For 2025, STATEMENT focuses on algorithmic control, digital disinformation, and technological manipulation. The exhibition, titled Realities Building, is curated by Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator and Head of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin.

The exhibition brings together artists from across the globe—many of whom live in different parts of the world by choice or necessity—whose practices articulate the urgency of reclaiming agency in technologically saturated environments.

Centering on film, sound, and performance, Realities Building explores how artists working with time-based media provoke critical thought and create new frameworks for perceiving reality. The featured works address the entangled forces of surveillance and disinformation, while also offering alternative strategies of resistance and affirmations of individual freedom.

The detailled programme for »STATEMENT: Realities Building« will be published in early September.

viennacontemporary
11–14 September 2025
Messe Wien, Halle D
Trabrennstraße 7
1020 Vienna

Featured image: Valerie Maltseva