January 2026

Bergen

The exhibition Iter Subterraneum draws inspiration from Ludvig Holberg’s novel Niels Klims reise til den underjordiske verden (Niels Klim’s Underground Travels, 1741), often regarded as the Nordic region’s first science fiction novel. Through the story of a man who falls through a hole in Mount Fløyen in Bergen and discovers a society governed by thinking trees, the Enlightenment’s belief in science blends with fantasy and satire. In Holberg’s universe, the trees possess both morals and reason, and the novel can today be viewed as an early exploration of ecological and utopian ideas—a world where growth, branching, and coexistence challenge humanity’s notion of its own superiority. Bergen Kunsthall, 16 January — 5 April 2026.

Berlin

Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson, Akademie der Künste, 11/14/2025 – 1/25/2026. In dialogue with materials from the Paul Robeson Archive, twelve artistic positions – in sound and spatial installations, video works, sculptures, collages and photographs – negotiate questions of solidarity, collective freedom and mutual responsibility. Festival: Fri–Sat, 23–24 Jan.

EastUnBloc presents subversive, experimental and innovative media art works and practices from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe and their contexts. Exhibition, performances, talks, workshops. nGbK, Berlin, 29.11.25 – 15.2.26. Performative intervention by D'epog: 28.1.26 19h. Archival Outreach Symposium: 29.1.26.

Running 23 January – 1 February 2026 at Radialsystem, Berghain, RSO.Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Morphine Raum, and the new warehouse venue Haus der Visionäre, CTM Festival’s 27th edition will dive into the complex dance between dissonance and resonance, where spectral textures, melodies on the edge of tonal precipices, and frequencies oscillating between harmony, shrouds of distortion, and sharp ruptures sonically evoke existence in multiple, often extremely contradictory realities simultaneously. The CTM 2026 theme dissonate < > resonate invites us to inhabit the spaces in-between: the charged fields where frequencies meet, clash, and sometimes unexpectedly converge in moments of shared attunement.

The 39th edition of transmediale looks at the re·figuration of systems, cosmologies, and technologies through the metaphorical coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road. The festival is reimagined as a living recursive carrier net – a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitudes, rhythms, and systems. Understanding Compassing, Metaphoring, and Protocoling as ways to bridge a multiplicity of recipes to the root-code of our systems, the festival asks if your imagination is hungry; what are the currents on our feeds; what’s at the root of our codes. 28 January - 1 February 2026. Main venue: silent green.

Bern

The 14. Norient Festival asks how to live in a fractured world – through films, poetry, music, and sound; through listening, silence, stories, laughter, and even disagreement? 15-17 Jan.

Chicago

Sonic Pavilion Redux is an iterative expansion of this summer’s Sonic Pavilion Festival, staged for Experimental Sound Studio’s Audible gallery. Eight multichannel sound compositions originally created for the 24-channel trellised speaker system at Jay Pritzker Pavilion are reimagined here for ESS’s 8-channel system. 5 December–1 February 2026.

Mexico City

Index Art Book Fair, 15–18 enero / January 2026. In its upcoming edition, IABF 2026 introduces ZINDEX, a section dedicated to the most agile, urgent, and experimental publications in the editorial ecosystem. This new section, organized in collaboration with Proyectos Públicos, will open its doors just steps away from kurimanzutto, the main venue of the fair.

Paris

Deep Fields brings together artists who explore deep fields, from distant desert landscapes to unstable, mobile fields of particles. Confronted with the unrepresentable and the invisible, the artists question perception, which is constantly referred back to its own limits, frameworks and boundaries. Their works are traces of events: the material and psychological echoes of horizons crossed and fields of energy in which the body remains integral. These are no longer isolated objects or static images, but rather the oscillations of fields and the magnetic and luminous vibrations of energy. Deep Fields invites us to explore the territories of contemporary physics and investigate the margins of the visible, encouraging us to step outside the spaces of control. Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, 23.01.26 — 24.03.26.

Warsaw

Near East, Far West - Kyiv Biennial 2025, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 03.10.2025–18.01.2026.