February 12 marks the start of a new Artefact edition, an exhibition and festival that connects contemporary art with current societal challenges.

This year, Artefact focuses on the question: How can an exhibition function as a massage? The artists in Grind Grind Grind, Release. An Exhibition as a Massage bring you back into your body, where both pleasure and tension resides. What does it mean to long for, what does it mean to belong? Come and discover what resonates with you in this open-hearted exhibition that shakes you up and calms you down, all at the same time.

ARTISTS: Eglė Budvytytė, Nicola Turner, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, James Richards, Ange Leccia, Hervé Guibert, Latifa Echakhch, Vir Andres Hera, Tavares Strachan, Iván Argote, Moni Wespi, Banu Cennetoğlu & Yasemin Özcan, Lee Mingwei, Lies Daenen, Daniel Linehan & Michael Helland & Marieke Dermul, Maika Garnica, Oliver Beer & Stefanie Egedy.

CURATOR: Karen Verschooren