14.01.2025–17.02.2025 // Curated by Basak Senova, Soil & Water: Mediterranean Crossing brings together international artists exploring soil and water as material, ecological, cultural, and political agents. Through sculpture, performance, and research-based practices, the exhibition examines how soil and water shape landscapes, environments, histories, and lived experience. Situated in the Mediterranean, a region shaped by centuries of crossings, exchanges, extraction, and conflict, the exhibition situates these explorations in a new context while connecting to the ongoing international Soil & Water research project. Developed collaboratively by Prof. Johan Thom (University of Pretoria) and Assoc. Prof. Dr Basak Senova (University of Applied Arts Vienna), in partnership with the NIROX Foundation, the Soil & Water project was initiated in South Africa in response to concerns about pollution of rivers and groundwater in the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Participants are Alet Pretorius, Atul Bhalla, Barbara Putz Plecko, Christophe Fellay, Diana Vives and Douglas Gimberg, Diego Masera, Ebru Kurbak, Egle Oddo, Eugenie Touze, Francesco Bellina, Hera Buyuktasciyan, Herrana Addisu, Inma Herrera, Isa Rosenberger, Jessica Ostrowicz, Johan Thom, Ledelle Moe, Lundahl and Seitl, Mithu Sen, Robin Rhode, Rojda Tugrul, Senzo Masondo, Seretse Moletsane, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Tshepiso Mahooe, The ZoNE, and The Sediment Project.