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Artistic Director and curator Britta Peters considers churches as public spaces in the Ruhr region and across Germany, addressing construction and deconstruction through Neda Saaedi's Monument to Oblivion II (2024-Ongoing). Uncanny Shifts (Unheimliche Verschiebungen) was presented by Urbane Künste Ruhr (UKR) across Dortmund until 4 October 2026, part of the Ruhrtriennale 2026. Join Hans Ostapenko and MNPL for a book launch and artist talk at Dortmunder Kunstverein on 29 October 2026. Tingling Earth - Shivers Beneath the Skin of the Earth (Schauer unter der Haut der Erde), curated by Jana Kerima Stolzer, Natalia Matsenko, Lex Rütten, and Yuri Yefanov, was at Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund until 6 September 2026. Manifesta 16 Ruhr: This is not a church was presented in Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, and Bochum until 4 October 2026. Reclaiming the Space of Worship - An Artistic Manifesto, directed by Amdrita Jakupi, was at the former Holy Family Church in Dortmund-Marten until 27 September 2026, part of the Manifesta 16+ programme. Listen to contemporary artist Asad Raza on the industrial infrastructures and ecologies of East Germany, via the dramaturgy and exhibition, Electricity (2026), at E-WERK Luckenwalde: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDYwZTc2ZGUtMTc1Mi00NWFiLWIyNDktNWNiYTMzY2IzOTRj For more from Art on the Underground, listen to contemporary artist Barby Asante on her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c And conceptual artist Ahmet Öğüt on Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art (2026), in the episode on Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship, organised by the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica in August 2025: pod.link/1533637675/episode/ODJiY2RjNDEtMzhlYi00M2Y4LWFjNzYtZDBlZDg1YmNkOWZk PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

In this special episode, author, filmmaker, and jewellery-maker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay details shared, intertwined histories of Jewish and Muslim life in Algeria and North Africa, and how they have been fractured through French colonialism and Zionism, in their book, The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World (2024, 2026). This episode was recorded at Shed Publishing in Marseille as part of Peripheries and Horizons, a public programme curated by Jelena Sofronijevic with Pierre-Antoine Vettorello in response to Postcolonial?, a free exhibition at the House of European History in Brussels. The series of conversations and film screenings brings together artists and filmmakers, scholars, and activists, to explore how decolonial approaches travel, what they illuminate, and where they encounter friction when applied within Europe itself—particularly in regions often positioned at its margins. The exhibition continues until 14 March 2027. Find all the information online: historia.europa.eu/en/our-work/news/peripheries-and-horizons-empire-lines-podcast For more about Gillo Pontecorvo’s film, The Battle of Algiers (1966), and the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962), listen to contemporary artist ⁠⁠Zineb Sedira⁠⁠ on Dreams Have No Titles (2022-Now), recorded with Whitechapel Gallery and Goodman Gallery in London, as part of EMPIRE LINES at Venice 2024: ⁠⁠pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2NjZjUzYTctY2JlMS00N2JhLThjNTAtNGE3YWUwMjEwYzNl. Dreams Have No Titles (Les rêves n'ont pas de titre) is at La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille until 27 September 2026. Listen to author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin with EMPIRE LINES live, on the British government’s use of art as an instrument of war in the North of Ireland and the Falklands (Malvinas) in the 20th century, and their research in the archives and collections of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London, through The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968–1982 (2025): pod.link/1533637675/episode/M2M3MDc1N2EtYWNmYi00Y2FhLTk0Y2EtZDBkZTY3NmY4ODgz Listen to journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, capturing the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through their photography book, The Erasure of Palestine (2026): pod.link/1533637675/episode/NDlkZjI5MDctNmYyYi00NTgyLWIwY2EtYjU4YTkwNGQ2YWIy Read Object Collections: Contemporary Encounters with Ethnographic Photography in Britain and the Balkans, an essay commissioned by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, in the Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2026/07/special-report/object-collections-contemporary-encounters-with-ethnographic-photography-in-britain-and-the-balkans/ For more about jewellery-making and material culture in contemporary art, listen to Pio Abad on Giolo’s Lament (2023) at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford: pod.link/1533637675/episode/1e7df6b20f9c99aae3e4df96f50913cf And for more from Marseille, listen to curator and translator Line Ajan on time, language, and humour as an aesthetic, political, and coping strategy in Palestinian collective experiences, and the traumas of the Nakba and Israeli settler colonialism, throughout Mona Benyamin’s artistic practice, and video, Tomorrow, again (2023) at Triangle-Astérides at La Friche la Belle de Mai in 2026: pod.link/1533637675/episode/OTNjYTYxOWUtMDI4My00M2I1LTkyMWMtNDNiNGVjN2QzMTdm PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

