POST Nijmegen
Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Diego Tonus & Elisa Caldana, Jonas Staal, Katerina Sidorova, Urok Shirhan
Title: States of Violence
Artists: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Diego Tonus & Elisa Caldana, Jonas Staal, Katerina Sidorova, Urok Shirhan
Curator: Youri Appelo
Data: 28.02.2026 – 03.05.2026
Opening: 27.02.2026 - sign up here
Locatie: POST – NIJMEGEN
When we read the newspaper or open our social media, we are confronted with an increasingly unstable and hostile world. While the world has never been a peaceful place, research shows there is an undeniable increase of violence within the 21st century. On both a national and an international scale, violence occurs more easily, more violently and less controlled or prosecuted. What is the role of far right, fascist movements and dictatorships in this? And what about the decreasing power of alliances and unions to uphold international laws?
The exhibition States of Violence focuses on deteriorating infrastructures that are guardrails to prevent violence, such as democracy, law and independent media. Through personal stories, propaganda, (social) media and design, States of Violence deals with the question how political, religious and cultural violence is mediated, researched, censored or communicated. Can we question how we end up in a state of violence? Or can we, by understanding the complexities at play, resist and envision more peaceful futures?