Der Kopf ist rund exhibition installation view

Klaus in Vorarlberg / 2026

Der Kopf ist rund, damit das Denken die Richtung wechseln kann

Galerie Brugger

May 22 — June 01, 2026

Axial-Core

Leo Pum @La Térmica, Málaga KRVCE festival

artcnomad.com

ART CURATORIAL NOMADS ↗

Curate your exhibition

EXPLORE

Santiago / 2026

RAMA TORCIDA

MAC — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

Features

/ 2026

BUNNY BUNKER NO.1

Berlin / 2026

FIGHT OR FLIGHT: SEX

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Shanghai / 2026

TECHNO WORLDS — FINAL SAMPLING

Power Station of Art

Paris / 2026

WHAT WE SEE, WHAT LOOKS BACK AT US

Emergency Space

Brescia / 2026

IMPOTENZA

Palazzo Monti

Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth exhibition view

Munich / 2026

TRIANGLE RESHAPES THE O OF MY MOUTH

Sperling

Lima / 2026

YOU CAN'T STOP THE WORLD FROM BEING BAD

Galería Gato

KIM MYUNGCHAN

@kim.myungchan

Cergy / Paris / 2026

NIKE, TA MÈRE (WILL FALL ON YOU)

ENSAPC / CROUS Paris

Istanbul / 2026

ROOTKIT

BENTA

Düsseldorf / 2026

DON'T TRUST THE RABBIT

SSK Düsseldorf

Montpellier / 2025

METEMPSYCHOSIS

MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain

Brno / 2025

LOVE

Zaazrak|Dornych

Lisbon / 2025

THE STAGES OF GRIEF

PADA Studios

/ 2024

EXTERNAL CRYOGENICS

Hyperlink Athens

Shanghai / 2024

CONTEMPT

Capsule Shanghai

EMMA BEATREZ

@emma.beatrez

/ 2025

DEEP SEA FISH

Diesel Art Gallery

Berlin / 2025

THE NEOLIBERAL URGE TO CURATE A FRIENDSGROUP

ACUD Galerie

Vienna / 2025

SWEET GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES

dieAngewandte

Arnsberg / 2025

VITALS VAPORS

Kunstverein Arnsberg

Hamburg / 2025

DIE SPRACHE DER VÖGEL

Westwerk Hamburg

Prague / 2025

WITH FEATHERS AND FLESH

Holešovická Šachta

Seoul / 2026

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENEMY

Artsonje Center

London / 2025

THE SIGNAL. THE NOICE

Greatorex Street E1

NATHAN CARÊME

@nadaecc

Dortmund / 2026

CALL ME WE

SUPERRAUM

Dornbirn / 2026

47°24’35’’N / 9°44’20’’E

Kunstraum Dornbirn

Lisbon / 2026

LULLABY BLOSSOMS

Cosmos CAC

Paris / 2026

CHEWING GUM IN THE MOTHERBOARD

La Volonte 93

Paris / 2025

PULSES WITHIN

Ds Galerie

Seoul / 2025

THIRD SKIN

Dive Seoul Art

Vilnius / 2026

SUBSURFACE

MO Museum

Brno / 2026

ANCIENT GIRL STARTER PACK

Galerie Mladých, TIC

Tisbury / 2026

FLOOD

Messums West

Shanghai / 2026

THE ROOM IS EMPTY, BUT PREGNANT

Capsule Shanghai

Málaga / 2026

AXIAL-CORE

La Térmica (KRVCE festival)

Ciudad de México / 2026

TÁNTALO

Biblioteca Vasconcelos

Klaus in Vorarlberg / 2026

DER KOPF IST RUND, DAMIT DAS DENKEN DIE RICHTUNG WECHSELN KANN

Galerie Brugger

KOESY

@koesysaga

Turin / 2026

OLD SNAG

Société Interludio

Mexico City / 2026

AXES

Alvarez Chida

Oslo / 2026

STIAN EIDE KLUGE AT ROTHHAUS, KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

Kunstnernes Hus (Rothaus)

