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• 28.06.2026 - 01.11.2026

  Alors nous irons trouver la couleur ailleurs

  Opening 27.05.2026, 5:00 pm

  Centre international d’art et du paysage – île de Vassivière, France

  Pioneering in the field of contemporary art, Alors nous irons trouver la couleur ailleurs [so we will find colour elsewhere] redefines colour as a major ecological concern. Rooted in the craftsmanship of the Limousin region—from Limoges ceramics to Aubusson textiles—the exhibition brings together leading and emerging artists united by a common ambition: to create, using local plant and mineral resources, concrete alternatives to toxic pigments. A practical manifesto for a new chromatic ecology.

  Artists
  Yto Barrada, Cécile Bart, Louise Bourgeois, Flavie Cournil, Pierre Creton, Marinette Cueco, Susanne Kriemann, Aliki van der Kruijs, Derek Jarman, Charlotte Marembert, Mathias Mareschal, Liliana Motta, Yann Mingard, Emmanuelle Nègre, Lucie Ponard, Lou Ramage, Clara Salomon, Anaïs Tondeur, Cécile Vignau

  Curators
  Arnaud Dubois

• 13.06.2026 - 06.09.2026

  Performing Landscapes

  Opening 12.06.2026, 7:00 pm

  Leopold-Hoesch-Museum – Düren, Germany

  Performing Landscapes articulates an understanding of landscape as shaped by labour, resource extraction and social transformation. The exhibition explores how landscapes are places where geology, political history, and memory become inseparable. To follow coal, sandstone, marble, or uranium is to move across histories that overlap in contradictory ways, and that cannot separate the industrial and the ecological.

  Artworks, interventions, and archival research open up the complex relation between resource extraction and human and non-human life. The works span from the Hambach open-cast mine—the largest artificial excavation in Europe—to the moorlands of Northern Germany, the former sites of the Wismut uranium mining company, and to Colombian and British coal mines. The project builds on the LHM’s ongoing engagement with industrial landscapes, which began with On Life in Industrial Landscapes—A Photographic Inventory (2019) and continued with On Life in Industrial Landscapes—The Structural Change in View (2021). With Performing Landscapes the LHM turns to the social, historical, and political processes that shape industrial landscapes—to the conflicts, archival gaps, acts of resistance, and lived experiences that lie within and beyond the visible landscape.

  This exhibition mixes artworks with research, as well as spatial and scenographic interventions, and it was imagined and developed with students from the Scenography and Exhibition Design department at HfG Karlsruhe. The works and research of Helena Bänsch, Franka Karola Breunig, Peter Oellerich, Ruby Richter, Lilith Stumpf, and Laura Waterstradt are in dialogue with selected works from the LHM collection, archival materials, and contributions by Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Alex Grein, Laura Haak, Susanne Kriemann, Camilo Pachón & Sara Alvarado, Elizabeth Price, and Silke Schatz.

  Artists
  Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Alex Grein, Laura Haak, Susanne Kriemann, Camilo Pachón & Sara Alvarado, Elizabeth Price, and Silke Schatz

  Curators
  Lisa Oord and Hanne König

• 15.07.2026

  Gifts of Friendship

  Opening 15.05.2026, 6:00 pm

  Muzeum Sztuki – Lodz

  Gifts of Friendship presents nearly 150 works donated to the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź collection in 2024–26 by eighty artists from dozens of countries. Their gesture allows us to reflect on the significance of artist solidarity in the modern world and the relations between the art scene and the public museum. It emphasizes the role of trust, friendship, and community based on long-term collaboration as forces shaping the institutional collection.

  Artists
  Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Isabelle Cornaro, Jakub Czyszczoń, Anchan / Anna Daučíková, Cian Dayrit, Cécile Dupaquier, Morgan Fisher, Andrea Fraser, Barbara Hammer, Veronika Hapchenko, Adam Harrison, Liam Gillick, João Maria Gusmão, Agata Ingarden, Zuzanna Janin, Eduardo Kac, Nikita Kadan, Tomasz Kowalski, Jiří Kovanda, Susanne Kriemann, Kamil Kuskowski, Katalin Ladik, Diana Lelonek, Zbigniew Libera, Tomasz Machciński, Marcin Maciejowski, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei, Jumana Manna, Dóra Maurer, Josiah McElheny, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, John Miller, Haroon Mirza, Deimantas Narkevičius, wendelien van oldenborgh, Paulina Ołowska, Angelo Plessas, Agnieszka Polska, Cezary Poniatowski, Jeff Preiss, Florian Pumhösl, R.H. Quaytman, Willem de Rooij, Wilhelm Sasnal, K.ari.n Schneider, Janek Simon, Marek Sobczyk, Viktor Timofeev, Suzanne Treister, Fernando Varela, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, Anton Vidokle, James Welling, Julita Wójcik, Tobias Zielony, Heimo Zobernig

  Curator
  Barbara Piwowska

• 14.05.2026 - 30.08.2026

  Shifting Strata

  Opening 14.05.2026, 5:00 pm

  Gallery of Potocki Palace – Maim Market Square 20, Krakow

  The group exhibition of Krakow Photomonth will take place in the basement of Potocki Palace, featuring works by Susanne Keichel, Susanne Kriemann, Tobias Zielony, Anna Orłowska, Jadwiga Janowska, Jonas Höschl, Arwed Messmer and Wojciech Wilczyk.

