KADIST's October 2026–February 2027 Programs

The non-profit contemporary art organization, KADIST, presents its October 2026–February 2027 programs around the world.

KADIST Exhibitions
Archives des invisibles
October 10–January 9, 2026
KADIST Paris
A project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

Archives des invisibles brings together previously unseen rushes and sequences by filmmakers and artists from the wider Mediterranean and France. Accompanied by testimonies from their makers, these images reveal what remains outside the frame: fragments set aside for aesthetic, political, or personal reasons, yet still carrying memories and histories. The exhibition explores how forgotten images can be reactivated, creating new connections between intimate stories, collective histories, and the places and experiences they evoke.

Threads of Kinship
November 2026–March 2027
Yuz Museum (Shanghai, China)
Co-curated by Shona Mei Findlay, Yuan Fuca, and Marie Martraire

The exhibition explores histories of collectivity through material practices of care and chosen kinship across generations and geographies. Textile runs through the exhibition as a medium of transmission, protection, and transformation. This iteration of Threads of Kinship builds on prior presentations at KADIST Paris and the He Art Museum in Shunde (Guangdong) to extend the exhibition's inquiry into Shanghai's own history.

La tierra del medio
January 30–May 30, 2027
Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City)
Curated by Miguel López & Emiliano Valdés

The land in the middle, the Central American isthmus connecting the north and south of the Americas, can be thought of as the continent's heart, though it occupies a diffuse position, often rendered invisible in representation. This exhibition brings together works that approach Central America as a complex, antagonistic, and multi-temporal mesh of peoples, projects, and worldviews, attending to the porosity of its borders with Mexico and Colombia, its entanglements with the Pacific and the Caribbean, and the diasporas that unsettle and displace this "middle", opening it onto multiple elsewheres.

Palimpsest of African Cities
November 20–February 27, 2026
Galerie Le Manège, Centre Yennenga and other partner venues (Dakar)
Co-presented with the African Artists' Foundation (AAF) and the Institut français du Sénégal
Curated by Olufemi Hinson Yovo and Ken Aïcha Sy

Palimpsest of African Cities: Dig Where You Stand explores the African city as a space in constant rewriting, where institutional models of urban planning negotiate with informal infrastructures shaped by residents’ everyday needs, practices, and aspirations. Bringing together perspectives from across Africa and its diasporas, the works reflect on the forms of resilience, adaptation, and solidarity that emerge within urban environments, while imagining cities as spaces of memory, negotiation, and multiple possible futures.

KADIST Double Takes
Double Takes: Les Inaccoutumés (Fall 2026)
October 15–November 26, 2026
La Ménagerie de verre (Paris)

KADIST partners for the second time with La Ménagerie de verre as part of Les Inaccoutumés, a festival dedicated to artistic experimentation and research. Drawing on works from the KADIST collection, the program echoes the festival's exploration of contemporary forms of writing, the relationship to the body, and performative gesture. Presented throughout the festival alongside performances, the screenings and installations extend that experience into dialogue between visual and performing arts.

Double Takes: Danses interdites (Fall 2026)
November 10–21, 2026
Loop Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) across three venues: Fundació Miralles, Soho House and Casa Montjuïc
Co-presented with Le Nouveau Printemps and Loop Barcelona
Curated by Filipa Ramos

Presented with Loop Barcelona and Le Nouveau Printemps, the second iteration of Double Takes: Danses interdites takes place from November 10–21 in Barcelona. Curated by Filipa Ramos and first conceived for Rossy de Palma's 2026 Nouveau Printemps program, this selection of KADIST films explores censored dances as whispered, living archives of resistance, memory, and survival within Loop Festival.

Double Takes: ARAVARA
October 18-25, 2026
Uniarte (Willemstad, Curaçao)
Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel

ARAVARA is a nomadic exhibition of audiovisual works exploring notions of progress that have shaped political decisions and ideas of the possible since the early twentieth century. Each iteration travels, combining shared works with others chosen in dialogue with its location, resisting a single model of becoming, and instead unfolding as a structure transformed through relation, difference, and encounter.

Double Takes: For those left unsettled
December 19 & 20, 2026
Bengal Biennial 2026-2027 (India)
Co-curated by Ritika Biswas (Bengal Biennale) and Shona Mei Findlay (KADIST)

Which relations count as kin, and who decides? Historically, the patrilineal family, the colonial archive, and the nation-state have answered that question for the human dead, while the plantation and the survey cataloged forests, rivers, and other non-human beings as resources. The same structures decide who rests and who is left unsettled in their afterlives. The program brings together moving-image works about those the record did not count as kin and the surreal, subterranean traces they left in soil, water, and song instead.

Double Takes: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
through December 13, 2026
T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers (Gennevilliers, France)

The program opens a space for dialogue between the visual arts and the stage, extending the questions raised throughout the fall 2026 season at T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers. It brings artists' perspectives into dialogue with the theatre’s multidisciplinary offerings through films and videos that engage with contemporary issues through distinct approaches to image, movement, and performance.

KADIST Collaborations & Residencies
Résidence Tallard with nora chipaumire and Martine Kessy Ekomo Soignet 
September–October 2026 Résidence Tallard, a program by KADIST (Paris)

This fall, KADIST's Résidence Tallard develops two residencies in dialogue with partner programs, bringing together voices reimagining how we remember, connect, and live together. Co-invited with Festival d’Automne, Zimbabwean dancer and choreographer nora chipaumire explores embodiment and post-colonial imaginaries through performance and happenings. In October, in collaboration with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Central African peacebuilder Martine Kessy Ekomo-Soignet brings her work on trust and civic life into conversation with Paris, asking how culture, hospitality, and shared spaces can help us make common ground.

Autonomous Agents: Artists on Human-Machine Interaction
Edited by Simon Castets and Taeyoon Choi with Joseph del Pesco and Sandra Terdjman
Published by KADIST and Pacific, co-commissioned with Google Arts & Culture and Google Technology & Society (2026)
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Autonomous Agents: Artists on Human-Machine Interaction captures a pivotal moment in AI's impact on art and society through fifteen artist interviews spanning diverse geographies, generations, and philosophies. As machines' ability to generate complex imagery and autonomous agents accelerate exponentially, artists' voices are often lost in the unrelenting cacophony of novelty. Sol LeWitt's 1967 declaration, "the idea becomes a machine that makes the art," offers guidance for the present moment, in which the boundaries between art and technology are increasingly porous.

KADIST Online Programs
Online exhibition: Do Our Chimeras Most Resemble Us?
through December 13, 2026
Curated by Marcella Lista and Joseph Del Pesco
Explore the exhibition here

Programmed in rotation over three months, the ten works form a contemporary bestiary of hybrid image-systems. Taking the chimera as a figure for desire, fear, fantasy, and contradiction, the exhibition considers large language models and generative AI systems as contemporary chimeras, hybrid forms assembled from human traces, archives, and the mathematics of pattern and prediction. Do Our Chimeras Most Resemble Us? is the third chapter of a curatorial collaboration between Centre Pompidou and KADIST, exploring how contemporary artistic practices respond to the growing ubiquity of generative artificial intelligence.

Press inquiries
Caroline Arce Ross, Communications Director (KADIST): caroline.arceross@kadist.org