Current Events

“Temporary Ferry” Wuhan Biennale

1. October 2026 – 30. May 2027
Biennial, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan

“Temporary Ferry” takes Wuhan—a “transit city” —as its conceptual starting point. Rooted in its geography as a crossroads connecting nine provinces, the city serves as a hub where the flow of people, goods, and information converges and radiates outward; the city, itself, is a vast temporary ferry. Drawing on this concept, the exhibition explores how people establish connections and preserve experiences in an increasingly fluid and uncertain present, while reexamining the significance of fleeting encounters. It does not seek to wallow in nostalgia, nor does it simplistically reduce mobility to migration and wandering. Instead, it views the “ferry landing” as a relational structure that is constantly being rebuilt: an adaptive wisdom that maintains order amid change and continuously generates renewal. Temporariness is not a flaw but a condition of its operation; it is only by engaging fully—even in the knowledge of transience—that truly meaningful encounters and exchanges are realized.

The exhibition consists of four non-linear sections, corresponding to four “moments of crossing” : generation, residence, sedimentation, and farewell. The first section, “Impromptu Pier,” focuses on lightweight, temporary, and mobile spatial structures. The constructions here do not seek to be sturdy or permanent, but rather engage in an ongoing dialogue with the environment; creators interpret space as a temporary interaction between the body and the site, establishing habitable temporary anchor points amid uncertainty. The emphasis lies not on the result but on the process— action is construction.

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Language code translation

24. September 2026 – 20. August 2027
Group Show, Le Cube Garges, Paris

In the exhibition D’autres voix · langage · code · traduction (Other Voices · Language · Code · Translation), visitors encounter a multitude of languages, alphabets, and dialects, born or transformed by the generativity or virality of new technologies. These include the ones we invented: computer languages (Python, Java…), the creative and political stakes of Unicode characters, which give all our writing systems a common code, and even esoteric programming languages. Not to mention how AIs are trained to communicate, which is far from straightforward. Machines are learners, but they need supervision. There are also the modes of communication of non-human living beings, such as the scent of plants, whose signals scientists and technologists are trying to analyze by modeling them. And finally, the new modes of communication, built around images, that are emerging from the Internet and social media: memes, emojis, Italian brainrot…
With new technologies, the means (and therefore the ways) of communicating are multiplying. Translation is becoming a central condition of our experience of the world. To translate no longer means only to move from one language to another, but to navigate constantly between forms of expression. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” so much is our perception of reality shaped, in part, by the language we have at our disposal. The exhibition invites us to consider how, today, we are pushing back our own limits.

Grand Snail Tour

10. September – 11. October 2026
Group Show, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hattingen

Artists Darsha Hewitt and Aram Bartholl transform the MÄCK Second second-hand store into an experimental laboratory for media archaeology and collective making through a series of workshops.The project takes the objects themselves as its starting point: discarded televisions, stereo systems, computers, furniture, and everyday items that tell stories of their previous lives while also carrying the potential for new futures.

Found objects from the MÄCK Second inventory are examined, modified, and recombined. Together, the participants develop a large-scale installation that reconfigures the store’s interior and transforms its inventory into an immersive landscape of sound, images, stories, and technological relics, accessible to the public during opening hours.

Situated between recycling, artistic research, and a speculative future workshop, the project creates a temporary space that invites visitors to explore the hidden potential of old things and to rediscover second-hand culture as a resource for new forms of living, making, and imagining together.

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Upcoming Events

Transformative Materialien

3. November 2026
Talk, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg

Im Panel „Digitale und transformative Materialien“ widmen wir uns gemeinsam den verschiedenen Facetten und Annäherungen an das thematische Feld. Paneldiskussion mit: Linn Schröder, Pierre Pané-Farré, Tobias Zielony und Aram Bartholl.

Hybride Räume

16. October 2026
Talk, feldfünf, Berlin

Das Panel bringt künstlerische, kuratorische und theoretische Perspektiven zusammen und diskutiert hybride Räume und die künstlerische Position als Orte der Übersetzung – zwischen Materialität und Code, zwischen Spiel und sozialem Raum, zwischen individueller Erfahrung und gemeinsamer Öffentlichkeit. Moderation: Nadine Kolodziey

 

Recent Events

Still Unstable

24. – 26. September 2026
Group Show, V2 Lab, Rotterdam

Still Unstable – 45 Years of V2_
For 45 years, V2_ has been a space where artists, researchers and technologists come together to question, explore and experiment with emerging technologies. To mark this anniversary, V2_ presents Still Unstable: a programme of exhibitions, talks, interviews and live performances exploring the hidden systems that shape technological innovation today.

