3 Dec 2025 21 Jan 2026

Exhibition

The Everyday
in Dramatic Closeness

This group exhibition focuses on everyday objects and the notion of scale in the visual realm. It presents photographic works as well as paintings and drawings, exploring questions of proportion, size, and zoom effects to consider the social, political, and aesthetic implications of scale in daily experience.

26 Jan 2026
15 00 - 18:00

Workshop

Scale, Noise,
and Social Form

With Mattin
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to engage with the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the piece together with the artist and theorist, as well as to discuss the contemporary socioeconomic predicaments that necessitate it.

26 Jan 2026
19 00

Performance

Social
Dissonance

With Mattin
Social Dissonance is a collective improvisation, a participatory performance, a strange concert. Starting from the above score, it creates a context for a collaborative, experimental investigation into the unfreedom and instrumentalisation under capitalist social relations, and the embedding in processes of mediation – economic, social, linguistic, and more.

29 30 Jan 2026

Symposium

Frantz Fanon’s
Social Therapy

'To Give Body to an Institution'
The symposium Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy: ‘To Give Body to an Institution’ explores Frantz Fanon’s political, clinical, and aesthetic approach to institutions along three interrelated lines.

30 Jan 2026
19 00

Discussion Screening

Disenclosing
the Psyche

With Kader Attia and Wietske Maas
The films and the conversation prompt the question: what forms and limits of knowledge about madness emerge when we listen to the collective voices of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, healers, artists, storytellers, political activists, and witnesses brought together by Attia?

16 Feb 2026
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

Transitions

Queer Temporalities in Trans Video Blogs

2 Mar 2026
14 00 – 19:00

Workshop

Quantities Without Scale
and the Thought of Novelty

While critical thought is suspicious of quantification for good reasons, it has also invested peculiar quantities with generative potential since Immanuel Kant’s essay on negative quantities and his foundation of the anticipations of perception in intensive quantities.

12 Mar 2026
19 00

Discussion

Biomedical
Visions

The Art of Science and the Science of Art
Biomedical visualisations can validate patient experiences and perceptions empowering patients and convincing doctors in the search for a diagnosis, treatment, or cure. However, they are often deceptive and of questionable legibility. They are also inaccessible to non-specialists and often de-contextualized.

23 Mar 2026
19 30

Lecture

Lisa
Messeri

1:1 – Drawn to Scale
This talk explores scale and simulation. In the scientific context, simulations are often epistemic tools that can be larger or smaller or faster or slower than the target of study. But in cases where the thing of interest is that which is remote or inaccessible, the scale is simply 1:1.

18 May 2026
19 30

Lecture

Heather
Love

19 21 May 2026

Conference

Minima
Formalia

Minor Details and Empty Gestures
This conference takes an interest in minutiae at the levels of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It invites smaller-scale perspectives to interrogate the interrelations between form and content, and asks how aesthetics forms theory and how theory performs politics.