Exhibition of the Week

LULLABY BLOSSOMS

@cosmos.cac

Lisbon, Portugal

14 April - 12 May 2026

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Paris / 2026

MAIN DE FER, GANT DE VELOURS

Association NOEMI- Espace Brownstone

Kraków / 2026

THE SHAPE OF A SCAR

Bonifraterska3/1

Warsaw / 2026

PARACHUTE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@przeciag_galeria

Lisbon / 2026

LULLABY BLOSSOMS

@cosmos.cac

Paris / 2026

CHEWING GUM IN THE MOTHERBOARD (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@lavolonte93

Vorarlberg / 2026

SUPPORTED FILES

@galeriebrugger

London / 2026

EVEN SPECTRES CAN TIRE

Xxijra Hii

Seoul / 2026

MIMICKING ETERNITY

@studiya.gallery

Dornbirn / 2026

47°24’35’’N / 9°44’20’’E

Kunstraum Dornbirn

Dortmund / 2026

CALL ME WE

SUPERRAUM

Buenos Aires / 2026

COAGVLA

@acefalagaleria

Offenbach am Main / 2026

CALL SOMEONE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@ayayay_________

Prague / 2026

SOFT_SIGHS SYNTHESIS

@clauda.cz

Nurnberg / 2026

LIMINALITY

@adbk_nuernberg

New York City / 2026

AUSSERKÖRPERLICHE ERFAHRUNG: WANDERING SPIRIT

@management.nyc

Berlin / 2026

COMMON LANDSCAPE(S) (GROUP SHOW)

@acudgalerie

Leipzig / 2026

MOONLIT BOTANICAL COLOUR THEORIES

@jochenhempel

Sardinia / 2026

BLUE BLOODED

@museo_nivola

Seoul / 2025-2026

GROWING BODY

@studiya.gallery

Seoul / 2026

THE COLLAPSE MANUAL_THE POST-HUMAN FIELD (GROUP SHOW)

@aodmuseum

Graz / 2026

DOUBLED PRESENCE IN A DISEMBODIED SPACE

@trost.spc

Seoul / 2025

MASSAGE PLATZ

Shower

Brussels / 2025-2026

WORK OF PROOF

FLⒶT$

Munich / 2026

MOTIONS TO UNFURL (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@gallery_thetigerroom

Lisbon / 2025

THE STAGES OF GRIEF

PADA Studios

Dornbirn / 2026

BUCOLICA

@kunstraumdornbirn

Brescia / 2025-2026

INCOMMUNICABILITY IS ITSELF A SOURCE OF PLEASURES

The Address

Berlin / 2025

WEAVING BACK TO COMMON GROUNDS (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@acudgalerie

Milan / 2025

MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@limbo.contemporary

Berlin / 2025

THRESHOLDS

@carliergebauer

Berlin-Schöneberg / 2025

PRESENCE BY PROXY

@schuetzenverein_

Paris / 2025

TISSU EXPANSÉ

@europa.nyc

Paris / 2025

PULSES WITHIN

@ds_galerie

Paris / 2025

PARADE

@romeropaprocki

Göteborg / 2025

TOMORROW'S FORECAST, WHITE CLOUDS GREY DOGS

Galleri Box

Kraków / 2025

CRASH PÆNDEMONIA

@_jak_zapomniec_

Shanghai / 2025

A BLADE UNHELD

Galerie Dengyun

Milan / 2025

FANTASY VANISHES IN FLESH

@francesca_minini

Seoul / 2025

THIRD SKIN

@dive.seoul.art

Madrid / 2025

DESIRING MACHINES

@riomenaka

Białystok / 2025

PARADISE ROT

@galeria_arsenal

Seoul / 2026

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENEMY

@artsonje_center

Prague / 2025

WITH FEATHERS AND FLESH

@holesovickasachta

Seoul / 2025

TACTICS FOR AN ERA (GROUP SHOW)

K&L Museum

Busan / 2025

AFTERLIFES

@hongtiartcenter

London / 2025

THE SIGNAL. THE NOICE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@greatorexstreet_e1