New York / 2026

ACTUALIZATION MACHINE

Silke Lindner

PROFUSION ANTAGONIST WISHLIST exhibition view

Düsseldorf / 2026

PROFUSION ANTAGONIST WISHLIST

PAW

Kraków / 2025

WHEN DOORS CLOSE, WALLS RISE

Jak Zapomnieć Gallery

Shanghai / 2025

A BLADE UNHELD

Galerie Dengyun

Brussels / 2025-2026

WORK OF PROOF

FLⒶT$

YIHAN PAN

@pyhii

Tartu / 2024

ENTER WOODLAND SPIRITS

Estonian Literary Museum and the University of Tartu Natural History Museum

London / 2024

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION

Zerui G

Stockholm / 2024-2025

DIALECTS OF THE DEEP

Bonniers Konsthall

Innsbruck / 2025

TIPPING POINT PHANTOMS

Künstlerinnenvereinigung Tirol

Paris / 2025

TISSU EXPANSÉ

Europa NYC

New York / 2025

LUCA

Management NYC

Warsaw / 2025

THE LAST DRAWER ON THE LEFT

Przeciag Galeria

Busan / 2025

AFTERLIFES

Hongti Artcenter

YEON GYEONG-SEOK

@camelostrich

Munich / 2026

MOTIONS TO UNFURL

Gallery Thetigerroom

Berlin / 2026

COMMON LANDSCAPE(S) (GROUP SHOW)

ACUD Galerie

Paris / 2026

MAIN DE FER, GANT DE VELOURS

Association NOEMI — Espace Brownstone

Kraków / 2026

THE SHAPE OF A SCAR

Bonifraterska 3/1

Nurnberg / 2026

LIMINALITY

Adbk Nuernberg

AUSSERKÖRPERLICHE ERFAHRUNG: WANDERING SPIRIT exhibition view

New York City / 2026

AUSSERKÖRPERLICHE ERFAHRUNG: WANDERING SPIRIT

Management NYC

/ 2025

SWEET WORLD 1

Sweet World Gallery

Madrid / 2025

DESIRING MACHINES

RÍO & MEÑAKA

/ 2026

MOUTH

Warsaw / 2026

A FLOWER IS GROWING INSIDE ME

Piktogram

Avigliana / 2026

I SEE YOU FALLING IN MY DEN

Una Boccata d'Arte 2026

Brussels / 2026

CALL ME GRAVITY

WIELS Contemporary Art Centre

Copenhagen / 2026

AFTER THE OFFERINGS

inter.pblc

ISABELLE ALBUQUERQUE

@isabellealbuquerque

Angers / 2026

THE STASIS GARDEN (OR PIXIES MEMORIES)

Ville d'Angers (Château d'Angers)

