KADIST

〰️ Bringing contemporary art to a progressive society through collaborations

KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization that believes artists make an important contribution to a progressive society through their artwork, which often addresses key issues relevant to the present day. Dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists—from more than one hundred countries—represented in its collection, KADIST affirms contemporary art’s role within social discourse, and faci

litates new connections across cultures. With a hub in Paris and staff and advisors on five continents, KADIST organizes exhibitions, physical and online programs, and hosts residencies. KADIST stays apprised of developments in contemporary art via a global advisor network, and develops collaborations internationally, including with leading museums, fostering vibrant conversations about contemporary art and society.

09/04/2026

🪡 What stories can woven thread carry?

Now on view as part of Threads of Kinship at He Art Museum ()

In El viaje de Yibo (2024), Angélica Serech () draws on the tradition of weaving güipiles—textiles that carry Mayan histories, identities, and ancestral knowledge. Treating textile as a form of visual language, her work traces how memory, knowledge, and women’s labor move across generations.

Bringing together 44 artists, the exhibition explores histories of care, autonomy, and chosen kinship through material practices.

📍 He Art Museum, Shunde, China
🗓️ Through Jun 30, 2026

📷️ Threads of Kinship, installation view, He Art Museum. Co-presented by KADIST and He Art Museum. Photo by Chen Yuxin, © He Art Museum • Angélica Serech, El viaje de Yibo [Yibo’s Journey] (2024), Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection

06/03/2026

🧵 Opening Soon: Threads of Kinship⁠
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📍 He Art Museum, Shunde, China⁠
🗓️ Mar 16 – Jun 30, 2026⁠
⭐ Official Opening: March 23, 2026, 3 pm; HEM Lobby (1F)⁠
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KADIST and the He Art Museum present the second edition of 'Threads of Kinship,' bringing together 44 artists exploring histories of care, autonomy, and chosen kinship through material practices.⁠
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Building on its first iteration at KADIST Paris, this presentation expands the dialogue with the legacy of Guangdong’s Self-Comb Sisters—women who chose collective life through silk production as a path to independence.⁠
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Curated by Shona Mei Findlay, Yuan Fuca, and Marie Martraire (KADIST) in conversation with the He Art Museum curatorial team.

Artworks by Chen Jialu & Self-Comb Sisters • Wang Ye • Bayrol Jiménez • Xyza Cruz Bacani • Hu Yinping • Subash Thebe Limbu • Santiago Borja • Tarik Kiswanson

Learn more about the exhibition: https://kadist.org/program/threads-of-kinship-shunde/

27/02/2026

To celebrate the release of Meriem Bennani’s () new feature film ‘Bouchra’ (2025), we’re looking back at ‘FLY’ (2016), a video installation in the 🎬✨⁠
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Originally commissioned for Bennani’s first solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, ‘FLY’ was conceived as an immersive, multi-projector environment inspired by the mosaic vision of a fly’s eye. In its single-channel form, the work unfolds through scenes shot in Bennani’s hometown of Rabat—family interviews, an open-air market, a wedding—reassembled through surreal digital manipulations.⁠
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An animated fruit fly guides us through the film, mischievously weaving through markets, medinas, and private celebrations. Moving between documentation and magical realism, 'FLY' constructs an augmented, non-linear universe that sharpens the contradictions and oddities of everyday life. 🦟⁠
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📷 Installation views of ‘Meriem Bennani: FLY’ at MoMA PS1, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1. Photo by Pablo Enriquez.

20/02/2026

[eng] En el marco de la colaboración entre Artishock y KADIST, presentamos una nueva entrega de nuestro ciclo de videoarte latinoamericano 🎥✨⁠
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Este mes exhibimos 'Grabador Fantasma' (2018), de Adrián Balseca (Quito, 1989) en colaboración con Fundación Kara Solar , obra perteneciente a la colección de KADIST.⁠
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La selección está curada por Alejandra Villasmil, editora de Artishock, y forma parte de una serie mensual dedicada a ampliar el acceso al videoarte latinoamericano a través de KADIST TV, plataforma digital que reúne cientos de obras curadas internacionalmente.⁠
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🔗 Mira el video completo en KADIST.tv.⁠
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[esp] As part of the collaboration between Artishock and KADIST, we present a new installment of our Latin American video art series 🎥✨⁠
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This month, we feature 'Phantom Recorder' (2018) by Adrián Balseca (Quito, 1989) in collaboration with Fundación Kara Solar , a work in the KADIST collection.⁠
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The selection is curated by Alejandra Villasmil, editor of Artishock, and is part of a monthly series dedicated to expanding access to Latin American video art through KADIST TV, a digital platform featuring hundreds of works curated internationally.⁠
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🔗 Watch the full video on KADIST.tv.⁠
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→ Access available with registration at KADIST.org.

11/02/2026

🎬 Double Takes: Ménagerie de verre × KADIST
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[𝐟𝐫] Ce printemps 2026, KADIST s’associe à la Ménagerie de verre dans le cadre de Double Takes, un programme de projections et d’installations issues de la collection KADIST. Inspiré par les thématiques du festival Les Inaccoutumés, écritures contemporaines, expérimentation des formes, relation au corps et gestes performatifs, il prolonge l’expérience scénique et crée un dialogue entre arts visuels et arts vivants.

