427
Riga · Latvia
427 was founded in 2014 by artists Kaspars Groševs and Ieva Kraule-Kūna. Since then, its goal has been to delight Riga residents and visitors with a regular program of exhibitions and various events, focusing on less-visited artistic phenomena that blend interests in the fundamental media of art – painting, sculpture, installations and sound, uncovering signs, casting webs to capture new ideas and exchanging confabulations. Since 427 opened, more than 70 exhibitions have been organized, not counting temporary events, as the gallery transformed into a strip club, tattoo parlor, CBD shop, dance club, video salon, kindergarten, etc. In 2021, the creators of the gallery published the “427 Years Book”, which summarizes the adventures of the gallery’s first seven years of existence.
427 will be presenting works by Evita Vasiljeva and Jānis Dzirnieks.
427’s participation was supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF) of Latvia.
Ao Hõi Fine Art Museum
Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam
Ao Hõi Fine Art Museum is a private collection based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, that is devoted to archiving and exhibiting artworks from local artists in an intimate, domestic setting. Before the museum was opened in 2022 by Mr.Bambii, it was active under the name 289e (2019-2021), a non-profit contemporary art space that programmed more than one hundred exhibitions and events in a bar in downtown HCMC.
Ao Hõi Fine Art Museum will be presenting the work of Mr Bambii.
Baba Vasa's Cellar
Shabla · Bulgaria
A 92 years old lady runs an art space in the cellar of her house in Shabla, a small town on the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. Since 2002.
Baba Vasa’s Cellar will be presenting works by Karine Fauchard, Lazar Lyutakov (with Vassilka Maneva), Nick Oberthaler and Mads Westrup.
Baba Vasa’s Cellar’s participation was supported by the Forum Culturel Autrichien and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport of Austria.
Chess Club
Hambourg · Germany
chess club is a contemporary art space founded in 2020 in Hamburg and run by Amanda Weimer. Its distinctive curatorial approach brings together local and international artists through exhibitions, performances, screenings, readings, and publications. Over the years, chess club has fostered a sense of community by honing in on vulnerability, emotion, spirituality, sound, and friendship. Alongside exhibitions and events, the gallery also publishes thematic booklets and offers a selection of artists’ books.
The space is located in the former American Boots store on Colonnaden, a historic luxury shopping street in Hamburg.
chess club will be presenting works by Rafael Moreno, Angelique Heidler, Tim Hardy, Zoe Agnes Jungbluth, Sasha Lukashenkova and Europa.
Chicago
London · United Kingdom
Chicago is an apartment gallery founded by friends and run by Layo Mussi in their hallway in East London. Inaugurated with a large group show titled Quarter Life Crisis (2025) Chicago aims to provide via a program of international artists a non-traditional mode of exhibition making and a shared criticality toward a deepening sense of commercialisation in the capital. “We like to say, loyalty is the world’s only currency and it depreciates constantly!”
Chicago will be presenting works by Shelim Alvarado, Goran Arif, Daniel Zeballos, Albin Bergström and Emma Bombail.
Cues
Stockholm · Sweden
Cues serves as an intermittent venue run by Anton Halla and Annie Åkerman, hosting a variety of presentations centered around the scenario of a bar. Based in a residential cooperative in central Stockholm, it operates in a basement that echoes its former use. The programming consists of artistic responses to using its premises both as backdrop and as a site for informal encounters. Activities have no fixed format or duration and cater to the preferences of each invited guest.
Cues will be presenting work by Olga Pedan.
FarO
Lisbon · Portugal
FarO (formerly know as Oporto) operates in a movie theater hidden inside an 18th-Century church in Santa Isabel, Lisbon. Under the direction of Ana Baliza and Alexandre Estrela, the project focuses on artistic dissemination and research, bringing to life a programme characterised by the intersection of various art forms, from experimental film and design, to plastic arts, sound and poetry. Over the last five years, cinema farO has presented a series of thematic sessions showing sequentially and for the brief period of one evening.
FarO will be presenting works by Mário Cesariny, John Matthews, José Maurício, Musa Paradisíaca & Tomé Coelho, Hans Peter, Marco Franco, Sabine Grimm, João Maria Gusmão, Anne Lefebvre, Bernardino Ribeiro, António Manuel Saraiva, Ernesto de Sousa, Juli Susin, Anatoli Susin, Franklin Vilas Boas, Vincent Wolff.
Féria
Marseille · France
Féria is a project space centered around practice and research into caretaking, parenting and mental health. Founded by and situated in Jean Feline’s studio in Marseille since 2021.
Féria will be presenting works by Meera Shakti Osborne.
Giorno Poetry Systems
New York · United States
Giorno Poetry Systems is a non-profit organization that supports artists, poets, and musicians, and centers their perspectives. It’s based on the idea of artists supporting other artists. Artists, poets, and musicians curate our events, they select tracks for our record label, they jury our grants, and their voices are heard on all of our phone lines.
GPS was founded in 1965 and became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1974. It was created by the artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019), who pushed poetry off the printed page and into visual, musical, political, and social realms. GPS also supports his work and maintains his extensive archive of the downtown New York poetry, art, performance, and music communities.
Giorno Poetry Systems will be presenting archival works that embody the spirit of artists supporting artists.
G.G's
Glasgow · United Kingdom
Operating without a fixed location, G.G’s responds to the precarious conditions shaping artist-led activity today by creating temporary platforms for exhibitions, screenings and gatherings.
G.G’s will be presenting works by Jill Westwood, TLC 23, Alan Michael, Adam Lewis Jacob and Jacky Cheetham.
