Fragments of Repair
2025
Edited by Kader Attia, Maria Hlavajova, and Wietske Maas.
Printed by robstolk
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books.
Today’s entwined crises—from ecological catastrophe to the state of permanent warfare—reveal deep-seated wounds that issue from historical colonialisms and present-day authoritarianisms, economic disparity and growing racial violence, and the abuses inflicted on vulnerable populations and the planet. As a counter to this disquieting chaos, Fragments of Repair offers a collection of textual and visual essays and conversations on decolonial repair as both a tool for and a method of engagement with the current state of the world. A comprehensive examination of the concept of repair, the publication prompts tactical political imaginaries—in and through art, thinking, and concrete action—as the means for prefiguring and enacting pathways toward a socially and ecologically just society.
With contributions by Norman Ajari, Kader Attia, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Catherine Malabou, Olivier Marboeuf, Achille Mbembe, Wayne Modest, Omedi Ochieng, Matteo Pasquinelli, Rachael Rakes, David Scott, Rolando Vázquez, Françoise Vergès, Elena Vogman, and Eyal Weizman.
Trans Europa Design Express – A Journey Through Five Design Collections
2025
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Timo de Rijk with special advisor Philip van Daalen
Exhibition photography by Peter Thijhuis
The exhibition offers a tour of five major European design clusters. Triennale Milano, mudac Lausanne, Design Museum Brussels, Designmuseum Danmark, and Domaine de Boisbuchet have each selected items from their distinctive collections to show at Design Museum Den Bosch. The museum is presenting Trans Europa Design Express as a way of thinking about the role of design in the museum and about the design museum of the future.
Mutable Cycles
2025
Curated by Ariana Kalliga
Installation view from Mutable Cycles, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 5 – May 25, 2025. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Ariana Kalliga. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2025.
Mutable Cycles is a group exhibition exploring the dismantling of public infrastructures in service of private profit. The featured artists turn to recent histories of financial fallout and its aftermaths—from collective struggles over home foreclosures in Cyprus since 2012–13, to the 2019 solar energy boom in Lebanon—in order to think through debt, property, and the right to public goods. Mutable Cycles features work by Joyce Joumaa, Iris Touliatou, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, and Peter Eramian.
Pressing Matter Artist in Residence Program (in collaboration with Rijksakademie)
2025
Wereld Museum Amsterdam
From 2021 to 2025, the research project Pressing Matter, Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums, funded in large part within the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), a funding scheme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and coordinated by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, investigates the potentialities of ‘colonial objects’ to support societal reconciliation with the colonial past and its afterlives.
Artists selected for the Pressing Matter Artist in Residence Program (in temporal order of residencies) Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Aram Lee, Zara Julius and Zoé Samudzi, Pansee Atta, Hande Sever and Gelare Khoshgozaran, Lifepatch, and CPR.
Photo by Ben Cy
Intersphere
2024
Studionnedots
Texts by Marieke Berkers
Printed by robstolk
We call for a city that provides space for everyone to fulfill their potential—a city where not every square meter is planned or programmed but where people have the freedom to shape their surroundings beyond commercial interests.
InterSpheres is the name we give to these unplanned zones inside and outside buildings, in public areas, and within oversized collective spaces. Is planning the unplanned a contradiction in terms? We don’t think so. A city without room for the unplanned becomes monotonous; the oxygen that fuels creativity runs out, control is tightened, and the sense of freedom wanes.
InterSpheres brings together diverse examples of the unplanned, the reclaimed, and the shared spaces a city urgently needs. The publication is a collaborative effort between architects Studioninedots, architectural historian Marieke Berkers, and graphic designer Sean van den Steenhoven and is accompanied with artworks by Wouter Stroet and Frans Parthesius.
