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February 2026
Amsterdam
TheSonic Acts Biennial, taking place 5 February – 29 March 2026 in Amsterdam, unfolds across more than 20 locations, with 80 events. At its centre is the Biennial’s main exhibitionMelted for Love, spanning W139, Arti et Amicitiae, and Rozenstraat, accompanied by a satellite exhibition at Het Documentaire Paviljoen / IDFA Institute and a special collaboration with Framer Framed. Alongside the exhibition programme, the Biennial will host an extensive programme of film screenings, artist talks and exhibition tours. TheBiennial Symposium on 28 Feb - 1 Mar is organised in four thematic blocks at the Stedelijk Museum with 20 speakers and performers.Full programme.
Bergen
BEK opens the new year with a week featuring a three‑day workshop on Sensory Percussion, accompanied by a public installation, performance and conversation, as well as a curated film programme and fundraiser focused on Gaza. Tuesday 17 to Friday 20 February.
Berlin
Heute noch, morgen schon. Filmische Perspektiven auf Berlin um 1990. 35 years after the end of the division of Germany, the Stadtmuseum Berlin has dedicated a large scale film exhibition in the Museum Nikolaikirche to the upheavals in Berlin around 1990. Withaccompanying program. 02.10.2025 – 06.04.2026.
EastUnBloc presents subversive, experimental and innovative media art works and practices from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe and their contexts. Exhibition, performances, talks, workshops.nGbK, Berlin, 29.11.25 – 15.2.26. Closing events:Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, 13 Feb 26, 18:00–22:00;Transmission Sign Off, 14 Feb 26, 15:00–22:00.
Unsettled Earth is a cross-disciplinary project that unfolds through a study program, an exhibition, and transnational partnerships with community organizations. Rooted in collaborations with grassroots agrarian initiatives and collectives in Palestine organizing around defense of land, communal autonomy, and ecological recovery, the project explores practices and infrastructures that construct relations of land and life anew amid ongoing settler-colonial violence and ecological catastrophe. Spore Initiative, 8. January - 28. February 2026. Closing program: Manual for an Unsettled World, 13-15 Feb.
Strom – Festival for Electronic Music showcases the range of synthetic sound and enables it to interact with the timeless, visionary architecture of the Philharmonie Berlin. 6-7.2.2026.
The Berlinale sectionsForum and Forum Expanded—organized by theArsenal—stand for reflection on the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and aesthetic idiosyncrasy. They aim to expand the understanding of what film is and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world. The next edition of Berlinale Forum will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026.
Barlinale is an independent counter film festival with a focus on non-conventional and non-fiction cinema taking place in Berlin. By inviting participating filmmakers to select a pairing film, the three-day event seeks to foster cine-scenes and champion screening as practice. Feb 18th-20th @ Tennis Bar.
Helsinki
To celebrate theInternational Radio Day on 13.02.2026, Station of Commons organises a 24h live broadcast from the N10 building in Vallila, Helsinki. The broadcast gathers various actors in the building; visual artists, multi-disciplinary artists, musicians, sound professionals, graphic designers, electronic music projects, and Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo representatives.
Leuven
In 2026,Artefact focuses on the question: How can an exhibition function as a massage? The artists inGrind Grind Grind, Release. An Exhibition as a Massage bring you back into your body, where both pleasure and tension resides. What does it mean to long for, what does it mean to belong? 12.02→01.03.26.
Ljubljana
The exhibitionART VITAL – 12 Years of Ulay / Marina Abramović offers for the first time a multilayered insight into the unique and uncompromising collaborative work and life of the artist couple Ulay and Marina Abramović over a period of 12 years between 1976 and 1988. Cukrarna Gallery, 30. 11. 2025 — 3. 5. 2026.
MENT, music festival and conference, 18-21 Feb.
Oslo
Bridging the fields of documentary and experimental film and video,No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image offers an expansive, intersectional account of underappreciated encounters between feminism and the moving image. Across a polycentric, global geography, it maps how artists and filmmakers have explored the nexus of gender and power and charts sites at which feminism connects to other struggles for justice. By revisiting the period of the 1970s to 1990s, it aims both to pay homage to the important work that has come before and to respond to the urgencies of the present. Kunstnernes Hus, 13.02.26 – 03.05.26.
Paris
The New Typography in French-speaking Scenes: Impacts and Resistances, symposium, Cité internationale des Arts, 12–14 February 2026.Invitation.
The 21st edition of thePrésences électronique festival presents the figures of experimental music, whose sonic explorations continue to push the boundaries of music. An international programme and original performances over three evenings of immersion in the heart of the sound space thanks to the 80-speaker Acousmonium. Maison de la Radio et de la Musique – Studio 104, 13+14+15 FÉVRIER 2026.[1]
Prague
TheArt of Activism exhibition and publication explore a specific segment of protest and engaged art in the Czech Lands, especially after 2009 (the global economic crisis) in the context of international movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Women Life Freedom, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion, etc. In addition to reflecting on Czech individual and collective artistic activities, significant space is devoted to foreign initiatives, especially those that form the immediate political and inspirational context of the local art scene. GHMP Knihovna, 10. 12. 2025 – 8. 3. 2026.
