‘I live in one of the 18.000 worlds…
The light of my world is shimmering…
am I also disappearing’ - Saodat Ismailova

How can you be awake amidst the turmoil in the world and still hold your own?

In Artefact 2024, artists search for comfort, strength and meaning. In the cosmic and oceanic, in family ties and kinships across generations, in the relationship between forms and materials, and in poetry. While the world changes from a chaotic to a repressive place for a growing number of people and communities, the question of how to hold your own becomes increasingly urgent. The answers offered in the exhibition may (briefly) provide a moment of relief, but they can never suffice. The stillness in the eye of the storm can therefore not be misunderstood as a numbing silence. It is rather a stabilising point, where energies brew and boil. . It is the place where the fire to fight for a meaningful life keeps burning.

ARTISTS: Saodat Ismailova, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Germaine Kruip, Hyun-Sook Song, Mickey Yang, Sky Hopinka, Felipe Baeza, Sophie Whettnall, Beatrice Gibson, Etel Adnan, Alfredo Jaar, Liliane Lijn, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Arpaïs Du Bois, Margaret Salmon and Anouk De Clercq.

CURATORS: Karen Verschooren & Zeynep Kubat