Active Rest

Active Rest unfolds as an invitation to reconsider how time is perceived, inhabited, and shared. Rather than understanding time as a linear force—something to be spent, managed, or lost—the exhibition proposes time as cyclical, sensorial, and tangible. Like the rhythm of breath, the turning of seasons, or the pull of tides, time here is experienced as something we can enter, rest within, and actively choose.

In a culture shaped by acceleration and constant productivity, rest is often framed as absence, as a pause between moments of activity. Active Rest challenges this notion by presenting rest as a state of presence, attention, and engagement. To rest, in this context, is not to withdraw from experience, but to attune oneself differently: to allow other rhythms, senses, and modes of knowing to surface. The exhibition gathers artistic positions that explore rest not only as escape, but as a fragile balance between activity and stillness, control and surrender, intimacy and distance.

Artists: Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Alexander Kasses (Néomirage), Crystin Moritz, Laura Stoll, Aknur Zhussip & Zarina Belousova (in collaboration with Motsa and Steven Mark Kübler).

Curated by Sara Alavi Kia.