Mapping Modernity
2023
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Yassine Salihine
Exhibition photography Peter Thijhuis
Mapping Modernity is an exhibition that tells the story of our world in 250 maps. The history of modernity is one of control: over nature, populations and trade flows. Human beings placed themselves at the centre of the universe and used maps in an attempt to dominate a complex, elusive reality. Every map offers a glimpse into the mindset of those who commissioned it and the ways in which they sought to mould the world to suit them.
Mapping Modernity is the crowning achievement of the passionate collectors John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen. Over the past 40 years, they have collected over 19,000 maps and 2,500 atlases between them. Every inch of space in their home in Dordrecht is covered with maps. In 2021, they donated their collection to Leiden University, which called it outstanding and ‘probably the most extensive private map collection in the Netherlands’. For this exhibition, they worked with Design Museum Den Bosch to select 250 maps that tell the story of our modern world. A world in which human beings placed themselves at the centre and believed that they could assert their control over everything.
Process - Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum
2022
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Reinier Baarsen
Exhibition photography by Peter Tijhuis
Process - Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum shows over 200 drawings made between 1500–1900 recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The drawings have been brought together for the first time and are arranged according to the successive stages of the design process. The focus here is not on big artistic names, but on the crucial role that drawings have played in design. We watch from close-by as the ideas for all sorts of items are formed and we also get to meet their inventors, makers and patrons. Drawings of vases, chairs and clocks, stoves, sledges and carriages are shown, from the first rough pencil sketches to beautifully worked-up and colourful presentations. The drawings in this exhibition were recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where they belong to a special collection established by Senior Curator Reinier Baarsen. He offers us a unique insight here into the role that drawing has played in the design process, as well as the superb drawings it has produced.
Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich
2021
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldenmond
Curated by Adrienne Groen
Exhibition photography by Peter Thijhuis
Oppenheim was eighteen years old when she arrived in Paris, where she joined the group of Surrealists around André Breton. She achieved international fame just a few years later with her fur-covered cup and saucer (Object (Déjeuner en fourrure), 1936) and the photographs that Man Ray and Dora Maar took of her. She enjoyed the attention, but also suffered from the pressures of fame. In the late 1930s, she withdrew from the art world, disillusioned. Oppenheim only returned to the spotlight, now brimming with confidence, in 1954. Right until her death, she continued to produce works that explore the boundaries of the visible and the invisible, of reality and imagination. Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich features both her early, Surrealist work and her later sketches, objects, jewellery, poems and costumes. Design Museum Den Bosch has the largest collection of work by Meret Oppenheim in the Netherlands, supplemented by a number of loans for the exhibition.
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
2021
Edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, and Rachael Rakes
Printed by Die Keure
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice combines handbook, dictionary, and anthology, and gathers artistic and cultural practices that are propositional, collective, and centered on the yearning for a just life-in-common. While future-oriented, these practices abandon a “universal” progressive route forward, instead enlivening a different chronopolitics: that of the not-yet. Powered by imagination-as-practice and the commitment to decolonial futurity, the contributors—among them artists, scholars, activists, poets, writers, and organizers—reflect on and propose forms of practicing equitable life in relation with one another, Earth, and time; models for safer spaces for humans and nonhumans; ways of radically shifting policies and planetary priorities; and tactics and methods of creating sanctuary.
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, and Rachael Rakes, includes contributions by: Yasmin Ahmed, Grace Lostia, Ying Que, and the basic activist kitchen; Barby Asante; Athena Athanasiou; Clara Balaguer and Gabriel Fontana; Chloë Bass; Aimee Carrillo Rowe; Carolina Caycedo; Merve Bedir; Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips); Dhanveer Singh Brar and Louis Moreno; David Bravo, Miguel Robles-Durán, and Urban Front; Allan deSouza; Nicoline van Harskamp; Adelita Husni-Bey; Rosalba Icaza; Walidah Imarisha; Hamada al-Joumah and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh; Nancy Jouwe; Elke Krasny; Sandra Lange; Joy Mariama Smith; Francesca Masoero and QANAT; Lorenza Mondada; Lisa Myers; Carmen Papalia; Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Laura Raicovich; Hafiz Rancajale; Jonas Staal; Ultra-red; Françoise Vergès; We are Here; and Carol Zou.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
2020
Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken.
Printed by Die Keure
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London
Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the “culture wars.” How are these culture wars defined and waged? Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today—a refusal to play the other side’s war games, an unwillingness to be distracted.
The volunteer troops in the culture wars are often given marching orders by professional masters of propaganda. What, then, might artists and others who are professionally engaged with images and imaginaries, with narratives and assemblies, have to contribute to the collective discovery of different modes of living culture? Far from limiting the performance of culture to a one-sided speech act, an emancipatory understanding of culture needs to conceive of speech as embodied and intersubjective—as a collective performance.
Deserting from the Culture Wars includes contributions by Bini Adamczak, Kader Attia, Rose Hammer, Tom Holert, Geert Lovink, Sven Lütticken, Diana McCarty, Dan McQuillan, Johannes Paul Raether, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Esmee Schoutens, Andreas Siekmann, and Jonas Staal.
Pride Photo Award visual identity
2019
In collaboration with sjondebaron.
Pride Photo Award is a platform for inspiring stories about sexual and gender diversity. By sharing these images and the stories they tell in various locations, we create a space for dialogue. Thus we empower marginalized groups, stimulate people to critically review their ideas and convictions, and create a greater freedom for people to be themselves.For the 2019 contest, 409 photographers from all over the world submitted nearly 3.800 photos. The contest had four categories: Single Images, Stories, an Open category, and the 2019 theme category Unique.
With works by: Anja Matthes, Blake Little, Carloman Macidiano, Céspedes Riojas, Chiara Luxardo, Corinne Mariaud, Hotli Simanjuntak, Keiji Fujimoto, Koen Suidgeest, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Micha Serraf, Mickey Aloisio, Nelson Morales, Seungwook YANG, Ugo Woatzi, and Vaughan Larsen.
Fragments of Repair
2025
Edited by Kader Attia, Maria Hlavajova, and Wietske Maas.
Printed by robstolk
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books.
Today’s entwined crises—from ecological catastrophe to the state of permanent warfare—reveal deep-seated wounds that issue from historical colonialisms and present-day authoritarianisms, economic disparity and growing racial violence, and the abuses inflicted on vulnerable populations and the planet. As a counter to this disquieting chaos, Fragments of Repair offers a collection of textual and visual essays and conversations on decolonial repair as both a tool for and a method of engagement with the current state of the world. A comprehensive examination of the concept of repair, the publication prompts tactical political imaginaries—in and through art, thinking, and concrete action—as the means for prefiguring and enacting pathways toward a socially and ecologically just society.
With contributions by Norman Ajari, Kader Attia, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Catherine Malabou, Olivier Marboeuf, Achille Mbembe, Wayne Modest, Omedi Ochieng, Matteo Pasquinelli, Rachael Rakes, David Scott, Rolando Vázquez, Françoise Vergès, Elena Vogman, and Eyal Weizman.
Trans Europa Design Express – A Journey Through Five Design Collections
2025
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Timo de Rijk with special advisor Philip van Daalen
Exhibition photography by Peter Thijhuis
The exhibition offers a tour of five major European design clusters. Triennale Milano, mudac Lausanne, Design Museum Brussels, Designmuseum Danmark, and Domaine de Boisbuchet have each selected items from their distinctive collections to show at Design Museum Den Bosch. The museum is presenting Trans Europa Design Express as a way of thinking about the role of design in the museum and about the design museum of the future.
Mutable Cycles
2025
Curated by Ariana Kalliga
Installation view from Mutable Cycles, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 5 – May 25, 2025. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Ariana Kalliga. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2025.
