Skeleton for Future Art Forms

(notes on “Shaping the Future”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Art Week, Sep. 12 - 2025)

Detail of A Transversal Zigzag Through Phantom Zones, 2025, ink on paper map, 125 x 98 cm

Off-center

Off-canon

Here interest concentrates

Here we build worlds in survival mode

Play is subversive

Children know the way in

Youth is already here

They don’t ask why it’s art

Habits are broken

Digital pretends

Public space fragments

Perception is not understanding

We map ambiguity

echo what communities need

Every work multiple stories

The city is the medium

Our bodies confront

Ritual gathers

The future—precarious, burning, unfinished, tender, possible

We turn no-spaces into yes-spaces

We acknowledge

We share

We mirror

Innovation is suspect

Enlightenment is over

Uncertainty is our potential

Playgrounds feed the future

This is our skeleton

A trembling frame

A future becoming

Communities are here!

The world is here!

Where we celebrate Art!

We are alive!

Now show me your budget!