The Biennale Matter of Art 2024

2024
Sowing Unrest

A visual identity reimagining vernacular visual systems of various workers’ movements, together with exhibition, signage, and navigation design for the Biennale Matter of Art 2024, which took place at the National Gallery Prague and featured a Biennale Reader. We’ve contributed to the opening with a performative book launch "Seeding Letters, Growing Worlds". Our performance activated the glossary of symbols created for the event and celebrated the content of the reader. Commissioned by tranzit.cz, curated by Katalin Erdődi and Aleksei Borisionok.

  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: wooden frames, screens and net canopy stage the Sowing Unrest exhibition in a brick hall
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a barefoot figure feeds a wire fist on a signage pole, a disc reads 'DEAR READER STRIKE'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a red and white spread, 'Matter of Art' letters sprout symbols, a flower, fist and scythe
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a figure in performance lifts signage reading 'CUCUMBER PEASANT' before a red pallet tower
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: stacked red guides spell 'Matter of Art' in letters sprouting symbols, the visual identity
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a kneeling figure seeds white symbols along a pink carpet by signage marked 'B1 123 456'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a red poster on a wooden slat fence spells 'Matter of Art' in letters sprouting symbols
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: in the reader, symbols climb a numbered spiral, the contents page lists 'Sowing Unrest'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a figure crouches on terrazzo, gathering white symbols onto signage marked 'B1' and 'B2'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a seated figure raises arched signage, 'OXYGEN LABOR GOOD LIFE', white symbols below
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: dark text pages headed 'SYMBOL GLOSSARY', vernacular hammer, rake and scythe in white line
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a figure lifts white symbols to a wire satellite dish atop a signage pole by a brick wall
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: a dark page where symbols grow on branching white lines faces the dense 'Curatorial Text'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: terracotta signage on terrazzo, a white rake symbol rests among marks A, G, 3 and MM
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: barefoot figure hoists 'Rural Solidarity' signage, performative launch, charcoal mural
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: reader spread, fist and wheat symbols climb wavy stems by the text 'Sowing Unrest'
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: reader spread 'Peasant Movements', orange half-disc of glossary symbols over the text
  • The Biennale Matter of Art 2024: white trees sprout fist and worm symbols on black reader pages, orange half-disc below