curators: Nika Dubrovsky, Clive Russel,
Our next apartment exhibition will be about Visual Assemblies — a way for people to gather, talk, and imagine new ways of living together, using drawing, writing, and simple materials to map out ideas. It’s part art, part conversation, part collective planning — a way to explore how we might want to live together.
In everyday life, we rarely get to shape the spaces we use — kindergartens, hospitals, squares, streets, even less so cities or countries. These environments are usually designed by architects, investors, governments, and corporations. But what if the people who actually live in these spaces had real, ongoing access to planning and reimagining them? What if they could truly decide how they want to live?
Mark Fisher once said it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Most of us fear the coming crisis — economic, climate-related, and beyond. So how do we move forward? What can actually be done?
We want to rediscover collectivity, solidarity and shared imagination. What else is art for, if not to empower people and their communities?
This exhibition will be more of a research project than our earlier shows, but we’ll continue to share free downloadable materials. We’re also preparing a release with our new partners at Metalable.
We’d love to collect reflections from past participants — and we welcome new ideas, including napkins designs.
The exhibition opens in autumn 2025.
