Drawing on examples including the historic May 8 Strike at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026), Platform BK’s Mapping Solidarity for Palestine, the Collective Refusal Campaign Against Artwashing in Rotterdam, and the work of local cultural workers and trade unionists, the programme asks what collective organising can look like across cultural and social sectors.
How can artists become involved in cross-sectoral organising, connecting with the struggles of trade unions, action groups, and neighbourhood initiatives? What role can artists play amid austerity measures and widespread social and economic upheaval?
Across the programme, artists, organisers, cultural workers, and others come together to exchange strategies for visual representation and agitation, organising tactics, future campaigns and possible solidarities across different contexts.
The exhibition Life After Love asks what the changing forms of political struggle reveal about the changing forms of image-making.