08/05/2026
🅡 — 16 Ruhr
Big news! Gasper Kunsic has been selected for Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the 2026 edition taking place across the Ruhr region in Germany, known for its site-responsive and socially engaged curatorial framework.
Kunšič’s practice draws on visual fragments from the countryside of his upbringing, alongside folk motifs and pop-cultural imagery from the former Yugoslavia and wider diasporic Balkan context. Through painting, sculpture, works on paper and spatial interventions, he transforms exhibition environments into emotionally charged, immersive settings that disrupt conventional readings of space and instead propose new, speculative folklore worlds and ways of belonging. His inclusion in this year’s programme brings his practice into dialogue with a broad spectrum of contemporary approaches to place, memory and collective imagination.
Read more via ArtReview coverage.
The nomadic biennial is set to open on 21 June