{"id":15734,"title":"INBOX: There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity","date_begin":"2025-09-25T00:00:00.000+02:00","date_end":"2025-11-23T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Antwerp","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/873/large/Campagnebeeld_INBOX.jpeg?1758630471","poster_credits":"© Alaa Abu Asad"},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"INBOX: There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/i\u003e is shaped as a forum — a coming-together of multiple perspectives, methods and critical approaches, forms of expression, geographies and historical backgrounds, and acts as a catalyst for forging new alliances and avenues for empathy. Taking place at M HKA between \u003cstrong\u003e24 and 26 October 2025\u003c/strong\u003e, it incorporates a discursive programme, video screenings, a series of texts commissioned for MOST Magazine, and an exhibition in M HKA’s INBOX. Conceived as a spatial essay, the INBOX exhibition includes works that—through their content and the circumstances of their making—presenting, rather than asking, the key questions at stake. They bring forward artists’ voices engaged with solidarity and empathy under the pressures of violence, fear, digital antagonism and tribalism, and who face the challenges of building affinities across divergent contexts. The exhibition is a prologue, and perhaps more importantly, a call for participation: an invitation to join, reflect and respond. The exhibition opens with Ayman Ramadan’s \u003cstrong\u003eThe Situation Is Fluid\u003c/strong\u003e, where a clichéd phrase—used by the White House’s official response to the 25 January 2011 revolution in Egypt—is hand-painted on a bilingual signboard that mimics municipal signage. The work exposes the vacuity of diplomatic language while acknowledging its power to circulate and occupy space, and despite being produced in 2012, has not yet lost its relevance. The voice resonating throughout the exhibition room belongs to Svitlana Matviyenko and Malaka Shwaikh, who—during a conversation held at the Institute for Human Sciences—interrogated the limits of the now-pervasive discourse of “resilience”—a term that can conceal structural violence—while showing how imperial subjects may become implicated in sustaining colonial regimes. In their talk, solidarity is articulated not as sentiment but as method: an active, internationalist practice against colonial domination embedded in wider architectures of power. Read further \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/094/904/original/INBOX_MOST_zaaltekst_A4_EN.pdf?1758811672\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEwa Borysiewicz, Yulia Krivich, Vera Zalutskaya and\u0026nbsp;Katie\u0026nbsp;Zazenski\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","name":"INBOX: There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity\u003c/strong\u003e is vormgegeven als een forum: een samenkomst van diverse perspectieven, methoden en kritische benaderingen, expressievormen, geografieën en historische achtergronden. Het fungeert als katalysator voor het smeden van nieuwe allianties en het openen van wegen naar empathie. Het vindt plaats in het M HKA van 24 tot en met 26 oktober 2025 en omvat een discursief programma, videovertoningen, een reeks teksten in opdracht van MOST Magazine, en een tentoonstelling in M HKA’s INBOX. De INBOX-tentoonstelling is opgevat als een ruimtelijk essay en bevat werken die—door hun inhoud en de omstandigheden waarin ze gemaakt zijn—de belangrijkste vragen van vandaag zichtbaar maken, in plaats van ze te stellen. De werken brengen stemmen van kunstenaars naar voren die zich inzetten voor solidariteit en empathie, onder de druk van geweld, angst, digitaal antagonisme en tribalisme, en gaan de uitdagingen aan om affiniteiten op te bouwen in uiteenlopende contexten. De tentoonstelling is een proloog, en misschien nog belangrijker, een oproep tot participatie: een uitnodiging om mee te doen, te reflecteren en te reageren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLees verder \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/094/906/original/INBOX_MOST_zaaltekst_A4_NL.pdf?1758812504\"\u003ehier.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEwa Borysiewicz, Yulia Krivich, Vera Zalutskaya and\u0026nbsp;Katie\u0026nbsp;Zazenski\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","name":"INBOX: There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity\u003c/strong\u003e se présente comme un forum et a pour objectif de réunir de multiples points de vue, méthodes et approches critiques, modes d’expression, géographies et contextes historiques, et d’agir comme un catalyseur qui permet de forger de nouvelles alliances et d’ouvrir de nouvelles voies à l’empathie. Organisé au M\u0026nbsp;HKA du 24 au 26 octobre 2025, il comprend un programme discursif, des projections vidéo, une série de textes que le magazine MOST (une revue d’art polonaise en langue anglaise publiée en ligne) a commandée, et une exposition dans l’espace INBOX du M\u0026nbsp;HKA. Conçue comme un essai spatial, l’exposition INBOX comprend des œuvres qui, par leur contenu et les circonstances de leur création, présentent des questions d’enjeux essentiels plutôt qu’elles les posent. Des questions qui mettent en avant des voix d’artistes engagé·es, solidaires et empathiques face à la pression de la violence, de la peur, de l’antagonisme numérique, du tribalisme, et du défi de développer des affinités dans des contextes divergents. L’exposition est un prologue et, peut-être plus important encore, un appel à la participation : une invitation à se joindre, à réfléchir et à réagir.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLire le texte en entier \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/094/905/original/INBOX_MOST_zaaltekst_A4_FR.pdf?1758812434\"\u003eici\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEwa Borysiewicz, Yulia Krivich, Vera Zalutskaya and\u0026nbsp;Katie\u0026nbsp;Zazenski\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2262,"name":"Ayman Ramadan","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/021/027/large/9091419869_47a7ed8b60_b_grey.jpg?1439384179","poster_credits":null}},{"id":3021,"name":"Alevtina Kakhidze /  Алевтина Кахідзе","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/413/large/Alevtina_Kakhidze_grey.jpg?1493287479","poster_credits":null}},{"id":4607,"name":"Nikolay  Karabinovych","assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/083/451/large/Karabinovych_photo_by_Christopher_Pugmire-819x1024.jpeg?1651058737","poster_credits":"© Nikolay Karabinovych"}}],"items":[{"id":9355,"title":"The Situation Is Fluid","date_begin":"2012-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/209/large/ayman.jpg?1389107136","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","actors":"Ayman Ramadan"},{"id":32151,"title":"Curtain for Future / Завіса для майбутнього","date_begin":"2022-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/083/947/large/Curtain_Alevtina_Kakhidze.png?1652974326","poster_credits":"© Alevtina Kakhidze","actors":"Alevtina Kakhidze /  Алевтина Кахідзе"},{"id":32157,"title":"Gelb Gelb, Blau Blau / Жовтий жовтий, синій синій","date_begin":"2014-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/119/large/Karabinovych_gelb_stills1.png?1653893773","poster_credits":"(c)Nikolay Karabinovych","actors":"Nikolay  Karabinovych"},{"id":36974,"title":"Beyond Resilience: Rethinking Solidarity and Resistance Through Palestine and Ukraine","date_begin":"2025-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/979/large/2025_INBOX_There_Is_Nothing_Solid_About_Solidarity_TEN_F026.jpeg?1759925392","poster_credits":null,"actors":""},{"id":36977,"title":"see also: a set of compressed images and feelings","date_begin":"2023-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/975/large/2025_INBOX_There_Is_Nothing_Solid_About_Solidarity_TEN_F015.jpeg?1759918656","poster_credits":"© fantastic little splash — photo: M HKA, 2025","actors":""},{"id":36979,"title":"Newsreel 242 – Sunny Railways","date_begin":"2023-01-01","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/094/974/large/2025_INBOX_There_Is_Nothing_Solid_About_Solidarity_TEN_F007.jpeg?1759917668","poster_credits":"© Nika Autor — photo: M HKA, 2025","actors":""}]}