Dec. 2, 2025
PAF Olomouc 2025
Group Show: ‘Pinocchio Paradox’
Festival: Dec. 4-7, 2025
pifpaf.cz
771 80, Univerzitní nám. 225/3, 779 00 Olomouc, Czechia, click here for map
PAF Olomouc’s 24th edition takes Pinocchio’s paradoxical claim “My nose grows now!” as its conceptual anchor, turning the fairy-tale contradiction into a lens for examining unstable truths and the shifting logics of image culture. The theme draws attention to how contemporary narratives loop back on themselves, producing tension between what can be seen, verified or believed. From December 4th to 7th, the festival activates venues across Olomouc with exhibitions, screenings, lectures, concerts and live A/V performances. This year’s program brings together international artists, filmmakers and theorists whose works engage with ambiguity, digital perception and the slippery mechanics of storytelling. PAF continues to expand the field of experimental animation and moving image practices, offering audiences an encounter with art that unsettles easy explanations and invites sustained attention to the contradictions shaping visual experience today.
Monika Drazilova: ‘Chronicles III,’ screening at PAF 2024 // Courtesy of PAF Olomouc
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Anna Boghiguian:’The Sunken Boat’
Exhibition: Nov. 22, 2025-Apr. 19, 2026
aros.dk
Aros Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, click here for map
In her first solo exhibition in the Nordic region, presented by ARoS in collaboration with Turner Contemporary, Anna Boghiguian explores global maritime history, rising sea levels and the climate crisis through immersive installations. Among them, ‘The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories’ (2025) evokes the seabed as both a literal and symbolic space, accompanied by a mural and a soundscape composed of sea recordings captured in Alexandria, Margate and Aarhus. A key centerpiece, ‘The Chess Game’ (2022), comprises 24 life-sized, hand-painted panels in cardboard, wood and acrylic. Depicting historical figures from politics, science and philosophy—including Marie Antoinette, Franz Ferdinand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sigmund Freud and Rudolf Steiner—it stages a symbolic chess match in which they vie for power and influence. Together, these works create a vivid contemplative universe where historical narratives, personal memory and contemporary crises converge, with the sea emerging as a trans-temporal force.
Anna Boghiguian: ‘The Sunken Boat,’ 2025, ARoS, installation view // Photo by Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2025
mumok
Claudia Pagés Rabal:’Feudal Holes’
Exhibition: Dec. 4, 2025-May 31, 2026
mumok.at
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria, click here for map
In her video installations, performances, sculptures and drawings, visual artist and writer Claudia Pagès Rabal engages with knowledge systems and themes tied to the shifting histories of the Iberian Peninsula, global migration, territorial appropriation and control, and the cultural hybridity of the Mediterranean. Her practice is rooted in condensation; spatial, temporal, visual and textual complexities unfold through the interplay of seemingly contradictory or asynchronous elements and their layered entanglements. In the exhibition ‘Feudal Holes,’ Pagès Rabal extends her longstanding research into the Silk Road, the vast network of trade routes linking Central and East Asia with the Mediterranean, which for centuries transported not only goods but also epistemic capital.
Claudia Pagès Rabal: ‘Feudal Hole,’ 2025, video still, work in progress // Courtesy of the artist
Tate St. Ives
Emilija Škarnulytė
Exhibition: Dec. 6, 2025-Apr. 12, 2026
tate.org.uk
Porthmeor Beach, Saint Ives TR26 1TG, UK, click here for map
Emilija Škarnulytė’s films and immersive installations probe deep time, invisible systems and power structures embedded in cosmic and geological orders, toeing the line between documentary and the imaginary. Cold War military bases, neutrino observatories, decommissioned nuclear plants and deep-sea data servers appear as relics, positioned from the vantage point of a future archaeologist to prompt new ways of seeing. By exploring human-made architectures and invasive processes, she opens an altered perspective on humanity’s place in evolving and endangered ecosystems. In her filmic explorations, often set in ocean and river habitats, Škarnulytė embodies a hybrid figure—half-human, half-fish—moving through abandoned submarine tunnels, hydroelectric plants and the waters of the Amazon. This figure links ancient legends with speculative futures, generating new mythologies for a threatened planet.
Emilija Škarnulytė: ‘Riparia,’ 2023 // Courtesy of the artist, co-produced with Ferme-Asile and Taurus Foundation for Art and Science
K21
Group Show: ‘Land and Soil: How We Live Together’
Exhibition: Nov. 29, 2025-Apr. 19, 2026
kunstsammlung.de
Ständehausstraße 1, 40217 Düsseldorf, click here for map
At K21, the ‘Land and Soil. How We Live Together,’ exhibition spans the entire former parliament building and the adjacent Ständehauspark, turning attention to the very ground the museum occupies both geographically and historically. Over 30 international artists and collectives examine land as a shared resource, considering models of ownership, commoning, Indigenous resource governance and even utopian blockchain-based futures. Materials such as earth, coal, lotus silk, pine needles and chocolate connect ecological, economic and social dimensions while inviting reflection on displacement, industrial extraction and global inequality. Through installations, video works, sculptural pieces and participatory events, ‘Land and Soil’ prompts visitors to question how we inhabit and steward land and to imagine more just, sustainable ways of sharing it.
