May 2026

Berlin

AI (Ancestral Immediacies): Digital Twins and Data Doppelgängers looks at the rapid growth of virtual representations and synthetic replicas that digital infrastructures enable, considering the implications of this ‘doubling’ of life. Lectures, performances, conversations, installations. HKW, 22 & 23 May.

The singuhr XXX festival celebrates singuhr’s 30th anniversary. The program features sound installations, two days of concerts and performances at Villa Elisabeth and the Kuppelhalle at silent green (30.-31.5.), as well as a matinee on the topic of sound spaces in Berlin with lectures and discussions at the daadgalerie (31.5.). 29.5. – 7.6.

Bratislava

The second edition of the Open Culture! International Conference engages cultural actors, policymakers, and advocates across Europe to address shared challenges to artistic freedom, democratic cultural governance, and the role of culture in an increasingly contested public space. Old Market Hall, 19–20 May.

The Bratislava Book Festival (BRaK) for publishers, illustrators, authors, graphic designers, typographers, and all friends of beautiful books. 27-31 May.

Brno

Distorted Image. Chapters from the beginnings of video art, House of Arts, 29. 4. – 16. 8. The exhibition looks at the beginnings of video art in the former Czechoslovakia and in Poland and Hungary from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, including experimental films, documentary records of performances and actions, early works of animation, video magazines, video installations and video sculptures.

Budapest

archivuminternetwork marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center's presence on the internet. Since its launch in December 1995, artpool.hu has expanded the idea of the ‘active archive’ into digital time and space, where art and information exist in flux and flow, becoming, at times, indivisible. Artpool, 22 May – 14 August. Opening event with performance: Thursday, 21 May, 18h.

Kassel

Digital Archivables, Artistic Data and Curated Forms of Presentation: Archival Practices in the Performance-based Arts, conference and workshop, Fridericianum, 7-9 May. This event addresses the politics and logic of digital infrastructures in archival and artistic contexts. Artistic and curatorial initiatives often make use of commercial internet platforms as workspaces and documentation spaces. These digital tools are growing increasingly insecure in light of current developments in big data. The conference will explore possible institutional and non-institutional alternatives. Organised by the research project “Subverting Archival Practices” in collaboration with documenta archiv. Program PDF.

Linz

Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO): Becoming Unreadable. Biennial community festival dedicated to art, hacktivism and open cultures, organised by servus.at in cooperation with the Linz University of Art, Department of Time-Based Media. 13-16 May. [1]

Ljubljana

A Cosmic Collective: OM production and Its Second Coming. OM production was a fictional entity existing as a concept and a myth, embodied in performative projections of 8 and 16 mm films. The exhibition explores the work and identity of one of the most elusive phenomena of the Slovenian and Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental film. Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, 6 February – 23 August.

The exhibition Archival Chain Reactions emerges from a collaborative project dedicated to connecting and activating important yet precarious archives of feminist art. It brings together Pinto mi Raya (Mexico City), an archive focusing on experimental art production and writing since the 1970s with a particular emphasis on performance and feminist artists; the project re.act.feminism (Berlin), which has been travelling as a living performance archive across Europe in several installments since 2008; and City of Women (Ljubljana), with its significant, but dispersed archive accumulated over 31 years of festival and programme activities. MG+MSUM, 23 April — 13 September. [2]

New York

Long Play Festival, Thursday, April 30 – Sunday, May 3. 70+ concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York.

radio

Reveil (2014—) is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 2 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light. Streams come from a variety of locations, at a time of day when human sounds are relatively low, even in dense urban areas. This tends to open the sound field to a more diverse ecology than usual. The Reveil broadcast makes room by largely avoiding speech and music, gravitating to places where human and non human communities meet and soundworlds overlap. Streams. CENSE program.

Seattle

Seattle Art Book Fair, May 9–10, Washington Hall.

Trenčín

Tuning the City, performative situation for 300 instruments and one city. The performers are musicians — amateurs and professionals, adults and children — who have been preparing for this moment for an entire year. The premiere — and the only public presentation — will take place on 22 May in the centre of Trenčín.

Vancouver

Free and open to the public, Vancouver Art Book Fair is a three-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects. Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, May 15–17.

Vienna

Lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 1.5.–26.10. Sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, performance and video by over 50 artists will be presented within an exhibition that focuses on new commissions and works that have not previously been exhibited in Vienna. The exhibition takes its title from a survey first presented at the Kunsthalle in 2000, continuing and developing a format that seeks to offer a perspective on the dynamic, transnational and culturally diverse communities of artists living and working in Vienna today.

VDC - Vienna Digital Cultures. Festival for art, performance and discourse, dedicated to exploring the cultural impact of digital technologies. 21-24 May.

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