[𝐞𝐧𝐠] This spring 2026, KADIST partners with La Ménagerie de verre for Double Takes, a program of artist film and video screenings from the KADIST Collection. Exploring festival themes, contemporary writing, experimentation with forms, the body, and performative gestures, it extends the live performance experience and fosters a dialogue between visual and performing arts.
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⏜ Double Takes: Les Inaccoutumés Festival ⁠
↗ 12 rue Léchevin, 75011 Paris, France⁠
↗ From March 12 to April 2, 2026⁠
↗ https://kadist.org/program/double-takes-les-inaccoutumes-festival/
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👁️ Featuring ‘Soft Materials’, 2004, Daria Martin I ‘Blue Elbow (Coude Bleu)’, 2015, Jumana Manna I ‘Untitled (Wave)’, 2021, Anne Imhof I ‘She’s gone’, 2009, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda I ‘Board’, 1993, John Wood & Paul Harrison. Courtesy the artists⁠,

06/02/2026

Introducing Anna Harsanyi, KADIST's first Curatorial Fellow ✨ Over the next 18 months in Paris, she will develop an exhibition and a series of public programs drawing on KADIST’s resources, including its international collection, while working closely with the KADIST Paris team, guest curators, and international partners.

Anna Harsanyi is a curator, educator and arts manager. She is dedicated to presenting art in a non-art context and creating sites that invite participation from audiences outside of the art community. Her projects explore the visual language, political potential, and social choreography of everyday life.

She recently worked as Associate Curator at Creative Time, where she led CTHQ, a gathering space for art and political engagement and was part of the curatorial team of the Creative Time Summit 2024. Independently, she has organized cross-cultural and site-specific projects in New York, Saint Petersburg, and Seoul; commissioned works on hidden histories for The New School Centennial; and collaborated on a series of events centered on play.

Some of her favorite artworks in the include:
• Alexandra Pirici, Parthenon Marbles, 2017
• Anca and Arnold Benera and Estefán, Rehearsals for Peace, 2023
• Asli Çavusoglu, The Devrek Sun Agricultural Development Cooperative, 2020
• Basma Alsharif, Deep Sleep, 2014
• Rahima Gambo, Instruments of Air, 2020
• Ghita Skali, The Hole’s Journey, 2020
• Binta Diaw, 1.12.44, 2023
• siren eun young jung, I am not going to sing, 2015

📸 Ally Caple

30/01/2026

Remembering the River Kwai 🕯️

Saroot Supasuthivech is a Thai artist whose work explores sites, memory, and history through moving-image “reassemblages” that merge tangible remnants with mystical narratives.

Now part of the , River Kwai: This Memorial Service was Held in the Memory of the Deceased (2022) is a two-channel video installation reflecting on the thousands who died building the Burma Railway. Filmed at Krasae Cave, now a tourist site, the work shifts between a memorial performance and spectators recording on their phones, rendered ghostly through an X-ray-like filter.

The installation examines how spectacle and tourism can normalize violence, turning remembrance into performance while exposing the fragile line between memory, entertainment, and historical amnesia.

Learn more: https://kadist.org/work/river-kwai-this-memorial-service-was-held-in-the-memory-of-the-deceased/

📷 Saroot Supasuthivech, River Kwai: This Memorial Service was Held in the Memory of the Deceased (2022), video stills | Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection

28/01/2026

🫂 "Joy is really a place that makes us vibrate, that reminds us that we are human beings, that we’re not just enduring a world, that sometimes overwhelms us, that is beyond our control."

A look back at 'The Fabric of Resistance,' a conversation organized with the French media La Déferlante. Talk with Jeanne Friot and Kiyémis, moderated by Christelle Murhula.

📹 Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/gjBEXWPzAsk?si=n-dhGhfL-wAW5etb

🎥 Vincent Peugnet, Alexia Demars

15/01/2026

🎬 Back in Copenhagen with Simian!

The second edition of the film program brings together selections from the curated by Laura Langer, currently presented in the solo exhibition 'Why am I me?' opening on January 24, alongside films curated by Simian in dialogue with the exhibition 'La Légende d’Eer', dedicated to Iannis Xenakis.⁠

👁️ Featuring Tarantism (2007) by Joachim Koester I Lens Flare (2008-2009) by Jordan Kantor I 9000 PIECES (2010) by Euan Macdonald I Suspension (2014) by Sebastián Díaz Morales I Until It Makes Sense (2004) by Mario García Torres I Steak House (2009) by Taro Izumi I Video stills, Courtesy the artists⁠, KADIST collection⁠

↘︎ Extended Views | Simian, Kay Fiskers Plads 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
↘︎ From January 24 to April 12, 2026
Learn more: https://kadist.org/program/extended-views/

📌 Extended Views, a film program by Simian and KADIST showcasing a selection of moving-image works from KADIST’s collection.

14/01/2026

'Threads of Kinship' has officially wrapped at KADIST Paris 🫂⁠

Our heartfelt thanks to the artists for their trust and their contributions; to Shona Mei Findlay, Yuan Fuca, Marie Martraire, and He Art Museum for their curatorial vision, to our visitors for their curiosity and the many conversations sparked throughout these months and two events with AWARE and La Déferlante, and to everyone who helped bring this project to life.⁠
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Stay tuned for our upcoming programs, and don’t miss our next exhibition on April 17 at KADIST!
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🫶🏻 Mercedes Azpilicueta, Chen Jialu & Self-Comb Sisters, Gaëlle Choisne, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Hu Yinping, Tarik Kiswanson, Ma Qiusha, Ashmina Ranjit, Risham Syed, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Yee I-Lann, Erika Tan, Aurélie Petiot, Nina Volz, Kiyémis, Jeanne Friot and Christelle Murhula
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📸 Testud & Vincent Peugnet

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