Asche Lützerathi (carried by JP Raether): ‘Cosmo Somatic, ErdWall Wandler’ // Courtesy of the artist
Modern Art Oxford
Suzanne Treister: ‘Prophetic Dreaming’
Exhibition: Oct. 4, 2025-Apr. 12, 2026
modernartoxford.org.uk
30 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP, UK, click here for map
Spanning more than 40 years, Suzanne Treister’s first major institutional retrospective traces the pioneering digital and para-disciplinary artist’s investigations into emerging technologies, power networks, alternative belief systems and the futures they suggest. The exhibition charts her evolution through key projects, including her time-travelling alter ego Rosalind Brodsky and the influential ‘HEXEN 2.0’ series—a Tarot card deck and alchemical diagrams that link cybernetics, surveillance, countercultural movements and internet histories. Her recent project, ‘HEXEN 5.0’ (2023–25), extends this trajectory, critically engaging with AI, the climate crisis and quantum science. ‘Prophetic Dreaming’ highlights the astonishing moments of foresight that recur throughout Treister’s career. The exhibition presents her prescient practice as a way of grasping the complexities of the present while opening new possibilities for what lies ahead.
Suzanne Treister: ‘Fictional Videogame Stills/Are You Dreaming?,’ 1991-1992 // Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York
Stills: Centre for Photography
Felicity Hammond: ‘V4: Repository’
Exhibition: Nov. 7, 2025-Feb. 7, 2026
stills.org
23 Cockburn St, Edinburgh EH1 1BP, UK, click here for map
Felicity Hammond’s evolving installation ‘Variations,’ staged across four UK venues, investigates the relationship between geological mining and data mining, image-making and machine learning. Its final chapter, ‘V4: Repository’ at Stills in Glasgow, presents an expansive installation that reconfigures photographic works intended for exhibition alongside the props, equipment, tests, contact sheets, raw files and digital traces that shaped their production and led up to the final work. Ranging from a mis-addressed print of a Michelin advert mistakenly sent by a commercial printer to email and WhatsApp exchanges arranging the delivery of a shipping container, the archive maps the project’s territory in its broadest sense. In doing so, it questions how archives are contained and exposes the vulnerabilities inherent in the ongoing shift from physical to digital repositories of data.
Felicity Hammond: ‘V4 Repository,’ 2025, installation view at Stills Centre for Photography // Courtesy of the artist, copyright Felicity Hammond
MoMA
Group Show: ‘Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid’
Exhibition: Nov. 19, 2025-July 5, 2026
moma.org
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA, click here for map
‘Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa — Less Is Morbid’ gathers over 80 works from MoMA’s collection, selected by the artist-filmmaker Arthur Jafa. Assembling a wide-ranging constellation of pieces from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly to Roy DeCarava, Lygia Clark and Piet Mondrian, the exhibition creates unexpected juxtapositions that dissolve traditional divides of minimalist vs. maximalist, spare vs. dense, individual vs. collective. Riffing on the modernist dictum “less is more,” Jafa challenges institutional hierarchies that have historically marginalized Black, queer and feminine forms of expression and proposes a vision of coexistence grounded in emotional and cultural complexity. This presentation is part of the broader Artist’s Choice series running since 1989 in which contemporary artists are invited to curate installations drawn from MoMA’s collection, offering fresh perspectives on modern and contemporary art through individual sensibilities.
‘Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid,’ 2025, installation view at MoMA // Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Taipei Biennial
Group Show: ‘Whispers on the Horizon’
Exhibition: Nov. 1, 2025-Mar. 29, 2026
taipeibiennial.org
No. 181號, Section 3, Zhongshan N Rd, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10461, click here for map
The 2025 Taipei Biennial, ‘Whispers on the Horizon,’ runs until March 29th at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition brings together more than 50 artists and features a wide range of newly commissioned and site-specific works. Its guiding theme is yearning, framed as a tension that pulls between past and future, memory and hope. Three symbolic objects from Taiwanese history—a puppet, a diary and a bicycle—anchor the curators’ reflections on loss, displacement and longing. Through its blend of contemporary art, archival material and works from the museum collection, ‘Whispers on the Horizon’ bridges generations, crystallizing the emotional fault lines that define this moment in global culture.
Fuyuhiko Takata: ‘The Princess and the Magic Birds,’ 2020-2021, single channel video with sound, 17min52sec // Courtesy of the artist
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: ‘Computer Says No’
Cornelia Herfurtner: ‘Das Periphere Sehen‘
Exhibition: Nov. 29, 2025-Feb. 22, 2026
kunsthalle.osnabrueck.de
Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück, click here for map
The Kunsthalle Osnabrück’s second chapter of its annual ‘Spirits’ program presents two newly commissioned solo exhibitions by !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Cornelia Herfurtner, exploring the concept of the spirit as an expression of civic responsibility and social conviction. Herfurtner’s installation ‘Das Periphere Sehen’ (Peripheral Vision), situated in the cloister and courtyard, uses traditional woodcraft and intarsia to reflect on care, public life and the rights of protesters, drawing attention to those who risk becoming invisible in society. In the nave, !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s ‘Computer Says No’ confronts the political dangers of artificial intelligence and the emergence of so-called “tech fascism,” updating the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual into a contemporary handbook for resisting digital authoritarianism. The exhibition program is accompanied by events, guided tours and collaborations with the University of Osnabrück, as well as celebrating the reopening of the Artothek, which offers over 1,000 artworks for loan.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: ‘Computer Says No,’ 2025, installation view at Kunsthalle Osnabrück // Courtesy of the artists, photo by Friso Gentsch
