Mark your calendars for the opening of Currents 12: Camping Out on February 14 at Jester Genk, curated by Maia Kenney and Berber Meindertsma.
This year’s edition of Currents, titled Camping Out features works by Nahal Aryan, Liselore Bulcke, Maxence Duterne, Gregor Lau, Anna Sarah Levine, Claire Sillekens, Wolfgang Tant, Vera Varlamova, and Ryota Yahagi. The exhibition opens on February 14 and runs from February 15 to May 10 2026 at Jester in Genk.
For Currents 12: Camping Out, Maia Kenney and Berber Meindertsma envision a curatorial strategy that finds affinity with their experience of camping. A camping or art situation asks for a site-specific approach where you work with what is at hand, listening and responding to your environment and your own skills and needs. In their vision for the exhibition, together with the artists they find a temporary home at the site of Jester, working with its possibilities and idiosyncrasies. Artworks are adapted on site; specialized tools and strategies are developed and used to build the environment. Once the exhibition comes to life, the audience is invited to join the camp.
Last month, the artists gathered for the Currents Training Days, where they met each other, visited KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels and received a writing workshop by writer and curator Taylor Le Melle.
In 2025—2026, four contemporary art institutions join forces to organise the 12th edition of the Currents exhibition: Jester in Genk (BE), Marres in Maastricht (NL), Ludwig Forum Aachen (DE) and KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels (BE).
