Curating & Repair

Curating & Repair is a publication exploring contemporary curatorial practices and exhibition-making as contexts for dialogue, exchange and the remaking of social and cultural relations through repair. It seeks actionable insights into how artistic work, its mediation and the institutions that support it might be mobilised toward more sustainable and interdependent worlds.

Taking flight from perspectives on translation, solidarity and power, Curating & Repair approaches mediation both as contested terrain and generative possibility. It discusses the importance of challenging normative power relations in artistic collaboration, alongside the difficulties of sustaining creative work against the undertow of multiplying global crises. By aligning the curatorial with the dialogical, it calls attention to the serious, collective work that we as artists, mediators and publics have at our hands.

Edited by Orlan Ohtonen and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, published by 1000 Words Books, 2026

Featuring Lisa Anderson, Aruna D’Souza, Taous Dahmani, Farbod Fakharzadeh, Maen Hammad, Steffi Klenz, Elisa Loncón, Francesca Marcaccio, Tanvi Mishra, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Orlan Ohtonen, Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Dina Salem, Sami Rintala, Michael Raymond, Batia Suter, Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo, SMITH.