Rather than looking back, Still Unstable looks ahead. In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, algorithms and digital infrastructures, the programme asks what remains unseen: the labour, resources, ecologies and power structures behind contemporary technologies, and how artistic practice can make these visible.

Exhibition
24 September – 18 October 2026

The exhibition brings together works by Rosa Menkman, Aram Bartholl, Anna Ehrenstein, knowbotiq, Kaisa Molga, Morehshin Allahyari and more to be announced. Through installations, moving image and artistic research, the participating artists examine the infrastructures, relationships and systems that underpin today’s technological landscape.

Unstable Talks & Interviews
24–26 September 2026

Alongside the exhibition, Still Unstable presents three days of talks, artist talks and interviews reflecting on 45 years of media art and the challenges of contemporary technological culture.

Confirmed speakers are Andreas Broeckmann, Annet Dekker, Aram Bartholl, Anna Ehrenstein & Yara Makawei, and Marijn Bril. Interviews feature Joost Rekveld, Joana Chicau, Gökay Atabekand Rosa Menkman.

Self Storage

15. – 20. September 2026
Group Show, Espace Commines, Paris

We are made of memory, but memory itself is a fiction 

The exhibition Self Storage investigates how individuals construct identity through personal and intimate recollections, as well as through the technical and social systems that shape their traces. Memory is not an objective recording: it is an assemblage, a selective construction built from both forgetting and persistence. A memory emerges within a space shaped by desire, loss, and reconstruction. Self Storage foregrounds this subjective and unstable dimension of remembering. Diaries, family archives, obsolete technologies, and bodily reminiscences become raw materials to examine the materiality of memory and its capacity for reinvention.

Hard drives, clouds, online profi les, and social networks are gradually replacing notebooks and photo albums. This massive externalization questions the boundary between private memory and public exposure, between lived traces and standardized data. Self Storage extends this inquiry into a contemporary era where identity is stored, outsourced, and endlessly duplicated. Through the works assembled, the exhibition off ers a poetic and critical drift between real and invented memory, intimate and externalized. It prompts us to consider: What do we need to retain? What do we choose to forget? And what becomes of the “self” when it is reduced to archives, content, and imprints?

curation : Nicolas de Chérisey & Philippine de Salaberry in collaboration with Ellia gallery

participating artists:
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Maxime Antony, Marcella Barceló, Aram Bartholl, Federica Belli, Matthias Bitzer, Borgial, Victor Boyer, Amélie Caussade, Salomé Chatriot, Coucou Bébé, Nick Coutsier, Fleur Cozic, Paul Créange, Corentin Darré, Oli Epp, Léonor Fini, Nan Goldin, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ryoji Ikeda, Victoire Inchauspé, Éloïse Labarbe-Lafon, Octave Lauret, Louis Lekien, Inès Longevial, Keegan Luttrell, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Matisse Mesnil, Sabine Mirlesse, Polina Osipova, Louise des Places, Joséphine de Rohan-Chabot, Philippine de Salaberry, Tehotu, Egon Thuile, Thu-Van Tran, Louis Verret, Francesco Vezzoli, Rose Vidal, Xolo Cuintle, Kai Yoda, Yugnat999.

My Painting

10. September 2026
Workshop, HAZ, Hattingen

3D-Scanning workshop with the painting class of HAZ

After Memory

10. July 2026 – 10. September 2026
Group Show, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

AFTER MEMORY reflects on how memory is affected by endless social media feeds, clouded storage spaces, automated data storage, and networked communication technologies. This bears both challenges and chances, as practices of remembering and forgetting are reconfigured and their competences are transferred from institutional actors to civic initiatives and individuals. In turn, the role of museums and archives is redefined, too, whose collections no longer preside over a sovereign narration of the past, but constitute shared repositories for the future.