Contemporary artist Asad Raza performs within the industrial infrastructures and ecologies of East Germany, conducting the development of electricity from Ancient Greece through the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR) in the 20th century, via the dramaturgy and exhibition, Electricity (2026). Asad Raza: Electricity is at E-WERK Luckenwalde until 25 April 2027. This episode was recorded in advance of Berlin Art Week 2026. Asad Raza’s commission for the new Art Hall at Tate Liverpool opens in 2027. Read about Asad Raza: Plot at Museoin in Bolzano (2023), and collaboration with Lydia Ourahmane, a participant in Biennale Gherdëina 10: Future Paradise Gardens, in Observer: observer.com/2026/08/arts-interview-samuel-leuenberger-curator-biennale-gherdeina-10/ Listen to composer and artist Raven Chacon on their composition for organ, Voiceless Mass (2021), performed with the Scottish Ensemble at St. Giles’ Cathedral as part of Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) 2025: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDA5MGQ3OGYtYWM4ZC00NjQ3LTg0YzktNjE2ODBmZDAwYmU5 Listen to filmmaker Saodat Ismailova on spirituality, dissent, and environmental extraction around the Aral Sea in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Central Asia, in their film Melted into the Sun (2024) in Nebula, produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, as part of the Venice Biennale in 2024: pod.link/1533637675/episode/Y2IxOWI2YTUtMTI4MS00NzdiLWEyZmUtYmMyYTQ0NmQxMTQ2 Listen to Manthia Diawara, filmmaker, cultural theorist, and co-curator of The Trembling Museum at the Hunterian in Glasgow, recorded live in conversation with EMPIRE LINES as part of PEACE FREQUENCIES, a 24 hour live radio broadcast to mark International Human Rights Day in December 2023, and 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: pod.link/1533637675/episode/YjBhYmU2MzMtN2ZiNi00MDE0LTgyM2MtZmM5NWMwZGRhMTBm For more about Édouard Glissant, sound, and vibration as ‘trembling’, listen to contemporary artist Libita Sibungu on their installation, ZED LOVE (2026), recorded live at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance in July 2026: pod.link/1533637675/episode/Y2EwOGJlN2QtZTY4Ny00ZmRlLThhOWQtZTU3NjlhODBhYmQ3 And listen to Paul Gilroy live at the Black Atlantic Symposium in Plymouth, marking the 30th anniversary of his formative text in 2023: pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

In this special episode, contemporary artist Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss memory, displacement and the politics of image-making in Albania and the Western Balkans, through their ongoing photography project, Pasqyra e Lëndës (Sommarium, or 'mirror of matter'). This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Summit Photo 2026, organised by the Royal Geographical Society, Photoworks, and the Royal Photographic Society, and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, in London in July 2026. Erdiola’s research will be exhibited in London at the conclusion of her Hidden Narratives Residency in 2027: rgs.org/events/summit-photo For more about Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck, read Object Collections: Contemporary Encounters with Ethnographic Photography in Britain and the Balkans, an essay commissioned by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, in the Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2026/07/special-report/object-collections-contemporary-encounters-with-ethnographic-photography-in-britain-and-the-balkans/ PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