Genk / 2026

JOY RIDE

Jester

Kraków / 2026

PASSENGER

Szaber Gallery, Kraków, Poland

Vienna / 2026

TERRITORIES OF EXTRACTION

Arka Arka

Poznań / 2026

TANGLED IN SHADOWS FROM AN OLD DRAWER

Łęctwo

Warsaw / 2026

HAUS DER LÜGE

Przeciąg Gallery

Tokyo / 2026

THE BEAUTIFUL REMAINS

Kohtoh

Edges that blur, bodies that fold into something other exhibition view

Berlin / 2025

EDGES THAT BLUR, BODIES THAT FOLD INTO SOMETHING OTHER

ACUD

00 ZHANG

@aio0o0o0

/ 2023

KASSANDRA

Kunsthalle Ost

/ 2024

METEMPSYCHOSIS: THE PASSION OF PNEUMATICS

Schinkel Pavillon

Vilnius / 2024

KETEROS

Meduza Fyi

Wroclaw / 2024

EUTROPHY

Bulvary

Jung-gu, Seoul / 2025

FARM

Bio Gallery

Geneva / 2024

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, 2024

Halle Nord Geneve

Bratislava / 2025

DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM

Vunugallery

Santiago / 2025

ENCUENTRO

Sagradamercancia

DORIS SALCEDO

#DorisSalcedo

FANTASY VANISHES IN FLESH exhibition view

Milan / 2025

FANTASY VANISHES IN FLESH

Francesca Minini

Berlin / 2025

WEAVING BACK TO COMMON GROUNDS

ACUD Galerie

Dornbirn / 2026

BUCOLICA

Kunstraumdornbirn

Seoul / 2025-2026

GROWING BODY

Studiya Gallery

Seoul / 2025

MASSAGE PLATZ

Shower

Warsaw / 2026

PARACHUTE

Przeciag Galeria

Seoul / 2026

MIMICKING ETERNITY

Studiya Gallery

Offenbach am Main / 2026

CALL SOMEONE

Ayayay

TAEWON AHN

@ppuri_

Hurup / 2026

THE JEWEL BOX

Kunsthal Thy

/ 2026

FROM AN UPCOMING SERIES

Seoul / 2026

BETWEEN REALITY AND THE VIRTUAL

DEW KIM

@dew_needs_you

Seoul / 2026

TANGERINE REVERIE

Bangdo

Paris / 2026

NYMPHENBRUNNEN

Espace Nonono

24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 22 in G minor (Adagio) exhibition view

Seoul / 2026

24 PRELUDES, OP. 34: NO. 22 IN G MINOR (ADAGIO)

Studiya Gallery

London / 2026

FAULT LINES

Public Gallery

Everything comes together while pushing all apart exhibition view

Vienna / 2026

EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER WHILE PUSHING ALL APART

Reaktor Wien

WHO COMPOSES THE SONG OF THE CRICKETS? exhibition view

Paris / 2026

WHO COMPOSES THE SONG OF THE CRICKETS?

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Munich / 2026

DOUBLE STAR

nouveaux deuxdeux

Bucharest / 2026

DISLOCATION

Arsmonitor

ANNA UDDENBERG

@filet_minion_thong

New York City (NY) / 2025

EXUVIAE

Management

Göteborg / 2025

TOMORROW'S FORECAST, WHITE CLOUDS GREY DOGS

Galleri Box

/ 2024

BIDIM BLO!

Basisfrankfurt

Lisboa / 2023

A CERTAIN INSTANCE OF VERRITION

Leal Rios Foundation

Budapest / 2024

SKELETAL SCENES

Ani Molnár Gallery

Prague / 2024

PETRICHOR

Prám

Milan / 2025

FALENE

Limbo Contemporary

Ljubljana / 2025

TAR STAR

Cukrarna Art

JACOPO PAGIN

@pax_aliena

/ 2025

THE ROOM I

Ifö Center

Bratislava / 2025

BEGONE ESTRONE

Medium Gallery

Kraków / 2025

CRASH PÆNDEMONIA

Jak Zapomniec

Milan / 2025

MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES

Limbo Contemporary

DOUBLED PRESENCE IN A DISEMBODIED SPACE exhibition view

Graz / 2026

DOUBLED PRESENCE IN A DISEMBODIED SPACE

Trost Spc

Prague / 2026

SOFT_SIGHS SYNTHESIS

Clauda Cz

London / 2026

EVEN SPECTRES CAN TIRE

Xxijra Hii

Buenos Aires / 2026

COAGVLA

Acéfala Galería

QUE.FRESCA

@que.fresca

Berlin-Schöneberg / 2025

PRESENCE BY PROXY

Schutzenverein

Białystok / 2025

PARADISE ROT

Galeria Arsenal

Paris / 2026

NEXUS, OPEN STUDIO

Cité internationale des arts

XOLO CUINTLE

@xolo_cuintle

Olomouc / 2026

SIGNAL V

Telegraph Gallery

Prague / 2026

ROT SUMMER

Holešovická šachta

Ethereal Robes of Vulnerability exhibition view

Vilnius District Municipality / 2026

ETHEREAL ROBES OF VULNERABILITY

Aikas Žado Laboratory (Žeimiai Manor House)