With: Noor Abuarafeh, Heba Y. Amin, Maria Thereza Alves, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Giselle Beiguelman, Zach Blas, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Ana Hupe, Eduardo Kac, Aline Motta, Rabih Mroué, Vanessa Amoah Opoku & Joy Weinberger und Federico Protto.

AFTER MEMORY is a project by: Nathalia Lavigne, Lisa Deml, Víctor Fancelli Capdevila

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Blog Archive for Month: February 2011

Calendar Update

February 24, 2011

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops
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4.7. -18.9.2011
From here on
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011, Photo Festival, Arles, France
curated by Clement Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr & Joachim Schmid
with: Roy Arden, Aram Bartholl, Penelope Umbrico, Doug Rickard, Thomas Mailaender, Mishka Henner, Willem Popelier, Frank Schallmaier, Andreas Schmidt, Jens Sundheim, Jon Rafman, Hermann Zschiegner … among others
9.-18.6.2011
Portraits
OFFF festival & Sonar festival, Barcelona, Spain
curated by Hector Ayuso
with: Random International, Marnix de Nijs, Daito Manabe, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Aram Bartholl, Daniel Rozin, among others …
6.-10.6.2011
New Media Pathway
Merzakademie, Stuttgart, Germany
Wahlwoche guest teaching
25.5.2011
Digital Folklore
Conference cycle at Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
curated by Marie Lechner
with: Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, JODI, Aram Bartholl
13.05 – 28.09.2011
Gate(way)s
Kumu, Tallin, Estonia
curated by Sabine Himmelsbach
with: Aram Bartholl, Clara Boj & Diego Diaz, Boredom Research, Petko Dourmana, Escoitar, Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Kirsten Geisler, Ingo Günther, Hanna Haaslathi, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Christina Kubisch, Andrea Kuluncic, Marc Lee, Les Lien Invisibles, Tapio Mäkelä, Jenny Marketou, Eva & Franco Mattes, Tanja Ostojic, Julius Popp, RIXC, Saso Sedlacek, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak / Marton Fernezelyi, Thomson & Craighead, Timo Toots, Anna Trapenciere, You Must Relax
12.5.2011
Stilvorlagen #6
HAW design department, Hamburg, Germany
Lecture cycle
27.-30.4.2011
Transit///Stasis
SFAI’s Thesis 2 Collaborative project, San Francisco, USA
with: Aram Bartholl, Christen Sperry-Garcia, Julie Cloutier, Nick Bastis, and Resonant City.
21.-24.4.2011
Electron Fesival
Festival des cultures electroniques de geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
curated by: Raffael Doerig
with: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Aram Bartholl, René Bauermeister, Christian Croft & Andrew Schneider, Joseph Delappe, F.A.T. Lab, Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel, Andy Guhl & Norbert Moeslang, Florian Kaufmann & Michael Egger, Leopold Kessler, Christin Lahr, Eva & Franco Mattes, Manu Luksch, Nikolas Neecke, Ubermorgen, Julius von Bismarck
7.-9.4.2011
Share Conference
State of Exit Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
with: Data Mining – Google – Rafe Kaplan, Political Party – Pirate Party – Amelia Andersdotter, Crisis Mapping – Crisis Mappers – Patrick Meier, Generative Art – V2 – Joost Rekveld, Digital Rights – Electronic Frontiers Foundation – Katitza Rodriguez, Mapping – Ushahidi – Jaroslav Valuch, Mobile Activisam – Mobileactive.org – KatrinVerclas, Blogging Disidents – Global Voices – Sami Ben Gharbia, Dead Drops – Aram Bartholl, Copyright – Electronic Frontiers Foundation – Kurt Opsahl, Civic media – MIT Media Lab – Chris Csikszentmihályi, Art and Data – MakroLab – Marko Peljhan, Flash Mobs – Improv Everywhere – Brian Fountain and Robyn Sklarenm, Future / SF / DIY – Wired Blog – Bruce Sterling, Flattr – Peter Sunde, Community – 4Chan Moot, Blogging – Yahoo News – Andrew Golis, Polical Tribes – Sam Graham-Felsen, Community – Couchsurfing, Mobile Community – FourSquare, Crowdfunding – Kickstarter, DIY Books Digitising – Marin Seric
14.-15..3.2011
CrossLab
Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Presentation and workshop.
with: Melanie Rieback PhD,Jon Stam, Aram Bartholl, Danja Vasiliev & Julian Oliver, Aart Muis/Rob Donkers, Rob van Kranenburg
9.3. – 12.9.2011
Identités précaires
Jeu de Paume, Virtual Space, Paris, France
curated by Cristophe Bruno
with: Les Liens Invisibles, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, the Yes Men, Heath Bunting, Cornelia Sollfrank, LAN, Michael Mandiberg, Fanette Muxart et Clode Coulpier, Julien Levesque, Mouchette, Luther Blisset, among others
26. – 28.2.2011
Phaenomenale
Satellite event, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
“Friends” workshop, Aram Bartholl
4.2. – 15.3.2011
Alternative Controllers
Devotion Gallery, New York, USA
curated by Walter Langelaar, Babycastles Resident
with: Aram Bartholl, JODI, Julian Oliver, Kaho Abe ….among other
26.01 – 24.4.2011
The Uncommon Portrait
Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, USA
curated by Stephanie C. Holt
with: Do Ho Suh, Martin Schoeller, R. Luke Dubois, Daniel Rozin, Jun-Jun Sta. Ana, Laylah Ali, Aram Bartholl, Noah Kalina, Michael Ferris Jr., WK Interact, and Evan Roth … among others
Fall 2010 / Spring 2011
Artist in residence at
EYEBEAM art & technology center, New York, USA
current residents:Aram Bartholl, Stefani Bardin, Tahir Hemphill,Ted Southern; current fellows: Aaron Meyers, Brooke Singer, Jacob Ciocci, Jon Cohrs, Kaho Abe
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Past events & shows….