Curator and translator Line Ajan observes time, language, and humour as an aesthetic, political, and coping strategy in Palestinian collective experiences, reviewing the traumas of the Nakba and Israeli settler colonialism throughout Mona Benyamin’s artistic practice, and video, Tomorrow, again (2023). Mona Benyamin: Like Clockwork is at Triangle-Astérides at La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille until 27 September 2026. The exhibition is part of the Mediterranean Season 2026 (Saison Méditerranée 2026), which continues across France until 31 October 2026. Dress Rehearsal (2026) iterates at Jaou Tunis 2026, presented with the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (BIM), from 23 October 2026. Listen out for more from Marseille, with author, filmmaker, and jewellery-maker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, coming soon. For more from Haifa, listen to journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, capturing the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through their photography book, The Erasure of Palestine (2026): pod.link/1533637675/episode/NDlkZjI5MDctNmYyYi00NTgyLWIwY2EtYjU4YTkwNGQ2YWIy For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman’s EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cb And read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yard Read about the Art Encounters Biennial 2025 in Timișoara, in Art Monthly: instagram.com/p/DFdBW0eoE55 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

In this special episode, contemporary artist Libita Sibungu joins EMPIRE LINES live, to explore the layers, energies, and geologies that connect people to place, and African diasporic, mixed and multi-racial, and working-class experiences in Cornwall, through their installation, ZED LOVE (2026). This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Libita Sibungu: ZED LOVE at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance in July 2026. The exhibition continues until 31 October 2026: newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/empire-lines-podcast-recording/ Find all the information in the first Instagam post: instagram.com/p/DZqDXwfFT22/?img_index=1 For more from Barby Asante, listen to the episode from her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London as part of Art on the Underground: pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c For more with Angeline Morrison, listen to Paul Gilroy live in conversation with EMPIRE LINES at the Black Atlantic Symposium in Plymouth, marking the 30th anniversary of his formative text in 2023: pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f And read into Library Obscura — a new publication from the AfroSea Collective (Libita Sibungu, Maria Christoforidou, Angeline Morrison, Caroline Deeds, and Catherine Lucktaylor)—supported by Exeter University and the Hypatia Trust in Penzance in April 2026. For more about the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, listen to artist Yinka Shonibare, in the episode on Decolonised Structures (Queen Victoria (2022-2023) at the Serpentine in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/01fffb739a1bd9f84f930ce41ee31676 Listen to curator Sabina Desir with Anita, Mark, and Julie—three children of Black (and Indigenous) American airmen stationed at RAF Manston in the 1950s— on Richard Birch’s Children of the Manston US Air Force Servicemen Print Series (2023) at Turner Contemporary in Margate: pod.link/1533637675/episode/OTU0NmM1YzMtMTYwMi00NjdiLWI0ZDgtZWUzYmI5ODViOGY1 And for more about Édouard Glissant, listen to Manthia Diawara, filmmaker, cultural theorist, and co-curator of The Trembling Museum at the Hunterian in Glasgow, recorded live in conversation with EMPIRE LINES as part of PEACE FREQUENCIES, a 24 hour live radio broadcast to mark International Human Rights Day in December 2023, and 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: pod.link/1533637675/episode/YjBhYmU2MzMtN2ZiNi00MDE0LTgyM2MtZmM5NWMwZGRhMTBm PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

Find out more about Kaajal Modi’s collaborative work with audio, oral storytelling, and cultural preservation, through ⁠⁠Arts of Noticing⁠⁠, an independent symposium in Leeds, as part of If Trees Could Talk International Art Biennale 2026. The event, including Bo Olawoye, Joanne Armitage, Kaajal Modi, Helen Thornham, Kim Chin, and Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, is supported by the Critical Digital Practice Lab (CDPL), based at the University of Leeds. It is co-organised by Sijelo, a UK-based art collective of women and non-binary people organising, producing, and making at the intersection of climate justice, land rights, migration, and displacement: iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo For more information and to participate in the event on 23 July 2026, visit (Eventbrite online): eventbrite.com/e/sijelo-collective-in-leeds-arts-of-noticing-tickets-1993920698484 🌳🌳🌳 This cutting comes from the EMPIRE LINES episode, House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024), recorded live as part of Interweaving Threads of Migration and Climate Justice at the Eden Project in Cornwall, supported by Counterpoints Arts and Art Reach, in September 2024. Listen to the full episode, on the EMPIRE LINES podcast: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDhjZTY3MDQtNTkwYS00YTI0LWI1Y2YtZDdhODk1Y2QwZGZi And find all the links in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/DA8ZfEeI6VX/?hl=en&img_index=1 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

