SCULPTURE BEYOND THE SOLID

The exhibition presents contemporary sculptural practices that take the loss of formal stability as their point of departure – understood not as a metaphor for crisis or a prelude to catastrophe, but as a source of creative tension. What was once considered the goal of sculptural practice – permanence, closure, and the perfection of the finished work – now seems insufficient. In a world where the ground is giving way, sculpture does not pretend to be a foundation. Form does not disappear, but becomes a temporary configuration of processes, tensions, and relations.

 

The exhibition brings together works by artists who approach sculpture as a system of forces: flows and transformations, tensions and dependencies between process and mass. References to biological forms and the human body draw attention to sculpture as an impermanent structure, susceptible to pressure, wear, and modification. Fluid transitions between artificial and natural materials, organic shapes and forms inspired by mechanical production highlight the metamorphic potential of matter. Matter is not a passive medium, but bears traces of its origins, uses, and contact with bodies. The exhibition foregrounds these qualities, framing sculpture as a materially situated form of expression within the museum space. The objects engage with the building’s architecture, interact with light and the movement of visitors, and spill into corridors, the staircase, and other common areas. Rather than forming a linear narrative, they create a temporary setting for bodies and objects in motion – a framework for incidental relations.

 

This shared field of action brings together: Isabelle Andriessen, Patricia Ayres, Olga Balema, Beatrice Bonino, Manuel Burgener, Giulia Cenci, Phoebe Collings-James, June Crespo, Michael Dean, Matyáš Fiala, Zuza Golińska, Alexandra Hunts, Agata Ingarden, Edith Karlson, Kaarel Kurismaa, Mónica Mays, Gizela Mickiewicz, Narges Mohammadi, Anna Myszkowiak, Jack O'Brien, B. Ingrid Olson, Dominika Olszowy, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Jessi Reaves, Ken Sortais, Teresa Solar Abboud, Iza Tarasewicz, Tatiana Trouvé, Kaari Upson, Dominique White, Nicole Wermers.

 

Their works reinforce the idea of an art whose strength emerges from open-endedness and susceptibility to change. In place of a catastrophic narrative, they propose a generative practice of reorganisation: connecting what has been dispersed, sustaining what is fragile, and creating the conditions for further transformations.