Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
18.09.2025 - 15.02.2026
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Duration
18.09.2025 - 15.02.2026
Opening
17.09.2025 18:00
Location
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02
Curators
Andreja Hribernik
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Exhibition
The exhibition Unseen Futures to Come. Fall centres on the experience of uncertainty as an essential aspect of contemporary life. Today, global precarity is fuelled by the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources and people; we face environmental collapse, war, political instability and mass displacement. These are not merely crises but signs of a profound shift—a moment when the foundations of the world as we know it seem to be crumbling.
At the heart of this contemporary condition lie the complex and often invisible workings of power relations and power asymmetries that shape global inequalities, influence access to resources and determine whose lives are valued—or not. Power is not a fixed force, and not to be possessed, but a network of relations embedded and perpetuated within political structures, economic systems and social relations. It amplifies uncertainty by maintaining systemic imbalances even as it is challenged by resistance and transformation. Understanding this dynamic is crucial to grasping how uncertainty is both produced and contested in our times.
This uncertainty at the core of our present time gives rise to an ambivalence that is central to the exhibition Unseen Futures to Come. Fall, which reflects the simultaneous presence of light and dark within the human condition. We are capable of immense love and care, yet also cruelty and destruction. This duality is not easy to grasp because it is so deeply woven into our everyday experience—something we live through without distance. It now seems that this ambivalence has taken a darker turn, and perhaps we are witnessing humanity’s downfall. And yet we may still learn from past patterns: the sense of an ending often precedes major paradigm shifts, shifts inscribed not only in modes of production but also in entire cultural and value systems.
The exhibition explores this fragile and shifting ground through twelve artistic positions reflecting on themes of uncertainty, collapse, resilience and transformation. One of the central works is a library called Fall. A Library of Twilight Worlds conceptualised by philosopher Federico Campagna. This collection of 250 theoretical and philosophical books is structured around the metaphor of the seasons, which symbolise our approach to and perception of the world. Within this framework, autumn/fall is the season in which certainty dissolves, knowledge is questioned and our fear of the unknown intensifies.
The exhibition weaves together contradictions such as love and death, chaos versus calmness, and destruction and renewal to reflect on the paradox of human existence. Rather than offering answers, the works inspire reflection and encourage us to persist with the questions that define our time. Within the tension of Fall, as the old yields to the unknown, we are reminded that darkness is never final, even as the world wavers, the possibility of light—and of reaching for one another—endures.
With works by Dana Awartani, Federico Campagna, Christoph Grill, Adelita Husni Bey, Marija Marković, Vladimir Nikolić, Yhonnie Scarce (the project by artist Yhonnie Scarce was shown with the support of the Australian Embassy), Andrej Škufca, Jože Tisnikar, Sophie Utikal, Bill Viola, zweintopf.
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Exhibition view ‘Unseen Futures to Come. Fall’, zweintopf, ‘2406079: Road to Nowhere’, 2012/2025
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Artist Eva Pichler (artist duo zweintopf) Artist Andrej Škufca, artist Vladimir Nikolić, curator and director of Kunsthaus Graz Andreja Hribernik, artist Christoph Grill, assistant curator Martin Grabner
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Exhibition view ‘Unseen Futures to Come. Fall’, Vladimir Nikolić, ‘800m’, 2019
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Exhibition view ‘Unseen Futures to Come. Fall’ with Yhonnie Scarce ‘Operation Buffalo’ 2024, in the background Christoph Grill, ‘Cape Yakubovskogo, Russia’, 2010, from the series "The Roar of the Sea and the Darkness"
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Exhibition view, “Unseen Futures to Come. Fall”, Christoph Grill, “Cape Yakubovskogo, Russia,” 2010, from the series The Roar of the Sea and the Darkness
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Ausstellungsansicht "Unseen Futures to Come. Fall" mit Vladimir Nikolić, "800m", 2019 und Federico Campagna "Fall. A Library of Twilight Worlds" 2025
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Exhibition view ‘Unseen Futures to Come. Fall’ with Bill Viola ‘The Raft’, 2004
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Exhibition view "Unseen Futures to Come. Fall" mit Andrej Škufca "Black Market: 6GB Ending", 2020
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Exhibition view “Unseen Futures to Come. Fall” with Adelita Husni Bey, “Difesa (Defense) (Image theatre warm up), from the series Briganti”, 2023, and Sophie Utikal, “I Thought We Had More Time”, 2021
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Exhibition view, "Unseen Futures to Come. Fall", with Dana Awartani, "I left and forgot you. Some time ago, I remembered. I remembered that I had forgotten you. I dreamed", 2017
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Exhibition view "Unseen Futures to Come. Fall", Yhonnie Scarce "Operation Buffalo" 2024
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Exhibition view "Unseen Futures to Come. Fall" mit Yhonnie Scarce "Operation Buffalo" 2024
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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Eröffnung der Ausstellung Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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