  The exhibited projects explore themes such as the histories and weight of a place, such as St Anne’s Mountain in Anna Orłowska’s project, which reveals the deep historical and identity-related connections embedded in the landscape and rituals. Wojciech Wilczyk’s project evokes the abolition of serfdom in what is now Poland, recorded in the space through the crosses erected by the freed peasants. Susanne Kriemann examines a more-than-human landscape: one wounded by humans, yet gradually processing its traumas. It is precisely this landscape that becomes a source of imagery for the artist.

  Whilst Jadwiga Janowska’s project explores Gliwice Radio Station with a sense of ease and detachment as a symbol of place and identity, Jonas Höschl’s video installation will introduce us to the world of contemporary neo-Nazi movements in Germany, questioning the mediatised nature of political photography – asking whether we are capable of documenting extremism, without legitimising it or turning it into a spectacle. Tobias Zielony’s new video work approaches the same question, but from the other side: it examines movements along the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, addressing pushbacks, militarisation and espionage in a form that hovers on the edge of recognisability.

  In Chapter III, which focuses on landscape and photography as a convention and technique of representation, the human clashes with the inhuman, and the historical with the symbolic.

  Artists
  Susanne Keichel, Susanne Kriemann, Tobias Zielony, Anna Orłowska, Jadwiga Janowska, Jonas Höschl, Arwed Messmer and Wojciech Wilczyk

  Curators
  Krzysztof Pijarski & Anna Voswinckel

• 30.05.2026 - 10.01.2027

  Chambres d’Amis

  Opening 29.05.2026, 7:00 pm

  S.M.A.K. – Ghent, Belgium

  Since Chambres d’Amis, S.M.A.K. has organized several exhibitions in the urban space, such as Over The Edges (2000) and TRACK (2012). From each of these three exhibitions, we invite an artist to create new work, using the works from Chambres d’Amis that are currently part of the museum collection as a starting point. Heike Pallanca, Haim Steinbach, and Susanne Kriemann each design a museum room, or ‘chambre’, from their own artistic practice. How can you display artworks that were created for a specific location outside the museum once again within the museum walls?

  Susanne Kriemann
  04261986 (abbiamo aperto una finestre), 2026

  On 26 April 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred with the explosion of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. This event made a profound impression on Susanne Kriemann (b. 1972, Erlangen, Germany). The idea that something invisible can nevertheless be harmful – such as the fine particulate matter released during a nuclear disaster – influenced Kriemann’s conceptual work related to ‘Chambres d’Amis’. The title of the work, ‘04261986 (abbiamo aperto una finestra)’ (We have opened a window), refers both to the fragility of opening or closing a window in the period following the nuclear accident, and to Carla Accardi’s work featured in ‘Chambres d’Amis’ in 1986. From the S.M.A.K. archive, Kriemann selected seventeen archival photographs that allowed participating artists to form a preliminary impression of the private space where their artwork would be displayed back then in time. Before having the selected photographic images enlarged and re-developed, Kriemann sprinkled them with fine dust collected in Ghent.

  Alongside the photographs, Susanne Kriemann is exhibiting a number of objects. These are not original works of art from 1986, but objects that refer to a detail or element from several pieces in ‘Chambres d’Amis’ exhibition. Linen, a bucket, a little bird, a table and a chair, paint dripping from a wall… Just like the photographs of the empty interiors, which are awaiting the artworks, these objects are ‘waiting’ for their status as art. Kriemann’s installation creates a sense of anticipation: what preceded ‘Chambres d’Amis’ in 1986? What happened during the exhibition? And what memory of this show will the viewer take away with them?

  In her body of work, Susanne Kriemann usually begins with extensive archival and source research. Photography is often her starting point. She explores how certain historical facts and events were depicted – as she does here for ‘Chambres d’Amis’. All the images in this installation exist in a sort of ‘in-between zone’, between past and future, private and public, and interior and artwork.

  Artists
  Heike Pallanca, Haim Steinbach, Susanne Kriemann

  Curators
  Philippe van Cauteren, Thibaut Verhoeven