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31 Aug 2026 Antwerp Art

Not Knowing as a Working Method

Jürgen Addiers opened I Have No Idea What I Am Doing at M HKA in Antwerp on 28 August 2026.

The exhibition combines painting, installation, neon and video, but its title may be the most interesting material in the room. The sentence itself becomes a physical sculpture made from metal spheres suspended from the ceiling.

The museum describes uncertainty not as failure but as a position from which experimentation and curiosity can begin.

I like that because creative culture usually tells the opposite story after the fact.

An exhibition makes an artist’s process look inevitable.

Finished works stand in carefully chosen positions.

A text explains the connections.

The uncertainty that produced them has disappeared.

Anyone who actually makes things knows how misleading that can be.

You try something.

It fails.

Another accident becomes useful.

A technical limitation changes the direction.

You discover the idea while making the object supposedly based on the idea.

“I have no idea what I am doing” therefore does not necessarily describe incompetence.

It can describe the moment before a procedure hardens into habit.

Knowing exactly what will happen is efficient.

Not knowing may be where the new work begins.

https://www.muhka.be/en/exhibitions/jurgen-addiers-i-have-no-idea-what-i-am-doing/

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Not Knowing as a Working Method M HKA Jürgen Addiers: I Have No Idea What I Am Doing | M HKA The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense.

23 Aug 2026 Belmore’s Fountain

Projecting an Image Onto Water

Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain, created for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, does something deceptively simple with video: the image is projected onto falling water rather than a conventional screen. The work moves between fire, water and blood, placing elemental imagery against an industrial North American landscape.

The physical projection surface changes everything for me. A normal screen is designed to disappear so that we concentrate on the image. Falling water refuses to disappear. It moves, breaks the projected light and reminds us that the image has a body. The medium becomes visible precisely because it cannot hold the picture perfectly still.

Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, has repeatedly worked with land, bodies, political histories and the material presence of water. In Fountain, water is simultaneously subject, projection surface and moving sculpture. The video cannot be separated cleanly from the substance carrying it.

Digital images often feel weightless. Here light needs something unstable and physical before we can see it.

Fountain

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Projecting an Image Onto Water Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain, created for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, does something deceptively simple with video: the image is proje…

22 Aug 2026 Auckland Art

Machines Performing Belief

Twenty-one years after representing New Zealand at the Venice Biennale, et al.’s the fundamental practice is being shown in its entirety in Aotearoa for the first time. Five moving autonomous systems, computer-generated voices and sound form what feels like a dystopian orchestra. What interests me is how easily machines can borrow the language of authority. A synthetic voice does not need to understand an idea to repeat it convincingly. The work turns technology into a strange theatre of belief, obedience and doubt.

https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/connect/news-and-media/new-zealands-2005-venice-biennale-presentation-to-be-shown-in-aotearoa-for-the-first-time

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Machines Performing Belief Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T?maki New Zealand’s 2005 Venice Biennale presentation to be shown in Aotearoa for the first time | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T?maki New Zealand’s 2005 Venice Biennale presentation to be shown in Aotearoa for the first time.

22 Aug 2026 Fabienne Hess

The People Behind the Museum

Fabienne Hess’s Lo invisible y sus tramas at Museo Amparo turns attention toward museum staff whose work normally disappears behind the exhibition. Images printed on silk move through the space while rarely shown collection pieces sit beside familiar works. I like this reversal of attention. Museums teach us what to look at, but they can also make the labour supporting that act of looking almost invisible. An exhibition does not simply appear on a wall. It is built from hundreds of decisions, gestures and forms of care that usually remain outside the frame.

https://museoamparo.com/exposiciones/piezas/315/lo-invisible-y-sus-tramas

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The People Behind the Museum museoamparo.com Fabienne Hess. Lo invisible y sus tramas | Exposiciones | exposiciones actuales | Museo Amparo, Puebla El trabajo del personal del Museo Amparo, que habitualmente es invisible en las galerías, ahora está en los muros. Las jerarquías se alteran: obras ...