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Don’t miss Manifesta 16 Ruhr! Undoubtedly one of the highlights of 2026. You can read Tina Sotiriadi’s review @burlingtoncontemporary website - free to read.

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‘Amid rising nationalism, worsening inequality, war, mass migration and the escalating climate crisis, the sixteenth edition of Manifesta opened in four cities across the Ruhr, a post-industrial region in western Germany. Conceived in the early 1990s in response to the political and socio-economic realities that emerged in the wake of the Cold War, the European Nomadic Biennial is particularly attuned to the connections between global instability and civic decline. Under the direction of an interdisciplinary team made up of eight Creative Mediators, Manifesta 16 builds a politics of community encapsulated in the image of Trümmerziegel (“rubble bricks”) “salvaged by local people in the 1940s”: “fragments of an old world that were used to build anew”. Having burrowed into the fabric of the Ruhr, it aims to become an “incubator for change” and “a transdisciplinary mechanism for urban and cultural reactivation”.’⁠
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Tina Sotiriadi reviews Manifesta 16 Ruhr @manifestabiennial. Link in bio to read.⁠
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Images: ‘Ouranophobia 47051’, by Abbas Zahedi. 2026. Found organ pipes, modular metal stands, bespoke pneumatic air supply system and repurposed communication cabinets, dimensions variable. (© Abbas Zahedi; photograph Ivan Erofeev). @abbzah⁠
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‘Kein Geläut’ (‘No Chime’), by Marina Naprushkina. 2026. Inflatable installation, 450 by 450 by 250 cm. (© Marina Naprushkina; photograph Ivan Erofeev). @marina_naprushkina⁠
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‘The Distance Between Me and Everything Else [hanging piece]’, by Mehtap Baydu. 2022. Silicone, dimensions variable. (© Mehtap Baydu; photograph Ivan Erofeev). @mehtapbaydu⁠
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‘Pew Tower’, by Augustas Serapinas. 2026. Reconfigured church benches, 480 by 400 by 400 cm. (© Augustas Serapinas; photograph Rainer Schlautmann). @augustasserapinas