/ 2025

SWEET WORLD 1

@sweet.world.gallery

Bratislava / 2025

BEGONE ESTRONE

MEDIUM

Bratislava / 2025

BEGONE ESTRONE

@medium_gallery

London / 2025

CHOICE DIRT

Xxijra Hii

Hamburg / 2025

DIE SPRACHE DER VÖGEL

@westwerk_hamburg

Brno / 2025

LOVE

Zaazrak|Dornych

New York City (NY) / 2025

EXUVIAE

Management

Berlin / 2025

EDGES THAT BLUR, BODIES THAT FOLD INTO SOMETHING OTHER

ACUD

Warsaw / 2025

THE LAST DRAWER ON THE LEFT

@przeciag_galeria

Århus / 2025

JUST ABOUT AND NEVER

SpLab

/ 2025

THE ROOM I

@ifocenter

Santiago / 2025

ENCUENTRO

@sagradamercancia

Arnsberg / 2025

VITALS VAPORS

@kunstverein_arnsberg

New York / 2025

LUCA

@management.nyc

Bratislava / 2025

DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM

@vunugallery

Milan / 2025

METAL MEMORY

@limbo.contemporary

Kraków / 2025

WHEN DOORS CLOSE, WALLS RISE

Jak Zapomnieć Gallery

Berlin / 2025

GREEN GROWTH

@kuenstlerhaus.bethanien

Vienna / 2025

SWEET GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES

@dieangewandte

Milan / 2025

FALENE

@limbo.contemporary

Berlin / 2025

THE NEOLIBERAL URGE TO CURATE A FRIENDSGROUP

@acudgalerie

Montpellier / 2025

METEMPSYCHOSIS

MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain

Ljubljana / 2025

TAR STAR

@cukrarna.art

Jung-gu, Seoul / 2025

FARM

@biogalleryseoul

/ 2025

DEEP SEA FISH

@dieselartgallery

Innsbruck / 2025

TIPPING POINT PHANTOMS

@kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol

/ 2025

LOST ENCOUNTERS, THEY CLING

@parallelvienna

Stockholm / 2024-2025

DIALECTS OF THE DEEP

@bonnierskonsthall

Warsaw / 2024-2025

GRASS ON ROADSIDE 4

Przeciąg Gallery

London / 2024

LIMO

The Split Gallery

Prague / 2024

PETRICHOR

Prám

Wroclaw / 2024

EUTROPHY

Bulvary

Geneva / 2024

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, 2024

@halle_nord_geneve

Berlin / 2023

HUMAN IS

Schinkel Pavillion

Barcelona / 2024-2025

LUNAR ENSEMBLE FOR UPRISING SEAS

@macba_barcelona

London / 2024

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION

@zerui.g

Shanghai / 2024

CONTEMPT

@capsuleshanghai

Tartu / 2024

ENTER WOODLAND SPIRITS

Estonian Literary Museum and the University of Tartu Natural History Museum

Budapest / 2024

SKELETAL SCENES

@amprojects_byanimolnar

/ 2024

METEMPSYCHOSIS: THE PASSION OF PNEUMATICS

@schinkelpavillon

Vilnius / 2024

KETEROS

@meduza.fyi

/ 2024

EXTERNAL CRYOGENICS

@hyperlink_athens

/ 2024

TRANSPARENCY REPORT

/ 2024

BIDIM BLO!

@basisfrankfurt

/ 2023

KASSANDRA

@kunsthalle.ost

/ 2023

THE WORM AT THE CORE

@setsetsetsetsetset

Lisboa / 2023

A CERTAIN INSTANCE OF VERRITION

Leal Rios Foundation

Seoul, South Korea / 2025

Massage Platz

Shower / Sojung park and Yorgos Agrotes

Relaxation is difficult to pin down. Even in those rare moments when we believe ourselves to have experienced it, it remains merely fleeting. At those times when we sense ourselves relaxing briefly amid profound tension, there is a different layer of tension that pervades. The relaxation that once seemed granted to us as naturally as breathing now feels strange and unfamiliar. No longer something that visits us on its own, it is a state that can just barely be achieved through conscious training and repeated practice - drifting off toward a horizon of complete unattainability.

Today’s massage industry bills that receded sensation as a product available for immediate consumption. Expensive massage chairs and various other massage devices confidently promise us relaxation, but even that pledge remains trapped in a cyclical equation of “tension > resolution > returning.” The underlying assumption is that there is a predetermined “original” state that we should return to, where relaxation operates not as liberation but as a returning mechanism. The origin in question is a body capable of working, and “relaxation” is standardized amid the demands of the capitalist timetable and productivity.

The exhibition Massage Platz aspires to the deconstruction of this narrow pathway. The “Platz” is a place where the individual can briefly set themselves down, as well as a provisional place for people to gather and scatter without purpose. Stripped of function and goals, this empty space harbors a sense of indeterminacy and pure potential, seeking a way of sliding outside the familiar order and stripping away the surfaces of schematized relaxation.

Rather than sidestepping the layers of tension and oppression that inhibit relaxation, Yorgos Agrotes confronts them directly. He looks at discomfort and pain not as things to be removed but as signs whose weight the living being is obliged to shoulder. His canvases are psychological landscapes formed through the layers left behind by the clashing of emotions, memories, and materials. Rejecting an immediate resolution of the tension here, he lingers instead in an indeterminate moment where choice, regret, bitterness, hesitation, and irony all intersect. This represents an act of observing the possibilities for change that are in the loose spaces formed by disorder. As Agrotes searches through the unfamiliar world pervading those spaces, he seeks out the new sense of relaxation that only emerges on the structure’s edges.

Park Sojeong experiences relaxation as an event amid flows that are revealed by materials themselves. She hangs her materials and then spends a long time observing the process as they flow, twist, and swell, perceiving the alternation between balance and imbalance. Materiality manifests here not through simple objects but through unpredictable events that unfold across time and space. In her encounters with these materials, the artist yields the place of the subject and summons inner memories and images based on sensory strata that cannot be captured in language. In this exhibition, she makes active use of machine devices and pressure-generating mechanisms. Instruments designed to pressure the body at regular intervals are decontextualized and transformed into media where the materials define their own rhythms. Through this approach, she experiments with relaxation as an event that expands through repeated connections and changes.

Agrotes and Park share similarities in that they do not strip away tension or instability but instead trace the trembling and flows that emerge through them. One of them explores the signs of relaxation that appear with trembling under the weight of pressure; the other welcomes relaxation as an event as she yields herself to matter’s indeterminate flows. Their work rejects restoration to a better functional existence, as it inquires into the meaning of life that only arises amid tension and transformation. This shakes our trust in fixed forms and defined subjects, revealing the conditions of a world that is constantly forming and disappearing.

As a result, relaxation is no longer simply a moment of rest or recovery. As familiar orders are upended, fixed boundaries are loosened, and unfamiliar rhythms permeate us, we find ourselves at the threshold to a different way of being. What Massage Platz ultimately seeks to show is not a frozen moment of relaxation but relaxation as a liberating and transformative experience. These are the foundations for a new life that blossoms amid indeterminacy - the possibility of encountering the truest self while straying the farthest.

Massage Platz installation view 2 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 3 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 4 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 5 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 6 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 7 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 8 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 9 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 10 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 11 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 12 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

Massage Platz installation view 13 — Installation view. Photo: Joseph lee

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