Agnieszka Kurant x Artwrld x Rhizome
Agnieszka Kurant is a conceptual artist investigating collective and nonhuman intelligences, the future of labor and creativity, and the exploitations within digital capitalism. She is the recipient of the 2020 LACMA A+T Award and the 2019 Frontier Art Prize. Her solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2021-23); Sculpture Center, New York (2013), Kunstverein Hannover (2023) and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2025 and 2026)
In 2015 she realized a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, and in 2022 a permanent commission for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Her work was also exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale (2024), Sydney Biennial (2024); Istanbul Biennial (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021), Centre Pompidou (2024), Palais de Tokyo (2014), Jeu de Paume (2025), Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2024); MCA, Sydney (2025), Gropius Bau (2023); Louisiana Museum, Denmark (2023); SFMOMA (2020); Kunsthalle Wien (2020), and Guggenheim Bilbao (2017). Kurant’s monograph Collective Intelligence, co-edited by Stefanie Hessler and Jenny Jaskey was released by Sternberg Press and MIT Press in December 2025.
About Rhizome
Rhizome champions internet art and culture through commissions, exhibition, and digital preservation, online at rhizome.org and in partnership with its longtime affiliate and host, the New Museum in New York City.
Founded in 1996 by artist Mark Tribe as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work on the web and now—more than twenty years later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with the internet.
About Artwrld
Artwrld is a social discovery app that makes the art world more welcoming, accessible and easier to explore. Now live in NYC and LA. More at: artwrld.com
Image Credits:
Agnieszka Kurant, “Uncomputables,” 2026 Aquarium, copper sulphate, sulfuric acid, distilled water, copper anode, copper electrodes, wires, acrylic, electroplating rectifier, wifi-enabled microcontroller, relay module Fabrication: Sebastian Bidegain Software Engineering: Brian Oakes
Agnieszka Kurant "Recursivity 3," 2024/2026 Bronze, museum glass, liquid crystal pigments, heat sinks, Peltier elements, artificial intelligence, custom software, computer, AC, custom pedestal Fabrication: Particle Studio, London Software Developer: Agnes Cameron
Agnieszka Kurant “Unthoughtforms," 2026 Copper crystals grown by passing electric currents and sound waves through copper sulphate solution; nickel plated and chrome plated Fabrication: Krzysztof Smaga
Agnieszka Kurant, “Uncomputables,” 2026
Aquarium, copper sulphate, sulfuric acid, distilled water, copper anode, copper electrodes, wires, acrylic, electroplating rectifier, wifi-enabled microcontroller, relay module
Fabrication: Sebastian Bidegain Software
Engineering: Brian Oakes
Agnieszka Kurant, Installation view, left to right: "Risk Landscape,” 2024, "Phantomatics," 2026
"Risk Landscape,” 2024
Laser hologram on glass
Software Engineering: Justin Lane
3-D Modelling: Gabriel Stones
Fabrication: Holographic Studios
“Phantomatics," 2026
Single screen projection, sound, 27 min., loop
Collaboration: Gašper Beguš, Morris Alper, and Michael Jianan Xie
Motion Graphics and Primary Edit: Common Space
Sound Mix Assistance: Josephine Ch