Mutable Cycles is a group exhibition exploring the dismantling of public infrastructures in service of private profit. The featured artists turn to recent histories of financial fallout and its aftermaths—from collective struggles over home foreclosures in Cyprus since 2012–13, to the 2019 solar energy boom in Lebanon—in order to think through debt, property, and the right to public goods. Mutable Cycles features work by Joyce Joumaa, Iris Touliatou, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, and Peter Eramian.
Pressing Matter Artist in Residence Program (in collaboration with Rijksakademie)
2025
Wereld Museum Amsterdam
From 2021 to 2025, the research project Pressing Matter, Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums, funded in large part within the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), a funding scheme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and coordinated by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, investigates the potentialities of ‘colonial objects’ to support societal reconciliation with the colonial past and its afterlives.
Artists selected for the Pressing Matter Artist in Residence Program (in temporal order of residencies) Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Aram Lee, Zara Julius and Zoé Samudzi, Pansee Atta, Hande Sever and Gelare Khoshgozaran, Lifepatch, and CPR.
Photo by Ben Cy
Intersphere
2024
Studionnedots
Texts by Marieke Berkers
Printed by robstolk
We call for a city that provides space for everyone to fulfill their potential—a city where not every square meter is planned or programmed but where people have the freedom to shape their surroundings beyond commercial interests.
InterSpheres is the name we give to these unplanned zones inside and outside buildings, in public areas, and within oversized collective spaces. Is planning the unplanned a contradiction in terms? We don’t think so. A city without room for the unplanned becomes monotonous; the oxygen that fuels creativity runs out, control is tightened, and the sense of freedom wanes.
InterSpheres brings together diverse examples of the unplanned, the reclaimed, and the shared spaces a city urgently needs. The publication is a collaborative effort between architects Studioninedots, architectural historian Marieke Berkers, and graphic designer Sean van den Steenhoven and is accompanied with artworks by Wouter Stroet and Frans Parthesius.
Mapping Modernity
2023
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Yassine Salihine
Exhibition photography Peter Thijhuis
Mapping Modernity is an exhibition that tells the story of our world in 250 maps. The history of modernity is one of control: over nature, populations and trade flows. Human beings placed themselves at the centre of the universe and used maps in an attempt to dominate a complex, elusive reality. Every map offers a glimpse into the mindset of those who commissioned it and the ways in which they sought to mould the world to suit them.
Mapping Modernity is the crowning achievement of the passionate collectors John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen. Over the past 40 years, they have collected over 19,000 maps and 2,500 atlases between them. Every inch of space in their home in Dordrecht is covered with maps. In 2021, they donated their collection to Leiden University, which called it outstanding and ‘probably the most extensive private map collection in the Netherlands’. For this exhibition, they worked with Design Museum Den Bosch to select 250 maps that tell the story of our modern world. A world in which human beings placed themselves at the centre and believed that they could assert their control over everything.
Process - Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum
2022
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldemond
Curated by Reinier Baarsen
Exhibition photography by Peter Tijhuis
Process - Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum shows over 200 drawings made between 1500–1900 recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The drawings have been brought together for the first time and are arranged according to the successive stages of the design process. The focus here is not on big artistic names, but on the crucial role that drawings have played in design. We watch from close-by as the ideas for all sorts of items are formed and we also get to meet their inventors, makers and patrons. Drawings of vases, chairs and clocks, stoves, sledges and carriages are shown, from the first rough pencil sketches to beautifully worked-up and colourful presentations. The drawings in this exhibition were recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where they belong to a special collection established by Senior Curator Reinier Baarsen. He offers us a unique insight here into the role that drawing has played in the design process, as well as the superb drawings it has produced.
Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich
2021
Design Museum Den Bosch
In collaboration with Bart Guldenmond
Curated by Adrienne Groen
Exhibition photography by Peter Thijhuis
Oppenheim was eighteen years old when she arrived in Paris, where she joined the group of Surrealists around André Breton. She achieved international fame just a few years later with her fur-covered cup and saucer (Object (Déjeuner en fourrure), 1936) and the photographs that Man Ray and Dora Maar took of her. She enjoyed the attention, but also suffered from the pressures of fame. In the late 1930s, she withdrew from the art world, disillusioned. Oppenheim only returned to the spotlight, now brimming with confidence, in 1954. Right until her death, she continued to produce works that explore the boundaries of the visible and the invisible, of reality and imagination. Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich features both her early, Surrealist work and her later sketches, objects, jewellery, poems and costumes. Design Museum Den Bosch has the largest collection of work by Meret Oppenheim in the Netherlands, supplemented by a number of loans for the exhibition.
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
2021
Edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, and Rachael Rakes
Printed by Die Keure
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice combines handbook, dictionary, and anthology, and gathers artistic and cultural practices that are propositional, collective, and centered on the yearning for a just life-in-common. While future-oriented, these practices abandon a “universal” progressive route forward, instead enlivening a different chronopolitics: that of the not-yet. Powered by imagination-as-practice and the commitment to decolonial futurity, the contributors—among them artists, scholars, activists, poets, writers, and organizers—reflect on and propose forms of practicing equitable life in relation with one another, Earth, and time; models for safer spaces for humans and nonhumans; ways of radically shifting policies and planetary priorities; and tactics and methods of creating sanctuary.
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, and Rachael Rakes, includes contributions by: Yasmin Ahmed, Grace Lostia, Ying Que, and the basic activist kitchen; Barby Asante; Athena Athanasiou; Clara Balaguer and Gabriel Fontana; Chloë Bass; Aimee Carrillo Rowe; Carolina Caycedo; Merve Bedir; Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips); Dhanveer Singh Brar and Louis Moreno; David Bravo, Miguel Robles-Durán, and Urban Front; Allan deSouza; Nicoline van Harskamp; Adelita Husni-Bey; Rosalba Icaza; Walidah Imarisha; Hamada al-Joumah and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh; Nancy Jouwe; Elke Krasny; Sandra Lange; Joy Mariama Smith; Francesca Masoero and QANAT; Lorenza Mondada; Lisa Myers; Carmen Papalia; Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Laura Raicovich; Hafiz Rancajale; Jonas Staal; Ultra-red; Françoise Vergès; We are Here; and Carol Zou.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
2020
Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken.
Printed by Die Keure
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London
Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the “culture wars.” How are these culture wars defined and waged? Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today—a refusal to play the other side’s war games, an unwillingness to be distracted.
The volunteer troops in the culture wars are often given marching orders by professional masters of propaganda. What, then, might artists and others who are professionally engaged with images and imaginaries, with narratives and assemblies, have to contribute to the collective discovery of different modes of living culture? Far from limiting the performance of culture to a one-sided speech act, an emancipatory understanding of culture needs to conceive of speech as embodied and intersubjective—as a collective performance.
Deserting from the Culture Wars includes contributions by Bini Adamczak, Kader Attia, Rose Hammer, Tom Holert, Geert Lovink, Sven Lütticken, Diana McCarty, Dan McQuillan, Johannes Paul Raether, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Esmee Schoutens, Andreas Siekmann, and Jonas Staal.
Pride Photo Award visual identity
2019
In collaboration with sjondebaron.
Pride Photo Award is a platform for inspiring stories about sexual and gender diversity. By sharing these images and the stories they tell in various locations, we create a space for dialogue. Thus we empower marginalized groups, stimulate people to critically review their ideas and convictions, and create a greater freedom for people to be themselves.For the 2019 contest, 409 photographers from all over the world submitted nearly 3.800 photos. The contest had four categories: Single Images, Stories, an Open category, and the 2019 theme category Unique.
With works by: Anja Matthes, Blake Little, Carloman Macidiano, Céspedes Riojas, Chiara Luxardo, Corinne Mariaud, Hotli Simanjuntak, Keiji Fujimoto, Koen Suidgeest, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Micha Serraf, Mickey Aloisio, Nelson Morales, Seungwook YANG, Ugo Woatzi, and Vaughan Larsen.