Subterranean

Opening: Thu, 10.09.2026, 7pm Duration: Fri, 11.09. – Sat, 07.11.2026 Artists: Joyce Joumaa, Ghislaine Leung, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Valentin Noujaïm, Marina Xenafontos Guest curators: Sarah Johanna Theurer & Aditi Kapoor

The group exhibition Subterranean, curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer and Aditi Kapoor, brings together artists who use narrative to examine the psychological costs embedded in contemporary infrastructures and commodities. The exhibition examines the psychic frictions generated by the systems we inhabit. While these systems often reinforce social separation and fragmentation, the works by the artists represented in Subterranean aim to reveal hidden threads and interdependencies. A distinct focus of the show is time-based media and its capacity to create relationships across different temporalities.

Sarah Johanna Theurer is a curator and writer who focuses on time-based art and techno-social entanglements. At Haus der Kunst in Munich, she curates research collaborations and exhibitions that trace the histories and futures of liveness, exploring how technologies shape artistic production, perception, and collective experience. Her recent work includes the first survey of filmmaker and net artist Shu Lea Cheang, a major new commission by WangShui, and Echoes, a serial program foregrounding live, time-based, and networked practices.

Aditi Kapoor is an itinerant curator whose work focuses on contemporary media and performance with a vested interest in time-based art practices. She is active as an independent curator and a performance art producer, and has collaborated with Firelei Báez, Christelle Oyiri, and Nicole Eisenman, among other artists. Additionally, Kapoor was the curatorial assistant to John Akomfrah’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2024. Previously, she has worked with the Publications department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, at ISCP: International Studio and Curatorial Program, and with Montez Press Radio.