Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Stunning artworks trigger a reflection on the implications of biometrics collection for human autonomy and personhood.
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Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Beyond offering a light, playful, and enchanted spatial experience, these works embody the will to foster communication and propose a pause in the flow of urban life.
Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Helen Zughaib and Houda Kassatly are attentive to the everydayness of refugees鈥 experiences and to how families who have been forced to migrate attempt to cope.
Curated by H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
In their treatment of shapes, contour lines, or colors, artists appropriate the cartographic instrument to give life to new forms and new meanings that elicit emotions.
Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
By creating spatial continuity and playing with light, volumes, and temporalities, the artists fashion atmospheric moments and prompt unexpected place-based experiences.
Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Artists cross-examine Kazakh pasts and presents, positioning post-Soviet identities at the juncture of different timelines and questioning agency, resistance, and potential.
Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
The artists succeed in making the urban poor and the homeless visible by challenging social indifference and mobilizing the public’s awareness.
Curated by聽H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Whether migrants, refugees, descendants of migrants, or simply people from another place, the characters in these installations reveal their voids, fears, uncertainties, and hopes.
Curated by H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Artists use archival photographs to confront histories of domination and cultural eradication from Saamiland to the Maghreb.
By Eliza Bourner
Bourner’s work is informed by our cultural and psychological landscapes and how contemporary society鈥檚 dysfunctional values of materialism are at odds with our basic human needs.
By Simone Perolari
These are stories of migrants who dream of Europe, hoping to be welcomed, but who quickly understand that it will ultimately be an unwelcome.
By Charlotta Mar铆a Hauksd贸ttir聽
The physical space of landscapes can be closely tied to a person鈥檚 identity, sense of being, and infused with personal history. The composite, textured landscapes are a re-creation of…
Curated by H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
Three artists participate in the special feature to join the reflection on what it means to be human in a multispecies world.
By Susan Ossman 补苍诲听Olga Sezneva
Ossman made 鈥Sources鈥 with elements of her own experiences of crossing borders, making new homes and learning to live in new places.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Each cinema hall is its own self-contained world with clearly defined boundaries, in colourful dialogue with the interior.
By Magali Chesnel
After a difficult 2020 year, Chesnel reinforced her belief that going outside was regenerative and ever-inspiring.
By Various Artists
Works of art in civic space distribute clean energy and provide other sustainable services to buildings and the utility grid while beautifying the built environment.
By听脌蝉矛办貌
The images in “Egun” are the manifestation of a long held desire to revisit formative cultural experiences from the artist’s childhood in Nigeria; encounters with the Egun masquerade.
By Julia Fullerton-Batten
I felt numb but I knew that I couldn鈥檛 stand around and do nothing, I decided to document today鈥檚 existence as lived now by many people.
By Renata Dutr茅e
Black toxic masculinity is a unique beast rooted in white supremacy, internalized racism, internalized queerphobia, and misogynoir.
By Magali Chesnel
Discover Chesnel’s photographs taken in the Camargue, above the salt聽marshes聽of Giraud and Aigues-Mortes, creating a confusion between reality and illusion, photography and painting.
By Hew Locke
A ship is a symbolic object; vessel of the soul, means of escape, both safety and danger. No crew are visible鈥攖he boats themselves stand for crew and passengers.
By Seb Janiak
This series makes use only of the manifestation of unseen forces. The imaging of the manifestation of these聽unseen forces undergoes no digital transformation in the photographs.
By Mishka Henner
A landscape occasionally punctuated by sharp aesthetic contrasts between secret sites and the rural and urban environments surrounding them.
By Sol Calero
Calero’s work explores themes of representation, displacement, and marginalization, all informed by her own perspective as a migrant.
By Maria Wasilewska
Creating her spatial models, Maria Wasilewska tries to create a physically and mentally consistent unity, which may contain some particle of information about the world.
By Mikael Owunna
After enduring years of alienation from his Nigerian heritage, Owunna began聽Limit(less)聽to reclaim his African-ness and queerness on his own terms.
By Medina Dugger
Dugger’s images feature the veil primarily in an abstract sense, observing its forms, patterns, colors, and its contribution to identity, self-expression, and style.聽
By Charles Geiger
Geiger鈥檚 work deals with climate and displacement outside the arid context of cacti, as many of his recent semi-narrative paintings depict severe weather events.
Curated by Rusudan Zabakhidze聽
Emphasis on mental health has resulted in a de-taboo process of the associated challenges. Visual arts contributes towards healing and raising awareness about these issues.
Curated by H茅l猫ne B. Ducros
The scavenger-artists showcased here not only modify the status of waste, but also brace a pedagogical movement vital to the subsistence of the planet.
By Katya Traboulsi
1975 Lebanon is in flames and I am fifteen. For my birthday, I receive the empty sleeve of a mortar shell, which I automatically place on a shelf.
By Nathalie Peutz
Nadia Benchallal鈥檚 photographs depict the camp鈥檚 predominantly Yemeni residents navigating a state of increasingly permanent suspension.
By Mohamad Hafez
A Syrian born artist depicts cities besieged by civil war to capture the magnitude of the devastation and to expose the fragility of human life.
