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Duration
18.09.2025 - 15.02.2026
Opening
17.09.2025 6pm
Press event
17.09.2025 11am - 12pm
Place of the press event
Kunsthaus Graz
Curators
Andreja Hribernik
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The exhibition Unseen Futures to Come. Fall centres on the experience of uncertainty as an essential aspect of contemporary life. Today, global precarity is fuelled by the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources and people; we face environmental collapse, war, political instability, and mass displacement. These are not merely crises but signs of a profound shift – a moment when the foundations of the world as we know it seem to be crumbling.
At the heart of this contemporary condition lies the complex and often invisible workings of power relations and power asymmetries that shape global inequalities, influence access to resources, and determine whose lives are valued or not. Power is not a fixed force, and not to be possessed, but a network of relations embedded and perpetuated within political structures, economic systems, and social relations. It amplifies uncertainty by maintaining systemic imbalances even as it is challenged by resistance and transformation. Understanding this dynamic is crucial to grasping how uncertainty is both produced and contested in our times.
The addressed uncertainty at the core of our present time gives rise to ambivalence, that is central to the exhibition Unseen Futures to Come. Fall, which reflects the simultaneous presence of light and dark within the human condition. We are capable of immense love and care, yet also cruelty and destruction. This duality is not easily grasped because it is woven into our everyday experience – something we live through without distance. It now seems that this ambivalence has taken a darker turn, and perhaps we are witnessing humanity’s downfall. Yet, we may learn from past patterns: the sense of an ending often precedes major paradigm shifts, shifts inscribed not only in modes of production but also in entire cultural and value systems.
The exhibition explores this fragile and shifting ground through twelve artistic positions reflecting on themes of uncertainty, collapse, resilience, and transformation. One of the central works is a library called Fall. A Library of Twilight Worlds, conceptualised by philosopher Federico Campagna. This collection of 250 theoretical and philosophical books is structured around the metaphor of the seasons, which symbolise our approach to and perception of the world. Within this framework, Autumn/Fall is the season in which certainty dissolves, knowledge is questioned, and fear of the unknown intensifies.
The exhibition weaves together contradictions like love and death, chaos vs. calmness, and destruction and renewal to reflect on the paradox of human existence. Rather than offering answers, the works invite to reflection and encourage us to persist with the questions that define our time. Within the tension of Fall, as the old yields to the unknown, we are reminded that darkness is never final, even as the world wavers, the possibility of light – and of reaching for one another – endures.
With works by Dana Awartani, Federico Campagna, Christoph Grill, Adelita Husni Bey, Marija Marković, Vladimir Nikolić, Yhonnie Scarce, Andrej Škufca, Jože Tisnikar, Sophie Utikal, Bill Viola, zweintopf.
Adelita Husy Bey. Briganti, 2023, detail
© Adelita Husy Bey
Andrej Škufca, Black Market: 6GB Ending, 2020
© Andrej Škufca, Photo: Jaka Babnik
Bill Viola, The Raft, 2004
© Bill Viola Studio, Foto: Kira Perov
Christoph Grill, Cape Yakubovskogo, Russia, 2010, from the series The Roar of the Sea and the Darkness
© Christoph Grill und Bildrecht Vienna, 2025
Dana Awartani, I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I’d forgotten you. I was dreaming, 2017
Courtesy of the artist & Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, Image courtesy ATHR & the artist, Photo: Saleh Serafi
Jože Tisnikar, Love, 1977
© Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Photo: Tomo Jeseničnik
Sophie Utikal, I Thought We Had More Time, 2021, Installation view Kunstraum Innsbruck
© Sophie Utikal, Photo: Daniel Jarosch
Vladimir Nikolić, 800m, 2019
© Vladimir Nikolić
zweintopf, 2406079: Road to Nowhere, 2012/2025
© zweintopf and Bildrecht Vienna, 2025
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