Opening: Tue, 02.09.2025, 7pm (with a DJ-set by Miyra Lim)
Duration: Wed, 03.09. – Sat, 08.11.2025
Artists: Davide Allieri, Mila Balzhieva, Evelina Hägglund, Femke Herregraven, Miriam Kongstad, Sahej Rahal, Andreia Santana, Siggi Sekira, Marianne Vlaschits
Curators: Tjaša Pogačar & Frederike Sperling
Performances:
Tue,16.09.2025 I Miriam Kongstad, Free-Fall (2023)
Wed, 29.10.2025 I Marianne Vlaschits, A Wobbly Federation of Tongues, Hands, Faces and Lungs (2025)
The feeling of having something “on the tip of the tongue” can be unsettling: The world seems to come to a halt – just momentarily, yet it feels like an eternity. Under the pressure to go on, we, too, stand frozen. Grasping at thoughts and murmuring in hesitation, we silently test the shapes of words in our mouths. None of them are quite right. Then, at last, the missing word mostly arrives: filling the gap, smoothing the exchange, it allows the narrative – and with it the world it conjures – to continue. In such moments, the word we were reaching for often turns out to be a familiar one, one that belongs and reassures us that we belong, too.
There are also other instances when we find ourselves caught in silence, searching not for familiar words, but for any words at all. These might be situations in which existing language – with its normed pace and rigid taxonomies – fails us: For what we seek to communicate is just too intense or complex, or because the world we are trying to describe has been made extinct, or does not yet exist.
On a tongue's tip, at a world’s lip takes the moment of suspended narration, of a pause between words, as a metaphor for an interregnum between worlds. Within this intermission it seeks possibilities for alternative modes of worlding, asking along the way, what other ways of relating and of understanding may root in this unruly terrain?
As an emerging polyrhythmic choir, the works in this exhibition offer not one eloquent answer, but multiple prophetic messages, each evading linguistic closure. Attuned to gaps and silences, they make time and space for groans, murmurs, stutters, movements and experiences at the limits of language and communication. They summon a different vision of reality, one that moves beyond our condition of “immediacy” (Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism, 2025) – a world not ruled by the economic imperative of instantaneity, flow, and efficiency – but forged in the dysfluent rhythms of existence.
The exhibition was realized with the kind support of Danish Arts Foundation, Mondriaan Fund, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum SKICA Wien, Galerie Hubert Winter, Projekt Atol Ljubljana
Tjaša Pogačar is an independent curator based in Ljubljana and Prague. She served as a guest curator at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022–2023) and as a curator for visual and new media art at Projekt Atol Institute (2021–2024). She curated the 34th Ljubljana Biennale, ZONE1 at viennacontemporary, two editions of IFCA Maribor, and exhibitions at SUMO Prague, Škuc, Aksioma, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana. A co-founder and editor-in-chief of Šum journal for art and theory-fiction, she is pursuing a PhD at AVU in Prague with a focus on exhibition-making as a collective world(build)ing practice.