Free National Gallery. Description of a Struggle. After the 2023 elections, the new Slovak government appointed a nominee from the Slovak National Party to head the Ministry of Culture and the controlled destruction of cultural institutions began. What followed was beyond what we could have imagined: bans, cancellations of exhibitions and projects, unfavourable contracts and, above all, total amateurism. From the summer of 2024 until the mass departure in April 2025, we experienced a most remarkable period, when various forms of creative resistance and opposition were devised in the struggle against amateurism. It is precisely the reflection on these events and their ever-growing repercussions that forms the theme and content of the contextual, museological exhibition at the Prague City Gallery (GHMP), Dům fotografie, 3. 2. – 29. 3. 2026.
Stockholm
Index presents (again, twenty years later) the first Swedish solo exhibition featuring the German film-makerHarun Farocki, whose work has been an important reference for other filmmakers and artists as well as for media theorists since the 1960s.Videogramme einer Revolution, 19 February–12 April 2026.Public program.
Utrecht
We’re living in dystopian times. The fascist far-right is emboldened and taking to the streets. Queer and migrant lives are increasingly marginalized and under threat. Liberal political parties disingenuously engage in anti-fascist rhetoric merely as lip service to narrowly win an election. We know this will not result in a durable alternative; it is up to us to build it, and we want to build it with you. You are invited as our co-conspirators, as our comrades, to the upcoming edition of2.Dh5, themed “Building the Collective(s) – Tools for an Antifascist Future.” ... So come round, show up, bring a friend, bring two, to this year’s festival on the 28th of February and the 1st of March in three different locations in Utrecht: ACU, BAK, Moira.
Zürich
The nextSONIC MATTER Festival, themed «drift», will take place from 26 February to 1 March 2026.
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File:Brewing Collectives How to Start a Permacomputing Collective 2026.pdf
"This is a guide brewed from conversations with initiatives in London (UK), Berlin (DE), Prague (CZ), Philadelphia (USA), Rotterdam (NL), Vienna (AT), Lutruwtia (Tas/AU), County Mayo (IE) and a community from Middle America gathering on servers. This text can support you when starting a permacomputing collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actions are cyclical and can be seen as opportunities to revisit or re-purpose later."
Brewing Collectives was initiated byAymeric Mansoux andBrendan Howell with support from Error 417 Expectation Failed. Text written by anna andrejew, Brendan Howell and Ola Bonati, based on interviews with Ana Meisel (London Permacomputing Club), Archipiélago I, Colm O'Neil (Wilderland permacomputing group), crunk and d1 (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), Brendan Howell (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up),Michal Klodner (Node9),Nancy Mauro-Flude (Autoluminescence Institute), Simon Repp (permacomputing Vienna), andSteve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at Iffy Books, hosted together with Dave Slinger).
Brewing Collectives: How to Start a Permacomputing Collective permacomputing.net, January 2026 16 pagesPDF,PDF booklet
2026-2-9
File:Careful A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice 2025.pdf
"Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning.
So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into practice?
The ‘Careful VS Careless’ exhibition centres a new conversation between custodians of radical public libraries, known as ‘shadow libraries’. Organised around that conversation are a mixture of symbolic and tactical gestures that help people to think and act carefully in relation to the infrastructures of public knowledge systems."
Published on the occasion ofCareful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers andLibrary Making as Practice atdistro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised byLucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi.
Compiled byDušan Barok,Marcell Mars,Tomislav Medak,Nick Thurston
Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice distro, Basel, November 2025 [134] pagesPDF (22 mb)
2025-11-5
File:Vertical Atlas 2022.pdf
"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?
Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.
Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."
Contributions by: Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kévin Bray, James Bridle,Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga,Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alex Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Baz Qudyrieva, Solveig Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven,Yuk Hui,Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova,Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Francois, Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior,Lukáš Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Edmond Musasa, Leu N’seya,Katja Novitskova,Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen 'Stanley' Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger,Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Škufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi Vallverdú, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu.
Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner, Mi You
Vertical Atlas Publisher ArtEZ Press, Arnhem, and Hivos, 2022 ISBN 9789491444692 357 pagesPDF (65 mb)
2025-11-3
File:Deborder Bollore 2025.epub
"Une publication multiformat coéditée par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indépendant·es, disponible à la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion surdeborderbollore.fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.
Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.
Les contributions mettent en avant la pensée de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrême droitisation du marché. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des réponses à cette question urgente : comment faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?
En tant qu’éditeurices indépendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de Bolloré car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-récits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face à de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les récits, il nous faut lutter pour préserver ces espaces essentiels de résistance et qui — n’en déplaise aux prophètes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.
La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, à lui seul, Vincent Bolloré se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et médiatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre côté, mobiliser l’entièreté de notre réseau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais médiatiques pour y résister. Face à la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicité et la singularité caractéristique du monde du livre indépendant.
Bolloré, par l’intermédiaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu éditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure même du monde du livre qui permet à de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marché de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous décidé de « déborder Bolloré », c’est-à-dire de dépasser la figure, certes exubérante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mécanismes avec lesquels il opère et comment, dans un second temps, les déjouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indépendante."
Déborder Bolloré: faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5EPUB,Web, PDFs,Markdown
2025-7-23
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