Active Rest

We’ve had a quieter start to 2026. With the year of the Fire Horse ahead, it’s time to catch up and come together.

Next Thursday in Vienna we begin with an especially inviting exhibition, Active Rest: An Exploration of Time, curated by Sara Alavi Kia. The exhibition brings together a vibrant group of artists working with painting, wall objects (and anesthesia), photography (and AI), textile, sound, light, and scent. Sara puts it beautifully:

In a culture shaped by acceleration and constant productivity, rest is often framed as absence, as a pause between moments of activity. Active Rest challenges this notion by presenting rest as a state of presence, attention, and engagement. To rest, in this context, is not to withdraw from experience, but to attune oneself differently: to allow other rhythms, senses, and modes of knowing to surface.