Computer programs, metalinguistic sign sets, text structures, instructions—or even unconscious agendas that people follow culturally or politically: a script, understood as a pattern, orders and prioritizes, defines roles and standards, and determines what is visible and what remains invisible. Scripts applied as norms in society perpetuate social inequalities, colonial structures, and capitalist value systems. What possibilities arise when we abandon these scripts that repeatedly cause crises and disasters—or actively unlearn them? What perspectives unfold when we embrace modes of thought and action that draw on a broad spectrum of relational connections as opposed to binary logic? Like computer programs, social scripts can also be modified, overwritten, and continuously renegotiated. Line by line, code by code, pattern by pattern. In this light, they are not imposed by an unknown external entity rather result from collective practices within social fields and thus remain malleable.
Building on the themes of Host (2024) and Glitch (2025), the 2026 annual program is dedicated to the phenomenon of scripts and the various ways they can be overwritten: Script. Once again, we aim to access spaces and niches that open doors to different, more equitable worlds, even when the path toward them seems long and distant, if not increasingly unattainable. Under the motto Learning from Global Majorities, we invite artists, curators, and artistic collectives to question the invisible scripts that dictate how we think about the world. We intentionally use the term “majorities” in the plural form: there is not one global majority, rather many different majorities that take shape by virtue of varying perspectives, contexts, and power relations. What remains constant, however, is that the very forces shaping the world today—colonialist powers, economic elites, representatives of symbolic dominance—are rarely part of these majorities and often act as a small circle. Paradoxically, precisely this constitutes their strength: they pool resources, control access, and engineer the narratives that condition our view of the world. From this position, they define which scripts apply and which do not. Reversing perspectives can therefore unlock the transformative potential of scripts: now the focus shifts from conformity to plurality, to multiple storylines instead of a dominant narrative. This understanding reminds us that justice is not born out of a single voice, but from polyphony: the script of global multiplicities.
(Re-)Writing Scripts #1
March 20, 2026, 6 pm
Oscar Cueto — Blueprint for No Museum
Opening, April 21, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition, April 22 – May 22, 2026
(Re-)Writing Scripts #2 | Christian Ghazi, Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1972)
Film screening and discussion upon invitation from Huda Takriti
May 29, 2026, 6 pm
Paula Bruna Pérez — Jaleo Forestal
Opening, June 9, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition, June 10 – July 31, 2026
(Re-)Writing Scripts #3 | Mohamed Abdelkarim
Film screening and discussion
October 9, 2026, 6 pm
[Ominous Music Playing] — Group exhibition, curated by Abbey IT-A
Opening, October 20, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition, October 21 – December 4, 2026
(Re-)Writing Scripts #4
December 11, 2026, 6 pm