The Geopolitics of Infrastructure — Contemporary Perspectives

This online platform was created specifically for the exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure — Contemporary Perspectives.

Here, you will find more information about the artists and the works on display, as well as editorial contributions, contextualisation of the exhibition's themes, and notable parallels with current world events. Audiovisual material from performances and lectures that are part of the public programme accompanying the exhibition will also be available on this platform.

The Geopolitics of Infrastructure — Contemporary Perspectives
exhibition
13 June – 21 September 2025

Tekla Aslanishvili, Mirwan Andan & Iswanto Hartono, Winnie Claessens, Köken Ergun & Fetra Danu, Köken Ergun & Tashi Lama, Assem Hendawi, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Pejvak, Shahana Rajani, Sojung Jun, The Question of Funding, Jonas Staal and Zheng Mahler. Exhibition architecture by Studio PARA~

The exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure brings together a generation of artists who consider the political commitments, imagination and power relations of infrastructure. It presents research-based practices reflecting on how such structures function as organisational systems across boundaries as part of the practice of statecraft. With an awareness that geopolitics also shapes the conditions of practice for artists, The Geopolitics of Infrastructure also considers the possibilities of artistic imagination in conceptualising alternative models for infrastructure. 

Archipelago of Artistic Practices
A Jubilee and M HKA Research Summit
In collaboration with CKV and nadine
14 June – 21 June 2025

Archipelago of Artistic Practices is a Research Summit organised by Jubilee and M HKA based on Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. The programme takes place in conjunction with M HKA’s major exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and includes the participation of many of its exhibiting artist. Focusing on the premise of learning-by-doing, the Research Summit seeks to offer participants a convivial space – including talks, screenings, performances, walks and bike tours – for opening insights and opportunities into the possibilities of collaborative research, communing resources and cooperative distribution, for artistic practice.

Research Summit launch and thematic days:

12.06: opening of the exhibition with performances and participatory events
14.06: The geopolitics of infrastructure
15.06: Infrastructure of archives
20.06: Archipelago of artistic practices 
21.06: Mapping and performing infrastructure

Check the full programme here.

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