Opening: Thu, 10.09.2026, 7pm

Duration: Fri, 11.09. – Sat, 07.11.2026

Artists: Joyce Joumaa, Ghislaine Leung, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi & Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Valentin Noujaïm, Marina Xenofontos

Guest curators: Sarah Johanna Theurer & Aditi Kapoor

Invisible labor, invisible costs. In the group exhibition Subterranean, five artistic positions delve into the deep layers of today’s social systems. 

What goes behind the scenes in the institutions and infrastructures that shape our daily lives? What is out in the open, what remains obscured? These questions are at the heart of the group exhibition Subterranean, curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer and Aditi Kapoor. Five contemporary artistic positions reveal the invisible work that flows daily into the (re)production of our everyday social lives. Using various narrative strategies, they bring buried (hi)stories to light, peer into the black boxes of industry and the financial world, and explore forgotten alternatives to the regimes of productivity and competition.

Subterranean is the third chapter of the Kunstraum’s annual program Fragile Fictions, which explores the transformative potential of storytelling.

Sarah Johanna Theurer is a curator and writer. Her work centers transdisciplinary collaborations and experimental formats, with a particular focus on time-based art and sound. She is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at Fondation Beyeler, Basel. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions with artists including Tomás Saraceno, Shu Lea Cheang, Pan Daijing, WangShui, Katalin Ladik, Carsten Nicolai, Jenna Sutela, Fujiko Nakaya, Isabelle Lewis, and initiated Echoes, a serial exhibition dedicated to networked and performative practices. Alongside her curatorial work, Theurer regularly contributes to magazines and has edited several artist monographs.

Aditi Kapoor is an itinerant curator whose work focuses on contemporary media and performance with a vested interest in time-based art practices. She is active as an independent curator and a performance art producer, and has collaborated with Firelei Báez, Christelle Oyiri, and Nicole Eisenman, among other artists. Additionally, Kapoor was the curatorial assistant to John Akomfrah’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2024. Previously, she has worked with the Publications department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, at ISCP: International Studio and Curatorial Program, and with Montez Press Radio.