In this special episode, author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss the British government’s deployment of art as an instrument of war in the North of Ireland and the Falklands (Malvinas) in the 20th century, and their research in the archives and collections of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London. This episode was recorded live as part of A Conversation about Art, Media, and the State, with Laleh Khalili, Munira Cheema, Asif Akhtar, and Jamie Hakim at Bush House, King’s College London in June 2026. Find all the information online: kcl.ac.uk/events/a-conversation-about-art-media-and-the-state The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968–1982 (2025) by Clare Carolin is published by Routledge. Dissenting Counter-Publics in Pakistani Social Media and Cafe Culture (2025) by Munira Cheema is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Both are available in all good bookshops and online. Read about Clare Carolin’s lecture-performance, How to Build a Decolonial Peace Museum (A Provocation in Three Parts), at On Radicalism, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) Annual Conference 2025 in London: contemporaryartsociety.org/sites/default/files/attachments/On Radicalism (1 May 2025)%2C report by Jelena Sofronijevic.pdf For more about the Venice Biennale 2026, and EVA International in 2016, read this article for the Contemporary Art Society: contemporaryartsociety.org/explore/resources/minor-keys-view-61st-venice-biennale For more about the Kipling family and the National College of Arts (NCA Lahore), hear contemporary artist Suleman Aqeel Khilji on the painting Elevation (Chiltan) (2025-2026), recorded at White Cube Paris: pod.link/1533637675/episode/YWYwMDNkMTgtNmJjOC00ZGZhLTlhYmItZWUzZjUyY2Y4ZjEy PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2025-2026).

Contemporary artist Suleman Aqeel Khilji recollects the landscapes of Balochistan, a mountainous region spanning present-stay Pakistan and Iran, and the influence of Urdu language and literatures on his painting practice, through Elevation (Chiltan) (2025-2026). Inside the White Cube: Suleman Aqeel Khilji: Transmission is at White Cube Paris until 25 July 2026. Suleman Aqeel Khilji’s painting Untitled (London Zoo) (2025) is on view as part of Close Encounters: Figuration, Painting and Landscape in the Arts Council Collection, at Christie’s in London until 23 June 2026. For more about artists Ali Kazim, Hamra Abbas, and Imran Qureshi, and the National College of Arts (NCA Lahore), hear curator Hammad Nasar on Did You Come Here To Find History?, Nusra Latif Qureshi (2009): pod.link/1533637675/episode/f6e05083a7ee933e33f15628b5f0f209 And read into the exhibition, Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now, at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and The Box in Plymouth, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/small-and-mighty-south-asian-miniature-painting-and-britain-1600-to-now-at-mk-gallery Hear artist Nalini Malani in the EMPIRE LINES episodes: From The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, with Shanay Jhaveri and Anita Dube, at the Barbican in London in 2024: My Reality is Different (2022), at the Holburne Museum in Bath: pod.link/1533637675/episode/74b0d8cf8b99c15ab9c2d3a97733c8ed And with curator Priyesh Mistry, on The Experiment with the Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (1768) and Nalini Malani (2022) at the National Gallery in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/f62cca1703b42347ce0ade0129cedd9b You can also read this article in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/nalini-malani-my-reality-is-different-review Read about War rugs: Afghanistan's knotted history at the British Museum in London, in The Markaz Review: themarkaz.org/afghanistans-histories-of-conflict-resistance-desires/ And from White Cube Paris, hear artist Sylvia Snowden in the EMPIRE LINES episode on M Street (1978-1997): pod.link/1533637675/episode/8e803c218bc4238d8ffceb5877f4a541 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of Radical Ecology (2026-2027).