叠测听Carlo Cafferini
Throughout the ages, architecture has been used as a way to express a wide range of concepts, reflecting the historical, political, and religious beliefs of the period.
Curated by Nicole Shea and Kayla Maiuri
This art series illustrates both the phenomenal beauty of water and the pollution that has washed upon our shores at the hands of humankind.
叠测听Jesse Krimes
A Philadelphia-based artist whose work explores power, authority, systems, social hierarchies, norms, transgressions, and conventions of beauty.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Artists Hank Willis Thomas and Yosman Botero聽call awareness to racism and police brutality, pulling viewers into unarmed victim cases and making them witnesses to inequality.
Curated by聽Nicole Shea
Tjalf聽Sparnaay鈥檚 oil paintings highlight the beauty of the contemporary聽commonplace while David Hicks draws his inspiration from the beauty of farm lands surrounding his home.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri and Nicole Shea
Through the works of Kim Noble and Jorge Tacla, 鈥淗ands Tied鈥 tackles questions of identity and the throes of mental illness, ultimately illustrating the beauty that can be discovered.
By Susan Ossman
This mobile art and scholarship laboratory tests, enacts, and teases out the idea that subjects are formed not simply by sharing territory, blood or nationality, but according to the paths they have followed.
Curated by Nicole Shea
While Xin Song鈥檚 work highlights the ancient folk art tradition of paper-cutting, her collages made from recycled magazines also cut through modern consumerism and wastefulness.
Curated by Nicole Shea
The modern metropolis thrives on the creativity of its citizens, with the arts and culture as revitalizing forces.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri
In this photography series, we showcase the works of three emerging Finnish artists,聽Anni Han茅n,聽Kimmo Mets盲ranta,聽补苍诲听Jaakko Kahilaniemi.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri
Through the works of three African-European artists, 鈥淚t Dwells Within鈥 depicts the contemporary and historical relationship between Europe and Africa.
Curated by Nicole Shea
The perception of a safe home is closely linked with the populist view that women鈥檚 鈥渋ntended role鈥 is at home, as dutiful wife and mother.
Curated by Nicole Shea
This series features three Bulgarian-born artists who experienced the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Motion and movement connect the works.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Depicting illusion, greed, and over-consumption,聽both artists wrestle with the impact that financial delusions have on the human psyche.
Curated by Nicole Shea
These artists tackle stereotypes and prejudices, focusing on the cultural capital of immigration and the ambition for a better life.
叠测听Marinos Tsagkarakis
This photo series aims to highlight the consequences of a massive and uncontrolled tourist development.
Curated by聽Nicole Shea
This series offers聽idealized聽bodies whereby the tall and the slim define the desirable female, as guns, muscles聽and sports define the true man.
叠测听闯辞别濒听叠别谤驳苍别谤
With collaboration as the nucleus for sustainability and transformation, this series highlights artistic innovation in refugee camps.
Curated by聽Felix Meyer-Christian
The Berlin and Hamburg based COSTA COMPAGNIE was founded in 2009 as an collaboration of interdisciplinary working emerging artists.
Curated by Nicole Shea
This series illuminates the dangers confronting our waters, from leaking pipes to discarded plastics.
Curated by Manca Bajec
The question of voyeurism and victimization of narrative often comes into question when artists are working with topics of war.
By Anna Tihanyi
The聽scenes take place in different interiors of a fictive Berlin, showing聽feelings and relations through moments of transition, and emphasizing聽that the image is frozen in time.
Curated by聽Nisha Sajnani
Through resettled media, each artist contemplates the psychological, social, and physical effects of forced migration.
By Viktoria Sorochinski
This series聽portrays the last remains of the authentic Ukrainian villages and their elderly inhabitants.
By Alia Ali
The multi-media artist invites聽the viewer to analyze their subjective perception in regards to inclusion and exclusion, and the threshold in which the transition between the two occurs.
By聽Sarita Zaleha
Zaleha’s聽creative research explores environmental agency and our emotional engagement with the environment.
Directed by聽Maria Hengge
Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 鈥榗lean鈥 on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the airport. Finally Sin realizes she has to go the way out of heroin addiction all alone.
Directed by Mike Day
The Faroese are among the first to feel the a铿ects of our ever more polluted oceans. They have discovered that their beloved whales are toxic, contaminated by the outside world. What once secured their survival now endangers their children and the Faroe Islanders must make a choice between health and tradition.
Directed by聽Timothy George Kelly
A聽portrait of a democracy in all its impossible and ugly glory. With subtle force, yet without judgement, it presents the people of a once powerful empire as they negotiate their identities in a world that is changing faster than, ever and in which power appears to lie further and further from people鈥檚 own hands.
By 夜色直播 Film Festival
Untold stories of men, women, and families; their mission to embrace the change and fight for the unknown while nostalgically reminiscing all those unkept promises from the past.
Directed by聽Mihajlo Jevtic
This film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It follows the period of transition of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into today’s Serbia and Mihajlo’s transition from a child into a middle aged man. It is a film made by a man who is about to leave his country for good and about the contents of his immigrant’s suitcase.
By 夜色直播 Film Festival
A selection of short films from to be screened at the inaugural 夜色直播 Film Festival.
