Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies is the fourth major exhibition hosted by Diriyah Art Futures. Running from 14 January to 16 May 2026, it brings together works by more than 30 artists, examining how technology reshapes our relationship with the natural world. The exhibition invites visitors to consider how, in a digital age, our relationship with nature is being transformed. It examines how technology is often positioned as a tool to control nature and the world around us, while addressing the environmental impact of digital technologies on a planet with finite resources.
Curated by Irini Papadimitriou.

With Elusive Matter, a minimalist sound and light performance, Martin Messier transforms simple wisps of smoke into a veritable projection screen. In a room plunged into darkness, armed only with a projector as a source of light, the artist creates tableaux in an intangible mist: a myriad of ghostly spaces, architectural forms and dreamlike images take shape in the mist, suspended just a few centimetres above the viewer's head. This proximity of matter creates the illusion of a moving space, blurring spatial reference points.

Exploring the boundary between the tangible and the intangible, Elusive Matter brings light and sound into tension to generate atmospheres that are both ethereal and soothing. Guided by the search for an immaterial device, Martin Messier creates a sensory universe where matter fades away to make way for an experience oscillating between presence and absence, intangible beauty and dream.

Martin Messier
Elusive Matter
Diriyah Art Futures

Exhibition on view until 4 February 2026

Every year, the Institut français and the French cultural network abroad celebrate digital arts and culture as part of Novembre Numérique.

To mark the occasion, the Alliance Française de Bruxelles-Europe is presenting an exhibition at La Fabrique: RÉELVIRTUEL. A unique encounter between art, cutting-edge digital technology and environmental awareness.

Three artists with different but complementary approaches: Laura Colmenares Guerra, Linda Dounia Rebeiz and Florian Schönerstedt explore together the possibilities of ‘réelvirtuel’ art, according to the expression coined by writer and art historian Paul Ardenne.

Topography of a Second explores the relationship between time and space through the movement of a river. A digital animation presents the continuous flow of water, while a 3D-printed clay sculpture captures a unique moment of the moving image, a suspended fragment translated into form. Topography of a Second questions the tension between the fluidity of time and the permanence of space.

Laura Colmenares Guerra
Réelvirtuel

Exhibition on view until 5 April 2026

The installation Tipping Point by Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff is a sensitive and poetic tribute to those dying glaciers. It stages the (re)birth of an artificial glacier protected by a dome; a drip is feeding the glacier that will grow during the exhibition. The device invites the viewer to attend the birth of this artificial glacier. It is inspired by the “ice stupas” invented by the engineer Sonam Wangchuk and used to fight against water shortages during the summer in Ladakh.

Between a laboratory experiment, an attempt to repair the climate or an ironic collector’s item, the installation confronts us with time and scales; 10.000 years ago, the stabilisation of our cryosphere coincided with the first human traces we found in Mesopotamia, while the fist glaciers are disappearing in 70 years under the pressure of the human activity.

Tipping Point
Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff
Migrations et Climat

Exhibition on view until 3 May 2026

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam breathes new life into the former dance hall and cinema Monopole with art. Silence & The Presence of Everything is an exhibition full of intriguing art installations exploring natural phenomena. Immerse yourself in magical natural phenomena and experience captured sunbeams, weather systems of dust and light, swaying reeds from Schiedam bending with the Minnesota wind, boundless horizons, and dancing droplets flowing toward the center of the earth.

The art installations of artists Sabine Marcelis, Guido van der Werve, Tina Farifteh, Lachlan Turczan, David Bowen, Gordon Hempton, Lily Clark, Carel Balth, and Boris Acket are spread throughout the Monopole. The artist Boris Acket, is also the guest curator of the exhibition, alongside co-curator Sanneke Huisman.

tele-present wind
This installation by David Bowen consists of a series of 126 x/y tilting mechanical devices connected to thin dried plant stalks installed in a gallery and a dried plant stalk connected to an accelerometer installed outdoors. When the wind blows it causes the stalk outside to sway. The accelerometer detects this movement transmitting the motion to the grouping of devices in the gallery. Therefore the stalks in the gallery space move in real-time and in unison based on the movement of the wind outside.

David Bowen 
tele-present wind
Monopole