rotating light fixtures form a triangular grid in which simple algorithmic rules propagate as waves of…
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Lin Gieh Wen & Chen Junxian — Dance of the Soul
Under the shared motif of the “dance of the soul,” Lin Gieh Wen and Chen Junxian construct two materially incompatible…
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Robert Cervera — Hiddenware
Hiddenware makes public the hardware usually relegated behind the interface: computer fans, perforated panels and cooling tubes become sculpture, instrument…
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Eitan Rieger — Individual: Technical Issue 2.0
Individual: Technical Issue 2.0 shifts mortality from a spiritual register into the language of malfunction and maintenance. Eitan Rieger stages…
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Simone Berti — Urogallo (2026), Biennale Bregaglia
Inside a former shepherds’ cottage in Stampa, an animation opens a passage to an imagined elsewhere.
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Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán — Black Seas – Scores for the Sonic Eye, Venice (2026)
The Black Sea becomes an archive to listen to.
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Alfredo Jaar — The End of the World (2023–2024), Venice Biennale 2026
A tiny cube concentrates ten critical minerals in the middle of the Arsenale.
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Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė — Spit and Image 2 (Cabinet), Swiss Art Awards (2026)
A figure seen from behind moves through a fog-filled city.
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Kaspar Müller — Maintenance 3, Nicolas Krupp (2026)
A glass traffic cone meets buckets, balloons and studio remnants.
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Dominic Michel — Play on, and play it again (2026), Swiss Art Awards
Midnight returns, but the celebration stays silent.
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Ida Bloomdahl, Éva Csonka et al. — Interactive Robotic Sound Art
For one night, artist-built sound robots and electromechanical instruments become an orchestra with no stable boundary between performer, machine and…
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Kathleen Ryan – Sliced Bread [Golden Hour] & Fender Bender (2025), Gagosian Londres
In Sliced Bread [Golden Hour] and Fender Bender, Kathleen Ryan transforms bread, lemons, mattresses, and car parts into glittering sculptures…
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Sho Shibuya – Sunrise Paintings
Sho Shibuya paints each sunrise as a quiet record of a moment that vanishes almost as soon as it appears.…
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Björn Schülke — SV1 / Sound Voyager (2011)
A suspended structure turns light into energy for its movements and guitar strings. In SV1, or Sound Voyager, Björn Schülke…
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Arcangelo Sassolino — in the end, the beginning (2025), Mona
A rain of molten steel cuts through darkness. At Mona, Arcangelo Sassolino transforms a material associated with solidity into an…
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Lawrence Malstaf — Exhale, Saint-Ex, Reims (2024)
An inflatable mass fills the room, contracting and expanding like an organism on an architectural scale. In this presentation of…
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Zoro Feigl — Outlines for the Wind, IJsselbiënnale (2025)
Beneath a bridge, long strips form loose loops set in motion by the air. Zoro Feigl’s Outlines for the Wind…
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Muhannad Shono — Towers of Infinite Horizons, Art Basel (2026)
A fallen, fragmented and suspended tower invites the body through a structure that once suggested domination. In Towers of Infinite…
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MAREUNROL’S & Bruno Birmanis — Untamed Assembly, Venice (2026)
Latvia’s pavilion becomes a backstage environment where garments, structures and archival images form a collective stage. MAREUNROL’S enters into dialogue…
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Cyprien Gaillard — Visitant, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2026)
An enormous inflatable figure rises, sways and collapses to the KILLASAN sound system. Presented at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2026, Visitant…
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Mauricio Silva Orendain — Fresco Sonoro, Basel (2026)
An underground car park becomes the resonating chamber of a dispersed organ. In Fresco Sonoro at Basel Social Club, Mauricio…
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Vincent Grange — Dorothy’s Office, Basel Social Club (2026)
A surveillance office becomes the secret refuge of a fictional queer character. Taken from The House of Dorothy, Dorothy’s Office…
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Mathis Altmann — Millenial Oscillator and Video Objects, Basel (2026)
Messages and images animate objects that hover between functional devices and absurd sculptures. At Basel Social Club, Mathis Altmann presents…
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Marshmallow Laser Feast — Of the Oak (2025), Kew
The oak stops being an isolated object and becomes a network of interdependent lives. Commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens,…
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Marco Donnarumma — Ex Silens (2024)
A body fitted with sensory prostheses circulates its movements and internal signals through sound, light and touch. In Ex Silens,…
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Zimoun — 35 prepared dc-motors, trash bins, Art Môtiers (2026)
Thirty-five motors set rubbish bins in motion, turning ordinary objects into a collective disturbance. Presented at Art Môtiers in 2026,…
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Lisa Jamhoury — loss·y, SXSW (2026)
Fractions of a second from a duet become sculptures, projections and a sound environment visitors can move through. In loss·y,…
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Robert Seidel — NEOCHIMERA, Heidecksburg (2026)
Impossible creatures form, dissolve and mutate without settling into stable species. At Heidecksburg, Robert Seidel uses AI models and generative…
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Jennifer & Kevin McCoy — Ghost Ship (2025)
A ship appears on the wall, but its ghost is made before our eyes by real objects and mechanisms. In…
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Abdulhamid Kircher — Rotting From Within, Hamburg 2026
Rotting From Within takes the form of a family album turned into architecture. Kircher enlarges photographs, texts, and archival material…
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Ekho Collective — Layers in the Peace Machine, Oulu 2026
Layers in the Peace Machine turns several rooms of Oulu City Hall into a collective apparatus. Visitors’ words, gestures, sounds,…
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Ronen Tanchum — Human Atmospheres, Davos 2026
In Davos, Human Atmospheres rejects the idea of a screen that merely illustrates data. Real-time Alpine conditions and the presence…
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Lolo & Sosaku — Perros Chaos, Dark Mofo (2026)
Fifteen dog-like robotic sculptures move across a ferry deck amid motors, haze and unstable lighting. In Perros Chaos, Lolo &…
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Alvaro Barrington — Labor Day Parade ’91, Venice Biennale (2026)
A truck wrapped in painted tapestries houses cells, metal figurines and a winged rope sculpture. In Labor Day Parade ’91,…
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Precious Okoyomon — It’s Dissociating Season (2019), Los Angeles 2026
An animated bear floats through a forest while a voice recounts a near-fatal encounter with the police. Presented on a…
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Lu Yang — DOKU The Flow (2024), Los Angeles 2026
The digital avatar DOKU moves through unstable worlds in which body and identity continuously change form. Combining 3D animation and…
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Timur Si-Qin — Mariposita (2026), Art Basel Unlimited
A steel structure and an LED screen compose a biosphere in which plants, insects and images become interdependent. In Mariposita,…