Słupsk / 2026

A GENTLE KISS ON A DOUBLE FOREHEAD

BGSW / Baszta

Poznań / 2026

WE ARE DEEPLY ALARMED AND EXPRESS OUR GRAVE CONCERN

DOMIE

Poznań / 2026

MAKE ME YOURS

Łęctwo

Brussels / 2026

FIRST DATE

Lodovico Corsini

Berlin / 2026

CAGED MOVEMENTS

NADAN Berlin

YUKINO YAMANAKA

@yukino_yamanaka

Ljubljana / 2026

ACCOMPLICE

Cukrarna

Warsaw / 2024-2025

GRASS ON ROADSIDE 4

Przeciąg Gallery

London / 2025

CHOICE DIRT

Xxijra Hii

Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures exhibition view

Brescia / 2025-2026

INCOMMUNICABILITY IS ITSELF A SOURCE OF PLEASURES

The Address

/ 2024

TRANSPARENCY REPORT

/ 2023

THE WORM AT THE CORE

SET

Berlin / 2023

HUMAN IS

Schinkel Pavillion

London / 2024

LIMO

The Split Gallery

SOPHIA GATZKAN

@s_gatzkan

LUNAR ENSEMBLE FOR UPRISING SEAS exhibition view

Barcelona / 2024-2025

LUNAR ENSEMBLE FOR UPRISING SEAS

Macba Barcelona

Milan / 2025

METAL MEMORY

Limbo Contemporary

Berlin / 2025

GREEN GROWTH

Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien

Århus / 2025

JUST ABOUT AND NEVER

SpLab

Paris / 2025

PARADE

Romeropaprocki

Berlin / 2025

THRESHOLDS

Carlier | Gebauer

Seoul / 2026

THE COLLAPSE MANUAL_THE POST-HUMAN FIELD (GROUP SHOW)

Aod Museum

Leipzig / 2026

MOONLIT BOTANICAL COLOUR THEORIES

Jochen Hempel

ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI

@arghavan_khosravi

Vorarlberg / 2026

SUPPORTED FILES

Galerie Brugger

Sardinia / 2026

BLUE BLOODED

Museo Nivola

/ 2025

LOST ENCOUNTERS, THEY CLING

PARALLEL VIENNA

Seoul / 2025

TACTICS FOR AN ERA (GROUP SHOW)

K&L Museum

GENK, BELGIUM / 2026

JOY RIDE

Jester / Alessandro Cugola

Joy Ride by Alessandro Cugola is an exhibition developed at Jester in dialogue with the institution's archive, containing a vast amount of artworks, editions, and documentation. Through site-specific installations and a durational performance, Cugola reactivates fifty years of artistic production. The exhibition triggers a chain reaction in which the archive is moved, exposed, contaminated, conserved and eventually packed away again. The archive enters a temporary traffic system, a joy ride.

With this exhibition, Jester celebrates its fifth anniversary, alongside the fortieth anniversary of FLACC and fiftieth anniversary of CIAP, the organisations that merged to form Jester.

FLACC and CIAP shaped this vast collection of works, both with different approaches to archiving. As a result, it brings together objects and artworks that were not necessarily intended to form one coherent collection. Some works were produced in close relation to the institution, others remained as traces of projects or decisions made along the way.

During the opening, Cugola initiates the process of archiving himself through a performance. Working with the codes and protocols of art handling, he activates Ventilation Organ (2026) and sets the archive in motion, beginning a process in which works are handled and gradually archived. Over the following weeks, this action is continued by volunteers connected to the organisation.

An archive traditionally makes promises of order as it gathers and classifies. It attempts to hold its contents together, to prevent them from dissolving into dissociation. Joy Ride accumulates and overflows. It contaminates itself. Where do we begin? How long should it be kept? It questions if movement itself can become a temporary answer.

The first space of the exhibition titled Analchon, turns the archive toward the body. The word is deliberately unstable and carries the archive and the arkheion, but it also twists them through anality, digestion and exhaustion. Drawing on Georges Bataille's The Solar Anus (1931), the anal dimension of the archive can be read as a distorted circulation—matter moves, turns, and returns, refusing a clean linearity of historical order. Cugola shifts the archive from a legal or institutional structure to a body that absorbs, processes, retains and eventually expels. For how long does matter remain inside? How is it digested? In Analchon, the archive becomes an exhausted digestive system, one that takes everything in while things continue to slip from its hands.

