A site-responsive exhibition that unfolds across the city—quietly, unexpectedly, without permission.
Good public art used to happen everywhere. Now it mostly happens nowhere. uncommissioned puts it back where it belongs: the corner where you buy coffee, the construction fence you walk past, the underpass that actually gets you home. Artists work directly in the city, no committees, no approval process. Just work that exists because it needs to.
This is not a show you attend. It's one you stumble upon.
A site-responsive exhibition that unfolds across the city—quietly, unexpectedly, without permission.
Good public art used to happen everywhere. Now it mostly happens nowhere. uncommissioned puts it back where it belongs: the corner where you buy coffee, the construction fence you walk past, the underpass that actually gets you home. Artists work directly in the city, no committees, no approval process. Just work that exists because it needs to.
This is not a show you attend.
It's one you stumble upon.
A site-responsive exhibition that unfolds across the city—quietly, unexpectedly, without permission.
Good public art used to happen everywhere. Now it mostly happens nowhere. uncommissioned puts it back where it belongs: the corner where you buy coffee, the construction fence you walk past, the underpass that actually gets you home. Artists work directly in the city, no committees, no approval process. Just work that exists because it needs to.
This is not a show you attend.
It's one you stumble upon.
Contributors
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critics
critics
critics
Pamela Karimi
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Pamela Karimi
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Pamela Karimi
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Pamela Karimi
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
Gabriela Andrade Gorab
Curator, cultural producer, and art writer
Gabriela Andrade Gorab
Curator, cultural producer, and art writer
Gabriela Andrade Gorab
Curator, cultural producer, and art writer
Gabriela Andrade Gorab
Curator, cultural producer, and art writer
Mark Jenkins
Street Artist
Mark Jenkins
Street Artist
Mark Jenkins
Street Artist
Mark Jenkins
Street Artist
Shannon Jackson
Chair, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley
Shannon Jackson
Chair, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley
Shannon Jackson
Chair, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley
Shannon Jackson
Chair, Department of Art History, UC Berkeley
Harmen de Hoop
Street Artist
Harmen de Hoop
Street Artist
Harmen de Hoop
Street Artist
Harmen de Hoop
Street Artist
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
curators
curators
curators
curators
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
Mathieu Tremblin
The responsibility of an urban curator is to identify and consider existing informal creative dynamics, and then to encourage and support those driven by people who wish to enrich and contribute to the social history of the city.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter
This edition of uncommissioned explores how invisibility, whether structural, ancestral, or poetic, can be reclaimed, embodied, or made palpable. Across these works, artists treat public space as a testing ground for grief, satire, memory, and joy. What emerges is not just a counter-monument, but a tender call to notice what has always been there.
Sebastian Betancur-Montoya
By challenging the practices and hierarchies of the stagnant commissioning models, and instead, operating from an artist-centric ethos and through decentered networks of trust, I’ve found in uncommissioned a subversive yet tender model to imagine and make different manifestations of public art possible.
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Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Vhils (Alexandre Farto)
Alicia Eggert
Ammar Abo Bakr Dibbanah
Arzhel Prioul
Azadeh Shladovsky
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Catherine Sarah Young
Wanzhuo Cheng
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Danielle Firoozi
Deana Kolencikova
Yufeng Deng
Derzu Campos
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Enno Haar
Erfan Ghiasi
Escif
Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Fabian Williams
Fiona Yun-Jui Chang
Glazed Paradise (Mark Jenkins & Sandra Fernandez)
Hana Al-Saadi
Harmen de Hoop
Heimprofi
Iris Buchholz Chocolate
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jeffrey Meris
Jodae
Juan Caicedo
Julian Ties
Kara Rooney
Kweku Okokroko
Leon Reid IV
Libor Novotný
Majid Haghighi
Mathieu Tremblin
Mayela Rodriguez
Moko Fukuyama & James Beckett
Nina Katchadourian
Nomad Studio
Nung-Hsin Hu
Pablo Delgado
Petra Hudcová
r1.
Recycle Group
Ronald Muchatuta
Sherko Abbas
Siri Tolander
SPURSE et al.
Stephanie Brown
Strijdom van der Merwe
Terrick Gutierrez
Valentina Guerrero Marín
Yannos Majestikos
Mingjing Yu
Zohre Solati
Public art used to matter. It used to disrupt, challenge, make people stop and think. Now most of it decorates corporate plazas and apologizes for existing. Safe art. Permitted art. Art that won't offend anyone, which means it won't affect anyone either.
The city is already making art—in how people move through space, claim corners, adapt and survive. Graffiti tags are conversations about ownership. Street vendors are curating public life. The artists we work with see this existing creativity and respond to it, not override it. They understand the city is already speaking and work with what's there, not against it.
When artists stop waiting for institutional approval, they start making work for the person rushing to catch the bus, the kid walking home from school, the night shift worker cutting through alleys. Real public art doesn't announce itself with plaques. It just shifts something in how a space feels, how your attention moves, how you relate to the same corner you've passed a thousand times.
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