December 2025
Berlin
The Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion unfolds from 21 November–21 December 2025 with exhibitions at venues including Flutgraben, AGIT, Khan Aljanub and Museum Called Baby, with additional programme hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino Café Clinic for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative and KM28 among others, as well as around the streets of Berlin. With a collaboratively curated public program, the Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in talks, workshops, screenings and other gatherings to practice listening, healing and mourning; share joy and sorrow; and cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide. Website.
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, Sat, 29.11.25 – Sun, 15.2.26. Workshop: Entropy Coding: Experiments with Video and Permacomputing, 2.12.25, 2.00–6.00 pm.
Brno
Disk cannot be read is a notional expedition into the forgotten corners of analog and (pre-)digital technologies, carriers, and artistic experiments dating roughly from the early 1990s. Vasulka Kitchen Brno, 9.12 2025—8.2 2026. Toot.
Hamburg
Symposium: Writing in Future. Aula der HFBK Hamburg, 3. – 5.12.2025. Writing as part of artistic practice is currently very popular at art colleges, in the art world, and in art criticism. Writing plays an important role in both the conception and implementation of artistic works and is evident on stage, in film, in performances, and as part of installations and visual works. The public symposium and corresponding exhibition are dedicated to different ways of dealing with texts and writing practices in an art context. In the exchange between artists and authors, transitions and interferences in the writing and staging of a text become visible. In addition to the relationship between visual art and literature, five panel discussions will focus on other relationships, such as institutional, technological, and poet(ological) ones, all of which have implications for the possible futures of writing.
Leipzig
Symposium: Costs of (Dis)Connecting, HGB & HALLE 14, 04.-05.12.2025. Digital connections have long been sold to us as an unalloyed good: seamless, frictionless, universal. Yet the infrastructures that knit us together are also infrastructures of extraction, dispossession, and psychic attrition. To connect is to pay—with attention, with intimacy, with the disassembly of common worlds. To disconnect is likewise costly, casting individuals into isolation, precarity, or invisibility. In this symposium, we ask: what are the costs of (dis)connecting in the digital present? How do platforms, feeds, and models organize not only what is seen but also what can be imagined? And how might artists, theorists, curators, gallerists and mediators invent gestures of resistance, refusal, or subversion in the face of these algorithmic orders? Part of the (Un)Learning Digitalities program.
New York
Pioneer Works' sixth edition of Press Play, a weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops, returns on December 13–14, 2025. Showcasing over 130 artists, musicians, poets, writers, and exhibitors who defy categorization, Press Play invites you to discover new ways of reading, listening, creating, and complaining about culture. This year’s program confronts the complexities of desire, from sadomasochism and online subcultures to loneliness, sex, and what it means to connect today. What happens when bodies and desires collide with technology and communion? How do we transform intimacy into art? In this new hellscape, what radical actions are possible? All talks are open to the public with admission and will be livestreamed on Montez Press Radio.
Nîmes
PUBLICARE édition zéro. Festival du multiple, de l’édition d’artiste et de la microédition, coordonné par Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, en partenariat avec le réseau des bibliothèques de Nîmes et l’école supérieure des Beaux-arts de Nîmes. 11, 12 & 13 décembre 2025.
Tokyo
Tokyo Art Book Fair. Week 1: Dec 11—14. Week 2: Dec 19—21.
