Programs at KADIST Paris and San Francisco
Nothing but the Truth
April 5–July 12, 2025
KADIST Paris
Curated by Flora Fettah, in dialogue with Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Ghita Skali, Nothing but the Truth explores collective narratives and storytelling as critical tools. Drawing from the KADIST collection and invited artists, the project plays with discomfort and humor to expose the violence embedded in constructed spaces. Reflecting a dystopian present, it shares new stories and gathers eight international artists and three collectives to challenge dominant narratives and our connection to reality.
Convulsiones Planetarias / Planetary Convulsions
May 3–August 2, 2025
KADIST San Francisco
Convulsiones Planetarias / Planetary Convulsions is the first U.S. solo institutional exhibition by Mexico City and Oaxaca-based artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, whose video and sculptural works offer a meditation on life through different knowledge systems, entangling human and non-human sentience. Rincón Gallardo’s oneiric fabrication of decolonial narratives of desire, dissidence, and resilience is expanded through the accompanying public program with transmedia storyteller Camila Marambio.
The Plantation Plot
April 20–September 21, 2025
ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
The Plantation Plot, curated by Lim Sheau Yun and in collaboration with ILHAM Gallery, brings together artists and artworks shaped in the wake of plantations. Centered on growth, progress, and global trade, plantations thrived on monocrop commodities. Drawing from Jamaican critic Sylvia Wynter, the exhibition reframes the plantation plot as both story and place, rooted in Southeast Asia yet reflecting a global condition. Exploring the affective modes of plantations and their (non-)logics, it looks backward whilst anticipating a future yet to arrive.
Borders are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai
June 12–September 14, 2025
CAC Vilnius
This second chapter of the exhibition Borders are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai will take place this summer at the CAC in Vilnius. The exhibition stems from the geopolitical turmoil caused by the Russian war in Ukraine. Connecting artworks from earlier Paris exhibitions with a selection from the KADIST collection, here the curators Neringa Bumblienė (CAC Vilnius curator) and Émilie Villez (KADIST advisor) will contextualize the regional colonial histories of Lithuania and beyond into a wider international context, touching on issues such as war scars, extractivism, ancestral healing, surveillance systems, and resilience.
Cinema ao ar livre – Festival Pina Praça [outdoor cinema - Pina’s Square Festival]
July 26–28, 2025
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
The second edition of the outdoor festival features new commissions by Gê Viana and Elyla. Gê Viana’s video Radiola de Promessa (2025) celebrates Maranhão’s cultural heritage through the intersection of spiritual faith and reggae. Elyla stages a live performance of their video work Mirroring Lengger Gallo-gallina (2024), in collaboration with Otniel Tasman, that challenges the boundaries of performance, dance, film, and contemporary ceremonial practices rooted in ancestral wisdom.
KADIST Double Takes and Screenings
Place Made After the Story
February 28, 2025
Composite, Melbourne
Last month, Place Made After the Story revisited public histories and familial memory, examining connections between locality, ecology, and belonging. Through movement, touch, text, and imagery, artists engaged with relational narratives and fluid processes of place-making. Curated by Rosemary Forde with KADIST curators Yuan Fuca and Shona Mei Findlay, the screening featured video works by Edwina Green, Eugenia Lim, Kim Munro, Emilija Škarnulyte, Sriwhana Spong, and Ana Vaz.
Expanded Cinema: Tonalli
April 10, 2025
Centro Cultural España, Mexico City
As part of the Ambulante Gira de Documentales festival, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos presents an expanded version of Tonalli (2021) with live music by sound artist Concepción Huerta. Conjuring fire, flowers, and moons in a hypnotic collage on camera, the gods of creation and fertility reveal themselves and dissolve into dazzling colorful rhythms, evoking the ancient Náhuatl concept of the animating soul or vital force.
Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us
June 29–November 6, 2025
The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky
Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and the temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. Presented as a series of one-night outdoor video programs across the state, this six-part exhibition pairs works by Katinka Bock and Sora Kim with artists from Appalachia. Through texture, sound, myth, and gesture, the program highlights the resonance, reverence, and vibrancy of Kentucky’s landscapes and histories.
The Story That Came to Nothing
June 26, 2025
LE 18, Marrakech
A collaboration with Arash Fayez and Laila Hida, with a sound performance by Maguette Dieng (MBDOJ). In the framework of his residency at LE 18—a multidisciplinary cultural space and artist residency in the medina of Marrakech—Arash Fayez presents The Story That Came to Nothing, a screening exploring the storyteller’s role in preserving narratives. Inspired by the Moroccan Halqa tradition, it features works from the KADIST collection, highlighting storytelling as a tool to combat the threat of forgetfulness.
Press inquiries
Pierre-Antoine Lalande—KADIST: pa.lalande@kadist.org
Aude Keruzore—l’art en plus: a.keruzore@lartenplus.com