OPEN INTERNET

February 23, 2011

OPEN INTERNET from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

OPEN INTERNET
public intervention
video: 4:06 min
Aram Bartholl
2011
I ve been looking at these cheaply produced, super low resolution LED signs (the IRL animated gif 😉 for a while already.  End of last year I filmed this meaningfull pair in a kiosk window in Berlin and fell in love with them.  First I used the picture for the SPEED SHOW 5 title in Paris but I had to take it a bit further. 🙂 You find LED signs in any shopping window especially in EU these days. There are also many OPEN signs in US but hardly any INTERNET signs. I had to change that! 🙂
The OPEN INTERNET intervention was produced during my residency stay at EYEBEAM.

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AIR

February 18, 2011


JODI killed it at Foxy Productions last week!
http://blogs.artinfo.com/imageconscious/2011/02/16/jodis-blow-out-performance-at-foxy-production/

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Open Source Exhibitions

February 16, 2011

“Mostre open source” article by Domenico Quaranta, on the SPEED SHOW series and Rafael Rozendaals BYOB (Bring your own beamer 🙂 shows in Flash Art Italy, Issue 290, February 2011, p. 32. – Read the article on Domenicos blog (italian)

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Hang 'Em High

February 16, 2011

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by zweintopf
Graz Marienplatz 1, 2009
Kran, Kranführer, LED Lichtschläuche, Steuerung, Benzinaggregat
all pictures by Marcus Auer

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February 15, 2011


(found at Gerichtstr. Berlin)

DIY bicycle path

February 15, 2011


Awesome! via @sinkdeep

Crrracck

February 14, 2011


The open-close sound and feel of the makerbot printed heart boxes is awesome!! You get easily addicted. * crrack ….crrracck ….* It’s a bit like the joy of cracking pringles with you mouth.  thx @bre!
Unrelated:
So strange that guy with the crazy look on the flight yesterday tried to attack me with a plastic spoon …. 😉

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How to save 2,30 € for a latte in Berlin

February 14, 2011

[first released on F.A.T.]


How to take a free bus ride from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.
DISCLAIMER: Don’t do this at home …ähhh … at the city trains U-Bahn or S-Bahn. They check those quite often. The bus driver in the city might ask you for a ticket or yell at you but you can always try to just walk in. At Tegel nobody cares AT ALL …. enjoy the coffee places in Berlin! ( That’s all we have 😉
See also James’ UK bus hack!

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Street Art

February 12, 2011


(found on Bedford and 7th, Wbrg, NYC)

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