Researcher, artist, and curator Pietro Consolandi traces the ‘wetland turn’ in art, ecology, and environmental justice, via Giovanni Pellegrini’s 2025 documentary film, The Venice Lagoon, a legal person. Nature Speaks: Listening for Rights of Nature in Venice and Europe is at Ocean Space in Venice until 11 October 2026. The Research Unit, curated by Pietro Consolandi and Amalia Rossi, is co-produced by TBA21–Academy and NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with IDRA (Initiative for the Rights of Water) and the Confluence of European Water Bodies. You can join the next Citizens' Assembly for the Rights of the Lagoon on 10 October 2026. The Venice Lagoon, a legal person (2025) is available to watch online. For more about water bodies in Europe, hear Klima Biennale Wien festival director Sithara Pathirana on climate justice, public space and the rights of the river Danube through Austria, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, in the episode about Superflux’s sculptural installation, Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025): pod.link/1533637675/episode/ZWQ4Mzg0Y2MtMWFkMy00ZmJkLWIyZjUtNGU3MmJmODM2ODEx On the flows between Wales and Venice, listen to artist ⁠Taloi Havini⁠, winner of Artes Mundi 10, on their film Habitat (2017) at Mostyn in Llandudno, and work with Ocean Space in Venice: pod.link/1533637675/episode/e30bd079e3b389a1d7e68f5e2937a797 On archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, hear Emilija Škarnulytė on their film installation, Burial (2022), part of Folkestone Triennial 2025: pod.link/1533637675/episode/ZmJmZTIzMGItOTg0OC00YjhhLThkMjMtMWQ3Y2E5ZDU5MDAz And for more about Southampton’s coastal connections to Europe, hear curators Ros Carter and Sofie Krogh Christensen on Pia Arke’s Camera Obscura (1990) at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin: pod.link/1533637675/episode/OWVhZjc3YWItNDRiYy00MTYyLTk0ZmItZmE5MmJlZDY1YmI1 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of ⁠Radical Ecology⁠ (2026-2027).

Festival director Sithara Pathirana considers climate justice and public space in Europe, tracing the rights of the river Danube through Austria, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, via the Klima Biennale Wien (2026). Klima Biennale Wien 2026: Unspeakable Worlds continues in Vienna until 10 May 2026. Bürgerin Donau, Katja Schechtner, Alex Putzer, Vincent Wagner (2025), curated by Vienna Design Week, was presented at the Volkstheater Wien in Vienna on 11 April 2026. Join them with artist Amanda Piña at KunstHausWien on 9 May, the closing event for the Klima Biennale. Superflux: The Craftocene is at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna until 16 August 2026. The Donauinsel (Danube Island): 13 Miles of Freedom is at Wien Museum in Vienna until 30 August 2026. Seeds: Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures is at KunstHausWien in Vienna until 14 February 2027. Ndidi Dike: Rare Earth Rare Justice is at Secession in Vienna until 31 May 2026. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines

Journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz captures the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through their photography book, The Erasure of Palestine (2026). The Erasure of Palestine by Ahmad Al-Bazz is published by MuseumsEtc, and available in all good bookshops and online. Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine is at V&A Dundee until 26 April 2026. For more, you can read my article in The Markaz Review: themarkaz.org/artist-interview-corinne-silva-on-israeli-settlement-gardens-in-palestine/ The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return continues at P21 Gallery in London until 29 May 2026. For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman’s EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cb And read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yard For more from the current programme of Ibraaz in London, hear conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian on his video installation, Sweet & Sour (2021-2022), at Wolverhampton Art Gallery: pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2YyZjNhYzMtYWQwZC00ZmU2LThmNjYtMWIyZWU5OWJhZDU3 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines

Curator Franz W. Kaiser considers the avant-garde paintings of Karel Appel, in relation to the historic CoBrA Movement and contemporary ecologies, via Human Being and Animals (1949). Karel Appel: Variations on a Theme is at Galerie Max Hetzler in London until 16 April 2026. Karel Appel’s Hip, Hip, Hoorah! (1949) is on view in the collection display In the Studio: The Disappearing Figure: Art after Catastrophe at Tate Modern in London. For more from curators Winnie Sze and Pim Arts, listen to the episode about Ernest Mancoba’s African Madonna (1939) a⁠t the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen: pod.link/1533637675/episode/68ec0da40322500dc1f9be4865ac19d9 You can also read my article about the exhibition, We Kiss the Earth: Danish Modern Art, 1934-1948⁠, and the CoBrA movement (Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/a-triptych-of-danish-modernism-cobra-and-degenerate-art-in-denmark For more from the artist Sylvia Snowden, listen to the episode about M Street (1978-1997), recorded at White Cube Paris: pod.link/1533637675/episode/8e803c218bc4238d8ffceb5877f4a541 This episode was supported by Galerie Max Hetzler. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines

In this special episode, artist Sovay Berriman and curator Marie-Anne McQuay join EMPIRE LINES live, to unearth histories of extractivism in Cornwall and Liverpool, and the relations between colonialism, clay, copper, and tin mining, tourism, and cultural identity, through The Thing About Making Rocks (2026). This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Flamm 2026, Cornwall’s contemporary art festival, in Bodmin in February 2026. Find all the information online, and in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/DUVHQ7YjKUQ/?img_index=1 Works from Bedrock, Liverpool Biennial 2025, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay, continue to travel through the UK. Isabel Nolan: Where you are, what we are, with others remains at Liverpool John Moores University. You can also listen to Linda Lamignan and Amber Akanu on Art Against the World, the Liverpool Biennial podcast, presented by Vid Simoniti, and revisit the Biennial event in collaboration with EMPIRE LINES in September 2025. Hear more from Sovay Berriman, Kaajal Modi, and Counterpoints Arts in the live episode from Dhaqan Collective’s House of Weaving Songs at the Eden Project in Cornwall in 2024: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDhjZTY3MDQtNTkwYS00YTI0LWI1Y2YtZDdhODk1Y2QwZGZi For more about b-side Festival 2024, read my article about Mohammad Barrangi in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/mohammad-barrangi-b-side-festival On plumbing and artistic practices, hear glass artist Chris Day in the live episode from I Am a Man and a Brother (2021-Now) at the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent in 2025: pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2RiYjg1MjAtMmQzNS00NTRkLTlhZjEtYjE2MGI4Yjc0ODEz Hear historian Corinne Fowler, with visual artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard, on copper and colonialism through their book, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (2024): pod.link/1533637675/episode/9f4f72cb1624f1c5ee830c397993732e Watch the full video conversation online, via Radical Ecology: vimeo.com/995929731 And find all the links in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/C8cyHX2I28 Hear artist ⁠Taloi Havini⁠, winner of Artes Mundi 10, on the connections between extractive industries in the Pacific Islands and Wales, via Habitat (2017) at Mostyn in Llandudno: pod.link/1533637675/episode/e30bd079e3b389a1d7e68f5e2937a797 PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines

In this episode, conceptual artist Ahmet Öğüt travels by train through Ottoman Turkey, the former Yugoslavia and Western Balkans, to the London Underground, navigating histories and contemporary expressions of solidarity via the 2025 programme, Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship. Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship was organised by the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica in August 2025. Ahmet Öğüt: Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art is at Stratford Station in London until December 2026, commissioned by Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries. Museum Yet to Be is at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Pogdorica until 15 March 2026. Translated into Socialism was at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana until 8 February 2026. The East Remains Possible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MoCA – Skopje) until March 29, 2026. For more from Art on the Underground, listen to contemporary artist Barby Asante on her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c And on migrations between Turkey and France, hear Nil Yalter, awardee of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2024, at Ab-Anbar Galleryduring London Gallery Weekend 2023, with Exile is a Hard Job (1974-Now): pod.link/1533637675/episode/36b8c7d8d613b78262e54e38ac62e70f PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines