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Announcing 2027 Exhibition Curator

We are delighted to announce Antonina Stebur as the 2027 exhibition curator, marking the 40th anniversary year of transmediale. The curator and researcher was selected through an open call process, with a proposal that stood out among a large number of applications.

My curatorial and research practices look at how infrastructures – digital, social, or emotional – shape power, exclusion, and fragile solidarities, but also open spaces for collective imagination. For transmediale 2027, I propose an exhibition that reframes the festival’s 40th anniversary through the lens of ruins of infrastructure as a method. Rather than celebrating achievement, it lingers within breakdowns, the militarisation of everyday systems. I would like to rethink transmediale itself as a configuration, not only a site of representation, but as a framework of imagination for the futures we urgently need.

— Antonina Stebur

Antonina Stebur

Antonina Stebur is a curator and researcher who explores contemporary art as a tool for infrastructural and political imagination. She is Editor-in-Chief of AWC Journal and founder of Mycelium [Грыбнiца], a decolonial research lab. Stebur has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions and research-based projects, including What Are Our Collective Dreams? (2025, Warsaw), If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible (2023, Vilnius), Sense of Safety (2024, Kharkiv), etc. She co-organised the interdisciplinary conference Feeling Machines: Gender, Technologies, and Capitals and has contributed to documenta 15, Manifesta 14, ZKM, and Theatertreffen Berlin, among others.

Selected by the Board from a strong shortlist of candidates, Antonina Stebur’s concept for the 2027 transmediale exhibition curatorship stood out for how it weaves transmediale’s history, and the parallel trajectories emerging since the late 1980s, into the current moment of geopolitics and contemporary conflict. The Board saw great potential in how the proposed key ideas of failure and infrastructure, ruins and glitches, connect with Berlin’s own urban history, thereby situating transmediale’s history within these broader contexts. The exhibition concept resonates with transmediale’s core themes - criticality, grassroots resistance, and the interrelation of technology and politics - while also adding a bold, imaginative dimension through the invitation to train our “utopian muscles”.

The transmediale 2027 exhibition will open, alongside the festival, at the end of January 2027 at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (Hanseatenweg) and will run for approximately 6 weeks. With this exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of transmediale, the festival introduces a more sustainable and regular rhythm, featuring a major exhibition every two years.

The open call for the 2027 transmediale festival curator will be announced shortly.

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Image credits
Image courtesy of Antonina Stebur, photo by Violetta Savchits