The second space, titled Anarchive, brings together archive and anarchy or anachronism. The materials Cugola responds to have passed through a series of imperfect locations; former casino buildings, storage spaces, cellars, and attics. They were kept in conditions that were too humid, too provisional, too close to neglect. Following the exhibition, the archive will be permanently stored in the Jester building, entering a more controlled environment that is centralized, perhaps even ideal.

But Cugola asks whether solving its location solves all issues. It may now be housed, but it has not settled. What remains unclear is how the archive will be used, who will speak through it, and what role it can play within Jester's future activities. Is it a collection, a resource, a responsibility, a burden, or a working tool? The installation Anarchive Cabinets I–III (2026) speaks to an unfinished order as it suggests an authority that is present but unable to fully act, suspended at the point of beginning, unsure where to start. The archive is not chaotic because of its lack of structure, it is chaotic because structure does not resolve the pressure to make decisions. Cabinets become figures of an authority that stores without necessarily interpreting, one that protects without necessarily knowing what kind of value it holds.

Ventilation Organ (2026) introduces another kind of authority, one of the building itself. The work hacks the existing climate control system of Jester's Kunsthal, making the conditions that intend to safeguard or stabilize the works on display audible. The building speaks and sings. It has its own presence, its own capacity to dictate or infiltrate. In Anarchive, the building becomes part of its own condition. The archive may have found a place, but that place also acts upon it.

In the third space of the exhibition, titled Joy Ride, visitors can consult the archive. Cugola focuses on the substrate, the actual support that makes looking and handling possible. In archival logic, this is often imagined as a technical condition, something that holds contents or facilitates access. In this space, a transparent table-shaped installation, supported by Ford-branded wheels, subverts this logic, turns the handler upside down and changes the conditions of seeing.

As the viewer looks through the transparent support, the work continues into the ceiling, into the body behind it, into the surrounding architecture. Because the support is placed on wheels, it also remains mobile. The archive appears, but not as something finally fixed. Even at the moment of access, it is still contingent.

In Joy Ride, Alessandro Cugola describes the archive that "speaks about archiving". At Jester, it is stored, but not quite claimed. It is protected, but not fully interpreted. Responsibility passes from the institution to the artist, from the artist to volunteers, from volunteers to visitors, as if the exhibition itself might reveal what the archive is, or what its value might be. Authority is not absent but it is displaced. It acts through delegation, hesitation, postponement. Or, as Cugola notes, "the authority is still there, but it acts through non-decision."

The title Joy Ride refers to a sort of movement without destination, acceleration without resolution, circulation without decision. It is not a heroic journey and not a clean route from origin to endpoint. It is a loop, a temporary activation, a taking-out-for-a-ride. The archive is brought out, shown, handled, looked at, and then returned. Its status is not solved by any movement. Its value is not secured once and for all. Instead, movement exposes the conditions that make the archive uncertain in the first place.

In Genk, the image of a car and its tires call back to the now closed Ford factories with their industrial production, labour infrastructure and eventual abandonment. Joy Ride inevitably touches the city's histories of repetitions of the assembly line, the loading and unloading of material. Cugola treats these as labour organised through linear motion, repeated gestures and exhaustion.

For Cugola, the archive is what remains when responsibility is passed on, when authority acts through non-decision, and when movement itself becomes the only available form of temporary care. Joy Ride does not solve the issue. It takes it out for a ride.

JOY RIDE installation view 2 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 3 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 4 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 5 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 6 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 7 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 8 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 9 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 10 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 11 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

JOY RIDE installation view 12 — Installation view. Photo: Silvia Cappellari

Related Exhibitions

Olomouc / 2026

Keep browsing

Artists in this exhibition

Alessandro Cugola

More at Jester

Browse the archive →