Bart De Baere, director of Antwerp’s M HKA is rewriting what a museum can be:”I do not distinguish between biennials and other exhibitions. For me, any necessary exhibition creates a temporary genius loci - a temporary spirit of the place. A necessary exhibition is a singularity and it is never something that can be systemically repeated.”

When Songxian Jian moved to Japan to study design, he unexpectedly fell in love with pottery. Now based in China’s pottery capital Jingdezhen, his work combines his training in pottery from Japan with ancient Chinese techniques.

Marielsa Castro Vizcarra doesn’t just curate exhibitions—through her work at Museo Jumex in Mexico City and curatorial collective Coopia, she is reimagining space beyond colonial frameworks.

From transforming a local market into a communal hub (Museos en común) to questioning architecture’s hierarchies, Castro activates in her curatorial practice collective action.

With Dr. Kirstin Feireiss and Hans- Jürgen Commerell from Aedes - Architecture Forum and ANCB - The Metropolitan Laboratory, we discussed the formation of the famed Berlin-based institution and the curatorial practice of its founders and directors.