Light-harvesting Complex
Vantaa · Finland
Light-harvesting Complex is a curatorial platform dwelling in a greenhouse in Vantaa, Finland. It is a place for dialogue between human artefacts and surrounding life, highlighting the vibrancy dwelling in matter. It’s both an online and irl space dedicated to fantasy, where the permaculture principles of sustainability and frugality are extended to art curation. Light-harvesting Complex is run by Sara Blosseville and Victor Gogly since 2020.
Light-harvesting Complex will be presenting works by Pierre Guais and Anousha Mohtashami.
oxfordberlin
Berlin · Germany
oxfordberlin is an artist run space that is situated in a UNESCO world heritage site of the Schillerpark estate in Berlin/Wedding.
oxfordberlin will be presenting works by Craig Jun Li, Ricardo Valentim and Paul Niedermayer.
Perrrformat
Zurich · Switzerland / Nomadic
Perrrformat is dedicated to the curation, mediation and documentation of performative practices in (semi-)public spaces. Since 2020, this nomadic initiative, founded in Zurich, has been exploring forms of performance beyond traditional institutional frameworks, in close collaboration with the invited artists. The resulting free programme presents the diverse language of performance to a broad public, while raising central questions about performativity and shared space. Another focus of Perrrformat is specific mediation and experimental documentation, developed and tested alongside the performances, with the aim of building an open and evolving archive.
The artistic direction of Perrrformat is held by Luca Büchler (artist), Martina Morger (artist) and Monica Unser (art historian). Michelle Stutz is in charge for Perrrformat’s Communication.
Perrrformat will be presenting performances by Tiran Willemse and Magdalena Forster.
Perrrformat’s participation was made possible thanks to the support of Forum Culturel Autrichien.
Propaganda
Berlin · Germany
Propaganda is an international poetry paradigm which has spread in the Kunstverein in Hamburg’s parking lot, on the steps of Sacré-Cœur, at the Star of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, on the Steps of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Outside the Gates of the Pierce Brothers Village Memorial Near the Grave of John Cassavetes in Westwood, in the Parking Lot of El Coyote, in the HfBK Ballroom, on the Curb of the American Party Vine Store, and in the hallway of JOAN.
Propaganda is for everyone. Propaganda thrives on expected strokes of good luck. A corridor, a stage, an entrance, a hallway. Repetition is mandatory. Rehearsal is not recommended. Propaganda believes poetry is the most interesting/advanced place to be. Propaganda is everywhere—on every curb, in every alleyway, at every intersection, in every one of your hearts, and irreversibly, in ours. Propaganda is public space. Propaganda is potential.
Propaganda will be presenting works featuring Emma Bombail, Zara Schuster, Trent Crawford, Cora Durmann, Leo Zhang, Ari Cho, Sally Dalgaard, Elisa Barrera, Mimi Hope, Clara Thørsen, Celia Zehetgruber, Sebastian Hvass, Asma Ben Slama, Gregor Horne, Luise Thiele, Alexis Brancaz, Zara Schuster, Emma Bombail, Viktor Simonis, Lisa Dohmstreich, Robert Frost, Kerri Cole, and Jonathan Lubasch, Floss Crossley, Steven Warwick, Layo Mussi, Goran Arif, Shelim Alvarado, Claire Buchanan, Yulia Rudenko, Daniel Zeballos, John Giorno, Violet Webster, Megan Bruinen, Zara Schuster, and last-minute guests.
Provisionnal School For Nothing
Sabóia · Portugal
Provisional School For Nothing aims to think about the school, not as an institution but as a foundation, a primordial principle for action, for a worldview, for living together, as a broad social construction. The school we imagine is a school of reform, a place of revolution, resistance, participation, a provisional exercise, not effective, in transition, not fixed, for nothing, not productive, and the creative use of leisure through artistic and performative practice. A school that opposes No-How to the instituted Know-how.
Provisional School for Nothing will be conducting a workshop during the entire festival.
reclame
Amsterdam · Netherlands
reclame is a project space initiated in 2021 by artist Lisa Sudhibhasilp, physically limited to a street advertisement board. Artists and designers are invited to respond to this peculiar presentation format, its display conditions, and its audience of walking consumers. reclame engages with practices that question advertisement culture and the notion of merchandise, and collaborates with local shops that serve as temporary hosts.
reclame will be presenting works by Masaki Komoto, aka KC (Karaoke Cowboy).
Shower
Seoul · Korea
Shower is a gallery and project space in Huam-dong, Seoul, founded by Gwansoo Shin. It is housed in a former photo studio on the basement floor where all the surfaces had been painted in sky blue with clouds airbrushed in naturalistic mannerism.
Shower will be presenting works by Arnaud Ferron, Hyein Min and Yelim Ki.
The Film Gallery
Paris · France
Inaugurated in September 2005 in Paris, The Film Gallery extends RE:VOIR’s ongoing efforts to introduce experimental cinema to a broader audience. As the first gallery in the world entirely dedicated to experimental film, its mission is to promote artists who combine cinema with other art forms such as visual arts (Stéphane Marti, Jeff Scher, Paul Sharits), poetry (Peter Rose), sculpture, and performance. Many of these artists are associated with multidisciplinary movements such as Dadaism (Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling), Lettrism (Maurice Lemaître), and Fluxus (Jonas Mekas, Jeff Perkins). The programming is curated by a team composed of Pip Chodorov and Tatiana Moise. Its partners include major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Jeu de Paume Museum (Paris), the Museum of Modern Art (Paris), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), La Maison Populaire (Montreuil), The Armory Show (New York), the Mudam Museum (Luxembourg), as well as numerous private galleries.
The Film Gallery will be presenting work by François Delagnes and Olivier Lubeck.