Contemporary Art

SOMETHING ELSE_ III edition

From the enigmas of ancient cosmological literature to arcane mysteries about extraterrestrial life forms, to DNA—the secret code of life, to the myth of immortality, the project proposed for the III edition of Something Else presents a selection of works by four artists from different geographical and educational backgrounds: Daniela De Paulis (IT-NE), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (NY), Mariagrazia Pontorno (IT), Robertina Sebjanic (SL).... READ MORE...

Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera

This documentary and personal narrative is set to an original score by composer Bethany Barrett and presents an intimate account of the interspecies relationship at the heart of the science of xenotransplantation–specifically the genetic engineering of pigs to supply human hearts.... READ MORE...

EXAMEN 2023

The graduate exhibition has something ambivalent about it. As fixed as the annual date might be in the city’s cultural calendar, the exhibition also runs counter to everyday life at the Kunsthochschule. Like the ebb and flow of the tide, EXAMEN marks a cycle with unforeseen dimensions. For the graduates it marks the symbolic end of their studies and a metamorphosis. There is a similarity to particles in quantum physics, simultaneously behaving as particles and as waves whose potential is still unexplored. ... READ MORE...

The Only Lasting Truth is Change

We take as our starting point the multiple readings of “hallucination”—from the perception of something that is not really there, to a terminology of glitches within large language models, and to a description of a clash between different epistemologies. We will look for the various intersections between the artificial and the real—between large scale statistics and local knowledge... READ MORE...

NOVA RIO BIENNIAL of Art and Technology

The first edition of the NOVA RIO BIENNIAL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY will take place at the Museu do Amanhã. This event shifts the paradigm of exhibitions of its kind and becomes a part of the cultural programming calendar of Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to reconfigure the concept of the future in light of what creators from all over the planet exhibit and develop for screens near you, whether in the palm of your hand, on your mobile device, or through a digital TV set, or on monumental walls filled with pixels.... READ MORE...

Killing TV

For decades, television has been one of the most pervasive mass mediums globally, with live broadcasting central to how we consume information, news, and entertainment. At the same time, television has also heavily influenced art making, as artists experimented with various formats surrounding televisual culture.... READ MORE...

Connecting

Until recently, digital tools were nothing more than translations of physical applications: mail became e-mail, shopping increasingly happened online, banks funneled people to their apps. Then Web 2.0 and social media gradually changed the spaces where we interact. However the transformation did not end there and the boundaries between digital and physical worlds continued to blur.... READ MORE...

Farah Al Qasimi: Abort, Retry, Fail

The show takes its title from a computer error message that flashes up on Al Qasimi’s now defunct family computer. This machine connected the artist and her family to the world in the early days of dial-up internet, and until its recent malfunction was a portal for escape from reality, as a pirate, a gunslinging biker, or a tiny ball bouncing off the edges of the screen.... READ MORE...

Never Cross the Same River Twice


Never Cross the Same River Twice è un’indagine mutevole di performance che convergono tra video, film e installazioni. Ideato come progetto di ricerca itinerante nel 2020, la quarta parte dell’esibizione ripercorre le recenti pratiche video di dieci artisti internazionali selezionati da Kisito Assangni.... READ MORE...