The New CurrenT 2026: Connections

In a world that accelerates relentlessly, where digital systems promise connection yet often deepen our sense of distance, ‘Connections’ reflects on what it means to be linked - to each other, to technology, to the city, and to time itself.

The exhibition brings together a group of artists working with video, sound, and new media whose practices reveal the tension between hyper-connectivity and human disconnection. Their works expose the architectures, both visible and hidden, that organize our lives: data flows, infrastructures, sensory experiences, and collective memories. Within these frameworks, the artists seek new forms of intimacy and presence, asking how we might reclaim slowness, attention, and empathy in a culture that constantly demands our acceleration.

‘Connections’ unfolds as an environment of encounters: between the virtual and the tactile, the algorithmic and the emotional, the individual and the collective. Immersive installations invite viewers not only to look but to listen, to move, to feel; to experience connection as an embodied act rather than a technological condition.

At The New Current, the exhibition functions as both reflection and proposition. It questions the systems that fragment our attention while imagining new constellations of togetherness. In doing so, it reclaims art as a space where connection is not assumed, but continuously redefined.

We’d love to introduce you to the participating artists: